Aaron Parecki

🔴 Live Q&A! Answering your questions about livestreaming gear!

June 8, 2025

Questions

(6:06) Stinger looks good

(7:49) Hello from I-10 in Louisiana. 6 more hours left of a 17 hour drive from Miami

(7:55) Thanks for the stream yesterday. Helped pass some of the drive late last night!!

(8:27) @Aaron Parecki you could right click on the scene and override the transition on the scene.

(9:29) Transition Override set to none means use whatever scene transition is set globally

(10:25) I found out something funky with the yolobox

(10:28) if you try to HDMI out directly to a HDMI to fiber converter, it does not work

(10:54) you have to put something in-between. I just do HDMI in to HDMI out with the bidirectional converter to the fiber converter

(11:22) OBS always confused me so I switched to Ecamm a while back

(11:40) I feel bad covering up Aaron's own pin on the map each time 😂

(11:52) Q: How is your house coming?

(12:41) Q: would you use an ultra studio and a video software if you wanted to use a stinger outside obs? Or could you just run a stinger only in obs. Let’s say if you wanted to use a constellation.

(14:08) @Clear Life Media I wish I could remember why he couldn't run it in his Constellation

(16:30) Q: With all those MEs you can't use them both as DSKs?

(17:16) I think that was me!

(17:35) Great. My audio system just went completely nuts right when you answered. I'll have to rewatch it later.

(18:13) Q: I’ve followed the Blackmagic Television Studio 4K8 since its release and still think it’s a gr8 piece of gear. But there doesn’t seem to be much content or discussion online. What’s your take on it

(19:54) It is priced out of the YouTuber space as well

(20:16) Q: Got a favorite feature of Companion v4? Mine is Satelite as a connection.

(21:53) Q: Comapanion 4 - You will love IF... THEN,,, ELSE actions

(22:32) haha i just heard my own discord message haha oops 😅

(22:56) q: can you record video files from a rodecaster video directly to a Mac that has a hard drive with a fast enough write speed?

(23:35) Do you know what is next update for Rodecaster Video? I hope it support: Talk back, NDI, remote video interview

(24:13) Q:- I got a birddog Maki Ultra, and forgot the webUI password. the default Menu+AF Button reset is not working. Any solution?

(24:48) Q: have you played with Duet 8 yet? John Barker did a stream about it, which reminded me that I don't think you've demo'd it yet?

(26:00) Birddog has such a bad habit of promising future firmware updates and just never delivering.

(26:06) I mean I guess they all have that problem

(26:39) Is there any hardware switcher that supports remote caller natively? It would be a killer feature to have that built in with mix minus done automatically

(27:53) we have some of those skype boxese, can confirm the ones i've tried no longer connect.

(28:16) Q: The PK1 I ordered recently for my Director One is pretty loose compared to the one I have for my Obsbot Talent. Is that by design?

(29:01) Q: Thoughts on vdo ninja?

(29:30) not 100% sure Aaron, my assumption is that it's going into the recycling pile.

(29:37) Oof how expensive were those boxes? That's terrible

(29:41) Reminds me of Spotify dropping support for Car Thing so quickly

(30:01) Q -I SDI from the camera to SDIin on the atem, then SDI out from the atem to SDI to hdmi converter, them HDMI to the yolo box

(30:25) For being free, vdo ninja is great but there's a lot of testing involved and all participants needs to have a pretty solid internet connection

(30:47) @Mike Sabatini Please contact our support to resolve the issue!

(31:00) I like that you can bring in each guest as a web source in obs using vdo ninja, then you can output it wherever you want

(31:24) @Aaron Parecki Someone need to build a standalone box to do the guest feature because it hugely needed

(33:04) Q: are you using the DJI mic for your audio or still the overhead mic?

(33:31) I hate that civilians are good with terrible remote caller sound/picture and it's liking pulling teeth to get them to do tech checks

(35:10) and they always seem to have hard surfaces that the sound is bouncing off.

(35:20) Q: Any thoughts about BOYA Magic Wireless Mic?

(36:35) q: i recently lost my hdmi wireless transmitter, any recommendations? i've been using them so i don't have to do massive cable runs during meet-ups to record laptop slides.

(38:08) I like the DJI wireless.

(38:25) Q: Just got my 1st Apple laptop. any must have apps you would recommend for everyday use?

(40:33) @Let Your Nerd Be Heard - That a 2 hour show by itself but try DropZone

(40:38) I want to test Hollyland's Cosmo C2 claimed 3,000ft range haha

(43:16) Does that 3000 feet need to be line of sight?

(43:41) You think PDX will let us borrow a runway? Their smallest is 6,000ft hahaha

(45:11) ooh yes sign me up haha

(45:32) 3000 ft test might be a nice combo test of your new bike cart once you get wheels?

(46:05) q: I want to upgrade from a cheap webcam to something better for conf calls and training vids I need to make. I know next to nothing about cameras! What are your thoughts on a refurb'd lumix g7 ?

(48:03) Q: To answer your OBS request at the top... If you run Studio Mode in OBS, you can use the 'obs: Set Preview Scene' action followed by 'obs: Quick Transition' set to cut to bypass the stinger.

(48:35) what lens - cam will be only 3 ft away

(48:38) capture into atem

(51:18) @Tom Gee Rather than upgrading camera, you might get better bang for your buck wtih good lighting if you're not lighting

(52:27) Q kinda a weird question. I am filming the Nanaimo bathtub races again this year and we need to communicate with our boats travel miles away. Any suggestion for comms? Tried walkies last year

(53:58) I love my GH five my Panasonic’s but the canon I borrowed my friend Canon R 50 Kit lens easy WebCam one USB-C cable

(54:21) Q: have updated to 3.1 on DM? Remember a couple months back your iPad wouldn’t connect to hdmi. It should connect directly now

(58:34) Q: On my ATEM mini pro, in the multi view, the preview and program seem to be backwards. Have you seen this before? Is there a fix?

(59:28) i don't mean the position

(59:54) program shows the preview

(1:04:08) Turn cable around

(1:05:23) Q: I wonder why Magewell doesn’t support motion GIF on the D1? Is there an easy alternative?

(1:08:55) @Aaron Parecki Use a Thiundebolt cable! - If that works I want that for ULTRA

(1:11:00) ♪ turn the cable around ♪ (sung to turn the beat around)

(1:11:11) Q: I have two Marshall PTZs using viscaIP to control over companion. I was a simple setup. But have fighting the second one for weeks now. Any thoughts?

(1:11:31) USB-connector you always have to turn around three times! lol

(1:11:40) I love the cosmo C2. Instantly noticed a difference over our original hollylands. Plus the fact you can add 2 cameras made it even more of a must have for any broadcast

(1:11:56) @Roland L. L. Booth there's a setting to change input names so guessing same setting changes preview/program? I don't remember where it is off top of my head

(1:12:02) Someone might have pulled a April 1 and renamed the lables

(1:13:03) " Q " , I am using the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme. What is the easiest way to add static lower thirds for college graduation students' names—up to 200–300 names—during a live broadcast?

(1:16:22) Maybe keynote or PPT?

(1:16:39) @keral we use Titler Live. For something like that use Google Sheets and then link it to Titler Live. Then you can cycle through the names

(1:17:00) I wrote a graphic program that outputs the grads names. If you want to try it out you can IM me.

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(1:17:29) Q: On the DM for touch screen with iPad, have u set the USB-C output to UVC Video?

(1:17:51) IMO Keynote and PPT are only good if you don't have late students or changes to the list of students mid event.

(1:18:17) In IT class way back when I was in college (1980) I reprogrammed the CRT display and reversed the e and the i...So if you press the 'e' it showed a i" on screen for the freshman class...mean yes!

(1:20:10) Does anyone else remember when you could send photoshop graphics to the atem? Is that still a thing?!

(1:22:09) Oh. I thought it put images in the media pool.

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(1:22:52) The Photoshop export is real cool and still works

(1:23:38) Can we still have a confidence monitor

(1:24:33) Q do super stickers work in your chat monitor?

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(1:25:13) Cart,cart,cart!

(1:30:05) I wonder if he can see chat while he's using his phone?

(1:30:13) Step 1 towards building the inevitable outside broadcast truck Aaron...

(1:30:28) @Gwen Park nope. Good suggestion to have additional chat screens around the studio.

(1:30:52) Q Desktop: Does the knobbed screw verses a spring loaded pin make it stronger for when in transit? Same Q for the legs.

(1:31:21) I wish I could tip @Aaron Parecki some time based on his "to work on his video project to do"....

(1:32:24) Q: change screen currently behind you with map to chat when you wander? away from desk Maybe a companion button?

(1:33:00) the iphone view on Director 1. lol

(1:33:18) A Tiny Switcher Marathon upcoming I would say.

(1:33:50) q 1: What does Aaron want it to do. 2: FAQ about switchers tested. 3: Features THEY highlight.

(1:34:11) 2 sounds weird. I mean testing most asked questions about switchers on each switcher.

(1:34:48) Daisy chain them all?

(1:34:59) @Aaron Parecki Maybe take 30 minutes out of the Livestream to do a demo?

(1:35:56) Q: using your conference live event support scenario, does each switcher address all the needs?

(1:37:10) ask chat GPT ?

(1:37:28) getting the free gear is only great when you actually were going to buy it to start with.

(1:38:13) I’ve always wanted to see that from product releases. Sometimes I wish they would show best use cases. “What this solves”

(1:38:28) you have to pay tax on "free" gear you get, right? so it's sort of like you have to pay to review their stuff (assuming you weren't going to buy it anyway)

(1:39:30) Q: I reached out to yolo for this, maybe someone here our you can answer, is there a way to create animated thirds that work natively with the yolo mechanics ex: scoreboard you can change the score

(1:39:39) Q: as it stands all I can do is play pause and animated third I make or yolocast...

(1:39:55) Q Based on Your experience over the las 5 years

(1:40:09) Still have no clue what I'm gonna pay in tariffs for the bonding encoder I bought haha. Should get here next week.

(1:40:51) Q Hi, did you manage to get SMPTE 2110 to work over your network? Did you find the right multicast settings?

(1:41:30) Don't forget to hit the like button :)