Aaron Parecki

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

November 30, 2025

Questions

(6:02) Q: Have seen or purchased anything interesting during the Black Friday/cyber Monday sales?

(8:19) Q "Aaron Parecki's Livestreaming Livestream"

(8:33) Q: Sdi video out from video controller at 768x512 to Atem constellation 2 M/E. Do I need a decimator or something else to get signal?

(10:12) I’m about to be driving back from Eugene. I think you should stream until I get home 😂😂jk

(10:22) Q: Two part: what mic are you using today and is your room sound treated? You sound great.

(13:14) Ah that is the excuse... clutter as sound treatment

(13:22) I feel like it will take more than a Decimator to send non-SMPTE formats over SDI. If that is possible at all.

(14:23) Q. Do you think there Will there be an SDI version of the ATEM Mini EXtreme G2?

(17:01) I think there may be mixed version intro at NAB (HDMI/SDI) G2

(17:12) BMD said they weren't really considering mixed inputs anymore

(17:25) SDI ATEM with a built in decklink would be nice

(17:38) There is a huge price gap now between the ATEM Pro ISO to the Extreme G2 now that the Atem Extreme ISO version 1 is gone... I wonder if they would consider slotting something in there

(18:20) Q: So the Rodecaster Video can't overlay more than one asset at a time? this is a feature that Rode needs to consider.

(20:39) Q: I watched your vidoes about the Obsbot Tail cams and Im thinking about getting the Tail Air. Did you keep using them after your videos? Anything you noticed / would mention / reccomendations?

(23:36) @InPlaneSightAU gifted 20 Aaron Parecki memberships

(24:10) Good lord

(24:14) catch up for last week lol

(24:21) Talking about affiliate links, I signed up with Pilot Institute via your affiliate link so you should hopefully get a little something from that

(24:39) Q: so there is no super source on the Rodecaster?

(26:47) Q: So when would you use an overlay versus a scene on the RCV?

(27:52) @itnevergetsold Just think USK vs. DSK.

(28:36) our streams are a perfect example.. we have like 3 or 4 overlays running but 4-5 different scenes (camera angles) we switch from

(28:50) q Did you have that webinar you made that BG for? If so, did you find any quirks you'll need to iron out for the next one?

(34:13) How did you get the Apple Classic (behind you) to show your video?? That's excellent!

(35:57) I wonder what a news cast producer from the 90s would think of what @aaronpk just demoed. 'o, just threw my ipad in there 'cuz I needed a timer' 🤯

(36:13) Q Did you use Your Stream Deck with the Rodecaster S. Also? does the Stream Deck XL have more then input? Should i get the Stream Deck? My show will eventually be Live.

(38:36) I'm starting to view the RCV as a hardware OBS.

(39:00) OBS is way more flexible but rcv/yolo is good for the inputs

(39:26) Q: which one would you use for a lightweight travel livestream. The yolobox Ultra Vs the switcher studio on an ipad?

(41:01) Honestly for stability, fpga is the way to go, but I love obs lol

(41:39) Q Can you use the Rodecaster Video S to bring a remote guest into a hybrid meeting without them hearing themselves?

(45:02) My 2m/e crashed and it is true, it just froze and could not switch. Video switching kept going

(45:23) Hi Aaron. Q: Your livestream setups are incredibly efficient—what’s the single piece of gear that gave you the biggest improvement?

(45:54) @DavidMartinGraff I wanna guess before he answers: SDI Matrix or X32

(49:58) I'd personally have guessed Companion/SD

(51:08) I bring Switcher Studio into the DM, works well, and I get instant replay

(51:21) @roybaguidy6174 @aaronpk What I want is a YoloBox Pro with a updated processor as my travel rig

(51:34) Q: Hi, would you be able to demo getting an NDI output from OBS to the Rodecaster Video?

(52:17) You need NDI Bridge which is Windows only

(52:26) Q: When connecting the ATEM Mini pro to a hyper deck shuttle, you lose one of the hdmi inputs to the shuttle's hdmi output. according to the setup. would network (IP) setup remove that connection?

(53:42) Q: Is there a way to do a 'stinger' on the YoloBox Ultra/Extreme?

(53:58) @K0ala20 Is the hyperdeck doing playback or recording in your use case?

(54:14) Q: I mentioned earlier about H2R graphics, not sure you saw it. Do you use it, it discounted this weekend

(58:20) I use @aaronpk 'stress test' when I go to shows like NAB. Very helpful.

(58:38) would be great if the Yolobox HDMI inputs could negotiate clean HDMI with any encoded input, for example DJI MIMO, FLY apps currently only the DJI RC PROs can do so, Facebook Live w/ Ray-Ban META, etc

(59:23) " thumb drive into stuff

(59:25) I saw a doc of the F1 movie and they used the DJI Action 2 for the movie is very tight places

(1:00:05) Q how hard is to switch between a YoloBox and a RCV-S because I'm about to start traveling more and the RCV-S has real audio and so I would not need to take my MixPre for audio. Major space saving

(1:01:25) probably the scene building

(1:02:23) Only way I came up with a clean HDMI for the Yolobox is to connect either your smartphone with a HDMI out of the stream as input, for mobile, and for stationary connect PC/Mac thru HDMI, no audio sync

(1:02:47) if only. you shipped to Australia lol

(1:02:55) Q: Hey Aaron, Wife said you’re both an excellent and a bad influence by way of knowledge sharing make me a better producer but making me BUY way more equipment! Have you Thought of start rent to own?

(1:05:54) replaceable batteries? what a concept. lol

(1:07:38) 35.to.40 bux

(1:07:40) 40USD?

(1:07:41) 35-40 for the tape thing

(1:07:42) 40 for the pilot, 7 for the recorder.

(1:07:44) $15

(1:07:46) 5 bucks each

(1:08:55) Wow Great just for props!!!

(1:10:11) Now connect it to your gear and screenshare it :)

(1:10:18) No account creation. No cloud.

(1:10:36) Seeing that UI, makes me think SmartPhones were not such a huge step forward.

(1:11:45) American dates are so backwards lol

(1:11:55) Gee Aaron you are sounding like a grumpy old man like me

(1:12:01) The Palm Pilot was so fast and responsive

(1:12:13) Aaron get one of the Donner Podcast Cards that come w/ XLR microphones. I paid $50 bucks for my unit and it's been awesome w/ the amount of options it offers, especially for a livestream.

(1:12:28) YES!!!! need more Function Buttons!!!

(1:12:30) Perfect tape deck for your love of tiny things!

(1:15:16) Oh Please @aaronpk you have to be older than 55 to be a grumpy old MAN!

(1:15:25) Aaron is going into the fashionably retro tech trend

(1:15:52) Are you on the pre order list for the new Commodore 64?

(1:16:11) Q: DM outputs to 2 streams, or has that changed or changing. Thought I saw a comment somewhere

(1:16:32) It is not a joke

(1:16:34) Q Not a joke. Watched the launch video last night.

(1:19:40) Yeah Aaron... some of us grumpy old men used computers BEFORE the Commodore 64... grumpy cred

(1:19:53) What is it called?

(1:21:39) Q Hi Aaron, which Rodecaster Video do you prefer? Rodecaster Video or Rodecaster Video S? Am about to get one and I don’t know which one to go?

(1:23:20) First computer my family bought was Apple IIc. I mostly used it to play Ultima IV and V

(1:23:24) I went into an Apple store in 1984, it was called the Data Place and I wanted the Apple 2e but left with the Apple 2c because of the portability of connecting it to any television input

(1:23:33) Doesn't the RCV-s have fewer outputs too?

(1:24:38) You just figured out we are old?

(1:25:43) I just bought your DJI Action 2

(1:25:51) Just dropped in to say hi will have to check out today’s live latter.

(1:25:55) Shorts makes sense for the demographic

(1:26:08) I think I still remember how to get into AT&T bulletin boards

(1:27:00) Just saw your first Short Yesterday

(1:27:04) Older people have more time!

(1:27:07) I'm in the 45 - 54 age range (closer to the higher end)

(1:27:15) Yeah us older folks watch you live like we used 300 baud modems

(1:27:39) I remember saving for like 6 months to buy a 1200 baud modem

(1:27:45) Are gonna do a review of the ATEM mini extrema g2?

(1:28:27) Aaron, where did you grow up?

(1:28:37) Don’t forgett to check out the, House Files and hit the Like buttons on!

(1:28:45) Q: Will you be moved into the new house by the 1st of the year?

(1:28:46) Q: Will you be moved into the new house by the 1st of the year?

(1:31:18) Q: Do you think BMD is at war with Rode?

(1:31:58) @Hey-Giovanni I think Resolve is the real BMD product, live stuff is just Grant having fun.

(1:32:08) Q: bought a new osee go stream duet 8 iso but unfortunately can't assign input 5-8 in companion any workaround to get it working???????????

(1:32:35) BMD has such a huge TV studio market, Rode is like an attacking mosquito

(1:33:16) Update your Companion. I think they have a new module out.

(1:35:48) I feel like BMD has mostly given up on the lower end switcher market

(1:35:57) My BIG problem with RODE is that I'm NOT a NASCAR driver I don't want there stupid LOGO on my MIC windscreen

(1:36:09) @mattwruff If you were a nascar driver, I feel like your mic windscreen would have way more than just a rode logo. lol

(1:36:31) Are you getting the Atem G2 to test?