đź”´ Live Q&A from the roof with the Director Mini! Answering your questions about livestreaming gear!

June 16, 2024

Questions

Sven Lakemeier
(5:16) volume is pretty low

Michael Flotron
(5:30) Watching in 144p because that’s all the internet here can handle 🤣

MattWRuff
(5:40) WOW maybe an ND Filter but it's all ok

IT Never Gets Old
(5:56) All looks and sounds good to me

IT Never Gets Old
(6:49) Q: I am contemplating the purchase of either a Director Mini or a Yolobox Ultra for a client's portable needs. Do you find the Magewell's screen too small to really use effectively?

IT Never Gets Old
(6:58) Q: Obviously automation helps with the Magewell.. but I do want the screen to be useful.

Keith Bennett
(11:55) Outsider Coffee fund! Glad I made it to your live!

Jack's Aviation
(12:20) What's the best way to start live streaming, on a very limited budget? My camera is has a HDMI out but not sure what I should do. The channel is on plane spotting so will be remote via LTE somehow.

Jack's Aviation
(12:37) Would this be the solution?

Jesse Hernandez
(16:15) Also there is a refresh rate mismatch on the director mini screen. We can see the old school crt style scan lines as it refreshes the screen

Jesse Hernandez
(16:42) Does the director mini have ndi? The 4k signal is probably why there was an encoding error

Gwen Park
(17:04) Did anyone else see visual glitch when Aaron cut to his camera from the intro?

random erewhon
(17:27) it just glitched again

random erewhon
(17:43) Q: Since the Zoom meeting summary seems to be strictly an overall summary, do you know of something that could provide time codes?

Emmanuel Francis
(18:02) It just glitched as you were looking at the computer

Stop & Think
(18:25) Q: How can you connect an Elgato Facecam Pro camera (with USB connection), into a BlackMagic ATEM Mini Extreme (HDMI) switcher, and still maintain all Facecam Camera Hub setup functions?

IT Never Gets Old
(19:11) Q: Does the Director Mini get warm?

WutrUduin?
(19:41) The 2nd glitch was looked like a compression error in the lower right 9th of the camera. You didn't do anything when it happened.

Woozle Harmonicas
(19:47) looked like a YouTube ingest glitch, rather than something hardware on your end.

WutrUduin?
(20:54) Wow. It looks really good for 3Mbps.

MattWRuff
(21:06) @Aaron Parecki I'll trade with you it's 90F and humid here in Nashville, TN

Adam West
(21:24) Sounds like you don't need the studio anymore. Give it to the cats and let them run their own 24/7 live stream!

Grish
(22:36) Q: what’s the latency between obs rtmp stream and the director mini? Obs supports srt out, which is a good alternative.

Gwen Park
(24:04) Q: speaking of screens: suggestions for a (relatively) portable, (relatively) large monitor for gigs? I've been looking at Osee 21.5, Sumo 19SE

random erewhon
(25:14) big glitch

Gwen Park
(25:15) another glitch when you said "feelworld seetec"

IT Never Gets Old
(26:56) Only do it later

Andrew Francis
(27:01) Q: Any thoughts on Roland's recent announcement of their V-80HD Vision mixer?

Dansplaining Video
(27:02) the last glitch coincided with fast movement

Gwen Park
(27:11) I use a thin portable 15" monitor sometimes (about the size of a big iPad), but the framerate limitations require a converter if switcher isn't set to 60

Bullhorn1001
(27:22) Q: Nice roof! How long your power station able to last with all what you got hooked up there?

Andrew Francis
(28:16) Maybe bump the srt latency up while you are at it?

Graham Rule
(30:32) I won't be able to stay for the full 7 hour stream

shane and hannah holland
(30:39) Q: can you use an iphone to control a atem mini pro

IT Never Gets Old
(31:01) Q: I think the Transcription feature in Resolve has some time code options

Sergio The One
(32:01) Q: Sorry if I missed it but is the director mini wired to the router or over WiFi? What parts of the setup are wired vs wireless?

brian O'Gott
(32:53) Q: Do you miss your Teleprompter with the information about your stream?

Aidan Comi
(33:04) Q: Any experience controlling an ATEM Mini Pro with vMix? I thought about companion, but wanted to know your thoughts

Clear Video
(33:21) Q. Thoughts on AV 1 encoding?

MattWRuff
(33:32) @Aaron Parecki All I ever use now is 265 with no issues

Jesse Hernandez
(33:43) Right after you popped up my chat about the ndi and encoding error it happened again in the other corner. lol.

André Doelle
(33:54) I love your live demos of possibly breaking things for fixing issues!

Grish
(37:04) Back

Gwen Park
(37:05) 3...2...1...boom?

random erewhon
(37:14) yeah. I heard you say "Go" twice

Gwen Park
(37:49) 45 seconds, pause, then back at 45

Sven Lakemeier
(38:14) Q: why did you prefer the mobile uplink to dropping a cat cable to your studio?

Keith Bennett
(38:46) Q: Did you see the 9.5 ATEM Software Control: HyperDeck Icon updates and the HyperDeck connection option for multi pages? Also I have no more issues with 9.5 with HyperDeck disconnects.

WutrUduin?
(39:15) YT also lowered me to 480p

Scott Jarriel
(39:30) Is this an LTE or 5G connection?

WutrUduin?
(40:59) Q it could be just me, but everything looks a little less sharp.

Bullhorn1001
(41:14) Q: So are you using some sort of VPN tunnel in this situation to transmit to the studio?

Nils Braune
(41:30) @WutrUduin? Are you back on 1080p? I find it at least as sharp, if not sharper.

WutrUduin?
(41:36) Is the stream your computer is monitoring still 'download' even if it's paused?

Keith Bennett
(42:42) Q: Is your studio not available today?

FTFO Media
(46:00) “I guess I didn’t take any photos of the giant mess wires” sums up my life. lol

MattWRuff
(47:05) @Aaron Parecki Did you time lapse the tear down of the studio.

Keith Bennett
(47:27) Q: New Green Screen?

Kevin McMullin
(48:07) Q : with the new ATEM mini software update, is it possible to stream via USB and phone whilst also using the webcam output as a multiviewer? Can a USB hub be used for this?

Tim Brunet
(48:23) No Glitch

WutrUduin?
(48:25) Q What happened to those white 3d printed racks for the converters you had? Can you lay those sideways?

IT Never Gets Old
(48:53) No glitches

Bullhorn1001
(48:53) no glitch

Darin Land
(48:54) No glitches in central ca.

WutrUduin?
(48:55) no glitch

Andrew Francis
(48:55) Stream looking good for me since switch over.

Emmanuel Francis
(48:57) No glitch as of yet

Gwen Park
(48:58) Switch back and save data

Jesse Hernandez
(50:03) I haven’t seen any glitches but just test h265 again for the sake of your bandwidth

Gwen Park
(50:25) 50, pause, 50

Sergio The One
(50:48) Switched before you even said GO

Philip Luckey
(50:52) Just 1.72 second buffer/pause!

Tim Brunet
(50:55) WOW quicker goinng back

Nils Braune
(50:56) Yeah, this time it was almost seamless.

Jesse Hernandez
(51:13) That’s one frustrating thing about being a live event video tech, I set up from scratch at the start of every event and good grief the wire chaos is real! Trying to fine tune a rack mount system

Jesse Hernandez
(51:41) I didn’t see any failover and I just caught up to the live stream as you hit the button. I didn’t see any drops as you switched back to primary

TVJAY
(52:27) Q: what is your preferred cell phone provider?

TVJAY
(53:44) hooking up a lot of wires is why a lot people use trucks/trailers

MT Steuerung
(53:52) Q - how do you want to light the Greenscreen even? .. I've seen some use the Elgato Keylight from overhead to light the backgroud - maybe 4-5 for 10 ft

IT Never Gets Old
(54:44) Q: Where are you travelling to?

Charles Herbert
(55:00) Q- Can I use my ecamm live setup with my new yolobox ultra for replays at my live sporting events? Thanks

Philip Luckey
(56:13) Part of my event work, I’m sleeving several camera cables (SDI & CAT6) to make it easier and neater to set up/tear down. Stretchy weaved sleeves seem to work well!

Gwen Park
(57:18) You can do HDMI out via Ecamm on pro plan

Aidan Comi
(57:28) Q: I've been doing IRL streams with my university using my DLSR and a capture card connected to the USB Camera app on Android, any reccomendations for improvements without investing in a YoloBox, etc

Sergio The One
(58:22) Q: Do we trust SRTs promise of packet loss compensation to do a stream like this one over WiFi? I'm so close to a wire free (hidden wires) workflow but my networking is on the other side of the studio

Gwen Park
(1:00:39) Does Accsoon Seemo work on Android? Not as cheap as capture card, but probably more functionality?

IT Never Gets Old
(1:00:55) If you went with a stand-alone encoder such as a Magewell Ultrastream you could skip the capture stuff... just run video out of the camera

Philip Luckey
(1:01:17) Aaron, ideally I’ll make a video about my sleeving process. :)

Gwen Park
(1:01:27) Zephan did a video on sleeves

Eric Likness
(1:02:36) This stream is as smooth as any from the basement studio. đź‘Ťeven at 3mbit

Eric Likness
(1:06:00) Q: Is that the dumbwaiter we see in the background of this shot ?

Philip Luckey
(1:06:24) Your green screen today looks great! It really looks like you’re on the roof. Especially good keying on hair and edges. (Ha!)

Gwen Park
(1:10:42) Q: have you ever tried pocket rtmp -> decoder -> atem? i doubt it would be usable b/c of latency, but might be fun to play with

MattWRuff
(1:11:13) If I was a good typist I would start a list of everything @Aaron Parecki says he need to do a video about. It would be a very very LONG list!

Eric Likness
(1:13:49) I think maybe we lost battery on the main cam âť“

Graham Rule
(1:14:24) Still very quiet

IT Never Gets Old
(1:14:49) Awesome on the fly adaptation

Gwen Park
(1:14:56) we like the streams. the streams that go boom.

Jesse Hernandez
(1:15:30) Hey encoding error just popped up again

Saul-TV
(1:15:38) Q: Do you have a link to where to get the Mono pod

TVJAY
(1:16:14) camera died and YouTube played an ad for a car accident lawyer

WutrUduin?
(1:16:32) @Aaron Parecki Tell the new ppl how to search past live stream topics.

WutrUduin?
(1:19:35) Q Lower audio when switching to the phone cam and stayed there.

Jesse Hernandez
(1:20:47) Audio just dipped a few db again? Is it per scene?

IT Never Gets Old
(1:20:53) Q: Do you think the house will be done in 2024?

IT Never Gets Old
(1:21:48) Q: Does the Director Mini ISO record?

Michael Flotron
(1:23:39) Q Where can I submit my travel rack to get wired up by the legendary Aaron Parecki?

Andrew Francis
(1:23:55) Q: When would you prefer to use the Director Mini over a YoloBox?

Saul-TV
(1:24:49) Q: Why doesn't the link don't show the new onion mono pod with the quick release?

Clear Life Media
(1:25:29) Hello from League City

Nils Braune
(1:25:33) @Michael Flotron You got so many good deals, you should have been there to re-wire the studio. ;)

Andrew Francis
(1:26:50) Good web graphics performance sounds neat, thanks :)

Stop & Think
(1:27:40) Q: Can you please give a quick 360 tour of the rooftop?

Michael Flotron
(1:28:01) haha your shop is showing it in local Bahamanian currency haha. good job, but I don't want this in this case 🤣

WutrUduin?
(1:28:19) Q Look for a question from @TauJi- ताऊजी

TauJi- ताऊजी
(1:28:31) @can you demo the graphic overlay on director mini. Any animated scoreboard type please.

Gwen Park
(1:30:34) I feel like the chat starts devolving about 5 minutes after the intro. It's part of the fun.

Eric Likness
(1:30:40) Another good test of H.265 and the Magewell Director in travel mode.

IT Never Gets Old
(1:32:00) Credits with audio is good!

WutrUduin?
(1:32:10) Q That's running off the min?!?

Sergio The One
(1:32:21) Don't forget to like and subscribe!

Aaron Parecki
(150:49:42) sorry hans i will make sure it's updated next week!

Aaron Parecki
(150:49:52) sorry hans i will make sure it's updated next week!