Aaron Parecki

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

September 14, 2025

Questions

(7:26) Q: Is there anything from IBC that you have heard about that you find compelling?

(7:35) Hello from IBC! Just met Frank from Yololiv and John Barker from H2R!

(7:54) Fan noise?

(9:42) Q: Do you store your filament in dry boxes?

(10:17) Q: did you ever get the gear/figure out a good way to transfer mini DVs? I looked at an old stream and seemed like that was still TBD at the time?

(11:09) A filament dryer is just a box that is being heated to 50°C.

(11:42) The new Blackmagic iPhone dock with Genlock. Canon's new zoom remote with SDK. ELGATO module and network attached options. Fun Smallrig handles. Aputure STORM 80C kit and new softbox structure.

(12:42) Q:I hope that Lilly has recovered. It was Covid was it not ?

(13:13) Q:By the way, I am contemplating about getting a Bambu Lab 3D printer. Any model advice?

(15:29) Aren't the INUX guys Prusa? I worry about the Bamboo online lock-in

(15:32) We have Prusa and Bambu

(15:47) @Andre Yanco Bambu Labs had a bit of controversy about online activation, but other then that I hear they're good

(16:01) Q: Is the RC Duo just stored there or does it have a part in the tape conversion?

(16:59) Yeah I do not like the idea of having to "activate" any printer, 3D or paper

(17:49) Q: Have you tried V3 of the NDI Camera app? It has a discounted price, but I wonder how it compares to RODE's new app

(19:29) This online... get their hooks into you... for marketing purposes or profiling is really nasty

(19:35) Q: what is the least expensive way to build a backpack. Encoder and router?

(21:31) I wonder if the ZowieTek can live off a battery pack

(22:25) What about just usojg Blackmagic camera app on phone….

(22:39) can you stop the audio sound of the printer please? its annoying and not necessary in my opinion

(24:14) Q:Only the partial beep gets heard sometimes

(24:42) The audio gate is the more distracting thing, not the noise itself

(24:52) I have that exact set up but I am bottleneckin at the router. I’m using the GL Inet MUDI router but it runs hot and cut off after like an hour

(25:49) build airflow into you backpack

(26:04) Q: what NAS are you running?

(29:49) @Aaron Parecki you should have gone with Seagate Iron Wolf 20TB drives. That what I remade my RAID so I have like 90 TB of Raid 6 (being 66 I hade a rapid 5 fail/2 drives died)

(31:19) ??? Unify NAS ???

(32:04) Hi Aaron. What are your thoughts about the Yolobox Extreme? Worth buying? Better than the Ultra?

(33:30) Q: Is there a way to disable physical button presses on an ATEM Mini Pro so that it can only be controlled by bitfocus companion?

(33:44) I think the Ultra is slight more stable at this point and time my Ultra is tuning beta v2.9.6 and NO issues

(33:57) Is the software the same in each unit?

(34:31) we use the extreme for aviation and haven't looked back! so good for SRT

(34:36) The extreme has Director mode

(35:02) I use as NAS UnRaid and Proxmox my personal own made Audiorecordings are 20 TB and for all just a 480 TB file Server

(35:42) NO it's not on the Ultra

(35:43) What is Director mode?

(35:59) Q: do you monitor how much energy your studio uses? I know power is cheap here in the pnw, but still curious.

(37:02) Q: The the cloudpod now have some security or is it anonymous access only?

(37:28) We have been having audio issues with the Ultra… so I was hoping maybe the extreme was something completely different.

(38:13) @AIRLINE VIDEOS I use the RCP2 for audio and no issue

(39:38) Airline Videos - we don't use any audio wirh the Extreme except for what is coming through our RCP2 via USBC. we don't seem to have any issues in that respect. we mix it with the Wireless Go II also

(39:47) USB to the A port not the C port

(39:59) I dislike that different products call program/preview mode different things: director mode on YB, studio mode on OBS, preview mode on Ecamm, what the option says in ATEM software, etc.

(40:32) The reason I don't use the USB-C that where my External touch monitor is used and you only one C port

(40:39) Q: I work in UK TV outside broadcast - BBC, Glastonbury, Sky Sports and many others. When doing a live interview I would never look at anything other than a LiveU.

(41:01) Q: Would you suggest AVMatrix Shark S6 over ATEM lineup ?

(42:43) Q: No cheap, but I would lose my job if it didn't work!

(42:52) Q: curious if you or chat had thoughts about Canon c50 or Nikon ZR announced this week? Both seem like they'll be incredible cams in slightly different ways

(43:26) No there's no companion control sadly but they have their own web interface now

(43:37) @Aaron Parecki I don't see AVMatrix in Companion.

(44:02) Nikon ZR is a little weird. Gerald makes some very good points

(44:11) Q: So what is the BMD Iphone thing?

(45:49) Elgato is shipping the network adapter for the stream decks.

(46:07) Q: Do you think Companion control will ever come to the RC Pro II or RC Duo?

(46:37) All the stuff you have to do to make a iPhone ______ it much easier to just buy a proper camera

(47:04) Q: 5 mics plugged into RCP2, 4 XLRs + PodMicUSB XLR mic guests have 🎧plugged into 🎧 jacks 1-4. USB mic 🎧 plugged into PMUSB. Guests 1-4 can hear all guests incl PMUSB, PMUSB guest hears self only.

(48:56) Q:I am wondering when BM will release the switcher control features they advertised in spring.

(49:00) Q:I meant for the BM Cloud.

(51:21) Q:Arghh radio gear.

(51:37) We had one of those years ago at a radio station

(51:39) call Aaron live with your questions lol

(51:45) Q:I used to do that with many analog cables and some soldering into a broadcast table 🙂 At university of course :)

(52:51) Did you hear my vacuuming? Hope it didn't pickup

(52:58) Hello @anomalily 🙂 Only the footsteps :)

(53:05) With BMD's track record of annoucing something vs. when it's actually available, we'll get the new features in 2035. lol

(53:18) @anomalily Not over Aaron's loud printer. ;)

(53:21) Can't we do that with Discord right now....

(53:37) Do a Telethon

(53:39) @Nils Braune yeah the printer is LOUD

(54:00) Really need BM to bring back the SDI+HDMI versions of their switchers

(54:25) The STNG button on the Extreme ISO is coming.... sooooooon

(54:30) What's the name of that call in device?

(54:39) Or just call straight in to the RC Duo with CallMe Pro

(54:50) printer is less loud on 2nd mic at first blush

(55:07) It probably wasn't footsteps, probably when I dropped part of the vacuum

(55:13) Less loud when you don't talk. Background sounds more staticy when you do. I think I like the sound of the printer better.

(55:23) You @Aaron Parecki and Tom Buck with your love of OLD tech. As a guy that had to work with all of this stuff I don't want to relive it. You can have your old tech

(55:36) CallMe Pro supports SIP, so you can do phone numbers

(57:52) Q Try slowing the decay on the gate of the mic you're using now.

(59:07) Q: Do you know if the CallMe subscriptions are per device or per account?

(59:24) Q:Well now that Rode people are also into Dante, next thing you know we will have more call in stuff for sure.

(59:30) If you do call-ins have to do that 7 second delay thing so you can bleep us

(59:45) We got to use the Live U 810 this weekend with antennas and 4 SIM cards. Never lost a signal and never dipped below 17,000 kbps on a 1080p60 stream for 8 hours. Insanely cool

(1:01:20) we used that in radio like 10 years ago lol. I think we had an even older model than that one!

(1:01:41) Gate still seems a little weird, but liveable. I think printer noise may be calling more attention to the gate than would be otherwise

(1:01:53) Q:That was a cutoff.

(1:01:56) Q:Buffered and came back

(1:02:08) But who has stricter policies? Youtube or the FCC?! ^^

(1:02:24) Has not come back here...Comcast

(1:02:26) @IT Never Gets Old I've had periodic buffering today, but it's also coming back quickly. I thought it was me.

(1:02:32) Frozen screen here.

(1:02:36) Q:That was the FCC cutting you off Aaron.

(1:02:54) what's the price ?

(1:04:29) no issues here in Australia

(1:04:31) No buffer here in Western NY on Comcast

(1:04:44) @Nils Braune Good question. I would say YT is more annoying as FTC isn't using AI to analyze every broadcast and hit you with fines.

(1:05:39) FCC doesn't own/operate ContentID and that's a good thing. 👍

(1:07:47) Yeah I would do the voicemail thing

(1:07:49) international calls are expensive...... lol

(1:09:45) Wow that is very cool!

(1:11:08) There a new LAW firm here in Nashville that specializes in Lawsuit like YouTube

(1:11:14) VMs are a special terror for me these days. Too much time not using my phone as a voice communication device. lol

(1:11:22) Very expensive in Thailand !