Aaron Parecki

🔴 Live Q&A with special guest John Barker discussing H2R Layouts

June 29, 2025

Questions

(4:44) Hey! Glad to be here live and on the show - been a while

(5:07) Q: How did the bike thing go?

(5:30) Whoa. A celebrity guest.

(5:42) Hello from League City, Tx

(6:40) Double audio

(17:48) Q Agree totally @itnevergetsold. I didn't know that John was going to be on... I only just signed up with H2R Graphics earlier tonight... Thanks John 😀

(25:07) Q: Can you change the background art in H2R Layouts?

(25:37) Q: Is there a workaround to create borders for s/src boxes in an ATEM Mini extreme?

(32:23) Q Hello John, I used the layouts app in the last two lifestreams of our services. It worked great, also the companion module.

(32:33) Works with companion?!

(35:32) hello Aaron and John, in companion module, would it be possible to add an other condition: if a layout number is on or off?thanks a lot

(36:56) Would love to see the name of the current layout as a variable!

(40:57) Sorry if I missed this, but can you nudge individual boxes with arrow keys one pixel at a time? Since snapping isn’t integrated?

(41:52) Q: What is the limitation of the 'framerate' or 'smoothness' of the animation based on? i.e. is it a limitation of the ATEM? Stability? Number of API calls?

(46:11) Q: is there ease-in and ease-out?

(47:02) Q: Could you do all of what the macro does with Companion actions so we don't have to worry about having macros?

(47:58) Q: do you anticipate it will be possible to make folders or some other management tools for layouts in the app?

(49:53) Q: out of curiosity are you using reverse engineered protocol or BMD ATEM SDK?

(51:03) Q: not a question, just wanted to offer some appreciation to John. I learned a lot from him over the years.

(51:13) Q: late to the party, is there any discount for your loyal viewers here?

(51:46) Great to see you guys together on a stream!

(52:02) I still have my H2R lanyard from NAB in my bag

(52:08) H2R has helped me a ton in productions for the past few years. Very thankful to have learned of it from Office Hours

(52:22) I think tags would be super! Hopefully that way it wouldn't mess with the Companion integration.

(52:32) I'm just asking out of curiosity. It's plenty smooth!

(53:05) Q Does John plan to include/bundle/combine the pre-made layout packs?

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(55:52) @ Just want to said to Arron And John keep the good teaching I have learn a lot from you guys thanks for giving back to Spanish community

(56:03) Q: Do you have the ATEM G2 on order?

(56:55) Q: which ATEM's are supported?

(58:28) Q: I may have missed it but is there a way to quickly change the input selection for each supersource box?

(1:00:58) Q: If he's willing, I would love to hear more from John about his idea to "enhance" a particular box. I've been spending a bunch of time building multiple versions of each layout with boxes emphasized

(1:02:16) Would love to see the cascade option as maybe a paid upgrade. Most users with an atem that has 2 super sources probably has deeper pockets.

(1:02:32) 🤙

(1:03:02) Tried this out and yeah the zoom screen share definitely doesn't do the transition smoothness justice haha

(1:04:52) If you implement an "enhance" feature, it would be great to have a setting for how much the box is enlarged. I often just want to bump something by 10% or so.

(1:05:06) Q: Again may have missed it but does the purchase have a single machine licence or can I move it from machine to machine?

(1:05:48) I appreciate John for charging one-time rates for his products where that makes sense and don't utilize cloud resources.

(1:08:38) Q: If I buy the dual platform license can I use both a Mac and Windows box simultaneously

(1:09:14) Oh I just looked and at only $20 so I could buy two licences.

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