Aaron Parecki

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

November 10, 2024

Questions

(9:08) I see a Stream Deck Studio 👀

(9:30) Q: You have been using SRT for your streams for a while now, do you have any thoughts on use of SRT versus RTMP for YouTube streams?

(10:41) Q: What is the main camera you’re using for this stream. Quality is superb.

(13:27) Q: Do you have an idea how to make a blury effect on a cam input on a ATEM Device?

(16:07) Q: How did you manage it to show a video signal on the Mac in the background?

(16:30) My workaround is now to send the cam into OBS via NDI, apply the effect and then send it to the ATEM

(16:43) That was a very demonstration of both the importance of lighting and effective network control of lighting

(16:54) Q: Have you used the OBSBot UVC to HDMI on the output of an ATEM Mini (to effectively turn the new USB output separation into an aux out)?

(17:19) Q: I meant the video signal on the vintage Mac.

(20:22) Q: What would you like to see added to the YouTube Live SRT beta ahead of final release?

(22:22) oh yeah, youtube studio is horror

(22:32) Q what are your thoughts with the yoloultra liv , I've had it for a few weeks and it's been very unstable for me. video drop outs, not connection to youtube sometimes, audio issues also

(24:23) Q: What are you using to display the chat messages?

(24:41) Q How can I Elgato Prompter, Elgato Pro 4K, the Elgato streamdeck plus with the USB hub and I can't link it to streamyard and see the script on the Prompter. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(26:31) Q are you going to CES in Jan? I got passes for the first time ever, what should I expect and what is a must do?

(27:01) Q: how can you synchronize the delay of the cameras connected by NDI with the cameras directly connected with cable (to the mini director).

(31:55) look at the NDI tab

(32:37) Q: installing Atem Constellation 2 M/E in a few days. Any words of wisdom for the installation? Should I have a separate bnc patch panel??

(34:35) Q looking to add an OBSBOT camera to a rig with an atem mini setup. which would be the better usb camera with interface unit to hdmi or go for the tail air unit that has hdmi out? from a latency pov?

(35:41) Q I use the Yolo Ultra with iPhones connected and they're all looking good in the iPhone screen, but the Yolo turns my face red. White Balance is set correctly. Any thoughts on that?

(36:49) HDMI to Apple's lightning

(36:56) My monitor shows red as well. Broadcast to Amazon Live

(38:01) Are there any switchers that can crop in their input stream? Like my DJI RC2 doesn't output clean HDMI so I crop in with OBS.

(43:13) Q: How could I minimise latency using sort to atom for remote getting? Thank you.

(43:26) Q: Did you order an M4 Mac Mini?

(45:43) Q he meant SRT to ATEM

(45:48) Q: How could I minimise latency using sort to atom for remote getting? Thank you.

(47:31) Q The Elgato Pro Camera is what I have but I can't figure out how to use streamyard with the Prompter.

(48:50) Q: Some YTer (maybe David Joshua Ford?) mentioned they use Excel to plan out rack builds

(49:14) Q: just curious Aaron, do manufacturers like Magewell, Rode, understand the amount of purchasing influence you have & I hope u are compensated properly?

(51:22) Question from Russia - The question may have already been asked: how do you like the new Rodideomic remote control after using it for some time?

(51:52) Less money, more freedom everything is a trade-off

(52:29) Q when I mentioned I have video dropouts on my yololiv ultra, my camera is a sony zv e10 , dropouts i mean the camera screen is always on but the yolo hdmi feed goes black for alittle and returns

(53:51) Q. once you have your phone connected to the ATEM pro ISO extreme; how do you get to clean HDMI and use the phone as a camera? Do I need to do anything special?

(55:47) i have the blackmagic design app

(55:58) Q: On iPhone, you can add your camera to a keynote presentation, which allows you to display your camera full screen, and you can even create different slides for front, back, and side cameras.

(57:28) Q, our atem mini pro iso doesn't output display on the hdmi out. is this a common issue?

(58:09) Q: best way to do lower thirds in OBS? Currently triggering a propresenter prop from a stream deck, and it’s kinda complicated.

(59:55) Q: A bunch of people in some of the FB ATEM groups have reported HDMI ports going bad after X time, so may not be a rare issue

(1:00:08) Also check that you are sending the right thing to the HDMI output (I once found it was just a black frame I was sending instead of Program)

(1:00:37) Again H2RGraphics is pretty great for lower thirds and for chat integration... also very controllable with Companion

(1:00:56) Q: What is the most disappointing piece of video gear you have purchased or received over the past couple of years? For me it is the BirdDog Play.

(1:01:31) Q: what are your thoughts on the Sprolink MD2? Any chance that you might test it out on your channel? @Gwen Park thank you

(1:04:18) Australia is up early today :)

(1:04:20) Greetings from Australia.

(1:04:56) "only 5am"

(1:05:07) I had a dozen customers using ATEM extreme and had to keep a spare. AT least one every several months would have a hardware issue. These were static install not travel rigs

(1:05:18) Q Got our ATEM in '20, for the past few months I reboot it before recording to be sure it won't lockup the recording option during an event. Switching and streaming work fine when it happens though

(1:06:19) @Aaron Parecki If they made it 6 months then they seemed to be fine

(1:06:38) Q. Does anyone ever recommend turning off the ATEM mini Extreme ISO?

(1:07:23) Q: on atem mini pro iso, does the inputs 2,3 and 4 have the issue when using long hdmi cables? but input 1 is ok with long cables (about 10meters)

(1:08:51) "the occasional power outage" sounds funny. Can't remember the last time power was out here

(1:10:02) Q: What flow do you recommendto get to a multicam fopx after the livestream?

(1:11:31) I never use streaming function on ATEM due to the various horror stories. I usually send ATEM into Ecamm and let Ecamm do the encoding, which also has other benefits (e.g. Ecamm shows YT chat)

(1:12:23) Q: Resolve does have FCP XML as an export option (it's what you have to use to get it into Premiere as well)

(1:12:40) What are the camera settings you are using like H264 360p 1.5 mbps ACC 96kbps. What is the camera and the lens cuz it looks so clean and what software you are using for cooking?

(1:13:27) Q Do you think an HDMI splitter with a dummy plug on each output would let me turn of the AMP and not have the computer reconfigure the screens layout?

(1:15:11) Q Sorry. I have 3 outputs from the PC going to AMP

(1:15:26) Q: I was about to say that I've not found it easy to get SSDs that are on BMD's approved list. But they have updated the list recently.

(1:16:02) Q Hi Aaron, I’m running a Yamaha TF3 into my ATM SDI SIO mini pro. The sound coming out of the TF3 comes out perfect, but when it comes out of the ATEM once it goes through the ATEM. Any ideas to fix?

(1:17:56) ALL 3.5 MM ports are trash get a camera that has XLR and bring it in via HDMI

(1:18:02) Line already 😉

(1:18:20) Q: When you plug a camera or capture card into a rodecaster video USB port both the audio and video are available on Rodecaster?

(1:19:19) @Aaron Parecki YoloLiv Ultra 2.7.0 beta was one of the best beta I'm using now I expect the official release in the next few weeks.

(1:20:39) Q: I have found using NVMe drives in carriers works a lot better than conventional off the shelf USB SSDs

(1:20:57) Q: Thank you Aaron, Andrew had a really great tip and one that I should’ve thought of straight away. The cable I’m using between the TF3 and the ATEM isn’t that good. I’ll try replacing it Thanks guys

(1:21:19) @Aaron Parecki it in the 2.7.0

(1:21:26) Q: which hdmi transmitter/receiver do you recommend and why for an indoor livestream tof a basketball game? (thank you, you rock 🕺)

(1:23:47) Q: on OBSBOT tail air, the wireless video output (via wifi) is awesome but we don't have the NDI license. Which is better on picture quality and performance?

(1:24:40) Other folks such as Doug Johnson are using NVMe drives in carriers and having much more reliable results and of course BMD uses NVMe drives in some of their switchers with internal M.2 slots

(1:25:04) The reason I went with the Ultra (that I never used) in place of the ATEM which I had year using was the ability to bring my RCP2 in via USB and not have to setup my FX3 every week for good audio!

(1:25:40) Q: flip side of @IT Never Gets Old's question. What are your favorite pieces of gear you've gotten in the past few years?

(1:26:46) Panasonic BGH-1 I knew it ! 👍

(1:35:04) I want macro-blocks, digital smears and ARTIFACTS as big as the day is long.

(1:46:14) Hi @Aaron Parecki - just got home from lunch with friends...just saying "hi" !!

(1:46:20) Some people pay good money to get some of these effects during editing!

(1:46:26) You are melting.

(1:46:34) Q: what's your output setting (resolution, bitrate, fps, your internet speed, etc) on this stream? looks sharp and smooth.

(1:47:09) Q: have you tested the Epiphan Pearl family?

(1:47:37) Q: Colors on unlisted stream are slightly warmer and/or more saturated than here. Curious why?

(1:48:04) @Aaron Parecki Youtube is going to boot you off. Or it thinks "this stream is very healthy".

(1:48:24) Q. Is the Rodecaster Video suitable to replace OBS for gamestreaming?

(1:49:38) Q Would you like to show the new folks how to search through your old live streams?

(1:51:27) Q: How much packet reordering can the YouTube Live SRT receiver cope with?

(1:55:06) Q: What's the max overhead the packet retries add to the total bitrate out of the Director Mini?

(1:55:38) Q: what's the uses and applications of RTMP?

(1:55:39) Q: srt I should say

(2:04:01) Just landed, so sry if I'm asking something already answered. Is there an external AV1 hardware encoder that is targeted to small streamers (not costs an harm an a leg) @Aaron Parecki - thanks

(2:04:34) What’s your audio setup audio processing in short and sorry if I am making you repeat yourself.

(2:06:42) My rule of thumb for boom mic distance is length from thumb to pinkie on one hand

(2:06:56) Do we know the release date and price for Yolobox Extreme?

(2:08:15) I asked and got nothing on the Extreme

(2:10:03) Thanks again Aaron!!!!!

(2:10:06) Thanks Aaron and everyone. Have a blessed week!

(2:10:10) Great hanging out with everyone. See you next week!