All right live streaming is on let me see all right last
Wow so LinkedIn started in 2003
Is that when you is that when LinkedIn started? Yep, and that's when I that's when I got in. Oh, wow, okay
And it's now owned by Microsoft
I
Got you. Yeah. Well, I knew that I remember when Microsoft bought LinkedIn. Ah
That's where people listening. We're talking the tech side of the maniacs who owns what who owns what these platforms have been around
and been bought and
sold
All change names and all these different things. Yeah, I mean, what's next?
Streaming for the maniacs. Yes, we're not for sale. Just let y'all know that who's watching
Not yet anyway
Right that at this time. However, you know 19 billion 20 billion that that may sway the deal
Cashmere TV is not for sale. However, you know if the eight or nine digits nine figures are right
It may be
Maybe right, right
All right, I'm getting us together here
All right, I think we are ready to go
All right
So yeah, so anyway, all right. Well, we are ready to rock and roll. I'm
Figure some out on this side. I'm gonna let Darnell go ahead and get started. Hey everybody. This is streaming maniacs
This is kind of a pre-show. We just getting started and last week
We had some issues that we were contending with on the bandwidth side
So we decided this week that we were going to just go ahead and redo last week
And so let us know if you watching I am NOT streaming to Instagram just because Instagram just doesn't look
Right for a two-man stream, so we don't just stream this I think today we're going to Facebook
and YouTube and
LinkedIn so
I'm gonna actually get LinkedIn up and going while Darnell is
Getting a process going on his side since he turned his camera back on and well, I'm sharing
I'm trying to share with people real quick because you know lunchtime. So this is our lunchtime special
I know
Y'all have to excuse the lighting up here because we're still under construction here at our studio
It's funny when you said lighting up here and then you scratch your head. I thought you was going ball. No
Boy grayer, I don't know if I gained some gray over here this last couple of days
Launching literally three website while launching to
Cleaning up another one removing certain things off the elbow because we officially launched cashmere TV and
It's on the platform. So you see it all the time
Cashmere TV comm had to get that going and we're we're I'm pretty excited about that
It's a different kind of site cashmere is actually a different kind of brand for me
honestly, it's a little different and how it flows at the years of
Having b2 and beacon going beacon is still going
BTV is going it's just
Cashmere is a whole different experience and user model. So we're trying something new there
So what we're going to do is we're going to continue
reset
What we started last week, which we were talking about
Basically
Triggers scripting and how to make an efficient stream and so we're going to go back to that
we're gonna talk about that and
so let me get my notes out here from last week and we are going to now I'm not gonna be as tech as
I was last week. I know last week I was
Super tech and this week. I'm going to do my best and that be
Super tech and I'm gonna try to do this in 10 minutes. What's funny is you was super tech and
The internet wasn't working with the tech. So I guess I guess it all works out
Yeah, it did it worked out so we're going to make it the right way and
Here we go my notes. And so basically part one. We're going to talk about triggers
Triggers and we're talking about v-mix is the platform that we're talking about today
B makes is the primary platform that I use for everything. So I'm going to
Try to locate my mouse. It's so
It's gotta be today has to be a Friday, right
I'm going to share my screen
We're going to get on with this party here. Let's get this going
and
Now those who don't know about the platform we're using is
Actually a really nice platform. I mean, it's like
I've been having a great time with it
So much stuff you can do on here now, you should see my screen share and today
so we officially named our
This this part of the platform cloud connect. So
It's our browser browser based platform. And so and it allows us to do screen share
so this is the simple way to stream without having to use a
encoder
Yes, we're using a web-based encoder
using web RTC
Built directly into our platform which allows you to go to multiple platforms as well
So as we continue to mention on each podcast for more information, you can go to cloud TV
Or cloud live dot TV cloud live dot TV for more information. And if you following us on
Instagram or if you following us on
Actually, we just set up a new Facebook page for streaming maniacs, so go and follow that streaming maniacs Facebook page
however, we're not able to stream to that page yet because
Facebook wouldn't allow us to yet
So it will talk about that because this is gonna be something we'll talk about that
Perfectly right after this here short presentation. It was like I said
It's gonna be short into the point and give me that
So yes, we don't have to talk to him today about why you may be having problems trying to go live on Facebook
Yeah
so I am going to create an input here and
So I just created a generic input
We're gonna go over that real quick
And so one of the things that if anyone the best thing I can tell you to see triggers in action is to watch
Cashmere tv.com
Or just go to live that cloud live TV and watch us there and you can see doing proclaim faith videos
Just check the schedule. There is a schedule that's on there's slowly being updated as we as today goes on
You'll actually see the triggers in action. You can hear them in action. So where are triggers you're saying triggers are
essentially
Ways of controlling events in v-mix so right here you have the trigger menu just to keep it simple
They have on here they have on completion transition in transition out
Whenever something starts in v-mix you you set a trigger
So what we do basically is we have I have a lot of input
So I may want to have a trigger that starts playing
An input so I'll tell the trigger. Okay. Well, I want you to go ahead on transition in
I want you to play now because there's so many things on here. You can actually search
You know, you can just do all and then type in play
And or start so you do play and
Sorry about that
My phone's getting a text message and then you select the input that you want to play whenever the transition comes in
So I'll just randomly pick one. I'll say
play a logo
Then you hit add now in the case of us doing like audio transitions from
This basically is where your program starts you want to have a nice slow audio transition you stack your
Transitions and to do that you set it through your delays delays are built in milliseconds
So it's 500 milliseconds a half a second 1000 milliseconds is one second
So you would set two delays based on how you wanted to step down if you're not using scripting. So
What we did on ours with especially with the cashmere
Well proclaimed faith videos. We have this who's proclaimed faith video open comes in and
Support it. It detects it. So it's an input called videos
the videos input
Triggers and open that open has all the events everything that videos
That input has to do to get the show on the air and get it running
Includes bringing up starting the
Rewinding the playlist because we keep our video list running all the time. So restarting the existing video that's in the queue
Turn on the audio of that video so you can hear at a certain point
So we have that set in the certain rate certain amount of time to do that
So triggers is a great tool and then on transition out. We do a whole bunch of other things
So triggers is one way of having some good effects some good things
Like say if we want to go more advanced you have to contact us we can take a little more advance
this is a quick overview the next element that is
We're gonna leave the triggers for now unless anyone you know, we don't have any questions here
So I can't really answer unless Mike has some questions
What's the difference between triggers and shortcuts? Ah
Okay, a trigger is something that takes place right when that input is active or deactivated
So you have a transition in output triggering a transition out shortcuts are usually keyboard stream deck
Even
Xbox controllers PowerPoint controllers so you can do a whole lot with shortcuts X keys
Shortcuts are basically you can push a button like if you have a shortcut like taking mapping
Let's say f7 on your keyboard f7 say that starts it puts a graphic up the shortcut
Just by hitting f7 will put that graphic up
So that's what a shortcut does the trigger basically is once the input it just has a list of instructions
So for v-mix to do these things
Again, cashmere is extremely
trigger based
There aren't really any shortcuts there because it's run by itself
I use a lot of shortcuts on our podcast that we do every other week was a ton of shortcuts on there
We're putting up graphics, especially stream deck, which we'll talk about stream deck because stream deck has a lot of features a lot of power
That you can tap into but yes shortcuts are
They can be your best friend. Now if I remember correctly, there's one letter that cannot be mapped in v-mix shortcuts
I believe that's the letter a
Don't know why but the letter a though it shows up in the shortcut list
You can't have the letter a as a shortcut now speaking of shortcuts if you do shortcuts
Let's go to the shortcuts
So right here is my shortcut list, I'm not sure how well everyone can see it
However, these are the shortcuts that we use just for my stream deck
and my stream deck has several different controls that it does as well as
I don't think I have any keyboard shortcuts. I don't have any keyboard shortcuts in here
So for me mainly everything is stream deck
however, you can structure it to where if you your stream deck is networking or if it's not communicating in your
Running into a situation you can't you can duplicate a shortcut you can clone it and you can assign it to a keyboard
Function now I do that at great faith. I slowly migrate away from it because I'm working remotely
I don't want anyone to accidentally touch the keyboard. I've had that happen where I'm no
early on of a map to spacebar to cut and
this needless to say
That was not a smart idea and I ended up a couple times hitting the spacebar and taking to the preview
So I wouldn't recommend it unless you're in the switcher situation if you're a production situation
Yes, if you're a streaming situation you have to go into your shortcuts and disable the spacebar by
unticking the checkbox on the
There's a little checkbox here and that right there controls it now. I did the same thing here because
There is a little hiccup
what my PTZ camera have
In stream deck using the shortcuts where if I push the button it will actually move the camera keep moving it
So I disabled that so on my stream deck, I don't accidentally go to that page and hit that button
Since we're over here. Let's go over to scripting and then I'm completed is pretty much simple today. I
have a client who is
the who's
blind and
I have to send him a tone
so what we did is I created a shortcut a relatively simple shortcut and
Like it basically on my stream deck or on the keyboard assignment shortcut
I push a button and it sends it turns on the audio and sends him a feed
So it'll shoot him a beat only he can hear it doesn't go
Over in the stream because we use we mix call for him when he has to do productions
Versus using the zoom plug-in that's on v-mix
Through v-mix call. I'm able to map that audio that tone directly to him. So it'll beat in
In terms of which we have a one kilohertz tone or any kind of tone on there
You even have your voice recorded ironically and say, you know
Have a countdown if you want and just have a button that will push it
You push the button and it'll do the countdown for you or you can set up your mic to also communicate, but we use scripting
To do that now you can do it if you don't have no scripting only works and v-mix 4k and above
so you literally will have to either a
Map it through a little process again. We can show you all how to do all that
Just contacting us because there there are so concise and it really we don't want to spend too much time
I don't want to be as technical as I was last week because I think I went over a lot of people's heads and
Today I'm trying that to go over anyone's head. So we're going to keep it simple today and
Pretty much. That's what I have today
There you go, man. Well, that's good
One thing, you know when you're using
Triggers
For different things it increases the value of your workflow. So like that way you don't have to do as much manually
So a lot of
Triggers when you using it for like audio transitions different things like that. It really just gives you a better workflow overall
This is what I like in terms of using triggers one scenario
that I like is the fact that you can use triggers when it comes to transitioning from
Like for me I use playlists a lot
So I will run my playlist on
Open because I'll stack all my videos there for my girl and then after that then I can basically use my playlist
to run
Everything and then my audio for my main camera
Feeds are off that way of we doing mic checks and behind the scenes
Nobody's hearing the mic checks come through over the stream and then after that playlist
It kicks in so like for instance
if you use an account down right and you have your countdown set up to
automatically transition to your live camera feed after the countdown completes you can have your audio switch and with your
with your
Your your live feed. So that's one of the things that I use triggers for is
And and it's what's funny is sometimes when you go in to set them up
Set up your triggers you need to make sure you set it up to follow
Correctly. Yes. I've done it a few times and it was like, oh wait, I used the wrong one and
My audio didn't transition like it should or the video was supposed to fade out and didn't
So you just have to make sure within your presets depending on how many presets you have on your specific
V-mix machine like I have like I think
15 different presets
We have some clients that we do stuff for regularly
So I just build those in and then when we're doing stuff for them
We can open up and do that. One of the things I wanted to talk about was the v-mix desktop capture
Yes, because it's a tool
That I use so as you can see, I just switch to my desktop which I'm pulling in from my other v-mix machine
I'm using desktop capture. This will allow you to if you want just depends
using NDI sources bringing things in over the network allows you to build and expand your
workflow without having to
Put so much use on one machine so you can stack v-mix in that way. And so in this case I have
v-mix on
On that one and then I can open up my v-mix on that and I can do things in there as well
But as you can see
I'm able to fade back over to my live camera. So
So just you know, you can download that software. Oftentimes you see it one of the questions that I get
And darn it on if you get this question, but it's a pretty common question, which is is v-mix compatible with Mac
v-mix is not
Built to run on Mac
However, the v-mix desktop capture will so a lot of times when people go to the v-mix site
They'll get confused because it tells you that it's not but then they have a v-mix desktop capture for Mac. So
But it's only for that now do I know people who have installed Windows on Macs and have run
V-mix on Windows. Yes, and has it worked? Absolutely. Would I do it? No
so
And there's several reasons why I wouldn't do it. However, I have had clients do it and successfully work
I do recommend though that you are kind of more advanced in using
software tools on
you know Mac and
PC and just really most of the people that I know who have done it
They've all been people who are in IT or you know, they just have a really well rounded working knowledge of how to get things to
work through
Integrating software and different platforms. So that would be one of the things that I would recommend
As we continue to talk over the next couple weeks we we will ramp up from
simple to more advanced
But I wanted to bring those things up because those are some of the common questions that right that I get
Speaking of common questions there now
What's some of the common questions that you get overall just when it comes to string that outside of the software?
But what's you know, you've worked with hundreds and hundreds of clients. What's some of the common questions that you get?
When it comes to strength, what kind of computer do I need?
And do I in my favorite one is can I stream over Wi-Fi? Yeah
I'm I usually tell people to one a gamer class PC
number two
I do not recommend Wi-Fi streaming unless you're out somewhere where you can't get a hardwire
Because the bit rates that's required especially in hotels hotels are just the worst place
To say I'm gonna do a stream and I'm gonna do a Wi-Fi. You might sort of record it and
Run it through the scheduling system available at cloud live
And schedule it as live because you're not going to get a really good signal
I have a client who literally pays for his internet at the hotels
So he goes to hotels that will provide a hardline hard lines and hotels can go anywhere from
$50 to 500 to a thousand dollars per
Connection. I'm not sure depending on the hotel. How do you do it? Maybe if you're there for three days, they may say hey
We'll do the connection for five hundred dollars
Usually you will pay for the hardwire. However, you get what you paid for. Yeah
Doing Wi-Fi and people say Oh stuttering is is going out. My feed is right because you're on Wi-Fi
You can't depend on it. I'm on I have Wi-Fi at home and I have hardwire
I would never I it's very rare that I stream on Wi-Fi
Everything here is hardwired in my contract. I had to roll the water
stairs
Because we're temporarily wired. However, everything has to be wired and
The better the Internet do speed tests every once in a while
One thing I like about stream deck is it's got a built you can actually download a speed test
Button and push it and give you your speed and usually I just hit it now to see how long it takes
But it will give you a pretty accurate speed test what your Internet is. I've done streaming at the Aretha Franklin
unfortunately
The Wi-Fi was so bad to actually had to tie it into my cell phone and stream it out at one
went out one one K and
I recorded it, but I had to be streamed out at one K. That was horrible and
But it got out, but it just wasn't that the quality that should have been however. Nobody ordered the Internet
I'm in situations like that
But the most common two questions are can I do Wi-Fi and what kind of computer? I just did a new system
For a client that I'm joining their team another pastor here in town
he just purchased a brand new computer and it was an i7 and I forgot was
GPU GPUs are also important to make sure you have a GPU
Which is a graphics card and I had to make sure the laptop had the right type
And they had a really decent one a great memory and I got him set up
And he's ready to go and I kept it simple with them
Yeah, we recommend it stand away from the onboards graphics cards if you can not that they won't work
but right you definitely, you know really want to go with the Nvidia cards and
specifically Nvidia because the
AMD cards do not work with
Yeah, they those cards don't work not the processors, but their cards don't work with
Yeah, you may get you may get a lot of different things in it
But that's more of the advanced because we got to show you how to
Set up your v-mix where there's certain settings that do so everything I do is Nvidia
My laptop is running an Nvidia
GTX I'm trying to do a model that the stickers worn off
But I was the Nvidia GTX and then I have another laptop that has an Nvidia
Graphics card and it has the wind that in the IBM
Graphics and so most laptops come with a built-in motherboard
graphics card and the second
Graphics card that's usually Nvidia. So you always want to go into v-mix and get will go more in advance later
But there's a way you can tell v-mix only use the Nvidia because v-mix changed their process over the years
We've been with v-mix for a long time
Used to be you go to your settings menu in v-mix and you go. Okay. Well you can select it there
However rules change with operating systems change security procedures. So now everything's managed through Windows
So you would go in there and set that up
Another quick thing one circle back to the triggers real quick. I just thought about this. We do triggers if you have a
It's something that takes five seconds you need to happen
make sure
when it's an inch when
This is something I had to learn the hard way
When it's on transition in if you need 5,000 milliseconds, you add another element. That's
2,200 milliseconds, you gotta subtract it from that 5,000. So that five seconds
So you guys subtract the time from that?
So if you want your all your events to happen within 10 seconds
You you have to add up what needs to happen within that 10 seconds that all of it has to add up to 10 seconds
If you don't if you have a 10 second trigger another 10 second trigger another one, do you do a 30 second?
You know, that's a minute and you're gonna go why isn't this working because you added up one minute
So triggers are stacked in the order the you need to do it in the proper order again. I'll say watch cashmere
cashmere TV
It's a hundred percent trigger
When the station ID comes up the up next comes up. It's triggered and within those triggers it has
stack of triggers that keeps the the bug off the screen the
Branding bug off the screen for I think two minutes
So in it so in this case you were running cashmere TV as a 24-7 I just want to give some right
Some overview so that they understand you run it as a 24-7 and here's what you're doing
As far as that goes and then with that it's triggering your playlist script based off what you're running within cashmere
But you're using v-mix to run your 24-7 network, correct?
Yep through a scheduling software, which we have which I've rewritten as a
It's been it's been the schedule system Mac Yeager wrote it and I've actually birthed it further than Mac Yeager who wrote it
Originally, but there's triggers and each trigger everything has to stay in the input
So those inputs stay in there v-mix as the input of the show as needed. However, the triggers is
extremely triggered
Not to sound negative trigger
But if you've watched cashmere TV you can see triggers in action
It's it's 100%
A lot of triggering going on there. So take a listen going over there and watch that see triggers in action
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And hopefully when they come back next week or in two weeks
Depending how fast my contractor gets everything done
Shout out to walk
And
He's a really good guy
he's up there in age, but he still does he had he likes to work and
He's in his mid early 70s or mid 70s. He's he's still
Hammering away. He had a little assistant
you know, he's a perfectionist and I like that and
Some of these younger guys today are not keen to details and he's very keen to the details
So we have a nice floor in our house and it's taking time so hopefully
We'll have our set put back together. We have some reviews. I'm going to do on some lighting
We're going to be talked about that and then just go over this real quick thing on Facebook
We discovered something if you start a Facebook group
You have to make sure you're engaging in that group before you can go live
Which means you and I looked at I told my wife I said, well we first started our podcast Facebook group
We could never go live and I was like, I don't know what's going on. And we just started engaging in there
We started adding people and all of a sudden like 30 days or 45 days after doing a lot of engagement
We were able to go live. So if you started a new Facebook group or
Page page. Yeah, no Facebook page
Yeah, make sure that you're engaging on that page mean constantly posting because you will not be able to go live
Until you fit the criteria problem is they don't tell you the criteria is
That's because there is no criteria
right
Yeah, it's 2024. We don't know if it's dealing with all the social
Situations going on here in the world where maybe they just don't want people starting a page
And going live. I'm not sure what it is. However, they they tighten their their buckles
Yeah
No, it's within the last few hours a couple months. I launched the page not too long ago for
Light and truth TV and it I was able to stream to it pretty much right away
And then when I launched the streaming maniacs page for some reason
that's when I noticed that error and it's very important that you know that because
If you are launching a new page, right not not your existing page
If you are launching a new page then you want to make sure you know that that it's not an error
It's not a problem. Now what I do understand from what we read is that you
hand still stream from a mobile device.
Um, and that's kind of how YouTube used to be.
Whereas once you set it up, you had to stream from a mobile device first and
then you were able to go live. That was years and years ago.
I think when they first kind of launched it. But, um, but anyway, sorry about that.
I kind of cut you off.
YouTube flipped it. Now you have to do it from a computer.
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
So they flipped it down. It's the other way around.
You can't use your mobile device, but you can do it from your computer.
Yeah. So it's a lot of things going on in the world.
If I discovered something as building our websites, uh, for cashmere,
as I've decided, like I said, cashmere is a different whole different, uh,
system, uh, new to salesperson, um, worked for commission only.
Uh,
that's how I started my career, man.
Yeah. It's not a little pennies add up to dollars. However,
um, even adsense has even, um, buckled down on their accounts.
So if you're a new person, you start a website, you're all one do average.
I wouldn't have advertisements. Uh, they are buckling down. They're Natalie.
They're not running ads on platforms that are for or against the war
controversial towards the war overseas. So, uh, you have a lot of political,
uh, things that are happening. So as I said,
this may be political because so much is happening. Uh,
everything we're seeing with the restrictions or the limitations may be due to
the fact that they're just trying to keep things under control as, as,
as much as possible. Yeah. So we're going to make it through this year.
They'll release the rules.
And that's the thing. So one of the key components is, um,
if you are not streaming now and you're looking for a streaming provider,
you can use cloud live TV and you don't have to worry about any restrictions.
Um, we will push your content out and, uh, you can, um, you know,
have it where you want it to be.
And then also even in your own environment,
streaming directly to your website, um, and bring your own community in.
And then if you have content that you want to monetize,
our platform is designed to do that as well. See,
people are calling right now.
That might be that salesperson that you was trying to get.
I don't know. It was our paper. It was our favorite person. Oh, it wasn't. Okay.
I should have muted real quick and say, Hey, you want to say something?
I know. I know. Um, yeah, that would be cool.
We can bring him into the podcast, um, in real time.
I'll send him the link. Um, but yeah, it is, uh,
look, we excited about, um, streaming Darnell basically are taking these calls.
In fact, um, now I'm getting a call. So, um,
yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna let Darnell talk while I take this call.
I'm a mute real quick.
Yeah. So, uh, there's so much going on here with the, uh,
podcast and streaming world. Uh, like I said, we, we,
we try to do this within a certain amount of time,
but I believe that the person called me probably called him.
So it's so much that happens, um, when you're live and you're streaming and
people, um, you know, they reach out to us for help.
There's so much that we do here in the streaming world. Uh,
I recently had a call and they asked me, do you, uh, they called me up,
a person called me and said, do you do streaming? I was like, yes, yes, I do.
I do streaming. So, uh, we, we get those,
those questions constantly.
Well, you know, one of the questions, speaking of common questions.
So one of the common questions that I get, you, you,
you broke it down about the computer.
One of the ones that I get often after you get past the computer is what type of
camera do I need? Oh. Um,
and that is always a challenge because depending on
who's asking the question and what the particular workflow is,
is how we determine what type of camera or cameras do you need? Um,
happened to, uh, be at a location yesterday and this happened to be a church.
Um, and they're looking to upgrade, um, their system.
But one of the things that I noticed is, um,
they're using a, uh, uh, HD camera.
That's converted down, converted to standard definition. Um,
I mean, I think this is the first time that I seen an S video cable and probably,
yeah, exactly. So, um, so I was like, wow. Um, you know,
so it's not just the camera necessarily, um,
that can impact the quality of your stream. However,
you do want to make sure you use the right type of camera for the right type of
setup. Right. I don't recommend, you know,
going out and buying a super expensive camera. If you are, um,
doing something similar to what we're doing right now,
but I do recommend using a quality camera and those come in all shapes and
sizes, right. Uh, and costs. Um, you know,
so it just depends on what it is that you want to do in terms of your workflow.
So as you look over my shoulder, you'll probably see a PTZ, uh, camera.
That's a 20 X, um, camera, uh, which we install in, you know,
multiple different churches.
Now they have the 4k move camera and they just came out with this new, um,
software, uh,
called hive that'll allow the cameras to be controlled from the cloud from
anywhere in the world. Um, which I think is really cool.
That's a little bit more advanced, right.
And can work in some environments or you may be doing something like this,
where a Logitech webcam might work for you, right.
Or you may use, um, you know, something a little bit better than that.
I personally do not like webcams. Um, and I've seen a lot of them.
I think Elgato makes a really good one and PTZ optics actually makes a pretty
good one. Um, but I'm not a webcam person. I just don't like them.
So, um, I'm not saying that they're not good.
I'm just saying that I probably won't use one.
Now the convenience of using a webcam is you don't need a capture card.
Um, you just USB in. Um, so that could be, you know,
a capture card can be an additional cost and you can find capture cards for as
little as 50 bucks and as much as, you know,
500 bucks or higher depending on the capture card.
I tend to use quality capture cards. Um, you know, uh,
I don't think I've used any capture card under, um,
200 bucks. Um, now the other thing is you can use something like a black magic
ATM switcher, uh, which is basically a capture card, um,
that allows you to connect multiple cameras.
So if you have a multiple camera set up that you're trying to do,
depending on what cameras you select, you can do that as well. Um,
and so these are different questions that I generally get. Um,
and normally the questions start off pretty simple,
but then they become more advanced as you start to uncover some of the use
cases and what needs are. So in this case, as a simple broadcast,
it's browser based, right? Um, while we're using the mix, we don't have to,
we can simply close the mix and we'll still be able to bring our camera in
because it'll see it in the browser.
And then we use our platform to stream it directly. Um,
or if I was on my something as simple as my, uh, mobile phone,
if I was on my iPhone, I would be able to do the same thing.
Or if I was on my iPad, I would be able to do the same thing.
It allows me to go live from wherever I am, no matter what device I'm using. Um,
and then the other question that I generally get is audio. Uh,
what type of microphone do I need? Right. And again,
it all depends on what it is that you're trying to do. You know, uh,
what your setting is, what your environment's like. Um,
all of those things make a huge difference. As you can see,
I'm using a road pod mic. Um, and you know,
hopefully the quality sounds amazing and Darnell is using Samson.
And so we are using different mics, right. To give, um,
people an opportunity to kind of hear right.
How it sounds with the equipment that we're using. Um,
and this mic is only like $99.
So if you're doing a podcast and you're looking for a good podcast mic,
and this is not a paid, you know, advertisement,
but I do think that this road mic is a pretty good one, uh, for the cost.
And, um, you know, I think it sounds pretty good,
but you guys let us know in the comments what you think. And, um,
while we talking about common questions, if you have any common questions,
leave them in the comments and we'll address them each week.
And while we're live, if you, uh, happen to drop them in there,
we'll address them while we're live. And so, um, so yeah,
nothing's coming in on the comments. Wait, it says great information.
Cam is watching his pop-pop talk about media and is invested.
That's cool, man. My grandson is watching and, uh, to Cam,
um, love you, grandson. Thank you for watching.
You might be the only viewer that we have today. So, uh,
no, we have some more. We have some more. They just haven't said anything.
There you go. He's a, he's a future at a company, man. So we, we gotta,
you know, give him a shout out. So appreciate him for watching.
Yes. And then on, when it comes to mics and cameras,
I actually have a next to go, um, Cam,
which is technically a webcam. However, it has a Sony sensor, uh,
and it doesn't look, it has that webcam look, which is, uh, uh,
I actually have some Logitech C920 somewhere in this house.
And, um, I'm going to de-box them. Cause I have other uses for those cases.
Uh, cause I switched over, I talked to her, the chief engineer at impact.
And he says, you need to do everything with Sony sensors.
And so every camera I get low end is Sony sensor.
The next thing I said, okay, I'll try it. I'm, I was just tired of webcams.
And that camera actually looked, we started our podcast out with it.
Uh, Garrison house started in our first floor, our first floor, um, studio, uh,
is it has the next to go up here.
We have an IUZ PTZ camera also with the Sony sensor.
So I'm using products here that you may want to get. Um,
my field kit is Marshall. I use the Marshall PTZ. Uh,
and so I'm testing on my end of these products that some people may have never
heard. Mike has the PTZ optics. I'm, I'm playing around with Marshall.
We both do black magic design kind of stuff. I mean, I could break that out,
but yeah, capture cards. My favorite capture card is the Madgewell.
And, uh, it gets hot, but it's, it's a good card.
And my favorite audio capture,
I have three different ones that I've used.
So I can pretty much tell you which ones work as one generic two of
one generic. I have, um, another one, a personas,
and I have an M audio. Uh, we just did a test with M audio this week.
Worked beautifully. I just, um, my client, I just got him.
I forgot which one we got him. Uh, and it worked great. So, you know, we,
we tried to have different tests, including the lighting that's behind me,
uh, even how to make your, your, your set look nice.
So the lighting in front of me, isn't that great.
But the lighting behind me looks okay. Uh,
as you, before you leave the audio, um, cause you talking about the interfaces.
Um, I have, I'm using today, my, um, personas as well.
Um, and for years, you know, I've used the personas and I've had people say,
oh man, you need to get off of it as crap. Use the, uh, focus, right. And I look,
focus, right. It's not bad. Um, I actually think it's,
it's actually a pretty good device. However, I bought one that's crap and, um,
I did a video on it and you can, if you follow us on YouTube, you'll see it,
but watch it. I, that thing, it cuts in and out. I mean,
like if I talk for five minutes, it goes out and then I have to reset it.
And then it comes back up. Um, and I don't,
I've put them in a couple of places. They've never had problems.
I've had problems with mine from the day I got it out the box. Um, and maybe,
you know, I should have did something different, but I also have a zoom eight,
six. So next week, what I'll do is when we stream live, I'll use my zoom eight,
six. Um, maybe I'll actually use my focus right as well.
I'll connect both of them and see what happens. Um,
but I'll use my zoom eight, six. I do like it better than my personas, uh,
because, um,
you have a little bit more ability to tweak and you can record to it.
So if you want to take, you know, from, you know,
your podcast or whatever, if you're recording live,
you can take that out in the field runs on battery. You can use it that way.
However, you cannot use it as an interface, um,
and record at the same time if I'm not mistaken. So, uh, okay.
Yes. I know I had the zoom multi-channel, the actual board board. Yeah.
And, uh, that's what we were going to actually have up here. Unfortunately,
I could not zoom.
It says that the zoom, these are different companies, uh, by the way,
I don't know how they got away with that. However, audio is excellent.
One is Z right. Okay. Yeah. Um,
so what we have here on mine
is I think the reason we didn't use it,
I could not hear in front of the computer and talk at the same time.
And I had the, I forgot it was bored.
I think it's like 12 input board records,
12 tracks of audio and it has four outputs.
So I can have a band up here and mix it basically and record it,
record them individually.
Yeah. And that's the thing. When you start getting into gear, um,
it can become a process, right?
But that's why we do what we do, right.
We do all the testing and all of these things so that you don't have to. Um,
and we, you know, we stream the maniacs, man.
So when it comes to streaming, we go crazy over stuff. If you look behind me,
every single thing that you see is in use somewhere throughout the studio.
So it's not just there for decoration and design. Um, it's what we use.
So like when Darnell, like right now I'm using a Canon, um, um,
this is actually the Canon RP that I use for, uh, stuff like this. Um,
but I shoot primarily in Canon for post-production work as well. Um,
but I do have the black magic studio, uh, live camera. Um, and of course I have,
I have the PTZ optics cameras,
which is good for mobile setups when you going out to do stuff. Because, um,
if you're not using multiple, uh, people, uh, to manage cameras,
then that way you can do everything using the joystick and you can manage it
that way. So it just gives you a little bit more flexibility.
And that's why I say it, it depends on what it is that you're doing, um,
based on, you know, how you navigate your workflow. So, um,
but today I am super excited because as we get ready to close out, um,
I think this has been our best, uh, stream bandwidth wise, um,
over the last four streams last week was so bad.
I actually just took it down because it was just choppy and going in and out.
Um, but I think my conversation with Comcast must've yielded us some fruit, um,
because this week it seems to have gone very well. Um, and, uh,
I'm pretty pleased with, you know, what we have. And as you see,
Darnell was moving his camera around, um, you know, getting it adjusted,
just right, uh, for him. I don't have the liberty.
Mine is in a fixed position and the only way that I'm going to be able to change
it if I reach across my screen and do it that way. Um,
and I'm just glad that my auto focus is working very well. Uh,
shout out to, uh, Canon RP users. Um, I,
I actually like this camera is a full frame, uh, camera. Um,
you know, that's under, I want to say it's under a thousand dollars, um,
depending on what lens and stuff like that, that you use. But, uh,
but yeah, so I like it. Um, it's been very good to me.
I was one of the first early adopters of the Canon R series when they first came
out with the Canon, Canon R. So I bought the R and the RP. Um,
I liked them both. Um, they discontinued the R, but the RP is still on the market.
So, um, but if you can get a Canon R, uh,
not that this is a paid promotion cause it's not, but I,
I would recommend getting it. Uh, you know, that's my personal recommendation.
Not that we don't want the paid promotion.
Absolutely. So Canon, if you are watching and I,
I use E and Samson and Amuse, you know,
we are available for, um, personas. Yeah. Personas.
I think all the names of your audio, all y'all can just, you know, checks.
We do have an address.
If you want to get it right, you can send me a new one and then we can,
we can talk good about your product.
And V-Mix, you know, even though, well, we're cool with Martin, you know,
Martin's good people. Yeah. We resell V-Mix. So we, so that week, yeah,
you can't get V-Mix. And then, uh, I was controlling my camera, um,
through V-Mix. So, um, my PTZ is controlled through there.
So I can pan it over and do all this fun stuff.
And, um, it's actually pretty fun. I'm glad I made that move,
but I guess we're done cause we have gone over as usual.
I know, man. Um, we have gone over as usual, but Hey, it's fun. Um,
uh, Thomas said that this has been the best one so far. Um, so yeah,
I think the connection has really stayed well, uh, on this one and, uh, man,
but it's been good so far.
I think we've been going for about 45 minutes or so. Um, and, uh,
it's been a good podcast.
So we will maximize our system,
continue to introduce you guys to what we do on our workflow side and how we
manage our stream. And, um, it will get more polished over time.
Uh, right now we're just doing the basic, uh, bare bones.
So you can see that you can start with the simplest setup as possible,
and then you can grow into a more advanced, uh, streaming operation. And so,
um, cause trust me, we can get super, super,
super into the weeds on, um, all the different things that you can do.
So if you have any common questions, feel free to reach out.
We are the streaming maniacs, Michael and Darnell. Uh,
we are excited about bringing this content out to you each week live.
We're going to start running some contests and doing some giveaways as well.
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I could be a part of the streaming community. So whether you are not novice or,
you know, super advanced, uh, we don't bring it to you. And so, um,
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