two one and we're live how's it going guys welcome to PTZ optics back to
basics today we're talking all about Mac based live streaming systems this shows
for you Mac users and we've been having a lot of fun with our Mac Mini here we
have Wirecast on here we have OBS on here we have MIMO live I've got so many
live streaming software's for Mac it's getting a little confusing it's the last
minute downloads there too yeah it's last minute downloads of our PTZoptics PTZ
camera controller for Mac's let's talk a little bit about some of these awesome
options so today we're going to talk a little bit about using a Blackmagic
switcher and what Blackmagic switchers will allow you to do as a Mac user is
actually have up to like eight cameras that are all controlled and switched
what I call up stream upstream to a capture card or frame grabber which can
connect directly to your computer USB 3 and all the new Macs have USB 3 so
that's a great way to bring in multiple cameras into your computer we're also
going to be talking about just using a capture card to bring in a couple
cameras right there that is the magewell pro capture HDMI which actually has
a 4k model now and has an HDMI you loop through we're using that today so you'll
get to see that and capture cards or something that we're gonna get familiar
with in this show learn how to use them to bring cameras and other video
hardware into our Macs and finally we're gonna be talking about building systems
in general and give you some cool overviews so let's get into it oh and I
don't want to forget duh oh how could I forget we also have the latest and
greatest new tech NDI cameras the cool thing here is no capture card needed oh
yeah video switcher yeah just a single Ethernet cable who plugged into
the camera and plugged into your computer and Macs have great Ethernet
connectors that's your network card your network interface card some people call
it a NIC card we'll talk about how to you leverage that and save a ton of
money so let's get into it here we go so using
a Mac to build a live streaming software let's talk about some of the Mac
software tess that's out there today sure first and foremost the free one the
open source one OBS open broadcast software great place to start for those
of you new to streaming and Mac and PC users alike since you mentioned it let
me go ahead up you ever see that little spinning Mac wheel there get that a lot
here's OBS right here and we will be showing this in this presentation this
is the Mac version of OBS bringing in an NDI video source just a little
foreshadowing there of what we're gonna be digging into later in this
presentation sorry to interrupt us no worries
what do we have moving on here one of the number one streaming software's that
we see Mac users using is wirecast by Telestream over there hopefully we'll
have some demonstration of that for you guys today
I hope so oh yeah we've got wire cast as well computers super slow can't forget
about Nemo live from blink software Facebook and YouTube direct yeah and
what I mean by that is that Facebook and/or YouTube can actually you can
actually stream directly to them with no software need it now I mean you know
that do they have any they have a few features that you connect screen sharing
I know Facebook has bringing on guests is another option might even enjoy that
for the geo-tagging features that they include with that as well and can't
forget about xsplit yes and xsplit of course so we're gonna have to go I don't
know why this computer is like taking for F ski with Safari I can't you just
say France key yes I did that's what I say oh maybe it's because I'm using a
let's just try opening and starting Safari look like I apologize guys Tess
is listening to the comments in the chat so Tess if there's any questions and
everybody in the chat which is kind of fun when we called out the popular
streaming platforms for Mac users they were all saying yay memo live go
Wirecast okay let us know which of these platforms you are using for streaming
let's find out what some of the more popular ones are yeah let us know in the chat
Tess' got full social media controls so she's gonna be showing those comments
live and we'll be answering your questions so what is a frame gabber I so
want vmix on a Mac I hear Vimeo is making their platform available on Mac
Wow oh cool an MC produzione video wants to see us do more with the Z cams
we will that's a good idea we got the Wirecast users out there let me show
this capture card and then also this one so two different capture cards I want to
show this one let's show them from the from the ceiling camera because I think
that'll be the best view so here's one capture card here so what this is is
this is an HD SDI video signal won't you hold that side test and then this is the
capture card that comes out USB so we can take professional SDI cameras like
this PTZ optics one here plug it right in and want to get in directly we don't
have to and then plug it directly into our computer now the next capture card I
have here and I can't bring it any further over Michael because it's just
it's connected to Tesla's computer another magewell capture card further a
little more intense this one see if we can get I can't move it any further
there we go alright so here this capture card here there we go
this capture card actually is the same deal but it actually has an audio
line-in on this side and has two HDMI so one HDMI is coming off this Mac Mini
actually and the USB is going into Tess' laptop and then the other HDMI
is actually feeding this television behind us so it gives us a great
way that's one thing that we're using right here in our studio right now we're
capturing the Mac Mini into a frame grabber to test this computer to send
ndi back to Michael to show that screen and then we're also showing the
screen so we use these products a lot and hey they're plug-and-play their
driver free and they work great with Mac computers so essentially you can plug
Apple TV into it you could plug In a high-end broadcaster you can plug an
Xbox into it an Apple TV yeah hmm and then bring that into your Mac Mini as a
selectable source in your live streaming software a lot you can do with these I
always suggest having one in your tool bag because they're not that expensive
and they work great now the great thing about capture cards is that you're
bringing in each video source individually so in your software you can
have four cameras and you can decide when you want to switch to each one at
any time but what we're going to talk about is a way to take the processing
power of all of those four or six or eight cameras off your little Mac Mini
or whatever Mac computer you have and put that into what I call an upstream
video switcher which is like a black magic switcher so for example if you
take all of that video switching and you put it into a black magic switcher or
any hardware based HDMI or HD SDI switcher and you take the output of that
video switcher and put it plug it into a capture card now your computer is only
processing one video feed and you're switching all the cameras upstream now
if you're using a Mac Mini or a computer that maybe is dropping frames with
multiple cameras we had a question about that earlier this would be a way to take
tons of processing power off your Mac but still have access to tons of cameras
and the Blackmagic video switchers are great because you can plug in a couple
monitors too that have full multi-view and all of those things and only have
one video feed that you have to worry about in OBS let's say for a free
streaming solution and recording now pro media is asking about HDMI security
issues so HDCP compliance capture cards are supposed to here Matt is
answering that be aware of hdcp content not transferring through most capture
devices due to legality surrounding HDCP so the Apple TV depending on what
contents not transferring through most of capture devices don't do legal issues
because you know with HDCP they're trying to protect the content and
sometimes you can't do that now the next thing which i think is a huge
opportunity for people using mac based computers is the new tech NDI cameras
because now we don't need a capture card we don't need a video switcher the
computers the software video switcher and all of the video signals are coming
over the the ethernet saving you time money and wires yeah so let's talk about
this from a cabling perspective tess explain this setup because it's pretty
simple and straight forward I think ok so I'm guessing you would pair three NDI
cameras each brought in via ethernet to a network switcher and then the switch
to the computer that's what it looks like yes
so that switch is a representation of your local area network and usually a
local area network consists of a router and a network switch and then a lot of
times there is a internet modem that is connected to the router or connected
that mean this is exactly what we did at pretty good fast yes it is okay and or
maybe maybe your internet you know modem and router are the same thing from
Comcast or Verizon or AT&T it connects to your network switch which your
network switch could be managed or unmanaged there could be DHCP or there
could be no DHCP we're not going to go into all the networking today but
essentially if you have power over ethernet in your switch you can power
the cameras you can get video and audio on the cameras and you can control the
cameras all over Ethernet and one of the things we're going to look at today is
also see you know what this thing doesn't like my windows keyboard I think
we're also going to show in a little bit as well the PTZ optics camera control
app as well and that is Michael's liking Michael's been loving makes us excited
it should mean other producers will like it as well as a producer he's really
been enjoying it we're going to talk about that more
Happy Wirecast family member here yeah pairing with an HMTV studio and black
magic so that's exactly what we're talking about today so Louis video I
think that's a great workflow all of your switching and recording and then
Eeuwit famous for Mac for wirecast over NDI on my Mac nice
one via a bird dog studio Wow beautiful yeah the Mac computers are great they
have now here's a here's a interesting thing is not all software supports the
new tech every day we are going to show you some free software that uses the new
tech NDI but open broadcaster software Wirecast xsplit and MIMO life all
support the new tech NDI so if it's something that you're interested in
these are some softwares that you should look into OBS is free Wirecast has two
different options in the 500 to a thousand dollar range X plus only $5 a
month really yeah I've never actually used
xsplit yeah hopefully I get you a copy of that that's one that I haven't
experimented with we'll do a show on it we'll play around with it and then MIMO
live is one that a lot of professionals have really liked it's a point some
memo livers here and here is this is kind of
subjective but now let's move into which of these software's actually support pan
tilt zoom control so Wirecast has the best integration they have the most
advanced integration from what I've seen they have white balance support they
have a focus lock they have three different ways to control the PTZ they
have just a bunch of advanced features they did a really in-depth their
developer Bryce did a great job on the integration now MIMO live has a very
very intuitive great integration but doesn't have all the little buttons for
white balance in color hopefully Oliver's not watching well Oliver if
you'd like to improve that Oliver's one of the main developers over there
what he does is what most people need and when you take MIMO live and you pair
it with our control software which is right here's definitely some cool stuff
you'd still have alive all of these are bare
features four luminance and contrast and sharpness and hue with me malai we were
able to do the cue to an object control with the camera yes which is really the
audience member could type in head yeah so MIMO live is probably the second best
but it really is a great software I'm just talking about integrations and then
OBS actually this is a mistake I wish I had my telestrator so I could put an X
on there OBS does not have PTZ support technically technically it does only for
PC only is not available for Mac I thought you you made an outside PG
controller that you could use while your yeah so we built the PTZ controller
Mac standalone app it's not a plugin for obs so just I want to make that make
that clear and that's our presentation so now we're gonna quickly show you guys
some of the free Mac based tools that are out there to get started so if you
have Wirecast if you have Mimo live you guys are probably happy with what you
have and you know have fun with it I think they're great software's what I
wanted to show today was OBS really quickly so you can see here here we have
OBS and a lot of people don't know this but OBS now has a studio mode so in
studio mode you can actually have a preview and up roasts and I wanted to
show quickly the NDI functionality here so we went to this was so easy it took
me like two minutes I downloaded the Mac version of OBS and then I searched OBS
NDI plug-in it is available for Mac I was worried I was like it's only
available to PC no it is available for Mac and once its installed you can go up
to tools here and you can go to NDI output settings and you can see here
that we have the ability to have our main output available via NDI and the
preview which is actually more than you can do on the PC version I don't
remember having that option on the PC version personally and on so what that
would do is if I check both those boxes I'm not going to do it because we're in
the midst of the show but if I check those both those boxes now our preview
and our how but be available on the network for
Michael to pull up and vmix or Wirecast or obs or anywhere on our local area network
now the other thing I wanted to show is right here we can hit add source so
right down here we can hit add source and we can click an NDI source so I've
already done that and right here we can see that I have a bunch of different
NDI sources that are available on my local area network now none of my NDI
cameras are showing up and I was like why is that because we do still me I do
actually still need to install the NDI HX driver okay for mac I free I
didn't do that for this show I'm on this on the Mac okay because the Mac is not
it's not discovering all of our NDI cameras I'm like why is that well that's
because we do not have do do the NDI check out links to do is yeah that's
more iOS I would because you would use your tablet to control it yeah so that's
that and then I wanted to quickly show this for Mac this is our free pan tilt
zoom controller and I believe that I'm controlling this camera now you can kind
of see it actually below me there there we go so I'm controlling this camera
here and I don't know if a lot of people have seen this app yet but one of the
great things about it is the ability to quickly adjust luminance and contrast so
you can see here without having to go into the OSD menu and the thing about
this app and we've we've been testing it improving it when you go out and do a
live stream all day the lighting changes throughout the day and you don't when
you're in the midst of a stream you don't want to actually go into the on
screen display menu so having the ability to just quickly you know adjust
the luminance adjust the contrast to get it super sharp through as the lighting
changes during the day is probably the biggest part of this whole thing but
yeah the ability to hue contrast saturation shutter speed in comments on
your old version of iMovie oh they saw the iMovie take it down take it down
it's time to compare so that is our presentation for some of the great Mac
Oh sling studio now has Mac software that's interesting oh they do have I
have some Mac software no that's great sling studio is a great option as well
Thank You Roy for chipping in their sling studio now is that Mac software I
think it's just for controlling the sling studio I don't think it's like a
switching streaming software but sling does have a control app for Mac as well
now that's awesome because we've got a sling studio in here we have to test
that yes all right well that's our show folks if
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