I got to watch the replay on Monday, as I was traveling Sunday. Congratulations on getting another milestone project successfully completed!! Nothing better than taking on a challenging project and then completing it with a job well done. I've been a presenter at major technical conferences maybe two dozen times and given countless sales presentations and was always fearful of technical glitches as well as the more common "presenter error"!
Great insights into the keynote production! I work in tech and attend and present at a fair amount of large industry conferences but don’t handle large-scale AV like this. Increasingly I’m seeing demos done pre-recorded more so than live but staged in such a way that it comes across more engaging than just watching a video. So much work goes into these.
Congrats on the successful web flow event! Looks like a great company, and for me It’s nice to get some insights into live event management. Best of luck with the catch up tasks, and hopefully getting some rest!
Wow. Thanks for sharing about the event. I do a live streamed event for about 100-ish people in person and I'm wearing every one of those hats. And not making nearly enough. Meanwhile the guy is freaking out that he's built his entire business over me and if I get sick or forbid get hit by a beer truck... Well that would be no problem if you were to pay the industry rates just a guess. I have one person who helps me set up and then I have one person who handles switching and I monitor everything and do Sound. We're doing 3 to 4 cameras and a few of these once a month things have had three different speakers. And two years ago I was so sick I couldn't set up the backdrop but that sure went on! I did as much as I could went home and got there early the next day and brought my dad. Super lightheaded and nauseous every time I bend over made for setting things up really interesting I got cables in place and roughly set up the table and other things and went home thankfully 10 minutes away. The worst part is this guy wants Apple Keynote ted talks quality perfection every time. With 2 1/2 people. And lights he bought off eBay that are meant to be mounted to a vehicle (yeah I was actually looking for better lights we started with those cheap streamer camera lights that plug into a USB port, I was looking for more official better ones and came in and was notified oh I already bought some............. Oh You Did?! ).
25:00 As far as iOS goes as long as you have an audio interface that can input and output at the same time you can monitor audio if the app supports it. There's even some USB microphones now with headphone outputs. You might be able to use a USB "hub" I have not tested this, iOS is a little weird with how it selects input an output and it usually picks one unless it's input only. The built-in camera app does not support audio monitoring unless they've added that in one of the newer versions I am on a 13 mini. instead I use the Kinomatic camera app which has a lot of useful functions among audio monitoring.
Oh so many good questions 30:00 I have a HDMI splitter that I can drop at the projector or laptop and that goes to a HDMI to CAT5 converter which then goes to a USB capture card with those cheap $15 ones. this brings presentation laptop video in to OBS for me getting a direct screen capture of whatever laptop is presenting. Only downside is when somebody is using a laser pointer. Alternatively I can swap the converter and splitter around if the laptop is going to be near where I'm streaming from and send off to a projector. However if I had the money an NDI converter would be awesome. Failing that if you just need to capture the easiest way is an HDMI splitter and some sort of device to record HDMI otherwise you're looking at software on the computer. Or just ask the presenter to send you the slides after, although they get a little picky with that so be careful. an alternative would be exported stills or PDF, PDFs are harder to work with stills will go right into an editing program.
OK I'll feel annoyed if I don't chime in on the lightning USB-C debate. I know a lot of folks who have iPhones that have their ports getting clogged up with debris and lint. I know one person who has a lightning port that won't hold the cable in anymore. Like micro USB the connector manufacturer makes a big difference in quality and the design of USB-C is so much more robust than micro but it still depends on the quality of the connector chosen. And I know that lightning ports can get damaged which is why the repair ability on iPhones is really critical and the connector should be on a daughter board. Also anything that is iPhone compatible has to be certified which means Apple not only get you on the App Store if you're a developer they get you on the accessories market for every connector. It was a stopgap connector but it's still very much a favorable for them because they get commission. Meanwhile their computers are using the USB-C connector and they were shipping iPhones with lightning headphones which were incompatible with their MacBooks. I watched a kid try to plug a set in and while the slats looked similar they didn't fit.
I got to watch the replay on Monday, as I was traveling Sunday. Congratulations on getting another milestone project successfully completed!! Nothing better than taking on a challenging project and then completing it with a job well done. I've been a presenter at major technical conferences maybe two dozen times and given countless sales presentations and was always fearful of technical glitches as well as the more common "presenter error"!
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Great insights into the keynote production! I work in tech and attend and present at a fair amount of large industry conferences but don’t handle large-scale AV like this. Increasingly I’m seeing demos done pre-recorded more so than live but staged in such a way that it comes across more engaging than just watching a video. So much work goes into these.
Indeed. There is a thrill to live demos. 😅
Thanks so much for addressing my questions, Curtis!
Thanks for asking!
Congrats on the successful web flow event! Looks like a great company, and for me It’s nice to get some insights into live event management. Best of luck with the catch up tasks, and hopefully getting some rest!
Thanks Andrew. 🙏
Wow. Thanks for sharing about the event. I do a live streamed event for about 100-ish people in person and I'm wearing every one of those hats. And not making nearly enough. Meanwhile the guy is freaking out that he's built his entire business over me and if I get sick or forbid get hit by a beer truck... Well that would be no problem if you were to pay the industry rates just a guess. I have one person who helps me set up and then I have one person who handles switching and I monitor everything and do Sound. We're doing 3 to 4 cameras and a few of these once a month things have had three different speakers. And two years ago I was so sick I couldn't set up the backdrop but that sure went on! I did as much as I could went home and got there early the next day and brought my dad. Super lightheaded and nauseous every time I bend over made for setting things up really interesting I got cables in place and roughly set up the table and other things and went home thankfully 10 minutes away.
The worst part is this guy wants Apple Keynote ted talks quality perfection every time. With 2 1/2 people. And lights he bought off eBay that are meant to be mounted to a vehicle (yeah I was actually looking for better lights we started with those cheap streamer camera lights that plug into a USB port, I was looking for more official better ones and came in and was notified oh I already bought some............. Oh You Did?! ).
25:00 As far as iOS goes as long as you have an audio interface that can input and output at the same time you can monitor audio if the app supports it.
There's even some USB microphones now with headphone outputs. You might be able to use a USB "hub" I have not tested this, iOS is a little weird with how it selects input an output and it usually picks one unless it's input only. The built-in camera app does not support audio monitoring unless they've added that in one of the newer versions I am on a 13 mini. instead I use the Kinomatic camera app which has a lot of useful functions among audio monitoring.
Oh so many good questions 30:00 I have a HDMI splitter that I can drop at the projector or laptop and that goes to a HDMI to CAT5 converter which then goes to a USB capture card with those cheap $15 ones. this brings presentation laptop video in to OBS for me getting a direct screen capture of whatever laptop is presenting. Only downside is when somebody is using a laser pointer. Alternatively I can swap the converter and splitter around if the laptop is going to be near where I'm streaming from and send off to a projector. However if I had the money an NDI converter would be awesome. Failing that if you just need to capture the easiest way is an HDMI splitter and some sort of device to record HDMI otherwise you're looking at software on the computer. Or just ask the presenter to send you the slides after, although they get a little picky with that so be careful. an alternative would be exported stills or PDF, PDFs are harder to work with stills will go right into an editing program.
OK I'll feel annoyed if I don't chime in on the lightning USB-C debate. I know a lot of folks who have iPhones that have their ports getting clogged up with debris and lint. I know one person who has a lightning port that won't hold the cable in anymore. Like micro USB the connector manufacturer makes a big difference in quality and the design of USB-C is so much more robust than micro but it still depends on the quality of the connector chosen. And I know that lightning ports can get damaged which is why the repair ability on iPhones is really critical and the connector should be on a daughter board.
Also anything that is iPhone compatible has to be certified which means Apple not only get you on the App Store if you're a developer they get you on the accessories market for every connector. It was a stopgap connector but it's still very much a favorable for them because they get commission.
Meanwhile their computers are using the USB-C connector and they were shipping iPhones with lightning headphones which were incompatible with their MacBooks. I watched a kid try to plug a set in and while the slats looked similar they didn't fit.