Un-Boxing the BirdDog PTZ Controller - Part 2 - Success!

all right there we go that's better is that better that's better that's better sorry about that I was wondering why you guys were being so unresponsive and talking amongst yourself so well okay thank you Taekwondo replays for saying hey today the pre-show without Tom and only we in the chat there you go hello P I and Marie and Daniel and Chris and Taekwondo and P I which is probably Miranda and Rudy Tommy was here earlier so glad to have you guys there we go now we're cooking now or cooking yeah still got some bug's to work out here with this new PC probably trying to do too many things one of the things I'm trying to do today which I'm interested in for your comments is I've got some real spiky hair going and I wanted to see how the chromakey was doing with that so you just never know and Marie and Yan are home alright well let's see let's get rid of some of this stuff and welcome from Halifax glad to have you is it G Banga or is the G or the be silent help me out with that when the desta tan Oh Danielle yes welcome to YouTube well it's good to be here as it were oh goodness alright she is you just never know never never ever ever never ever now let's see there's mags welcome glad to have you hey Dean glad you're here it's just GB alright got it welcome GB that's a good way to do it that's a good way to do the name thing so if you haven't gotten the word NAB has moved up its schedule this year and they'll start on Sunday instead of Monday so it'll be Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday for the trade show portion I'll be getting up there I think Friday and my lovely wife Sandy is coming with me can't wait and she'll be helping me host the streaming idiots meetup on Monday night not Tuesday this year but Monday second night of NAB but a night sooner than before all right well let's switch over to the studio we'll get started with the show we're gonna be talking about the bird dog yes we are the bird dog PTZ controller because we never really finished that last week health hey Todd welcome River of Life Church okay hold on a second I'll remember who that is in just a minute I know it's first nature to you to remember me it'll come to me it'll come to me all right so we'll flip over to the other side and we may have to do a little camera work to get that right cuz we didn't do that beforehand let me mute the cell phone here all right let's see nobody move okay well that's there oh I see it's just a number five so let's put it on the show tab all right so that's gonna show up and you guys will show up all right I think we're good hey can it's good to see you or be seen by you Jana and I had some chats on the phone this morning all right let's see what we can do with this shot right here one second all right let's see now is this gonna work if we zoom in that's right and then pan up and see the TV I mean the table goes out of the way little here now once y'all tell me how is the chromakey doing with the spikes right there that was the question for today the production question all right then let's see what you guys say nothing yet all right so that looks pretty centered ish and we'll move a stool over here so we can take our X keys 80 well I got to show you what Dave sent I may not have time for that today but I haven't forgotten Dave I promise all right so we got audio you can see Rooney right there looks good says Daniel thank you very much thank you very much so let's oh I forgot my lemonade one second right back don't go anywhere counting on you not going anywhere plus I'm stalling to get time to get in and get her foot up there we go so now got the lemonade Oh country time we go through so much lemonade at my house we have to buy it in the big jugs well it's a it's a container it's a it's a dry we mix it all right so let's uh thank you man all right so let's let's start the show you know it's funny the button that's that's you can't see what the button is labeled but it's it's one of these two purple buttons right here well actually here and here and it's when I very first started with the the wonderful opening that Martin Kaye made for me probably five or six years ago now and it started out with a fade to black part one so the button says FTB part one and it's not part one anymore it's the whole thing and then the outro is the outro so we'll go FTB part one hello Peter H welcome let's go [Music] [Music] hello and welcome I'm Tom Sinclair this is streaming idiots I'm delighted that you would take time out of your busy day or your busy evening as the case may be or even morning but that matter and take a peek at what's going on here streaming idiots really excited about today's show I mean when am I not excited about a show but you remember was it two weeks ago I think two weeks ago or three weeks ago three weeks ago we did an unboxing of the new bird dog PTZ keyboard and it was basically it didn't do anything now in all fairness to the bird dog we were not using the bird dog cameras and I'm sure it works hand in glove with the bird dog cameras we weren't even using NDI cameras we were using a PTZ optics 12 X s SDI HDMI IP and and controlled over biscuit but it wasn't it wasn't meshing it wasn't working and so we had been waiting for a firmware update for the keyboard that had been promised but the coronavirus had slowed up the process I mean that they had Chinese New Year and so some of the Chinese folks that were the engineers working on this project with with dan and Eamonn from bird dog they were on on holiday and then with the virus they were told to stay on holiday so the whole process got set back probably two maybe three weeks I don't I don't know exactly but finally the beta wasn't made available last week I think Friday maybe Saturday I got it yesterday and had a super fun afternoon with with my buddy RJ Murdock you had art scene RJ on the show before he does a lot of basketball and has done some really neat things he's the one that had the pegboard that had all his controllers attached to it so it simplified his his setup and teardown RJ was here and brought with him three PTZ optics cameras two of which were NDI cameras so we had four cameras in the studio and maybe maybe three minutes before he got here I downloaded the firmware and I thought you know do I dare try to install it right now excuse me and I thought you know why not it's the streaming idiot right just whatever you do it's going to be a learning experience and so I've had the file and I went into the the PTZ keyboard interface the web interface which is really simple to get into and all you have to do is put in the IP address for the keyboard and it brings up the interface and it asks you for the password which unless you change it the password is bird dog no spaces no dashes bi RDD oh gee I guess all lowercase that's what I've used and so and it had a little little button for updating the firmware and so I pressed the button and it said what file do you want to use and so I navigated to where the file was it said okay and and then you know 15 seconds later it said okay we're done you know reboot the keyboard and it'll it'll be updated so I did and it was and so RJ came in and we played around with it had a lot of fun and found out that the firmware update does allow the keyboard to control the PTZ optics NDI camera and to control visca over IP although Andrew Seabrook in in Australia with mind IT mentioned to me that the visca over IP formula that PTZ optics used is slightly different than the disco over IP formula that the bird dog guys used so what I thought I would do is sort of take you through the process firmware updates done so we're not going to go there but I want to take you through the process that I went through yesterday of of configuring cameras configuring the keyboard and and again hat tip to Andrew for for helping me fill in some of the blanks on this before I do does anyone have any any questions for we get started here ok RJ is monitoring the show while setting up studio for a client shoot at an can is checking out the stream prior to his worship team soundcheck so I'm just kind of like you don't have anything better to do tune into streaming idiots I got it okay that's cool all right so let's see can we go to camera five there we go there's camera five we'll take off the lower third and we can see here is our keyboard it's power over ethernet now there are lots of rj45 jacks but only one of them is for IP this one is for rs-232 this one is for rs-422 and I don't know what that one for is maybe that's oh is yeah it's art rs-422 a and rs-422 B so that's one right there the second one from the left is the one for IP it's p OE there's a little shiny switch right here that has an obvious off and on portion to it that's the power jack you can put headphones in if you're going to use coms we're not going to get into any of that today because we haven't done that but what we did want to see and let's see if I can move this up a little closer to the camera excuse me and don't have a cam that's going to work well so I'm just gonna have to hold this so excuse me if it if it makes you a little seasick the the screen right here tells us what's going on and essentially these two knobs here allow us to control the function on the screen and I'll show you that in just a second or at least the setup portion the the buttons down the side here that control the the color what RJ said is is the shading are apparently are somewhat still a work in progress and I'll show you what I was able to get them to do yesterday and then we've got the zoom here and then of course the zoom with the joystick control here haven't really gotten into the keyboard other than we were able to basically select cameras yesterday by pressing a button like now and then pressing the camp key so what excuse me--one and cam activated camera one two and cam three and cam that kind of thing the other thing if you've got this keyboard I'll save you I'll save you some looking let's see if we can get it zoomed in really well right here there is a key right here it's my favorite key it's called the backspace key and that's the key you hit if you make a mistake when you're entering some some numbers you can use the backspace key and it's conveniently placed not in a place that we would expect a backspace key to be on any other keyboard but that's okay this is a unique keyboard so we're gonna go into setup mode in fact we may already be in setup mode let me spin it around just a second so I can see let's get out of setup mode so I can show you how we got there okay I haven't reset this camera since we used it yesterday and you can see it says that cam 1 is set for NDI and then it's got an IP address well that IP address is not good and of course in fact this controller may be setup for yesterday's IP so let's go through the process of setting up the controller we'll press the setup button and then the password is 0 0 0 until we change it of course we've got the ability to change camera settings number 1 and keyboard settings number 2 we're going to change the keyboard first and then once we've turned this button 2 to move the little greater than sign where we want it we just mash it in to make our selection so we're gonna make I P configuration so we'll mash oh that didn't work did it there we go static IP address yes 1 9 2 1 6 8 and actually 0 0 1 is what we want there and then 155 is fine subnet mask gateway it's going to be a zero zero one and we'll exit and then I'd like to go back in and check again and make sure I got it we can see this one yeah it didn't stick oh yeah I did it's it's a one okay good and that was stuck there all right very good okay button light we're not going to worry about the signed signed key factory default IP i/o password settings joystick zoom is on model info visca IP setting let's to just take a look in there and see where it says yeah we didn't change any of this so well I'm just gonna leave this it talks about the header and the port we just left those the way they were so we're going to exit now and we'll go into camera settings camera number one and we're gonna make it go ahead and set the IP address for 0 0 oops wrong space let's go back 0 0 1 and 1 2 so we'll save that by pressing the second button here and then we'll exit again I think there was another camera setting let's see if we can go find it because they did ask us about yeah Kim won at NDI and that's not right that's not showing the right address oh yeah no that is the right address okay so let's go back to set up and see if we can find out what we missed here camera settings yeah protocol is not NDI now we're gonna change that there we go visca Elko disc over IP that's what we want right there so that looks right let's see no we don't have any camera control yet hang on one second there we go I could rotate the overhead camera yeah that's a good idea hang on a second let's try that we've used some really high-tech some real high-tech methods titania for this camera that include gaff tape so we'll see if we can duplicate that shot would have been great actually I tell you what if you guys give me a sec I can set up a tripod which would have been a better idea to begin with and see if maybe we can't just get a better close up one second let's see don't go anywhere don't go anywhere this is a polished professional at work here we'll just use a little baby tripod like this see if we can't get it to get enough height on it show the keyboard all right now let me go let me go switch the camera around right back sorry for all this rigmarole didn't think it through well enough let's see that's what we want right there but we really want to not be zoomed in quite so much so let's do that well let's do that let's start there they won't flip we'll flip first and then zoom okay I don't work there John good thought good thought good talk good thought alrighty so let's take a look at the camera and see what we missed actually you know I would have rotated it in vmix well I did rotate and vmix but I put the camera here so that I didn't have to hold on to the the keyboard so let's let's go back to the keyboard and let's see what we can do to to get a camera control right so we're gonna go back to setup ass word is zero zero zero zero got that part down camera setting we're gonna press that button to go into camera setting protocol is disc over IP which is right there we go so now we're gonna set the address yep that's good pelo header payload header he's actually off so we'll go down there and the port is I think it's 1259 let's try that yep so we'll exit exit and we'll exit now let's see if we've got a camera that will control nope still don't have a camera that's controlling oh let's see what do we need to do here let's double check our setup one more time probably should have written down what I did yesterday camera settings yeah it was just Fisk over IP that we used and they love hinder off well we can check haloed let me check the reference on the port that may be where I'm it's a UDP port in the camera so let me check and make sure I've got that right and I've got all my references here so it's handy okay visca IP satting for 1259 and the payload header is off let's make sure that we got all those settings right so we've got a load header off for 12 59 and the IP address you know let's double check the IP address and make sure that we're right on that - might be triple check at this point one sec yep 192 168 1 102 and so we've got 1 9 2 1 6 8 1 102 pay live header off for 250 now 12:59 we're good there let's go back to the keyboard setting and check and make sure looks like everything's right there yeah I don't recall that we we messed with that at all yesterday all right we'll select camera one just in case there's any note well what did we do wrong today yeah we don't have any of the oh you know what I did a factory reset earlier I wonder if the factory reset this reset something like maybe the firmware aha well golly gee guys it that's what you get for bringing something out without double-checking it Tim says doesn't matter which hole the land cable is in yes it does it does as a matter of fact there are four different choices as you can see there and there's a nice graphic on the bottom or excuse me on the side right there can't really see it very well yeah there we go and NDI IP is this one rs-232 is this one rs-422 a 422 B are those so we're in the right port plus we also know we're in the right port because we're powered on and we've got active the act active screen there so we're in plenty of let's see can we switch camera - yeah camera three yeah those are the cameras we were using yesterday we'll go back to camera one and we don't have any control over it what a disappointment I'm sorry guys is the camera turned on that's a great question RJ and that is this camera right here so yeah the camera is on and let's see sometimes they're numb well sometimes I'm dumb so there we go with it let's have another go here and we know with that we didn't have to use any of these keys to do see if we can put something under it right here I get at least a little bit easier to see there we go we didn't have to use any of these keys because all these keys are the shading Keys function keys and and other command keys here we haven't used yet and for the most part we've only used the number pad keys to put in a number of some kind a and the B haven't gotten into that we've used a joystick and then our actually these are our PTZ controls still don't think that they have given us any ability to control anything we'll go back through it one more time set up camera setting camera one title we could put in a title if we wanted to protocol let's go over IP let's back up one step and we see that we've got choices of NDI visca el cody telco p and visca over IP so we're going to select that one and then in that we're gonna select our IP address 192 168 1 o1 o2 payload header is off and the port is 12 59 and we will exit so obviously we've done something wrong again here that looks like the firmware that we had yesterday which was zero 0.4 nd I this guy he said don't think we change those yesterday control mode video router switch and PTZ controller yep well we will just have to do let's let's just do a recent let's just turn it off and turn it back on again that may be part of what we need to do to make those settings good so we'll turn it back on again and what it will say here for about a minute or maybe even two is the keyboard initializing and so if you have one of these and you know it doesn't say anything other than this for just a few minutes that's not unusual that's that's a it's a good possibility but that's the way it's it's set up for you as well as for me Tim just noticed in YouTube that the category for this show is his comedy you know Tim that's been there for three years and I kept waiting for somebody to get to see and to tell if if we were we were doing it right yeah okay all right so we've got cam one this can I pee okay 192 168 1 1 O's oh there we go ok so we just have to reset so we'll go to will cut to that cam that's that cam right there and now I've got the ability to zoom in not that you would want to zoom in that much now that we've got that part working let's we can see that our knobs that are where our control knobs now that we're not in the setup mode anymore these are our pan tilt speed and notice how the little LED lights light up to tell us that's full speed that slowest speed that's half speed and then for the zoom speed the same way I think we noticed that this this zero speed right here was barely barely moving and when we went to a second the second light it you know it increased by a factor of 10 so not sure if that's something that has to be ironed out or not but and then over here on the the left side the shading controls we do have the ability to change the exposure and you notice how the the display keyboard here now we're in manual iris gain and we can adjust that with this button manual shutter gain again we can adjust it with this button auto exposure black level iris priority and shutter priority and when I go to iris priority you notice the iris light well can you see that iris light here comes on and then when I go to shutter priority the shutter light comes on and then I have the ability to make changes to it like that so for example this would be a great place for a picture in picture but with shutter priority as I change the shutter priority we can see that it does actually have an effect on what I'm doing as I move into manual iris gained you can see that as an effect manual shutter game will go back to auto exposure and an auto exposure of course the knobs really don't do anything at all will go back to iris priority there so we've got that control over it and then here with this section there's a key right here called W B that's white balance and so as I can turn the white balance off and when I do that we can see that it really messes up my chroma key that's turning the white balance off turn it back on and see that it did away with the adjustments that I had stored in the camera already will hit will turn the white balance off hit one push and that did a little bit and he had the ability our red and blue knobs are not really functioning to this point let's see let's go back to let's go back to auto exposure up here there we go and then we'll turn the white balance on alright and if we turn it off and go to one push we're still in about the same place and now we've got the ability at least our at least our lights came on right here to make us think we can do something with these buttons you see the light here and here but they don't appear to do anything even even though the red and or the R&B which I'm assuming is red and blue the red and blue numbers do move on the dial here it doesn't make any changes to the camera we cranked these all the way up and all the way down and it didn't didn't appear to make any difference so let's go back to white balance at least as much as we can out of exposure and then the last control down here on the bottom is the focus control and you've got auto and manual so we're in red auto right now that's what the little blue light there means we can turn it off and now we've got the ability to focus in and out with the knob so I can find that good sharp area or I can just do an autofocus and I can do a a one push autofocus whatever that might be alright so we've got the keyboard you've got the keyboard working is controlling the pan tilt and zoom with a camera we've got the ability to control the speed of the pan and the tilt and pan and tilt and the zoom we've got the ability to control the exposure we can control within some limits the white balance and also the focus I think the zoom control here will also impact the speed of the zoom on this button down here let's see yeah so if we go back to the main shot I've got the zoom control all the way down and that's maximum speed and if I turn the zoom speed knob all the way up you can see we've picked up a lot of a lot of speed with that this is definitely a quick and dirty quick and dirty demo unboxing but we're far we're much further ahead than we were this time three weeks ago we've got a controller that that controls the PTZ optics camera not the NDI version yeah you can see now I've got stripes in here because of the see if we can do anything with that no we're not going where we're screwed the other thing to notice is the little little text here let's go back to the white balance and turn that back on and then we'll turn it off again and go to one push and you can see that in the display the on-screen display does show up it did not that didn't happen with the NDI cams that RJ had in the other day and yeah oh there's the same powered off and back on right right rickston glad you're here Dean says do you think you might have changed the payload port number at the keyboard level to match the one on the camera you know Dean I questioned that same thing and yeah obviously the vmix chromakey was counting on a certain that's a certain amount of white balance or whatever and it's obviously not working let's see can we just turn that off with the okay you can see those right there so we're going exposure that didn't help that's why you don't do this stuff live let's see let's go back we'll try with just one more time down here with the color yeah it looks like we're pretty well let's go back there yeah that's not gonna make any difference okay we're screwed okay we're screwed all right let's go back over to the post yeah we're gonna fade out of the show at this point and we'll come back and post-show and answer your questions hang around we'll be right back [Music] you [Music] and that's what happens when you don't practice any of this stuff in advance a split screen would have been a good idea oh just hadn't thought about that till just now putting the Easter in Eastern broadcasting yeah there we go Dean said can you Oh could you pan left and right would like to follow the speaker as he or she moves right and left want to make sure it's not choppy Dean we played with this quite a bit yesterday and if I can get the camera to cooperate and turn it back on properly let's see if I can make an adjustment with that here Archy yeah it looks like I may have to spend some time get my camera fixed but the let's see what's the best way to say it using the PTZ optics camera visca over IP the control I think the control was smoother than the pgz optics IP controller when RJ was here with his NDI cameras and we were using nd I to to control the cameras that was almost as smooth if you've ever used the NBI studio monitor and the mouse to control the camera you know that it's just it's really silky silky smooth using the the bird dog PTZ keyboard with an ND i PTZ optics camera was very good it did not have the high-end camera kind of ramp up in terms of speed you know starting slowly and moving more rapidly and then slowing downward we know when you reach the destination it did not do that but it did move smoothly from you know a pan up to a pan you know up right or to a pan right to make the camera go around in a circle was a smooth motion that we it wasn't you know a stair-step motion at all if the the speed knobs for the pan tilt and for the zoom were really helpful in not getting an out-of-control zoom you know yeah or an out-of-control pan tilt as as we got used to the joystick I would think and you know RJ and I had this as a discussion yesterday that the the quality of the of the production is going to be part with the keyboard in camera and part with the operator just that operators ability to anticipate you know there's gonna be latency in the joystick there's late and see from that when you tell it to move and latency when you tell it stop moving so there's some amount of anticipation that has to go on but you know it's like any other skill the more you do it the better yet I would if I were considering this keyboard right now I would consider it for NDI cameras I probably wouldn't consider it for a visco over IP although you can use both we had both visco over IP and NDI operating simultaneously yesterday the the one thing that I look forward to testing if I if I get a chance is to bring in a PTC optics excuse me to bring in a bird dog camera and to test the bird dog and see if I can't get the the the quality of the movement to be even more maybe not precise is the right word but a little bit more smooth and more natural-looking like there's a regular regular camera guy going on so that's the you know in some ways the jury's still out but if I felt like I had to make a keyboard decision today for my NDI cameras I feel comfortable going with this camera I mean with this keyboard and part of the reason for that is the experience I had yesterday and the other part of the reason is the faith that I have in the bird dog guys that there they have a very solid track record of releasing a product that has a lot of promise and delivers on some of those promises out of the box and as time goes on delivers on the rest of those promises and then it delivers on promises that it never even made so wouldn't surprise me if this keyboard can do a lot more than what they say they just have it again they haven't haven't gotten the firmware up-to-date on it yet if you've got one of these keyboards and you want to get the the latest beta firmware 0 dot 0 dot 4 I believe if you send an email to bird dog they will send you a link if you are a member of the bird dog user group my guess is that you probably can get one there and that if you remember the bird dog beta test your user group I think it's posted the link is posted there Dean saying this is n di notte nd ihx No thank you for the clarification Dean the cameras that we were testing yesterday were ndia checks and they were they were they were pretty smooth I mean it's a PTZ optics camera but it was with the NDI license that enabled the ndia checks but I'd like to be able to test the full n di the P 100 or the P 200 from bird dog to see how this keyboard is able to make those guys operate this keyboard is actually headed for a client up in Wisconsin who has some NDI PTZ optics cameras and he asked me to kind of work the bugs out of the keyboard before I sent it to him so I think based on the firmware that's available now I haven't heard any word of any other firmware coming down the pike I would say this is usable with the exception of the shading controls shading controls were not not reliable or else I wasn't knowledgeable enough to to be able to control them the way they needed to be controlled you saw what happened to my to my color there on the end that wicks tones like what's going on there and he whizzed all right let's see what did what did RJ say earlier that I missed he said you've got cameras web interface to confirm my piece settings yes okay all right well that is or was a second look at the bird dog PTC controller there are functions that we we haven't even begun to explore yet one if for example would be the bird dog coms you can plug a headset into that keyboard you can plug a headset into the bird dog I think the bird dog mini I'm not sure if you can plug one into the bird dog studio or not I'll have to check but it does give you the ability within the bird dog ecosystem to have communications the comms light I think is a free product that has I think maybe one or maybe two or three different locations whereas if you get more than that you need to go to comp coms which would be the full comms package which would be quite a bit more there's John hey John John is with bird dog and I hope you didn't see the whole thing but it was a good example of how somebody stumbles through setting it up and and has success eventually and John while you're here if you wouldn't mind do you know the firmware that I was using was 0.04 and we were using it on a visca over IP PTZ optics camera and we had full pan tilt and zoom functions including the ability to control the the speed of the zoom and the pan tilt we had focus controls and we we had the ability to do some white balance controls but I'm not sure they were working correctly and our rj says please note the NDI studio monitor app actually did a decent job with smoother camera movements via mouse or xbox controller okay so noted so noted so I'm curious John if you can speak to this if they're okay there we go the nudists the the newest beta is 10.4 which is for the visca IP function okay well that must be what I have because I was controlling visca let me go check the firmware on this one second okay here we go so we're gonna go to setup password keyboard setting model info yeah it says firmware version 0.04 NDI so if there's something if yeah it'll say Oh firmware I'll show you what it says looks like it's having trouble focusing there but it's it's FW version : 0.04 nd I so it doesn't say version 1 but I can look at the file that I use to update it so is vo dot 1 different than V 1 it is my question for John John thank you I didn't mean to put you on the spot with all this but I do appreciate you yeah let's see where did we put that stuff we put it in the bird dog folder dog keyboard yeah the file that we used was bird dog keyboard 1 dot 0 dot 4 dot FW so we were using the latest greatest yes all right so anyway we weren't able to get the the white balance the knobs the red and blue knobs on the white balance to do anything they did change the the numbers on the display but they didn't appear to have any effect on the camp camera yes we're on the latest oh I see the line below it where it says IP vo 0.1 gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha okay there's that's fair he just didn't all fit on the same line okay well it's good to know that we got that much of it correct that's pretty good and yeah John I'll write up a little bit more of a little more detail again based on a total novice experience you know could be operator error as much as anything else I'm and I'm not a camera guy well live streaming guy but I'm not a camera guy but we appreciate John popping in today the the bird dog team is at ISE in Amsterdam and they are they're probably just finished their day it's probably what about nine o'clock over there now I was tempted to invite some of you guys to see if you wanted to pop in on the stream but I knew after a day at the trade show number one digs be pretty pretty tuckered out and number two the last thing you want to do is mess around with me not like that but that's but that dealing with an idiot can always can be a challenge alright well I am excited I see a lot of a lot of a lot of good potential here and it would be interesting to pop into the bird dog booth at NAB in a couple of couple of months and see how how this keyboard has continued to improve and that's that's the thing I love is that you know a lot of products you know you get the product and it's right out of the box it's going to do everything that it was going to do but here with the with the bird dog line that you you know there's going to be ongoing improvements [Music] the other thing is that bird dog is announcing at ISE it's some bird dog wall-plates it's a wall plate that has HDMI jack so on it either there's two one four four SDI excuse me four nd I converted to HDMI out and one four HDMI converted to nd I in and so you can set up your conference room or your studio and and if you don't have a network camera that is a camera that would would plug into your IP network you can take the camera HDMI and plug it in or if you wanted to plug a feed from who knows where but somewhere on your network you could plug into the NDI monitor and have that going uh so RJ has just booked his flight for NAB he was not sure if he was gonna make it but he was telling me yesterday that the reason he's going to us not for the stuff it's for the people there's the thought there's the thought because it's the the people that you're gonna gonna hang out with and they're gonna give you that one idea that changes your whole business for the next year or changes the whole way you do things at your church for the next year or whatever it is and that's gonna be worth the trip right there worth the trip there we go well guys we're gonna fade into oblivion at this point we've got a couple of pcs they've been on the workbench getting built that need to go off to their homes today and so if you are thinking about having a if you've been dealing with a PC that you either built yourself or you bought one off the shelf and you're ready to have one that's professionally built let me know be happy to talk with you about that that's what we do and one of the things that we're finding and Albert was was telling me this you know he built one for his church and then you know he's the go-to guy they've got nobody else to blame if things don't get right so he's like Tom as soon as I can I want you to build me built for our church so I can get off the hot seat and you know in one way it's a it's a good good idea too to save resources and build it yourself but on the other hand it can get you into a jam and if it does I'd be happy to help you out of that Jam so there you go so we're gonna fold up the tents now we will see you guys next week I'm screaming idiots not sure what we're gonna be talking about but it will be breathtaking whatever it is and don't forget if you missed last week's show to go back and catch it on Facebook or YouTube it's when we were in the school studio and it was it was a debacle but it was it was a lot of fun and the kids are great so that made it all worthwhile so on behalf of idiots everywhere I wish you a fond good night and I'll see it at nav and we'll let this thing run out mystique do we have a runner a way to let it just sort of fade out into oblivion we used to have one of those ways yeah there we go well we'll try this one [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Eastern Shore Broadcasting

Views: 3,540

Rating: 4 out of 5

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Id: 3DzClTq_Wy4

Length: 66min 18sec (3978 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 12 2020