YoloBox Pro COMPLETE Tour - All-in-one Live Streaming + Switching with Green Screen, PiP, Graphics

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This video has been a long time coming. I’ve  had a lot of request for a video on the YoloLiv,   YoloBox and this right here is the new YoloBox  Pro. In this video, we’ll start with an unboxing   and then dive into every feature that this  YoloBox is capable of. We’re going to go through   all the setup, all the configuration,  and you’ll see exactly how it works.  By the end of this video, you’ll know how to use  your YoloBox or know if this is the right product   for you. Now, if you’re coming here to compare the  YoloBox to the ATEM, that’s in video number two.   Part two of this series, I’m going to be comparing  everything the ATEM can do to what the YoloBox can   do. It’s a pretty interesting comparison.  There’s a lot of overlap but there’s also   a lot of uniqueness. So for that, you want to  stick around for video part two. For right now,   let’s get into the YoloBox Pro. This is the YoloBox Pro,   an all-in-one system for switching, encoding,  recording, and monitoring — and they mean it.   It is all-in-one. Everything that you need to  run your live production is in this little box.   How do they do that? Well, it’s a multi-camera  production device with touchscreen control.   You can go live up to 1080P, you have multi-view,  built-in overlay, and watermarks which is honestly   one of the coolest features about it. The things  that you can build internally and overlay,   pretty nice and then an audio mixer which  I’m going to say upfront is one of the   weakest things about it but it’s supposed to be  getting better. Anyway, let’s get into the box.  Inside we’ll find a nice little screen protector,  the YoloBox itself, 2 USB cables, USB-C to C and   C to A for charging. No charging brick though,  so you will need to add that on your own,   a small on-camera cold shoe mount — if  you want to mount the device on top of a   camera for live streaming from a single camera,  then this can come in handy and then an allen   key and a sim ejection pin because you can  actually put a mobile sim into the YoloBox.  Alright let’s get this out of the  way and check out the hardware.   You’ve got an HDMI in number one, two, and three.  Three HDMI inputs, each one with a scaler on it.   You can bring in just about any flavor of 720  or 1080 into this and it’ll scale to whatever   production size you’re doing. You have a type A  USB port which actually supports webcams which   is a really common request that I get for the  ATEMs that’s not supported on those devices   but is here so that’s nice. An Ethernet port  and HDMI out which can output your program   or can output the same interface that you see  here. Think of that like a multi view out and   that’s actually how I’ll be recording the  screen for you to see throughout this demo.  A type C USB port which isn’t really used that  much yet — right now you can plug a keyboard   into it, you can also bring audio in through that,  probably a couple other things but in the future,   they will be adding webcam support. So, you’ll  be able to plug a USB cable from here into   your computer and treat this like a webcam. There’s a headphone jack, 2 audio inputs — one   at mic level and one at line level and then  another USB-C port specifically for charging.   On the other side, we’ve got a quarter 20 hole  for a tripod or that little mount that we saw   in the box, an SD card slot which is very  handy — this is both for recording your show   and for loading graphics onto the device, a sim  card slot that I alluded to earlier. This device   actually has an LTE modem built into it so you  can, with a sim card and of course an appropriate   cellphone plan, live stream directly from this  device without any external internet required   and then the power and sleep button. Alright, let’s get this thing set up.   Alright, I’ve got it in place to start plugging  things in. I’m not going to plug in everything at   once. We’ll go a little bit at a time. I am  going to start however with an HDMI output.   You can see here that I’ve already put together a  bunch of options here. We’re going to go ahead and   plug in the HDMI out that allow me to record  the screen, whatever is happening on here.  Now, I’m going to plug in the Ethernet as well.  Now, you don’t have to plug an Ethernet to start.   You can do this all over WiFi. However,  I’ve set up a few of these and I found   that it is definitely easier if you can give  it an Ethernet connection to begin with. It   just Makes the whole process simpler. If you don’t have one, that’s fine,   you can still do this over WiFi but you’ll have to  find and then enter the password for WiFi network   and so on before you can do much of anything  else. See, part of the initial process which I’ve   already done on here is to create an account with  YoloBox and you do actually need to do that. It’s   part of how the whole thing is configured and also  how you do some of your streaming and we’ll come   to that a little bit later but you will need to  create that account the first time you fire it up.  I’ve already done that on here, so this setup  process is going to be a little bit easier   but once again, if you can give it  an Ethernet connection to start with,   it just makes this a little bit easier. The next thing that I want to plug in is my power.   However, I’m not actually going to do that quite  yet and here’s why — this is a little tip that   is — I don’t know if I’d call this a bug or  if it’s just something that’s been kind of an   issue with these boxes from the beginning  but you can charge this, remember it has   a battery built into it. So, this is a fully  stand-alone piece. You charge this over USB.   Great. The problem is that if the device is fully  charged and plugged in and you go to powered on,   it won’t power on. I don’t know why but it won’t. You will need to it from the power source and   then power it on and then you can plug the USB  back into it. Little bit weird but that’s just   the way it is. So remember that. Unplug  your power first if it’s fully charged.   So let’s go ahead and power it on. Press  and hold the power button on the bottom,   and now we’re ready to go. Now, I’m going  to go ahead and plug that power into there   just to keep it fully charged. Let’s go into the setup screen first. In the top   right corner, you’ll see a little man icon, tap on  that and you’ll see all of your account settings.   You’ll see that I’m already logged into my YouTube  account. If I tap on that, you’ll see my YouTube   live account. Then, there’s the Facebook  account which I’m not yet connected to,   just tap at the bottom to add the account. There’s  a Twitch account and then a standard RTMP stream.  If you want to run on WiFi, you can set  up your WiFi settings here. You’ll see   I currently have it turned off because I am  on a hardline connection. We’ll see here in   the Ethernet settings, it’s turned on and it  doesn’t actually show me my IP address. This   is something that is not currently there but I’ve  asked them to add it and I’m sure that they will.  This is actually something I want to point out  about the YoloLiv company, the makers of the   YoloBox. They’re actually really responsive. If  you reach out to them on social media, support   Email, whatever and you tell them about a bug  or you give them an idea for a feature, odds are   pretty good that they’ll implement it or fix that  bug pretty quickly. It’s nice to work that way.  Alright, back out of here. You’ll see that  I can set up a mobile network, so if I had a   sim card installed — I don’t know, but if I had  one in here I would see the settings for that…   Hotspot and tethering — I can actually  connect via Bluetooth to my cellphone. So,   if I wanted to use my phone as a  tethering device to stream in the field   instead of putting a sim in the hardware  itself, that I can do that as well.  Backing out of the network settings, you’ll see  there is a network test which is simply opening   a website that will run speedtest.net. Now,  this is kind of an interesting thing about this   box — the operating system that it’s running is  Android. This is an Android operating system. So,   you’ll see some things that pop up that’ll look a  little familiar for an Android user and you’ll see   some things come around that don’t necessarily  make sense in here because they don’t have any   place in a box like this. It’s just parts of  the Android operating system that are in there   but this also means that it can be updated  pretty easily with new features added. So,   anyway, that’s just how that’s working. You see the Email address you registered with,   the language if you want to change that, your  time zone, a few other details, an FAQ at the   bottom and then at the very bottom of this, there  is the screen rotate. This is a new option that   was added to the YoloLiv Pro in a recent update  that allows you to flip the screen upside down.  So if you wanted to mount the device upside down  under let’s say, a gimbal handle or something   like that, now you can do that. Simply  tap on OK and it will rotate that screen.   Let’s go ahead and put that back again  and that’s pretty much it for the setting.  Now, let’s go back to the main screen and create a  show. To do that, you tap on the “+” on the bottom   right corner and you have two options — you can  create a new live show or you can create what’s   called a monitor mode. Monitor mode is just  like a regular live event except that it’s not   set up to go live anywhere. So, you can use this  either for practice, just for playing around with   things in here without having to set up a live  show or you can also use it if you just wanted   to do a live stream on the HDMI output until,  let’s say, a projector or something like that.  One thing to point out though is that once you  create a Monitor Mode event and you back out   of it, none of those settings are kept. This  is actually a very new feature, this Monitor   Mode and it’s missing a lot of things that you  would hope that it would have like the ability to   save that show to use again later. So, really just  use it as a playground for now but in the future,   it will get updates where you’ll be able to  save those and then hopefully even replicate   those to make alternate versions of an event. We’re going to go ahead and create a live   stream and under Live Stream, we’ll go ahead and  give it a title — we’ll just call this “My live   show”. I can put in a description and the  schedule but both of those are optional,   so I can set those up later on. Now, at this point, when I tap “Create”,   I’ve just created an event inside of the YoloBox  but I haven’t yet created an event on any of my   live streaming services. It’s not on Facebook,  it’s not on YouTube, it’s not anywhere else   yet but to create that event on those  services, it’s just a couple more taps.  I’ll go ahead and open up that live  show that I just created and it takes   me immediately to the platforms page and  you’ll see that there that PhotoJoseph LIVE   is currently available but not yet connected  and then Facebook, Twitch, and the Custom RTMP   all have link buttons allowing me to set those up  from here just as I could earlier in the settings   page. The only one that I have configured right  now is YouTube, so I’ll go ahead and tap that.  As soon as I tap that, I’m asked if I want to  create a Public, Unlisted, or Private event.   I’m going to go ahead and make this one unlisted  and tap Done. Now, this event has been created   on YouTube. At this point, I can log in to my  YouTube page and I’ll see the event. I can go in   there and add a thumbnail to it, grab that URL for  sharing it, marketing it, and so on. Update the   description and the title and everything else. Now, you will not see that thumbnail update on   the device, you’re not going to see  the description update on the device   but it is updated on the YouTube side. At  this point, this is simply created that,   added the keys that it needs on the YouTube side  for the YoloBox to actually stream to YouTube.  Alright, now let’s get into configuring the  cameras and everything else for a live show.   You notice on the screen at the bottom left  it says “Add video source”. If I tap on that,   it’ll show me all the options that I can add  from including HDMIs one, two, and three,   the USB, and everything else on there. So, let’s start by plugging in a couple   of cameras. I don’t actually have to add  them from here. If I back out of here,   I can just start plugging things in. So, let’s  start with this one here which is actually   the same camera that I have right here, camera  two on this view is plugging into this. So,   now I have that same camera feeding into there  and you’ll see it shows up right away as HDM 1.  Next, I’m going to take this one  which I think is my iPad over here.   And sure enough, there’s my iPad.  So you can connect an iPad which   is going to be outputting 1080i 59.94.  That’s just what the iPad’s output and   that is being scaled to my show here perfectly. By the way you can see at the top there that it is   set to a 1080 P show. Alright, next let’s plug in  my computer. Of course these could be additional   cameras or whatever you like. I’m choosing to use  my computer and my iPad for this. Now we can see   the computer is mirrored. Let’s go ahead and make  this full screen. And now I’ve got a way to let’s   say, demo some software using the YoloBox. Let’s go and plug in the webcam next.   Now, this is actually a really common request that  I get on the YouTube channel. People asking all   the time how to connect a webcam to their ATEM.  You can’t connect a webcam to an ATEM but you can   connect it to the YoloBox which is pretty cool. I can call up this camera by tapping on the   USB source right there and there we have it.  There is my webcam. There you go. That works.   Okay. We’re probably not going to use this  for much but it’s kind of good to know   that the option is there. That’s all my video  inputs plugged in. I do have a couple of things   that I want to add though. This black line is an  audio input for the microphone. This is actually a   feed from my mixer for this mic that I’m recording  on so we can get good clean audio into the device,   so that’s there and then I have this one  here which I’m going to plug in to the   line in and that one is actually just a  music source. It’s an old iPod that is   running on a constant loop and that’s feeding  into here so I can have some background music.   So we’ll take a look at that in a little bit. There’s also headphone port on there so I can   plug in headphones, I’m not going to do  that now but that would of course allow   you to monitor on the set. Alright, so now I’ve  got everything configured in here that I want….  Hey, folks. Future PhotoJoseph here. This guy  forgot to tell you something really important.   First of all, this is not a sponsored video.  YoloLiv of course sent me the box to do the   video with but they’re not paying for this video.  They did, however, give me an extra box to give to   you. So, one of these days soon, I’m going to  be doing a giveaway of the other YoloBox Pro.   Please be sure you subscribe to the  channel so that you know when that happens.  Second, you might have noticed as well that  there’s no ads on this video. I’m trying   something new here where I’m not running ads on  all my new videos and instead I’m asking you,   my beautiful viewers to consider becoming  a channel member. You can do that for as   little as 99 cents a month. So, if you feel  like you’re getting stuff off of my channel,   consider subscribing. That’d be awesome. And I’ve  actually just added one more thing to make it even   better to subscribe and that is a private Discord  channel just for PhotoJoseph Channel paid members.  So, if you’re a member of the PhotoJoseph  Channel, you’ll have access to a brand-new   Discord server. It’s a little small right  now but it’s going to grow and it’s going   to be beautiful. Alright, guys. That’s it.  Uh, let’s get back to the show. See you.  Alright. Let’s look at the software  and see what else we can add in here.   First of all, you’ll notice that there is an Add  Video Source still underneath the four icons that   we’ve got. So, we have HDMI 1, tap on HDMI 2 and  that brings up the iPad. HDMI 3 is going to bring   up my Mac. USB of course is going to bring up that  little webcam and if I tap on Add Video Source,   I can now add additional inputs to this. We’re going to start with something off of   the SD card. You’ll see that I can load up to two  videos off of SD cards. So, I can have videos that   are playing back directly from the YoloBox but  the way I add them is via the card. So, I don’t   have a card loaded in here yet. I’ll go ahead and  pull out this little dummy card that’s in here.   Take an actual SD card that I’ve already  loaded with media and pop this in.   And now with that in place, I can go  ahead and load the graphics off of it.  I’ll start by tapping on SD Card  Video 1. It’ll scan the card and   I have one video clip on here called  Drone. We’ll go ahead and add that in.   And now that’s ready to go. I’ll add  another video source and for this one,   I’m going to choose PDF. It’s kind of a neat  feature. You can actually load a PDF onto your   SD card and then play that from the YoloBox. Think of this as a good way to do a simple slide   presentation. Take your slide deck out of Keynote  or PowerPoint, convert it to a PDF and load it   down here and then you have a simple non animated  but a simple page by page PDF slide presentation.  I’ll go ahead and load up a presentation I did a  few weeks ago on the BGH1, tap on Done, it loads   that in, and it’s ready to go. To load that PDF,  I simply tap on it here and it loads it up onto   the screen and we can see it now in the output. You’ll also see the page numbers at the bottom,   so I can tap through those and  see the different pages of that.   If I want to see my program bigger on this  screen, I simply tap on the double-headed arrow   and that makes it larger across the entire screen. Now, from here for the PDF, I can’t actually   navigate the PDF so it’s a little bit awkward  to do it this way but this does allow me to   see whatever I’m doing bigger and if I do want to  switch inputs, I can load this up and now I can go   back to, let’s say the SD card video button which  is going to play that drone video and away we go.  To exit out of this full screen mode, just tap on  the double-headed arrow and it goes back again.   At this point, all six video slots are filled.  So, if I wanted to add any other video sources   to switch from, I would actually need to  remove something that’s here and that includes   setups like a Picture-in-Picture  or split screen layout and so on.  So, let’s go ahead and get rid of a couple of  these and we’ll start adding things back in.   To get rid of something, tap and hold on it  for a second and a delete button pops up,   hit that trash can, it’ll confirm, and  away you go. So, I just deleted the PDF.   Let’s go ahead and get rid of this USB camera  as well and now I’ve got two free slots.  I’ll add another video source and this time I’m  going to choose the side by side video. It comes   up with Select A Source so let’s go ahead and put  me and HGMI one on the A side. Tap Next and then   for the B source, I’ll put my HDMI 3 computer. Notice by the way that the USB web camera — hi   there — is still here. Even though I’ve  removed it as one of the available sources,   it is actually still an available input  so I can reuse somewhere else in the show   as long as, of course, it’s still plugged in. I’ll go ahead and go use HDMI 3, that’s the   computer. Tap Next again and now I’ve got this  side by side. I can change the spacing on here   and I can load a background image. Tap  on that and it’s going to once again look   at the SD card and look for anything  appropriate on there that I can use.  So, any of the images on there I can pull up.  I’ve got a couple of background pieces in here.   I’ll go ahead and load one of these, tap on Done  and now I have my layout. Tap Done one more time   and there it is. When I wan’t to call that up,  tap the side by side button and there’s my side by   side layout with that custom background in there. Let’s have another one. I’ll tap on Add   Video Source again, this time I’ll do a  Picture-in-Picture video. I’ll choose HGMI 3 as   the main screen, once again, my computer and then  for the subscreen, I’ll tap HDMI 1, that’s me,   hit Next. From here I can  reposition myself wherever I want,   change the scaling of my Picture-in-Picture in  there, I can even change the aspect ratio. So if   I wanted to crop this let’s say to a 1:1 square or  even a 9:16 vertical, I can position myself in the   corner, make sure I’m standing in the right spot  there, tap on Done and now I’ve got this simple   Picture-in-Picture video which could be once  again, very appropriate for doing software demos.  And at this stage, I can switch back and  forth between just the screen of my computer,   HDMI 3 and the screen with me on  it in the Picture-in-Picture. So,   really nice and easy way to set this up. Now, if  you want to change something that you’ve done,   you can do that as well. I’ll tap and hold on  that button again — this time you’ll see there   is a delete button again as well as a new pencil  icon. I’ll tap the pencil and that allows me to   reposition or rearrange anything that I might want  to change on there. Tap on Done and there we go.  Now, Picture-in-Picture as a cutout  is a cool thing to be able to do but   what about doing a green screen key? This is  actually a pretty new feature that was added   in a recent software update to the YoloLiv  Pro. So, let’s get a green screen setup here   and now we’ll drop out that green screen. So, let’s go and clear out one of these   PIP videos. I’ll go ahead and delete that and  then to add a green screen key, we start with   the source. In this case, HDMI 1 and you’ll see  there’s a little icon up there of a person in the   corner. We’ll tap on that. Enable keying switch  and just like that, the background is gone.  Now, you have two different color key types,  green or blue. If I switch it over to blue, this   obviously doesn’t work. Doesn’t really cut out my  shirt, so that’s good but I go back to green and   there the green’s gone. If I go back into here,  I can change the similarity which is basically   an expansion or contraction of how  much is being keyed of that color   and then there’s the smoothness — how smooth  do you want those edges to be. it actually   works really well on its default setting, so I’m  just going to go back to restore default and then   turn on the keying switch again and away we go. Now, the background image is something that I can   add in here, adding a picture anything off the SD  card but what’s much more interesting of course is   to use another video source as a background image.  So, to do that instead, tap on Done and then   I’ll go to Add Video Source, I’m going to do a  Picture-in-Picture video, I’m going to choose the   HDMI 3 which is my computer as the main screen,  tap on Next and then tap HDMI 1 as the subscreen,   that’s my keyed video and there we go, there’s  me in the corner. I can make myself a little bit   bigger, a little bit smaller, position wherever  I want and if I needed to crop something out,   say add some dark edges on there, I can crop those  out by going to a square setup. That would allow   me to crop that and then position it over to the  side a little bit and just like that, we now have   a beautiful keyed video and we’re ready to go. Let’s actually look at this a little bit bigger.   Now, one of the things that we can doing here,  I mentioned earlier, is use the HDMI output as   either a program out seeing the full screen  or as a mirrored seeing the whole interface,   which is what we’re looking at now.  Let’s quickly switch over to the full   program out so you can see this at full size. To do that, I’ll go over to the gear menu in   the bottom right corner and there where  it says Program Out, simply tap on that   and the image changes to give me a program out,  so now we’re seeing the whole image out on that   HDMI output. This would allow us to record a  full quality output or just to look at the full   screen on a confidence monitor if you wanted to. I’ll go ahead and turn that back off so that we   can see the rest of the UI and let’s go back  to the rest of the setup. Next thing we’re   going to look at is overlays. I’m actually  going to go ahead and turn off this green   screen because I kind of want to get rid of this  thing behind me for the rest of the demo here.   Forgot to Thanos snap that one out of here. Anyway, let’s go on with overlays. This is a   really cool part of this product as I alluded to  earlier. So, let’s just jump into how we do this.   You’ll see here at the bottom that I’ve already  switched over to the overlays mode and then   I’ll tap the plus button to add an overlay. There’s three different types; an image overlay,   a lower thirds, and a countdown timer. We’ll start  with image overlays. This is going to allow me to   pull any image off of the SD card. Now, this  can be a full-screen image, basically a photo   that will just overlay everything covering the  entire image or it can be a PNG file which you   can then scale and reposition wherever you like. Let’s go ahead and use something like a fancy   lower thirds that I created earlier. There’s my  fancy lower third. I can change the scaling of   that, I can tap that and move it around on  the scene and put it somewhere else on here   or restore the default settings to  put it back where it belongs. We’ll   go ahead and leave that there. Tap on Done. Let’s add another one. Another image overlay. This   time I’ll use an icon of me. This would be kind  of my YouTube badge if you will. We’ll go ahead   and make that nice and small and put that a to  the corner up here. Pretty good. Little badging,   little network bug, that sort of thing. Let’s  add another one on here. How about a subscribe   button? Go ahead and add this one in. Put that  down into the bottom left corner. Good hint here.   Don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already.  Go ahead and put that down there and because this   is a PNG, it is supporting transparency and while  I didn’t program any transparency into this PNG,   you could certainly do that as you saw with  one of the initial ones that I loaded up.  Go ahead and leave that where it is and now  to call up of these, all I have to do is tap   on that overlay and it fades in. You can see  there’s that my fancy lower third, I can bring   in my network logo or whatever it might be,  I can bring in my subscribe button and each   one of these can be added at the same time. They’re kind of added in layers and they’re   added in the order of which you add them. So,  if you want one thing sitting on top of another,   load the bottom one and then the top  one after that. To turn them off,   just tap them again and each  one of those will get disabled.  Let’s go ahead back into add and this time we’ll  add a lower third. These are lower thirds that   are generated inside of the device so you don’t  need a separate graphics package to create these,   pretty nice. We’ll just choose this top one and  you can see here we have a bunch of different   options. For the title, we’ll go ahead and put  in here PhotoJoseph and the subtitle we’ll put in   Subscribe… there we go and hit okay there. We can  choose our font. We’ll choose something really   bold and big on there, change the title size on  there, change the title color, the background   color, the subtitle font, the size, the — you  see I have all these different changes in here.  Let’s go and put this down on the bottom and then  I’ll do a subtitle offset. Let’s actually do it   this way. That’s kind of cool. Change the scaling  of the whole thing on there and there we go.   There’s my whole template completely created. I’ll  tap on Done. And I’ll tap that new lower third   title to bring it up and just like with the other  graphics, if I want to edit this, I can tap and   hold on that then tap the pencil button and make  any changes that I might need to make in there.  If I go back into that lower thirds editor again,  you’ll see there’s a variety of different options   in here including one called a Rolling Caption.  If I go into the Rolling Caption, I can now enter   in any amount of text in here and have it scroll  across the screen. So, let’s just type something   quickly here. “This is a pretty cool product”.  Tap OK, tap Done and now when I call that up,   you’ll see that scrolling across the top  of the screen. Let’s go a little bit bigger   and there it is and of course again I  can change the font or any other number   of things on there but there’s how that works. Alright, let’s back out of this, turn that off and   the overlay and let’s go back into the plus again  and next we’ll create a countdown timer. So yes,   you have the ability to create a customized  countdown counter for any duration that you want   directly in the device, nice. Tap on Countdown  Timer, we have a couple themes to choose from,   I like this one. I can change whatever the show  start text is. So I’ll say “THE SHOW BEGINS” and   then of course I can change the font on there, the  color, all of that and change the timing on this.  Let’s make this a little bit shorter so I can use  it as a demo. We’ll take this down and just make   it a short five second countdown. There we go.  So now I’ve got a five second countdown timer.   A few other things I can change on here, scaling  on there and so on but we’ll leave it as it is.   Tap on Done and now I have that countdown timer. So when I’m ready to start a show, I can bring   that up. You can see that it makes the whole scene  dark but I can still see the video back there,   it’s still there and I’ve got that show  beginning. As soon as it counts down to zero,   it automatically disappears. Now, at the moment,  it just cuts away. You can’t make it fade away   and you might have noticed as well that all  these other graphics automatically fade in   and fade out. There’s no adjustment over that  either but I have just asked YoloLiv to add   that to give me the ability to change the lower  thirds so that they can cut or wipe or do any   other transitions in and out and of course,  for the countdown clock, for it to be able   to fade out instead of just cutting out as well. So, I asked them for that just a couple of days   ago. So, we’ll see how quickly they add that in  there. Alright, let’s go ahead and see what else   we can do. That’s everything in the overlays. The  next option is the platforms, which is where we   started. The next option is audio control. Now,  I said in the beginning that the audio control   on here isn’t very good. It’s very, very basic  and here’s what that means… You’ll notice here   that I have all my different audio inputs listed. So, everything that currently has audio is showing   on here. It is by default set to automatic, which  means it is going to switch to the audio input of   whatever video source I switch into which is  probably not what you’re going to want most   of the time. So, you’re probably going to want  either the audio coming in through a camera,   like let’s say HDMI 1, but if I enable that now,  you’ll hear that this is not great audio, because   it’s just the on-camera audio from a camera way  over there, but what I do have on here is my Mic   In which is set to this actual microphone here  so you should be hearing that nice and clean now.  If I want to bring in my  music, I can go to Line In   but then you don’t hear me. So, here’s  where we get into the limitations of this.   You can only have a single audio source playing  at a time. You can’t mix them. I can’t have   multiple inputs playing simultaneously.  Also, I don’t have any audio control other   than levels. I have no sweetening, no EQ,  no compression, none of that. It’s a very,   very basic audio controller. However, with that  said, YoloLiv has said that they are working on   a much more advanced audio control system.  So, we’ll see what they get but for now,   this is all that it is which means if you’re  doing a setup of a live show like where let’s   say you want to have your countdown and some music  playing and then when the countdown goes to zero,   the countdown timer goes away and you’re on  camera, you’re going to have to be sitting here   very carefully timing switching from music  to your microphone and there’s going to be no   soft transition. It’s just going to be a  hard cut from one audio source to another.  Be aware that this is what you’re working with.  If you do want to do something more advanced,   at least today, you’re going to have to use  an external mixer but being that this is an   all-in-one device, that’s not we want. So, we  do want to see more advanced audio controls   coming and again, YoloLiv has said that they  are. That’s basically all we’ve got in here   to look at. There’s all of our controls as  well as a monitoring adjustment at the top   that controls the audio level output for  the headphones as well as for the HDMI out.  Next, let’s go to the scoreboard. This is kind of  a fun little feature. If you’re live streaming,   let’s say a little league game and you want  to keep the score on screen for the friends   and family watching at home, you can do that.  It’s pretty neat. Let’s go and set this up.  Let’s go ahead and turn that on and the first  thing I can do is position this wherever I’d like,   make it a little bit bigger if I want  to. So, let’s make it nice and big and   put on the bottom of the screen here and you’ll  see it’s already got a little bit of customization   in there from before that I was playing with  but let’s go ahead and make some more changes.  Let’s start by customizing the board. I’ll  scroll down to the bottom and tap on team info   and then from here, I can change the  game name and a bunch of other things.   Now, at this point, I type everything  on the soft keyboard as we’ve done   many times but one of the other cool  features of the YoloBox is that you can plug   in an external keyboard, just a simple USB  keyboard so you can start typing from there.  I actually have one here so let me grab that. This  is an old Apple USB keyboard and I’ve actually   added a USB-A to C adapter on here just so that I  can plug it into the free USB-C port. I could also   unplug the webcam and plug it into there but  I’ve got a free port, so let’s just use this.  As soon as I plug that in, we should see the  interface drop away, now the keyboard is active   — you can see that I can now go ahead and do that  so let’s go and just change this to The Big Game.   Hit Return to accept that and you’ll see an update  on the screen. We’ll scroll down and we can change   the name of team 1, team 2. Let’s call this one  My Team and then we’ll change the other one to   Your Team. And we can see the  text updating there on the screen.  You’ll also see that we have team logos  that we can add in. I’ve already added   one for myself. If I wanted to add one  on the other, I’d simply scroll down to   the team 2 logo. Tap on that. It’ll tell you that  it’s advisable that you use a 96 by 96 pixel PNG.   I don’t have one of those loaded but you’ll  see that I can choose anything else. So, let’s   choose that subscribe logo and add that in there. It doesn’t necessarily fit because it’s not the   right size but it will work. So, in a pinch,  you can do that as well. We’ll tap on Done.   If I want to include a time in the  game, I can add that. It can be a count   up or countdown time. Set in the time control  to whatever I want it to be. Let’s make it a   five-minute game, nice and long on there and then  hit play and we’ll see that that countdown begins.  Now, from here, of course, to keep score, I  simply tap on the plus and minus buttons as   the different team score and away we go. So, we’ve  got this live scoreboard included in the software.   It’s a pretty cool little feature to have that.  It’s nice to be able to do that if you are doing   something again like shooting a little league  game streaming that for the family at home.  Alright, let’s see what else we’ve got in  here. I’m going to turn the scoreboard off   and move to the next one here which is Comments.  Yes, you can have YouTube comments showing up   directly on the device here and then even load  them to screen. So, let’s actually show this.   This event is created — this is a real event  that I’ve created, unlisted but it’s all ready   to go. So, I’m going to go ahead and go live. I’ll tap the Go Live button here. “Are you ready   to start live streaming?” Yes, I am. I tap OK.  We’ll see up in the top left, you have status of   the event, how much data has streamed, the current  frames per second, how much has dropped, how long   you’ve been live, and now I’m going to go over to  my computer and find this event and comment on it.  There’s my live event. I’ll say “Hello  from the studio” and then back over here,   looking at the comments page. In just a moment,  we’ll see that load up here and there it is.   If I want to show this up on the screen, I tap  on the little bookmark icon there and it loads   it up on the screen. It’s actually generating  a graphic in real time and loading that to the   screen. It’s kind of a cool way that it works. If I want to change how those comments look,   I can do that as well. Up to  the top right corner of this,   I have a few different options of how I want  the comments to look. So, I’ll go ahead and   choose this one. I can once again change the  font, I can choose the transparency of that,   the positioning of it, the scale of it, and so  on. A lot of control over where those comments   will go. It’s nice and clean and simple and you  have that ability to not only see your comments   here on a live show but actually bring them up  for the rest of the audience to see as well.  Finally, let’s take a look at the gear icon, that  of course is the settings page and let’s see what   kind of options we have for the show. You’ll see  there’s a video source switching mode that is   a click to switch or a double click to switch.  Should probably say tap to switch but there we   go. So, this is telling you whether you should  single tap or double tap on any of the icons to   switch. Obviously a double tap takes longer but  then it will prevent from accidental switching.  Under SD card video switch settings, you can  choose what happens when you load up a video,   whether it continues playing as a loop or  restarts the video from the beginning and so on.   SD card management really doesn’t allow you to  do much of anything here, never quite figured   out what this is — there’s nothing showing in here  of what’s on the card so maybe this is a feature   to come, I’m not quite sure. The program out we  already looked at. Video source transitions can   be controlled in here and right now we’ve got  everything set to a Cut. Just a simple Cut so   as I go from HDMI 1 to 2 to 3 and so on is a  simple cut, but I can change that to a fade,   a wipe, a directional wipe and so on. So, lots  of different options in here to play with.  Let’s go for a page flip and then we’ll make it a  nice long 1 and ½ to 2 seconds — let’s go for two   seconds here and now when I tap on another video  we’ll see that it peels over to that video. So   now we’ve got a couple different ways that we can  do our transitions. Let’s do a Wipe next and go   back to HDMI 1 and there’s our Wipe. Of course we  want to make that a little bit faster. Let’s break   it down to a half second and now do a simple  fade and let’s switch over to another input,   do the side by side and there we go. So, lots of different ways that we can go about   doing those transition in there along with the  ability to change their duration from as little   as half a second up to a full three seconds. Next we have our streaming modes and this is   something I alluded to in the beginning that  is a really important consideration with the   YoloLiv YoloBox. When you are streaming  to YouTube or to Facebook or to Twitch,   you have the option to either stream directly  to them or to route through the YoloLiv servers.  Now, why would you want to route through YoloLiv?  Well if you’re just streaming to one platform,   then you probably don’t really want  to, there’s no reason to do it,   it would just add latency that you don’t need.  However, what this box gives you is the option   to stream to multiple platforms at once. Basically, YoloLiv is providing a   free re-stream service — basically comes with  the cost of admission. When you buy the box,   you get free re-streaming service through their  servers. So what I would do in here is enable   using YoloLiv’s multi-streaming service and that  would then direct the stream to their service and   then on my streaming page, I could enable multiple  platforms at once and stream to all them together.   So that’s really, really powerful and a  very cool consideration for the YoloBox.  Next up is video output mode is just switching  the HDMI out from HDMI to display port. This   might just affect different types of monitors  that you’re working with. If you plug it into   a monitor that it doesn’t work with, switch it  to the other one and see if that helps. Now,   I will say that with the HDMI out on here, we have  had some experiences where it just doesn’t work   with every monitor we connected to, and when  I say “we”, I mean, we as YouTube reviewers.   A lot of us are talking behind the scenes about  this box and it’s something we’ve all run into.  They have recently released an update to  allow it to work with the ATEM hardware. So,   I can actually plug the HDMI out from here into  an ATEM switcher and it will work beautifully   and it’s actually how I’m recording what  you’re seeing on this screen right now.  However, it doesn’t work with everything still.  If I plug it into an Atomos Ninja recorder,   it won’t show up there. If I plug it into a  standard conventional monitor or television,   it’ll work there. If I plug it to my Blackmagic  HyperDeck recorder, it doesn’t work there. So,   it’s a bit of a guessing game whether it’s going  to work or not. I would say though that if you   find a piece of hardware that it does not work  with, tell YoloLiv. They want to know so they can   test and figure out what’s wrong so that they can  switch it as they like to do. So, there’s that.  Alright, back into the settings. Next, we  have encoding settings. Now, this is a really   interesting feature. You have three different  encoding settings options. You have CBR, CQ, and   VBR. CBR is Constant Bit Rate and you’ll see there  it says, this is the default and recommended. So,   whatever bit rate you choose and you can choose  that down at the bottom, you’ll see it’s currently   set to a 4000 kilobit bit rate or four megabit and  also the frames per second is set to 25 which is   odd. I probably should have set that to 29.97. Anyway, you can choose to a constant bit rate so   it’s always using that same bit rate. You can also  choose CQ or constant quality. This is going to   always maintain the same quality as much  as possible while varying the bit rate. So   your bit rate might go up or down just to make  sure that your quality always stays the same.  And finally there’s variable bit rate which is not  that different from constant quality but variable   bit rate will vary the bit rate depending also  on your bandwidth. So, if it sees you have lower   bandwidth it automatically scale it back, slow it  down a little bit so that you can continue with   the live show. As Bandwidth opens up, it’ll try to  pump that back up again. So, different options on   there but I would certainly recommend sticking  with CBR unless you have a good reason not to.  The last option on here is recording limits.  Now, this is a little bit of a strange option   in then it doesn’t seem to actually work the way  you would expect it to but it’s also a brand-new   feature so maybe it’s just not fully functional  yet. You’ll see on here that you have the options   to have your video recorded and saved every 10,  20, 30, 60 minutes or continuously. Meaning that   it would stop recording and start again creating  a new file every 10, 20, 30 or 60 minutes.  This can be a good idea because if your show is  interrupted for some reason — you lose internet,   you lose power, someone trips over a  chord, you drop the thing or whatever,   you might end up losing the entire show if  everything’s being recorded to a single file. The   idea where it breaks up the file every 10 minutes  means that you have at least all those files up   until that last break. So, that’s what it’s for. However, the reason I say that it doesn’t work   as expected is this — I’ve got it set  to continuously right now. To record,   notice in the top right hand corner of the preview  monitor there’s a record button. I’ll tap that.   It’s going to tell me that I have 30  gigs of free space but it’s going to   create a new file every 3 ½ gigabytes, which  is a little bit of a strange arbitrary limit.   It doesn’t matter what the recording options  are set to, it’s always going to say that.  You might think that it’s because it’s a  UHS-1 card but if I put in a UHS-2 card,   that doesn’t make any difference either. So,  I don’t know what this is. My guys at YoloLiv   couldn’t get back to me to tell me what was  before I recorded. So, I don’t know why but   just hit record, it’ll record your show. So if I  start recording right now, you can see that record   option up in the top right corner is flashing and  it is now recording the program to the SD card.  Alright, that’s the interface in here. Let’s back  out of this. I’m going to stop recording and I’m   going to stop the live show. And you see you get  this dialogue, “Do you want to pause the live   stream event or end it?” I’m going to go ahead and  end this. When I tap End, it’s going to drop me   out of this interface back into the main screen. You’ll see that it shows that my live show has   ended and you might think at this point, “Ooh, I  want to take that live show and duplicate it and   do the whole show all over again”. Yeah, that’d be  cool. You can’t do that. This is a high-priority   feature for YoloLiv to implement. They know  this, they’ve heard it, they’re working on it   but to date, you can’t. So, what this means  is that if I want to create another live show,   I simply have to tap on Plus, create a new  live stream and set everything up again.  However, the lower thirds, the graphics, all those  things that I created are still there. So, I’m not   having to create everything from scratch but I  will need to set up my Picture-in-Picture and my   green screen keying and things like that again. I’ll back out of this and if I want to delete an   old show, simply tap and hold on that and it’ll  pop up dialogue, “Are you sure you want to delete   [my live show]?” We’ll hit OK and there it  is, she’s gone. That’s all there is to it.   That’s everything in the YoloLiv YoloBox Pro. There might be more features that I missed but   I don’t think so. I think I’ve covered all  of them in here but of course, depending on   when you’re watching this, there are probably new  features already added because as I said earlier,   there is new stuff constantly being added  to the YoloBox Pro which is pretty exciting.  Now, as I said in the introduction, this was  all about the YoloBox but I know a lot of you   want to compare this to the ATEM which I  fully understand. I’ll reiterate that while   there is a of overlap between the two devices.  There is a lot that is unique on both of them.   So to learn what that is, please tune in to video  two which is going to come up right around here,   somewhere, right about now. So, check that out  and we’ll see you in the next video. Bye bye.
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Length: 39min 11sec (2351 seconds)
Published: Thu Dec 09 2021
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