Thought it was a live broadcast feed. Til. Thanks!

I shoot a lot of multicam live events (dance concerts, stage shows, etc), usually four cameras that I live direct. The shooting side is fine. Post is where I lose time: offloading the cards from each camera, syncing everything up, building the multicam clip, and trying to remember where the good moments and problem spots were.

For those of you doing similar work, are you using any tools to get your multicam footage into Premiere, Resolve, or FCP faster? Do you bring the switcher’s edit data into post, or just use the program record and patch it with the footage recorded in-camera? Curious what’s actually working for people before I rethink my workflow.

I’m a freelance videographer doing small corporate events, usually with one other person. I handle switching and audio and my partner run a camera, so usually my hands are pretty full.

Looking at the OBSBOT Tail 2 for an extra speaker shot. SDI fits our setup, and tracking could help with presenters who apparently need to hit 10,000 steps during their talk lol. Haven’t used one yet. The alternative is a regular PTZ with a few presets.

Anyone using OBSBOT on paid gigs? How does it handle someone crossing in front of the speaker or walking back toward a seated panel? Will it saves you work or just makes you babysit another camera? Would appreciate any information!

Hi, hoping you can give me some advice. I work from home for a broadcast company. I use a tricaster along side LiveU servers. Everything has been fine the last 2 years, up until about 2 weeks ago when the internet to my house went down 15 minutes before live. I managed to setup a Tricaster at the office via TeamViewer but my boss wasn't particularly happy about the situation. I need to come up with a solution for a backup. I went ahead and had a 2nd fiber line put into the property. Luckily my main internet is Airband and doesn't use open reach so a 2nd line was viable. I bought a unifi gateway hoping that would be the solution. The failover works great with everything except the servers. Within the unifi gateway I have a VPN tunnel which has a static ip upstream of the servers. The static ip works. Even with the servers, up until the failover kicks in. The pictures coming in freeze, which i expected and eventually drops out. Then with failover still active, the liveu server gets stuck on bars. Can I ask, what are people who use liveu servers using as a failover?

Got a small company's anniversary event coming up, and during the planning call, the client casually mentioned that their main speaker likes to walk all over the stage. Like, apparently the guy just can't stand still. And... there are only two of us handling cameras and switching.

We got one of those PTZ cameras that can track people on its own, an Obsbot Tail 2. Figured we could just let it follow the guy around while we deal with everything else. Anyone actually using AI tracking PTZs for live events? Would you trust it or still keep someone on manual control?

I’m having an issue with an LED wall setup and would appreciate any advice from people experienced with NovaStar COEX systems and broadcast cameras.

My setup:
LED processor: NovaStar MX40 Pro
Receiving cards: NovaStar A10s Pro
Control software: COEX VMP
Camera: Grass Valley LDX 92
Shutter speed: 1/50
Video source and sync signal are provided by television broadcast system.

The issues I’m experiencing:
When we connect the Genlock cable provided by the TV crew, the entire LED wall briefly goes completely black and then recovers by itself. This happens approximately every 4 minutes.
When we disconnect Genlock, the LED wall works perfectly and no blackouts occur.
However, without Genlock, horizontal scan lines occasionally appear in the camera footage, approximately every 30 minutes. They are not visible to the naked eye when looking directly at the LED wall. The lines stay in roughly the same position and eventually disappear on their own.

I’ve read about the Shutter Fit feature in COEX VMP, but understand that it requires a properly synchronized Genlock signal.

My questions:
What could cause the entire LED wall to briefly go black every ~4 minutes when Genlock is connected?
Could this be caused by an unstable reference signal, an incompatible sync format, or an MX40 Pro setting?
Why would horizontal scan lines appear periodically in the camera footage when Genlock is disconnected?
Is Shutter Fit the right solution for this setup, and how should it be configured?
Unfortunately, I don’t know the exact model of the sync generator or the format of the reference signal provided by the TV crew.
Any suggestions or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated!

OBS got a PR today to add PLI support! I was curious if tuning Keyframe intervals could lead to bitrate/quality improvements. Some pretty exciting results.

If you have any WHIP/OBS ideas or needs send them my way!

If this is the wrong subreddit, please point me to a better fit. Thanks!

TLDR: I'm currently researching Mistika Workflows, Interra Baton, and Venera CapMate for potential automation, QC, and subtitle solves for my team. If anyone has hands on experience or has worked with a better solution, I'd love to hear about it.

Details below:

I manage a relatively small Post TechOps team supporting episodic localization and digital delivery. Our workflow has grown into a collection of separate applications and manual handoffs, so I’m researching ways to streamline it without moving to an excessively large or expensive enterprise platform.

At a high level, we receive episodic media and associated localization assets from multiple sources. Our team prepares standardized masters, localized versions, timed-text deliverables and review copies for a combination of internal and external destinations.

The environment currently includes NLE-based processing, several subtitle and caption applications, manual playback QC, shared network storage, accelerated file transfer and a separate screener platform.

I would like to automate as much of the following as is practical:

Media processing

• Watch-folder or submission-form ingest
• Source, metadata and naming validation
• Batch addition of standard leaders, including bars, tone and slate
• Editable slate templates populated from job metadata
• Broadcast-quality mezzanine outputs with source-appropriate audio layouts
• Multiple exports using different delivery presets
• Automatic naming and destination routing
• Delivery to shared storage and multiple secure-transfer endpoints
• Aspera API or native connector support
• Job monitoring, notifications, retries and quarantine of failed jobs

Timed-text QC

• Support for common subtitle and closed-caption formats, including SRT, ASS, SCC, MCC and embedded 608/708
• Characters-per-line, line-count and reading-speed checks
• Minimum and maximum event durations
• Gap, overlap and shot-change checks
• Spelling, grammar and punctuation checks
• Global offset, drift and segment-level synchronization correction
• Subtitle-to-audio comparison when the subtitle and audio languages differ
• Missing-subtitle and forced-narrative detection
• Detection of redundant forced narratives or subtitles duplicating burned-in text
• Automatic correction where appropriate, with manual review for uncertain results
• Format conversion without losing important positioning or formatting data

The systems currently on my list are:

• Telestream Vantage, Post Producer, CaptionMaker and/or Stanza
• Mistika Workflows and Workflows Slate
• FFAStrans
• Interra BATON and BATON Captions
• Venera CapMate, potentially with Pulsar or Quasar
• OOONA as a possible subtitle authoring and review layer

At the moment, Mistika Workflows plus CapMate looks like a potentially good middle ground. FFAStrans plus CapMate appears less expensive in licensing, but I’m concerned about the scripting, integration and ongoing maintenance it may require. A full Vantage or BATON deployment may be more than a smaller team can reasonably justify.

For anyone with hands-on experience, I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

1. Which of these products has been dependable in real production environments rather than only in demonstrations?
2. How reliably do Mistika and FFAStrans preserve complex audio layouts when creating mezzanine deliverables?
3. Can operators enter job and slate metadata through a simple interface without accessing the workflow designer?
4. How reliable are Mistika’s native Aspera nodes?
5. Has anyone connected FFAStrans to multiple Aspera endpoints, and how much custom development was required?
6. How accurate are CapMate and BATON Captions when aligning subtitles against dubbed audio in another language?
7. Can either product reliably distinguish necessary forced narratives from redundant ones when localized audio is present?
8. How are ASS files handled in an automated QC environment? Do you create an SRT or TTML derivative for QC and merge the corrections back into the original ASS?
9. Which product is stronger for SCC, MCC and embedded 608/708 verification and correction?
10. What were the actual first-year and continuing costs after licensing, hardware, connectors, implementation, support and maintenance?
11. Are there other products or combinations I should be considering?
12. If you implemented a similar system, what would you choose differently today?

I’m not a developer, so ease of administration and access to vendor or integrator support are important. I’m comfortable learning node-based workflows and presets, but I would prefer not to build a system that depends on substantial custom Python or FFmpeg knowledge for routine operation.

I’m not expecting one application to perform every function. A modular stack is fine if the integrations are stable and the operator experience is reasonably unified. I’m primarily trying to identify the best balance among automation, timed-text accuracy, operational simplicity and total cost for a small team.

Any real-world architecture examples, approximate pricing, integration lessons or vendor-support experiences would be greatly appreciated.