Live stream from studio with remote Zoom/Skype q&a
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GaryNattrass
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Do you know what a mix minus or clean feed is?
If not then you need to read up on it as you will need to generate one to feed the zoom/skype etc.
Basically it is a feed of the mics and anything minus the zoom/skype source and is designed to send them clean so that your guests can hear the studio. It is minus the zoom/skpe as feed that back to itself will create huge problems with it killing the audio and even worse slapback delays on the audio that is going to your programme. These clean feeds are also know as IFB's (interuptable foldback) and if you need to talk to the zoom/skype guests before they are "on air" you will need some way of talking to them or intecting talkback into the clean feed audio that is being sent from the sound mixer. We have a full Riedel system to do this function as we have up to 24 outside sources available and all sorts of producers/directors and technical people need to set-up the interviews or contributing reporters etc.
The other main problem with all these zoom/skype things is that they work as a very simple system audio wise so generally can be out of sync within themselves and even worse if you start putting them into TV screens in a studio.
You will also need to have some way of your guests and studio to hear the return audio and if that is on foldback speakers fed via an aux output then it can cause the incoming audio to go back down the line delayed via any open mics and therefore causing even more problems with echo and it killing the incoming sound.
Add onto that if you end up in a debate or interview set up as soon as you studio audio has anything on it via the clean feed/ mix minus it will tend to kill the incoming audio from the zoom/skype as it is not bi directional.
If you havent already realised yet having an audio person to sort all this out will be essential and you will need the audio kit required to do it all.
Good luck and I work for SKY News in the Uk so this is our everyday standard at the moment but I have a lovely Calrec Artemis audio mixer with lots of tracks to sort the clean feeds and automixers to handle the audio that feeds foldback and screens with up to 11 frames of delay on the video side of things. Our studio audio is also delayed by 7 frames to suit the latency caused by other video processing and at times we also use remote studios for the interviews so it can be a bit of a handful.
If not then you need to read up on it as you will need to generate one to feed the zoom/skype etc.
Basically it is a feed of the mics and anything minus the zoom/skype source and is designed to send them clean so that your guests can hear the studio. It is minus the zoom/skpe as feed that back to itself will create huge problems with it killing the audio and even worse slapback delays on the audio that is going to your programme. These clean feeds are also know as IFB's (interuptable foldback) and if you need to talk to the zoom/skype guests before they are "on air" you will need some way of talking to them or intecting talkback into the clean feed audio that is being sent from the sound mixer. We have a full Riedel system to do this function as we have up to 24 outside sources available and all sorts of producers/directors and technical people need to set-up the interviews or contributing reporters etc.
The other main problem with all these zoom/skype things is that they work as a very simple system audio wise so generally can be out of sync within themselves and even worse if you start putting them into TV screens in a studio.
You will also need to have some way of your guests and studio to hear the return audio and if that is on foldback speakers fed via an aux output then it can cause the incoming audio to go back down the line delayed via any open mics and therefore causing even more problems with echo and it killing the incoming sound.
Add onto that if you end up in a debate or interview set up as soon as you studio audio has anything on it via the clean feed/ mix minus it will tend to kill the incoming audio from the zoom/skype as it is not bi directional.
If you havent already realised yet having an audio person to sort all this out will be essential and you will need the audio kit required to do it all.
Good luck and I work for SKY News in the Uk so this is our everyday standard at the moment but I have a lovely Calrec Artemis audio mixer with lots of tracks to sort the clean feeds and automixers to handle the audio that feeds foldback and screens with up to 11 frames of delay on the video side of things. Our studio audio is also delayed by 7 frames to suit the latency caused by other video processing and at times we also use remote studios for the interviews so it can be a bit of a handful.
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