At the end of this week I'll be releasing SpankVANC. It is a Windows/Linux Ancillary Data processing/converter/encoding software. It's current capabilities include extracting live captions and SCTE-104 data from DeckLink SDI sources. It can also convert that extracted data in real-time (live) to embedded 608 transport stream captions in MPEG-2 TS or H.264 TS. It can also take the SCTE-104 and convert in real-time to SCTE-35 ad insertion cues.

It also is backwards compatible. It can take a UDP/SRT/RTMP transport stream with SCTE-35 and convert it back to DeckLink SDI output preserving the captions and converting the SCTE-104 to SCTE-35. It can also be used as a standalone DeckLink in/out closed caption encoder.

All SCTE and captions can be passed, stripped, or converted from input to output regardless of input/output format. AI re-captioning will be here by the end of the week, already have a system for that from a while back.

SCTE-35/SCTE-104 to GPO will also be ready by the end of the week.

Lastly, it can can output directly to YouTube preserving 608 captions or recaptioned.

If interested send me a private message and I'll get you access when I make the repo live.

"Hi guys,

I developed a dashboard for MediaMTX. And as I just noticed, I’m not the only one ;)

But see for yourself if it's something for you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xky_vmMjL38

https://github.com/seekwhencer/mediamtx-ui

Have to pass video through Carbonite Ultra to get my IMAG & other video to feed into the wall, provide main and backup gfx switchover, etc. This SDI conversion will force me into legal color range 16-235, which will cause my LED wall to appear grey when on black.

Will quantization on the MX30 be able to fix this for me? Or do I need to rent a presentation switcher/perform the IMAG overlay in Millumin instead and eat the delay?

Would use the Nova to layer it but can't fade on and off which is problematic for show programming. This is not detailed in the manual & can't find much info online.

Side note: as we are supplying 12G to the processor via HDMI conversion (Decimator) could this be done by switching to Rec2020? May be barking up wrong tree here

We have an event coming up that would like to trigger walk on music and graphics via a QR code. We have a QR scanner that connects via USB and I was wondering if anyones used QR codes to trigger playback on QLab.

Hello, I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, feel free to delete my post if needed...

I transferred some videos from my phone (redmi note 13 pro+, if that's of any importance) on a brand new usb stick, and they almost all turned out corrupted. Some of them i can't open at all, i get error codes from them (0xC00D36E5 or 0xC00D36C4), and others can open but they're all laggy, with missing frames covered with pixels and all.

Obviously i don't know much about all this so i don't know where to look. I've searched a bit, which led me to already put some of these videos through MediaInfo, I'll attach images of what it tells me... But what can i do past that, if i want to fix these videos, IF that's possible at all... I really cared for these videos, even if they weren't much, so if there a way to get at least some of them, that'd be great...

I don't even know why this happened, I might not be a tech genius but I still know better than to delete files before they're done transferring or to remove the usb stick without properly ejecting it, and it's brand new so i dare assume it's not bit rot lol

I'm on an old windows 10 laptop (probably not the best work tool but i've gotta work with it) but i haven't had this issue with other usb sticks or anything, so I'm pretty confused and desperate.

Please, if there's a way to fix these, how do i do it?

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edit: just a precision if that's of any use, the pictures in order are: 1. one that gets the 0xC00D36E5 error code, 2. Another that gets the 0xC00D34C4 one, and there are 7 identical "Other#..." parts, and 3-5 are about a video i can open but that is all messed up.

Hey everyone 👋

I'm having a weird issue with my ATEM 4 M/E Constellation 4K and wondering if anyone has run into the same thing.

Symptoms:
• On power up, the fans spin at full speed, way louder than usual
• The unit doesn't boot reliably: sometimes it starts fine, sometimes it just sits there with the fans screaming and I have to power cycle it several times before it finally boots
• Once it's up, it seems to work normally

Has anyone seen this behavior before? Did it turn out to be the PSU, firmware, or something else? Any tips before I open a ticket with Blackmagic support would be super appreciated 🙏

Thanks!

sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, i bought a jvc gy-dv5000 minidv 3ccd camera and the colors are weird but most importantly the shadows are always blue and even when i put the lens cap it stays blue, i tried adjusting the white balance but the problem stays, it's not a display issue as the color bars display black just fine.

Long time lurker, first time poster (with a burner account).

I'm looking to get some insight into how companies (US based) in the live events industry handle overtime compensation for full-time employees who regularly travel and work on-site at events.

I'm defining "overtime" as working more than 40 hours in a week and/or more than 10 hours in a single day on-site.

Does your company offer additional compensation for hours worked beyond 40/week and/or 10/day? If so, how is it structured?

Does your company offer any formal “comp” time after working over a certain amount? If so, how is that calculated and administered?

How does your company classify full-time employees who work events? Is everyone “exempt” or is there a mix between “exempt” and “non-exempt”

Whatever system your company uses, does it seem to work? Do employees generally feel they're being fairly compensated for the additional hours and time away from home? Is overtime compensation (or the lack thereof) an issue with moral, burnout, etc? 

A friend of mine works at an AV company, and they’re currently having conversations about what is fair for full-time employees who regularly work well beyond 40 hours a week. To the best of my understanding, they currently have an informal “comp” time policy, and that’s about it. 

Major bonus points if anyone is willing to share published documentation about how your company handles these issues, and I'd especially appreciate hearing from both employees and managers/owners who have experience implementing these policies.

I’m posting this with a burner account for plausible deniability.

Thanks in advance for any insight you're willing to share!

I’m a college freshman from Taiwan, currently majoring in television production.

I’ve been working as a freelance live/broadcast director and ENG camera operator for about two years, starting when I was in high school. I was an independent-study student in high school, which gave me more flexibility to take on freelance production work.

Since high school, my goal has been to work in live concert production, especially as a broadcast/live director or ENG camera operator.

Right now, I’m studying television production in Taiwan while continuing to take on freelance gigs. I’m expected to graduate in 2030, and after graduation, I’m planning to pursue a master’s degree in the U.S. related to television, live broadcasting, or live production. Ideally, I’d like to find a job in the U.S. after completing my degree.

I have two main questions:

1. Is this plan realistic given the current situation in the U.S., especially for an international student who hopes to work in live television or concert production after graduation?
2. Are there any master’s programs in the U.S. that would be a good fit for someone with my background and career goals? I’ve been looking for a while, but I still haven’t found a program that really focuses on live television, multicamera production, or broadcast directing.

Any advice, program recommendations, or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It is as if CBS staff does not know that the network uses 1080i, but the Internet uses progscan, so the footage has to be deinterlaced, and not into 30p, but into 60p.

This particular screenshot is from "How some are keeping manual driving alive".

Hi everyone, I’d appreciate your advice!

I work at a TV news channel that broadcasts 12 hours of news daily. We handle a high volume of Zoom calls, sometimes 20–30 calls over a 12-hour shift.

We currently use a Matrox Convert DVI to allow the operator to crop and adjust the framing of each incoming Zoom video feed.

We’d like to eliminate the Matrox Convert DVI while retaining the ability for the operator to crop and reframe the image in real time. What solutions or workflows would you recommend for a professional broadcast news environment?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Hi everyone,

I'm looking at starting a small NYC-based AV and live streaming company, providing video, audio, lighting and live streaming services.

From what I've read about NY sales tax rules, it seems that if I'm providing equipment along with an operator or technician, it generally wouldn't be subject to sales tax. However, if I'm providing equipment as a dry hire, or the client is operating the equipment themselves, sales tax would apply.

My understanding is that around 99% of the work I'd be doing wouldn't be taxable, as I'd be providing equipment as part of a fully operated service.

However, what about smaller items? For example, if I'm providing and operating a full AV setup but also supplying a presentation clicker for the client to use with their own laptop, would I technically need to charge sales tax on that particular item?

Has anyone running an AV or event production company in NYC dealt with this? Just trying to understand where the line is drawn and how people handle invoicing for mixed services and equipment.

Thanks!

There is a wonderful story called "Oliver's Castle" about someone who made a (PAL) Hi-8 video of "orbs" producing a crop circle in 1996. The video is a circle fade between two analog signals (before and after) with some lights on top that lack motion blur or interlacing. The person later admitted he composited it, apparently on a Quantel Paintbox according to one comment.

Before his admission, an (armchair) video expert claimed it had to be real because he had examined the tape technically and could not find the telltale signs of it being composited from a digital source. But the only information I have on what he did is that he looked at the "vertical interval, blanking pulse, sub carrier, and pedestal".

I have only the most basic understanding of video, so can the engineers here comment?

What sort of signals in these basics of PAL would be there simply because the signal is digital sourced?

Hello everyone. I was hired as executive for finance and operations at a church this year. We have a problem in that the Tricaster pro they've been using is about to die, and it was cost prohibitive to begin with. There's a paid AV person who runs the whole thing solo in the absence of volunteers.

All of the alternatives we've looked at to date would require 2-3 people to operate, and many people are too intimidated by the technology to volunteer. The sound is done on an Allen & Heath sound board, and slides and camera are currently done picture in picture with camera view switching for livestream. Does anyone have software suggestions that can handle slide progression on the in-room projector and camera angles on livestream in one program? And can that program be operated by one person? I'm at a loss as to how to fix this.

Tiles worked until accidentally entering NovaLCT's Smart Settings wizard. We didn’t complete it or knowingly save changes, but the panels went black.

Imported rcfgx from a fresh tile, which restored output and receiving card/module info, but now tiles display alternating horizontal bands: one with correct image (green in this example, which should cover the whole tile) and the other white with faint vertical colors.

We’ve tried:
-Comparing receiving-card settings and extended driver properties with a healthy panel; visible settings appeared to match.
-Comparing exported rcfgx files and found differences in less-accessible fields, including DriverFunction, RamA/B/C/D, correction values, and embedded binary data.
-Verified scan mode, decoding, cabinet dimensions, and data-group settings.
-Tested solid-color patterns through both NovaLCT and the processor; the stripes remain unchanged.
-Tested an affected panel individually with the same result, not a mapping/screen configuration issue.
-Tried Data Group Exchange without resolving the stripes.

We’re trying to get the original factory rcfgx from the distributor, but does anyone know how to fix this? What would entering smart settings have changed that isn’t corrected by restoring with a known-good rcfgx?

Hello!

Does anyone know or have the Epiphan Pearl 2 operating system ISO. The SSD is bad and I wanted to replace the disk but the repair department of the company I work at just put in a new disk and threw the old one away. So now it's a expensive piece of metal with a display that says no boot device. Otherwise I need to get a new SSD from Epiphan but I bet that will be very expensive.

Thanks!

Edit: clarified things.

Hell everyone,

I have been leading AV for a big event for the last 5 years. Its a tech event where we usually run 8 to 12 stages in parallel with speakers cycling in and out of the stage for our 8 hours a day. We do this event once a year and its usually 4 days long.

As you can imagine, the amount of post production we have to do for such an event is quite large, it usually comes around to 400 - 500 individual videos, one per talk, plus also reels. I have a background in software engineering so since I joined the team I had a big focus on automating things and so I build a fully autonomous pipeline to edit this videos. Obviously the editing is not the same as doing it manually in post prod, the automation basically clips the livestream feed and then does some minor editing like adding intro, outro, lower thirds and some audio normalisation and then it published to youtube, so if the operating crew does a mistake during live, you need to fallback to manual editing.

Overall this has worked quite well for us internally, and I wanted to know if anyone thinks that this could potentially become a product that we could sell to other av vendors. I have done some research and I found things like grabyo and such but there are more focused on the sports industry I think.

Thanks for reading and just to clarify, this post is not a hidden self promotion post to sell AI slop, im genuinely interested in the opinion of the people of this subreddit.

peace

Hi all,

I have been facing difficulties in understanding how to play an URL via a web browser in Vizrt Trio 3.1.4 and Engine 3.1.4. Would anyone have any insights on how I could do it?

Thanks,