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- Real Name: Stephen Brokalis
I am doing tech for a conference. I'm 19 and have worked at a church doing tech since I was 13 but this is my first large conference gig. I wanted to pursue show production as a carrier. I designed a system for a family member. Our budget was $6,000 for a full audio, projection, and broadcast system. I came in super excited but now that we are almost done I honestly don't think I can work in this unpredictable and unreelable industry. I attached the system diagram and we bought a lot of Blackmagic equipment that's why I'm posting this here but if there are any other tech forums people recommend I'll check those out. The client and I are pretty pissed with the equipment so this will probably be an entertaining rant. I'm not taking time to systematically explain everything.
Here's the issues:
1. (resolved) the webcam video feed from the ATEM Mini is super glitchy, cutting in and out, flashing colors, glitching all over the place. The fix was setting zoom to HD, the ATEM was at 1080p24 by default. I'm not sure if the ATEM or Zoom is in the wrong for all the glitching when it either should have just worked or given me an incompatibility error.
2. I am watching Zoom like a hock as I type this because every couple of minutes I get "Audio Alert" "failed to detect your microphone" and zoom shuts off the video feed to the audience so I have to click "start video" to get it back working. If I had to take a guess I'd say the ATEM Mini takes a little **** by turning its audio off and Zoom freaks out and turns off the video feed because that makes so much sense to fix an audio problem.
3. The largest issue is the webcam feed just randomly freezes for no reason at all and when I turn off the webcam in zoom and turn it back on it just comes up as grey and in zoom settings the preview only shows grey. Audio still passes through but the only way to fix this problem without restarting the computer/live stream is by unplugging power from the ATEM Mini, cutting both video and audio to the 56 people on zoom then plugging it back in and it instantly fixes everything once it boots.
4. I am getting a **** ton of noise and a blatant beeping on the broadcast. The Behringer Xenyx802 has a clock that sends a beep to the audio feed to annoy people but from what I read online the ATEM Mini has horrible mic inputs and is creating the noise. I spent 40 minutes trying to balance sound board output, ATEM Gain, computer audio levels. This made some things better, some things worse, it was like whack a mole. It was an interesting find that if you adjust the ATEM Gain a certain way the audio just glitches in and out all the time its weird.
5. I have a presenter laptop running to the projectors and ATEM (look at the diagram) the projectors look fine but the computer feed blinks black/cuts out at random intervals which is annoying AF. I think the SDI to HDMI 6G or ATEM Mini is the issue. The camera feed which defies the laws of physics (three HDMI cords coupled together over 100 feet with perfect signal) doesn't cut out so I think the SDI to HDMI 6G is a piece of ****.
6. Totally unrelated but all of our Sennheiser XSW keep loosing signal/cutting out even though they are only 30 feet from the receiver. They sound great but have ******* ass range.
I'm sure I'm missing some issues. I love tech and I love designing and working with tech. But the constant stress of this ******* equipment not working and people being frustrated with me over **** I don't know how to fix is driving me F***ing insane. If anyone has any fixes for these problems I will be so grateful. I tried tons of stuff to fix these issues so I wish yall luck. If nobody can figure this stuff out then we should all consider another job. XD
Here's the issues:
1. (resolved) the webcam video feed from the ATEM Mini is super glitchy, cutting in and out, flashing colors, glitching all over the place. The fix was setting zoom to HD, the ATEM was at 1080p24 by default. I'm not sure if the ATEM or Zoom is in the wrong for all the glitching when it either should have just worked or given me an incompatibility error.
2. I am watching Zoom like a hock as I type this because every couple of minutes I get "Audio Alert" "failed to detect your microphone" and zoom shuts off the video feed to the audience so I have to click "start video" to get it back working. If I had to take a guess I'd say the ATEM Mini takes a little **** by turning its audio off and Zoom freaks out and turns off the video feed because that makes so much sense to fix an audio problem.
3. The largest issue is the webcam feed just randomly freezes for no reason at all and when I turn off the webcam in zoom and turn it back on it just comes up as grey and in zoom settings the preview only shows grey. Audio still passes through but the only way to fix this problem without restarting the computer/live stream is by unplugging power from the ATEM Mini, cutting both video and audio to the 56 people on zoom then plugging it back in and it instantly fixes everything once it boots.
4. I am getting a **** ton of noise and a blatant beeping on the broadcast. The Behringer Xenyx802 has a clock that sends a beep to the audio feed to annoy people but from what I read online the ATEM Mini has horrible mic inputs and is creating the noise. I spent 40 minutes trying to balance sound board output, ATEM Gain, computer audio levels. This made some things better, some things worse, it was like whack a mole. It was an interesting find that if you adjust the ATEM Gain a certain way the audio just glitches in and out all the time its weird.
5. I have a presenter laptop running to the projectors and ATEM (look at the diagram) the projectors look fine but the computer feed blinks black/cuts out at random intervals which is annoying AF. I think the SDI to HDMI 6G or ATEM Mini is the issue. The camera feed which defies the laws of physics (three HDMI cords coupled together over 100 feet with perfect signal) doesn't cut out so I think the SDI to HDMI 6G is a piece of ****.
6. Totally unrelated but all of our Sennheiser XSW keep loosing signal/cutting out even though they are only 30 feet from the receiver. They sound great but have ******* ass range.
I'm sure I'm missing some issues. I love tech and I love designing and working with tech. But the constant stress of this ******* equipment not working and people being frustrated with me over **** I don't know how to fix is driving me F***ing insane. If anyone has any fixes for these problems I will be so grateful. I tried tons of stuff to fix these issues so I wish yall luck. If nobody can figure this stuff out then we should all consider another job. XD
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