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Re: Re: Apple-ing
By: Jimmy Anderson to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 06 2025 07:43 pm
If you ever get tired of something like that, or the sound doesn't work or something, let me know! We use Switcher Studio at church to stream. The control box is an iPad and the 'cameras' are two donated iPhones. I know one of them is older than an XR, so would be an upgrade. ;-)
Do you think there's something about Apple devices that make them good
for streaming? I've been going to church with my wife for the past
couple years now, and the church we go to has a Mac Mini set up for streaming the service online. There are a couple cameras (one of which
is an AI tracking camera) connected to an ATEM Mini Pro (used for selecting which camera you want the video to come from), which is then connected to the Mac via USB. It uses the ATEM software to stream onto YouTube.
It seems the pastor's own laptop is a Macbook, so maybe it's because he likes Apple and Macs.
Could be. We use them becasue when I was asked to find a streaming 'solution' Switcher Studio seemed to be the most user friendly. I had planned to get it going then hand it off, but... LOL
Switcher runs on iOS, and the 'remote cameras' are iOS as well. So what I
do is use an iPad as the 'master' unit. Run a sound output from the soundboard to it. There are two iPhones for cameras. We use DJI 'stands' for them that also have on screen tilt, pan and zoom. Then we have a MacBook Air connected
to the televisions that show the PowerPoint from the pastor (he now has a MacBook
Air also and Keynote, but his 'sermon software' exports as PowerPoint). There's a desktop app that will 'share' the screen to Switcher Studio, so we can
show PiP, split screen, whatever.
Feel free to check it out! beechgrovebruceville.org
(I'm also the big guy behind the rail with the guitar in my hand - my wife is playing bass (still learning) - pastor's wife/my wife's best friend plays the cajone)
It just seems like a lot of video editors & media creators tend to use Macs, but I'm not sure there's anything that makes Macs better than Windows or Linux machines for video editing. Maybe there isn't as much video editing software for Linux, but it seems there's plenty for
Windows.
Not to bash on Windows, but Apple does have a tendancy to be 'it just works.'
I used to use Windows all the time, and you CAN do stuff, but historically, from my experience, Mac has been DTP and media centric and Windows more business... Even the local newspaper used Macs back in the OS9 days for
their stuff.
There's a YouTube channel I've been sometimes watching recently where
the person who does the channel says she uses a Windows laptop because that's what she prefers, and she said she heard a lot of her media
creator friends say "You need to use a Mac, you don't know what you're missing for media tools!"
Could be. :-)
... You don't get once-in-a-lifetime offers like this every day.
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