Happy Holidays!!

Hope everyone is taking some time off with the people/things you love! Heres a BTS with COX cable shooting stadium basketball, Pretty cool! check it out if you've got ten min. to spare.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy thanksgiving everyone, hope youre all binge eating by now...

I lieu of a picture of a turkey that I drew on top of an outline of my hand, (It was really good) I give you all this behind the scenes of a generic SKYTV Broadcast, one Europe's biggest 3D eng/sng companies.



If you've got six min to bask in all the stereoscopic live broadcast glory I'd highly recommend it.

Have a nice day!!

Houston League Finals

Houston League finals were about a week ago. The event ran smoothly and qualified 1412c The Road Hazards and 4128 Vulcan Robotics for worlds!

Roll 24 Productions was also there! and doing our thing. All went reasonably well on our end, running two cameras for the stream and archive, and PA and IMAG feeds for the house.

Thats two 13ft stands with axis cameras on top, PA cabs too.

HEEEEEEY Robot Remix

I know I'm running a little late on this one, but the first annual Houston Robot Remix was october 27th.

All in all I'd say that this event was a great success!

     The Actual competition ran very smoothly, and I'm pretty sure everyone that participated would agree that it was a lot of fun to end the season with one last big event close to home. The webcast also went super awesome!! Michael Fore has officially been added to the Roll 24 team, this was his first event producing and he did crazy well, most people don't handle being tossed to the sharks quite as well. We also used all six of our cameras, which is the most we've used at a robotics event so far. We were really trying to make a positive impression on the local FRC coordinators, and hopefully we did!

Click through the break for photos and match videos!

(Also, more Houston Vex this Friday and Saturday!!!)

Houston League

We had our first event of Houston Vex League today. Went fine, not great but fine. I took the SAT in the morning so I didn't make it to the Arena till around 1:45.

For those of you who don't know, the Houston League is a series of VEX Robotics competitions in Houston, Roll 24 Productions has been contracted to provide A/V support and web streaming.

I've also been working on fairly comprehensive post regarding the use of commercial IP cameras in a production environment which I promise to post soon, I know its been a while, this year has been kinda like a hurricane. The cherry on top for this little info session is our new piece of gear, I just won a sony HVR-HD1000 on eBay, which I plan to run into our Teradek Cube.

TRR Stream

 Hey everyone!
  Some of you may have known that I was in Austin Texas, streaming Texas Robot Roundup last weekend. It was another fun road trip with Paul, and it actually went incredibly well!

Click on to see how we did it!

Teaser!! Here's Paul's GTI stuffed full of webcast gear!

Iphone Audio Cable

Here's the quick and dirty iPhone audio interface that I whipped up today. It plugs into the headphones port on an iPhone or similar phone that uses a TRRS for mic and speaker, and sends the headphone out of the phone to a stereo channel on the mixer, and balances a line level output from the mixer and matches it to the mic level input of the iPhone. I will use this cable to take calls during live shows.

The trick is to making something like this work is getting audio back into the phone, its extremely simple just plug the left and right channels of the headphone output into the mixer, but convincing the powered microphone input to take a line level signal is a bit trickier. We'll make the conversion using two resistors, check out the diagram after the break.