Social Distancing: Remote Mixing

[noiseboyuk]

Originally Posted by Brandonx1

I am getting a error like "unable to use video hardware". Ever see this one?

Ummm... not 100% sure I have. Are you trying to use a capture card or screen sharing?

[Brandonx1]

Originally Posted by noiseboyuk

Ummm... not 100% sure I have. Are you trying to use a capture card or screen sharing?

capture card. The HD60 Pro Elgato.

[noiseboyuk]

Originally Posted by Brandonx1

capture card. The HD60 Pro Elgato.

(sorry for slow and now unhelpful reply) huh, just what I'm using. Honestly don't know... in the back of my mind I've seen your error message once, but can't think what caused it. Sorry for being useless on this one!

[NoiseRoom]

Has anyone used Listento by https://audiomovers.com/ ?

I'm not sure if it's even supported anymore but looks like it could work.

[Brandonx1]

Originally Posted by NoiseRoom

Has anyone used Listento by https://audiomovers.com/ ?

I'm not sure if it's even supported anymore but looks like it could work.

Looks like that one is audio only. I think we are all looking for a solid video audio transition system.

[NoiseRoom]

Ok, got it.

[eledu]

Originally Posted by ctv mtl

Did two sessions today and we used the Zoom app ( www.zoom.us ). It worked okay for sharing my screen, camera and stereo mix to remote client. Its not perfect, but it's ok...


Franky

I've used zoom but never got it to stream in stereo... would you (or anybody) shared how to get protools audio in stereo to zoom?
TNX!

[Ryan Young]

I'm honestly having fantastic results with OBS and YouTube live-streaming. There's only about a 3 second encoding lag but picture plays smoothly and audio is "uncompressed" and in perfect sync.

[bewk]

Originally Posted by eledu

I've used zoom but never got it to stream in stereo... would you (or anybody) shared how to get protools audio in stereo to zoom?
TNX!

Ian Shepherd did a demo using the aforementioned Audiomovers Listento plugin and Zoom together. See here: https://youtu.be/OmJUOkf0kE4 It's not an all in one solution but it could work in a pinch.

I did a quick test of this setup and managed to get sync pretty close by delaying the audio stream by a full sec in Listento and using share screen of desktop video with Zoom from PT (set to selected portion of desktop) with a 1280 X 720 ProRes Proxy at half size. I set Zoom to optimize video for streaming and the video quality was acceptable for approval purposes. Listento was streaming at 16 bit 48k PCM.

Also did a test with Listento setup as a split mono insert (with link broken) on a 5.1 track. Then setup a Listento receiver plugin on a 5.1 aux (also inserted as split mono) track as each stream is seen as a unique stream. I wasn't expecting this to work as easily as it did. Specs were also set to PCM 16 bit 48k but I suppose it's dependent on your upload bandwidth.

YMMV.

-Chris

[musiqtech]

Are you on osx or windows? I am setting up a "distributed" lab on students machines in their homes to work with 2019.12 and zoom, which is working on osx if they switch between the built in audio playback engine and the zoom audio device between presenting work and watching the teacher - however in windows 10, pro tools just steals the audio hardware from zoom and they cannot be running at the same time?

any thoughts or solutions?