Speaker 1: Welcome to our remote production course where we're going to dig into the various workflows that you're probably going to find in remote production and we'll talk about team roles and working with the team because now you can have teams all around the world working together on a single production. Let's jump into it. So, in remote production, you know, you can't do everything yourself. You're gonna try to do a lot yourself, and that's wonderful, but I wanna go over some of the workflows, and then talk about how you can work in a team. Now, one of the awesome things about remote production is you can now take a single PTZ camera and send it to anywhere in the world. As soon as it gets plugged into internet, you can control it. So that's kind of like level one of remote production, is just having remote control over a video and audio device that you can use to produce video. And we're using Hive here. We're showing PTZOptics Move 4K cameras. Those cameras are Hive-linked, meaning you can log into the camera, link it to your Hive studio one time, and it'll be linked forever. Now, some cameras out there are not Hive-linked. they maybe are older cameras, maybe they're USB webcams, you know, what have you. For those scenarios, you can run PTZOptics Hive on a computer, and you can connect those cameras to the cloud and remotely control them that way. So, just two kind of high-level examples here. We're showing two older cameras connecting to Hive Studio. Now, one of the things you've noticed throughout this course is we've talked a lot about the local area network. And you can use all of this same technology on the local area network when you're on site, and then you can use all of this technology remotely as well. But just wanted to kind of explain that this can all work on either the local area network or it can be connected to the cloud. And in this scenario, we're showing a lot of NDI, right? We're showing a lot of computers connected together, And this should start to make sense to you now that we've been discussing these workflows. The great thing is that if you have a client that has multiple studios or multiple courtrooms or multiple classrooms, multiple fields where there's sports being played, you can now manage them all remotely, whether you're just deploying single cameras or deploying an entire studio full of equipment. And we'll take a look at that in a little bit in the future here. But whether you're using Hive-linked cameras or traditional cameras, we can do a local production or we can do a remote production. Now in this scenario, we're showing that we're using a PTZ camera connecting directly to the cloud with a microphone. So a lot of cameras support 3.5 millimeter audio inputs that are line level, and you can connect microphones to those to have a full audio and video solution. This is a very obviously budget-friendly scenario where we're just stripping it down to the basics of a camera and a microphone. But obviously, as you learn, there'll be much more advanced scenarios as well, such as this one here where we're doing, we've got three cameras, we've got two computers. One is for local switching, where there's still an operator for doing the video switching, but we're bridging remote camera control. And so we've got someone doing remote control from the far end. In this scenario, we have a workflow with two PTZ cameras, a audio mixer in a location, and then we're bringing in remote team members. And this is something as your team grows, as you start to do more, working with team members are important, and we're going to talk about some of the important team roles that you should be considering. And here we have someone doing the audio mixing. We've got a camera operator and a producer all working in the cloud now from a remote production scenario where you're trying to do everything remote it's important to note that you can use NDI even on the remote end so you can bring all the video sources into the cloud and output the NDI video with Hive to a vMix computer so you can do the video switching remotely so there's a lot you can do in these scenarios and I want to talk about being as efficient as possible, setting up your workflows with your team's skills, using the right tools, and getting effective use of your resources, even when you're in a high-pressure environment. So workflows for producers here. Producers need to enable coordination between the whole production team. And a producer often is managing the budget, working with a timeline, and actually using the production software and communication tools. We're going to talk about some of the software and hardware tools in our next video, but overall the producer is often really involved in delivering a completed production and managing the entire team. Now camera operators are going to be using, most likely, remote PTZ camera technologies. They're not on location, so instead of operating a physical camera, they are using a web-based PTZ camera control solution so they can do it over the network. They're managing camera settings, doing color correction, making sure everything is set so that there's consistent shot quality. They may be on site, they may be setting up cameras, they may be setting up tripods, they may be setting up monitors, and they may be capturing video footage both locally and in the cloud. Now color correction specialists, sometimes this is lumped into the producer's job, sometimes this is lumped into the camera operator's jobs, oftentimes it can be its own job just color correcting everything together. The image here is showing vMix as a color correction tool, we'll look at color correction in Hive in a moment here, but it's adjusting the color and settings so that all of your video feeds are consistent. You can use video editing software to do this in post-production, you can use this, but ideally if you're live streaming it you want to get this all done before the stream starts because there is no post-production in a live environment. Now audio mixers, right, people who are mixing the audio are generally managing all of the audio feeds during the production. They're mixing the sound sources, making sure that everything is clear. It's absolutely essential that they wear headphones and they know the technology that's going in, right, they know the types of of microphones they're working with. And we'll show some of that in, we've shown that in some of the videos that we've looked at today. And I'll show you really quickly a video that we did recently where we were showing the remote production of a band, and I'll link to this in the links below. But you'll see as we go to, this is the actual on-site mixer there, right? This is a Presonus StudioLive audio mixer. That's what it looks like on site, but then remotely you can actually have the entire interface for that audio mixer. This is a good image of it right here where you can actually mix everything. When you're mixing remote audio, one of the things that is really helpful is labeling every single device labeling each piece each thing so that when you're remotely you know which one is the guitar which one is the keyboard I think I have a pretty good example of it here where we've got the snare the kick drum the hi-hat the keyboard the bass so that when you're remotely managing it you you're listening and you know exactly where to go when you're doing that remote audio mixing and now understanding each role and make setting up good communication between everyone is obviously important the producer overseeing the production the camera operators capturing the visuals the color correction specialist maintaining that visual coherence and the audio mixers ensuring the high quality and when you're doing all of that effective team communications are obviously important I've seen a lot of teams use discord unity is an important is a popular one zoom is obviously popular if you're using it zoom for your productions already you want to be able to share multimedia have real-time feedback and ensure that the team dynamics are you know working together toward a common goal so as I said I wanted to do a little bit of a live demo here and I wanted to take a couple different cameras here. Now you're seeing remote PTZ production here and one of the things that you might be noticing is that we have someone in my studio right now and so when you're working on a team you'll be able to see in Hive who is in your studio. You'll also be able to click the share button and invite more people to your studio as your team grows. It's very important to be able to invite people to your studio and see who's actively in the studio. Now from a control perspective, obviously remote PTZ control is done with a browser. If you're talking about color correction, which we were just kind of reviewing recently, the color correction area is done in the image tab here. And this often has to do with setting up the exposure, setting up the shutter speed. in this course we discussed going over the 180 degree shutter speed rule as a starting point, but setting up your white balance, your red and blue gain, all of these things have to do with kind of tuning in the cameras so that each of them are color corrected properly. So just wanted to give you some kind of real-world advice there for video switching, for video control, for color correction for PTZ camera operation and then give you some of those extra videos below that you can look at for your kind of continuing your learning so the key takeaways are you can customize your workflow to fit your project and you might want to consider having specific roles in these areas so that you can have a cohesive team working together this is a very scalable situation right as we showed you can have multiple studios multiple areas that you can jump into and control and effective communication is going to be key when you're doing all of this alright I'll see you in the next video where we're going to jump into the specific software and hardware you can use for remote production you