[Kevin Copeland]

Your ATEM is set at 1080i59.94?

All inputs have to match that. Cameras should be able to do that. Try the changing the setting to what it records, such as AVCHD setting, or the MOV setting.

You can use a Blackmagic Design UpDownCross converter.

You can also use PowerPoint for lower thirds and animated titles using the SimpleSupers.com app.

[Kevin Copeland]

https://videohive.net/category/after-effects-project-files

Thousands of templates.

[Kevin Copeland]

I’m having the same issue. I have a 2011 iMac with Premiere Pro cc v13. (mac OS High Sierra v 10.13.6, 27″ mid 2011, 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16b ram, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024mb)

The MTS files have no audio, and when I open them in the bin, there is no audio icon on the clip.

I open the same project on my Windows laptop and all the audio is there, (so I finished the editing on the 17″ laptop) but it’s sure nice to edit on the iMac with 2, 27″ screens.

Any solutions? Is my Mac too old?

[Kevin Copeland]

The BMD UpDownCross should do it. It says it supports various DVI resolutions including 1024×768.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1401679-REG/blackmagic_design_convmudcstd_hd_mini_converter_updowncross_hd.html

Very affordable. I use one with our Church’s iMac and ProPresenter to feed into our ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4k. It has worked flawlessly and it’s a great price. $155.

I’ve also used this converter with my Windows laptop to get a 3rd display out using a USB – HDMI Display adapter (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/937268-REG/j5create_jua_350_usb_3_0_hdmi_dvi.html)

That allows me to use PowerPoint on Windows as a character generator with the SimpleSupers.com app. Gives me key and fill by generating an alpha channel. I put this in my Downstream keyer in the ATEM and use it for animated lower thirds, sermon notes, worship lyrics with shimmers, etc.

[Kevin Copeland]

Bob,

The Blackmagic Design products work so well together. I would use one of their ATEM switchers for the ‘line cut’. Models start at about $1,000. You can record the ‘line cut’ on an inexpensive H264 game recorder with USB stick like this one: $128. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1013313-REG/hauppauge_1540_hd_pvr_rocket.html

You would iso your camera with its cards. You could then send the PowerPoint to another H264 recorder to iso it, using a Distribution amp, or go out of the AUX output of the switcher if it has one. You’ll probably need some HDMI-SDI or SDI-HDMI adapters at some point.

You would use the ‘line cut’ as your main video and then have iso’s of the camera and PPT if you needed to fix edits later. This gives you a live recording of the PowerPoint with all of its animations, timing and synced to audio at the event. Very helpful. Trying to do it later in post with the .pptx file can be very time consuming.

Also many presenters build PowerPoint in 4:3 format, not widescreen so you don’t always get good results. Converting 4:3 to 16:9 can be time consuming. (I’m also amazed at how many people forget about margins when it comes to PowerPoint. You would never print a document with text going all the way to the edge of the paper. Whey do they put text on a PowerPoint slide right next to the edges?)

Another way to record iso’s is to use the BMD Multiview 4. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/multiview/techspecs/W-MVW-02

This would give you a quad screen with 4, 1080 videos and then output to a 4K recorder like the HyperDeck Studio mini. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/hyperdeckstudiomini/techspecs/W-HYD-07

Input 1 could be camera 1, input 2 PowerPoint, Input 3 Program from ATEM switcher, Input 4 anything else you want like a 2nd camera or clean feed from the ATEM. You would then have one 4K recording with all iso shots in the same clip. If you needed to fix your edit with your editing software (like Premiere Pro), the 4k clip could be put in a multi-camera 1080 sequence and you would zoom into each quadrant for each iso. You would have the line cut and each source in that one 4k clip.

To step things up a bit, you could have live lower thirds with another laptop using PowerPoint and the SimpleSupers.com app. This would make PowerPoint work as a live character generator with animations, shimmers, etc on your lower thirds. The app gives PowerPoint key and fill for true alpha transparency to use with a downstream or upstream keyer.

I’ve never had much luck with using a computer to do capture for you. The encoding/processing, screen savers, hard drive speed, multi-tasking, etc. always seem to work against you. I’ve found that stand-alone recorders work best.

Good luck.
kc

[Kevin Copeland]

I think Yahoo weather api gives you ability to pull in data to your application.

For example, you could use PowerPoint to build your slideshow, then use a program like Dynamic Elements to insert the weather feed.

https://www.presentationpoint.com/software/dynamicelements/

kc

[Kevin Copeland]

The deck needs to be working good. Make sure the tape path and pinch rollers are clean. Clean the heads (but don’t break them off). And be sure to use a Time Base Corrector and input that into a capture card for your computer.

It’s difficult to capture analog tape formats without a TBC.

kc

[Kevin Copeland]

Here is an inexpensive solution for capturing H.264. It’s a game recorder and captures on a USB stick. I use it to capture stuff off of YouTube, or to record camera feeds from my video switcher, or a dirty feed from my video switcher.

$120. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1013313-REG/hauppauge_1540_hd_pvr_rocket.html

Has an HDMI input and will record stand alone.

Good luck,
kc

[Kevin Copeland]

An alpha in PowerPoint?

This app, SimpleSupers.com let’s you use PowerPoint as a character generator with your production switcher. It generates an alpha channel from the slide and let’s you input key and fill into your switcher. Great for lower thirds, logo bugs, etc. And it plays out text animations, etc.

We use it every week at our church for live titles and playing our intro/outro.

kc

[Kevin Copeland]

I would use one of the Blackmagic products. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemtelevisionstudio/techspecs/W-APS-08

$995, 8 inputs. You can switch cameras on the front of the unit, or use the software.

Plug an output into a Teradek VidiU Pro and stream to anywhere. This unit also records an H.264 video on an SD card if you want it to.

YouTube is free, Facebook is free. Twitch is free. I stream to Restream.io and let it send out to about 16 streaming platforms with their free version. They say they have 30 free platforms they stream to.

For titles, I use the SimpleSupers.com app that uses PowerPoint as a character generator. It generates an alpha channel. I use my laptop display outputs for key and fill into the Downstream keyer. I use it for Lower Thirds at our church. Scripture, names, song lyrics, etc. I even use it to play out our intro and outro.

Cheers,
kc