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In the previous incarnations of the live show, I used my laptop for 100% of the tools to create the video and audio streams. Oliver Breidenbach is the CEO and a stellar guy and worked with us a lot on what happened. A few years ago we started using mimoLive from Boinx. I create a virtual source I call YouTube Live Input that includes me and Hindenburg playback. they do more than this but for this discussion, thatвЂ™s enough detail. With these two tools, I can create virtual sources and route my audio wherever I want. Loopback and Audio Hijack, both from Rogue Amoeba do this job. In order for the live audience to hear me talking and hear playback of any pre-recorded segments from Hindenburg, I need a way to route both of those sources. I use Hindenburg as my multi-track audio recording software. I put it together mostly so that I can refer to it if anything gets messed up.Д«ut letвЂ™s see if we can talk through just a couple of the pieces that made this entire adventure so fascinating.

#INTEL POWER GADGET MAC INSTALL SOFTWARE#

I have a giant, annoying three page document that explains in text and visually all of the software along with the hardware but I canвЂ™t even get Steve to study it so I donвЂ™t expect any of you to look at it. I wish the software was as easy to explain as the hardware. If youвЂ™re confused, I did include a visual diagram in the shownotes. Ok, so weвЂ™ve got audio in, audio out, video in, video out and power all going to my Mac via the CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 dock. I plug the Shure Mvi into my CalDigit dock and that audio input is also sent over the single Thunderbolt 3 cable to my Mac. I use a Shure Mvi interface that takes the XLR input and converts the audio with a preamp and sends the audio out over USB. The important thing for this discussion is that you canвЂ™t plug an XLR mic directly into a Mac, you have to use some sort of interface. The XLR connector is that round one with three giant pins you may have seen before. My microphone is a Heil PR40, which is an XLR mic. I have an LG 5K display connected via Thunderbolt to the dock, along with a Logitech c920 webcam and a set of headphones. My Mac gets power, USB, Ethernet, video and audio all from this dock.

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I have a 2016 15вЂі MacBook Pro hooked up to a CalDigit TS3+ Thunderbolt dock. The hardware I use to create the live show is high end but not particuarly complicated. Wish me luck on finding the happy medium! Live Show Hardware Hardware for Live Show If I leave out too much, youвЂ™ll not realize how complex of a problem this was to solve, but if I tell you too much your brains will explode. In order to explain the problem, I need to explain some parts of how we create the live show.

Steve and I are both engineers with masterвЂ™s degrees so weвЂ™re well trained in the concept of doing controlled experiments to isolate problems, and yet it took us well over a month to finally figure this out. I could jump to the punch line and simply state whatвЂ™s wrong with my Mac, but the interesting part is the journey. If youвЂ™ve noticed my contributions to the show as being on the lighter side lately, itвЂ™s because this problem has consumed my life. This failure of my Mac to be able to stream usable video has turned into a technical rat hole, unlike anything IвЂ™ve ever вЂњenjoyedвЂќ before. I put a link in the shownotes to a short video in case you canвЂ™t picture what we mean.

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That name comes from a TV show in 1984 in which the main character was a digitally sampled video head that jerked around and the voice was weird too. Eventually my video started doing what we affectionately call the Max Headroom effect. During that show, it only got worse the longer we went on. A little over a month ago, when Steve and I did the live show, he noticed that the video coming from me was out of sync with my voice.

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