8c: Broadcasting - External Devices

Using the Output Page on a device showing full screen mode, you can send a clean mix to another device.

For simplicity, the other device could be a streaming encoder that ingests your fullscreen feed and pushes it out to your chosen streaming platform.

Or...

The following example is of a scenario we were encountering quite often in our live, remote, and hybrid events, and a big part of the reason we decided to create Internet Mixer. We were asked to connect "Watch-Parties" to events - remote locations around the world with varying different sizes of audiences.

They would be able to view the event in their locations, and at times during the event we would be able to see them all on-screen in our venue and on the stream, so they could all wave to the camera. Some locations could also be heard cheering.

And in other cases full back-and-forth Q&A sessions, with anyone from any location able to ask a question.

It is a useful example of integrating Internet Mixer with external devices. 

Watch Parties Example

Multiple remote locations are gathered together within the same online Internet Mixer room, using the equipment most suited to their location. In some cases a simple laptop with integrated camera, in others a fully mixed camera system. All connecting to Internet Mixer so the Mixer Page looks something like this:

1. A producer can then have full control over the layout of the Watch Party feed, and is able to communicate with individual locations seperately. For more detail on how to communicate with remote connections see this article.

Remotely connected locations are also able to view the Hybrid Event through the Comfort Monitor window, which is being fed into the same room connection. (The Comfort Monitor is covered in detail elsewhere in this guide). 

2. The fullscreen Output Page can then be opened on a seperate device if preferred (or the same producer computer if it has capability of outputting an extended desktop). With a seperate device, all that is needed is an internet connection.

3. That Output page window is then fed as a fullscreen video feed into seperate video-mixing equipment

4. Output from the video mixer can be sent to local screens at the Hybrid event, the streaming platform, and also be used as the Comfort Monitor feed back into the Internet Mixer Producer computer.

In this case one person can be responsible the complicated actions of connecting, communicating, testing and wrangling of remote locations - independently of the rest of the production team.

(Future plans include an interface where you can output multiple SDI video feeds from a single computer. This will enable you to run a number of video signals from the PC that is running your mixer page into another piece of hardware. In this case you will be able to 'harvest' inputs with one machine and then mix all those inputs seperately with a dedicated video mixer.

This will allow one person to be connecting, checking and communicating with remote guests, and a seperate person taking care of the broadcast mix.

Stay tuned!)