In some of your previous posts on X, you showed yourself working and running a production from home. How do you connect to your office equipment from home? Big fan of the work you do.
ASKED BY · Juan · SPARKS, NV · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:30:17
He uses a locally hosted cloud production on the Willamette network via VPN or Tailscale to access vMix and Companion; this works for baseball with permanent installations but requires physical presence for mobile sports like football.
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30:00And it's just that way all the time. So big lesson there for anybody who's kind of getting into this. You know, think about what the failure points are ahead of time. And if you can fix it before it becomes a failure point, you're way ahead of the game. Let's go to the next question. Another one from the QR code. Juan in Sparks, Nevada is asking,
30:21in some of your previous posts on X, you showed yourself working and running a production from home. How do you connect to your office equipment from home? Big fan of the work you do. Oh, that's nice. Remy, so remote broadcast and stuff like that. What's your side? I know. Okay, Remy-ish. Yeah, and it's, I call it, it's locally hosted cloud production. which is kind of counterintuitive.
30:47I can't do it for, I mean, I guess I could. What I'm doing is setting up a cloud production on the Willamette network. And so I set everything up on Willamette's network. And then I can use Willamette's VPN or Tailscale to get into the network. And once I have access to the network, I have access to vMix and Companion and I can do all the things.
31:15And so it's one of those things where I am, because I'm not a, like, I'm not going places. I'm not, like, our football games are always at our football stadium and our basketball games are always at our basketball. Like, we're not going other places to do those. And so I have the luxury of, I have all the infrastructure. Like, it is a home game advantage, right?
31:39This is my home. All my infrastructure is there. It's all on our network. and if it's on our network, then I can access it via VPN. And that is something that only, really only happens for baseball. And that's because for us, baseball is set up in a way where it's always set up. The cameras are permanently installed. Everything's set up. Everything's on.
32:03I can just remote in and turn those on. So you can just turn on coverage for a baseball game. For baseball, yeah. Yeah, but that doesn't work for the football games. Or do you cover soccer and field hockey? Yep, it's the same thing. For all those other things, I've got to take a camera and physically install a camera on a tripod. I have to bring something somewhere.
32:23I've got to plug something in somewhere. And so that is something where I could, if I had two of me, one of me could do all that while me at home remoted in and did the directing. I could do that. But the real the real the hurdle with that for a lot of our productions is I physically need to be there to set things up.
32:46And that's one of those that's one of those cases where, you know, the student work I have is not for most of our productions are not at a level where I can just be like, here you go. And so you're that Elon. Chris needs a humanoid robot that he can plug into his neural cortex and it'll do everything he does. Good luck with that.
33:09Next question. here's one from Courtney Gooden in Hollywood California Chris what are you using for sideline or field action sounds mics on end zone cameras always an excellent question because Courtney I like a lot of the professionals who hang out around here always thinks of how do I get sound covered kind of first almost in front of the visual stuff so Chris what's the deal so
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