QUESTION · TUESDAY FOCUS

What are your thoughts on these IRL "Backpacks"?

ASKED BY · Guy Cochran · SEATTLE, WA · 03 NOV 2026 · ▶ 00:35:45

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Stephen Heywood

Live streaming backpack rigs are valuable field production tools; he uses Teradek and LiveView Solo rigs for location coverage at game stores and conventions with wireless audio and compact cameras.

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35:29Makes perfect sense to me. Understand that promotion and how you get traction for these kind of new titles has changed a lot. And you've got to keep up with what the crowd wants and where their eyeballs are. Next question. This one comes to us from Guy Cochran in Seattle. What are your thoughts on these in real life backpacks? Oh, for live streaming out of a black backpack.

35:54Have you messed around with these at all? I actually have a few of them. I have one from Teradek. I have the backpack from Teradek. And I also have live views. I have solos, the live view solos that I take on location when I'm not bringing the TriCaster rig and we have to, like we'll go to a game store. We have a sponsor that is close to me, Stone Age Gamer,

36:19and they have like customer appreciation events where they want YouTubers to come out. And I take a rig like this with a live view and we go out and we cover the whole floor and we're doing it live streaming it um as you're seeing here with the picture i've got like a uh uh adamos uh shogun i think i'm running on this one

36:36with a canon uh camera with some wireless uh shore mics and wireless shore attachments on a road mic and we walk around and we're talking to people and other youtubers and we're you know we're doing this type of stuff so i 100 love the whole irl field but it but again as you and i were We're talking in the pre-show. There's the right tool for the job, and that was the tool for that.

37:02It's a small store. You're not going to set up a whole big production backdrop. Yeah, this is not a three-camera with lights. It's not the right way to play this game. That's right. So I'm all for those. With you 100%, Stephen. Next question. Next one in is from Eduardo Augustine in Panama City. city. Stephen, do you consider professional producers are still relevant now that everyone

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