Chris, football season is here. What is your audio, video, and software setup like for your small Northwest college, and how does it compare to the big boys?
ASKED BY · Paul Walhus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:28:03
He uses Panasonic CX370 cameras on custom rail-mounted rigs with breakout boxes to protect connectors; this design prioritizes simplicity and durability for student operators while keeping costs manageable compared to professional broadcast equipment.
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27:49Yeah, I hear you. I hear you loud and clear. And that is, I can't tell you the number of shops I've walked into and you go, well, do Do you have anything that tells me how to do it? No. I'll tell you once. You have to kind of get it and move on from there. All right, let's go to the next question.
28:03Next up, we have Paul Valhus in Austin, Texas, asking, Chris, football season is here. What is your audio, video, and software setup like for your small Northwest college, and how does it compare to the big boys? How do you characterize it? You know, you're working on a different level, and God knows, NFL and the big boys have unbelievable technology and support and everything else.
28:27So nobody gets there except them. Yeah, I mean, we're we're small potatoes in the whole sports industry. Right. And, you know, we're like I said, we we've built my my cameras are built on the Panasonic CX370. Let's see. And so that's that's this doodad right here. And I build them kind of on rails. And actually, let me. So this is the camera right here.
29:05And it's like I've built it with these. I don't know. Alex would call them convenience panels, right? And so because I'm dealing with students, right? And I don't want a student plugging and unplugging a cable from the camera because if that connector goes bad, the camera's gone. Oh, yeah. If they don't understand how to do the quarter turn to the left on a BNC, they might just try to pull it out like it's an RCA cable and then you're done.
29:36Yep. And so we've got these little boxes and there's all the cables from the camera go into that little box. And then we just any cable that gets plugged and unplugged from the camera goes into that box. And so if something breaks, I can just replace that piece. And anything that's plugged into the camera, it just stays plugged in and it doesn't get unplugged.
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,