I hear you've been working on some production-related tools. Do you have anything you can share with the class?

0:01Good morning. Welcome to Office Hours, the show where we answer your technical production questions and you, the producers, that's what we call you, put those questions in. Let's go to the first one, Courtney. All right. The first one from some stranger named Alexander Knight in Port Coquitland, British Columbia, Canada. says john i hear you've been working on some production related tools do you have anything

0:27you can share with the class this morning what do you got john i hear i hear some rumors yeah i got a couple apps um that are out on github if you want to play along um so i got a core video pro which i can show now um just a simple uh zoom production app uh so the core video the obs

0:48plugin that kind of everybody knows I um OBS kind of sucks um as far as like managing audio um across scenes and um it can be very complicated to kind of get set up so I wanted like an easier way to do it um so I built out Core Video Pro which has the zoom integration and basic source management and then ability to build out different scenes with some like

1:17automatic sort of design looks so you can make it very easy you don't have to build all these different mortises and you can choose whatever sources go in these extra boxes if they're not made up a little picture-in-picture one and then if you want just kind of a different look there you can see it pops into preview automatically which is nice um ability to do some lower thirds um so you can

1:42see this is my display 25 um whatever that means on this computer uh but whatever the source is actually called will just show up in the lower third i'm going to add a spot so you can add like a company logo whatever and you have the ability to do some branding within that overlay so you can kind of choose what it looks like what are your core um colors uh for an organization how fast

2:05you want it to build in build out i'm going to add ability for captions as well um yeah so it's a nice little application and then you get an actual audio meter you can see myself in the zoom meeting you can see if they're zoom muted or not i mean this is the actual local audio coming from my pc and you got a simple gate compression eq and i'm working on sort of like a easy mastering

2:30kind of sweet. So you can just kind of apply some sweetness and get some consistency out of the meetings that you're producing. So it's still working through what this looks like long term. But it has OSC controls. It's got an API. Trying to make some sort of smart automation. And I'm working on like bringing in all the different features from the Isadora file

2:53into this so you could easily run like an office hour show like turnkey with you know one or two people have an ability to actually bring in sources from mxl so you could do a cloud deploy and then kind of go from there wow that is amazing so this first of all you're being extremely humble calling this simple uh it's like it's amazing what you've built here you even i noticed you

3:20had a loudness meter there on one of the one of the pages which is fantastic so is this app is this living inside of obs is this accessible within it or is it outside this is completely standalone okay yep uh so it is a um its own compositor uh its own audio engine it's all written uh from the ground up um so this is my take on you know like the windows version of ecamm memo live sort of

3:51thing and obviously you can see this preview program so you know i'm going to listen to the feedback of our community and make sure those things are important and and shown so i'm curious if so if someone's an obs user like obviously this is a standalone app but how do you get So you joined the meeting from this app, but where does OBS come into play?