QUESTION · EXTRA HOURS

Tell us about your fishing story production setup.

ASKED BY · Zach Jeffers · SPOKANE, WASHINGTON · 12 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:18:05

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Detailed a multi-camera Bass Pro Shops fishing tournament production using seven vMix instances on AWS to mix six simultaneous shows with thirty cameras across boats, drones, and sonar feeds, using Starlink for connectivity and NDI for distribution via Nimble Server to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

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17:43but it sounds like if this is a small international human rights conference that you're not going to get everything you want that you would get with the big, you know, thousand plus people ones. But look up Robert Sababity in either our Discord or on LinkedIn. I'm sure he'll be able to help as well. All right, let's go to the next question. All right, next question comes in from Zach

18:05Jeffers in Spokane, Washington. And here on the panel, it says, I have a fishing story. Sounds fishy to me. I don't know. Yeah, it was, it was, it was anyways. The yeah. So I found the video so I can switch over to it. So this is a, an example of you know, what was going on. We had, you can see a camera on the right-hand side there.

18:34looking closer to the guy that's fishing. We had lower thirds that would pop in and out. And this guy, somebody should be pulling up a fish here shortly. But we had, again, we had multiple ops mixing multiple shows, and then we had chesty cams. So you could see them reeling in the fish or changing their tackle. He's pulling up a fish right now.

18:58And having, you know, each guy, Here's an example of the sonar on the camera and a remote boat shot of the guys fishing. But it was very interesting to kind of pull this all together because I was mixing the main show. And then I had my other ops mixing the sub shows, which were going out to each guy's channel. And then mine was going to bass.

19:24And then they would call out over comms action on, you know, boat one, action on boat two, whatever the case was. so we could keep track of all the action, right? So this was a very short fishing tournament. Normally fishing tournaments would go for, you know, four, six hours or so. This was a very short one, like two, three hours. And you'll see this guy laying down on the boat right here.

19:46Every time they would catch a fish over four pounds, they would sit one of the fishermen out. So each angler had an air pod in their ear and that was connected to unity. And so that unity connection could then feed from the hosts and the hosts could call out anybody they wanted at any time during the production. So it was a kind of a cool concept because they were able to steer the show the way they wanted to, but also interact with the fishermen from, you know, the lodge on shore.

20:16And it was really cool to interact with them. And then every single person that got a big bass sat the same guy down. So the guy sat down pretty much the whole bass fishing tournament, but it was pretty funny. And then we had some live, you can see here, some live scoring coming in from an iPad app. You can see him catching that fish right there.

20:39And so each boat had their own running score of fish. They would log those fish on an app on a phone. So it was all pretty seamless for us. and then towards the end of the show we had um or i should say throughout the show we had an ipad from the host feeding into the production so you could see the anglers on the ipad app you could

21:01see them on the screen traveling um you know kind of all the different touch points for you to follow as the fan and then um we would follow them across the lake and whatever um we'd have at times we'd have a five up things like that and then that's cool all at the end of the bash uh tournament they They all collected at the shoreline.

21:20And then there was a remote. You can see on the right-hand corner there was a remote cannon boat that then went to all the tied-up boats and interviewed them all at the end of the show. This was mostly kind of an experiment to see how they could do things differently. And it actually ended up being really cool. Lots of good feedback from people.

21:41And so, yeah, it was a good time. There were some mistakes at the beginning, like any kind of experiment. but it's just super cool to be able to. So what you're looking at right here are GoPros. These are feeding into one of my client's custom built encoder boxes that ties into his system. But we then, I guess you could say redistribute via NDI

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vMix→AWS→Bass Pro Shops→NDI→Nimble Server→Starlink Mini→YouTube→Facebook→Instagram→SRT→Atractus→SEI data→Unity→iPad→
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