Review: YoloBox Touchscreen Video Switcher-Recorder-Streaming Encoder
By Adam Noyes
The YoloLiv YoloBox is a great portable, touch screen system for monitoring, recording, encoding and streaming live video that fits in the palm of your hand. This device has seen great traction in event streaming, education, corporate streaming, sports productions and more.
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Self-contained? Totally portable? Partial levels of degrees
On the other hand, the 7-inch diagonal touch screen on the YoloBox is similar in 2D size to a 7″ Amazon Fire tablet in horizontal width and height, although substantially deeper to accommodate multiple ports.
YoloBox weighs only 480 grams (or just over a pound). That explains why it can even be mounted via a cold shoe on top of a camera. With very few limitations, the under US$1000 YoloBox is indeed optimized for in-the-field productions with a small crew, and when you need a very short setup time.
YoloBox can connect to up to two local HDMI cameras and one USB webcam or other camera with USB webcam-like output. As I recently covered, you can now also use iOS, iPadOS and certain Android devices with clean HDMI output from FiLMiC Pro to feed switchers like YoloBox. In preparation for this review, Francisco Javier Arbolí connected two of his Sony cameras via HDMI and one USB webcam. In addition to that, you can also add up to two additional sources like prerecorded videos from the internal memory chip or from a web source by entering the source URL. YoloBox also allows for picture-in-picture compositions and superimposing graphics for logos and lower thirds (which are called “watermarks” by YoloBox). YoloBox even offers superimposing a scoreboard. However, YoloBox does have chromakey or remote interview capabilities the way Ecamm Live does. With its internal rechargeable 5700mAh battery, YoloBox is ideal for more simple multicamera field production.