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• 8 HDMI Inputs
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• 10-Hour Battery Life
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• Up to 1080p60
• 1 HDMI input
• 1 USB input
• 5.5″ screen

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• 15 Customizable
• LCD Keys
• Add Multiple Pages of Buttons
• Switch Sources and Add Overlays
• Compatible with YoloBox Extreme, Ultra, and Pro

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• Up to 1080p60
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• 1 USB input
• 5.5″ screen

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• 15 Customizable
• LCD Keys
• Add Multiple Pages of Buttons
• Switch Sources and Add Overlays
• Compatible with YoloBox Extreme, Ultra, and Pro

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The YoloBox Extreme stands out with its 11-inch, 1,000-nit OLED touchscreen, eight HDMI inputs (five 4K and three HD), two assignable HDMI outputs, and flexible connectivity options including Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, internal cellular, and USB bonding support. It can record both program and ISO feeds internally, stream to multiple destinations simultaneously, and auto-switch inputs based on audio cues. YoloLiv also adds welcome system transparency with new on-screen feedback for CPU load, temperature, and memory usage—helping users understand performance limits in real time.

While Burokas notes a few interface quirks and organizational issues with some top-level controls, he praises YoloLiv’s continued refinement of an already intuitive interface. Features like green screen compositing, multiview layouts, and remote guest integration are accessible in just a few taps, making professional-level production achievable for beginners and experts alike. The new Director Mode adds a preview/program monitor for better production control, further bridging the gap between portability and professional-grade capability. Overall, the YoloBox Extreme earns recognition as a bold evolution of YoloLiv’s vision for tablet-based live production systems.

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In his latest review, tographer explores how YoloLiv has managed to make a complex, professional-grade system feel effortless and user-friendly. From multi-input switching to robust encoding and monitoring, the YoloBox Extreme delivers high-end performance without the learning curve.

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This is the Yolo Box Extreme. I’m really excited to open this up. It’s a 4K switcher with eight HDMI inputs and ISO recording. YOLO reached out to send me this device for testing, and I do get to keep it. It’s exactly the type of device I would buy myself. So, I’m looking it as a win-win, but I’m still going to give you my honest thoughts, feelings, and feedback who it’s good for and maybe who it might not be so good for. It’s like an iPad on steroids. You can stream in real 4K right from the box. You have external antennas for Wi-Fi and NDI. You also have backup ISO recordings for editing later. NDI SRT, multicam relays. This thing even has a built-in scoreboard if you’re doing any kind of sports. Pan tilt zoom control. There’s both web and app remote control capabilities. It’s an 11.2 in OLED display. It is so crisp and so clear. I was really impressed with the screen on this thing. Right now, you’re actually watching the Yolo Box Extreme. Yes, I’ve hooked everything up to the Yolo Box. Look at all those inputs. You have 1 2 3 4 five 4K inputs and three 1080p inputs and two HDMI outputs, Ethernet, USB, mic line, USB type-C for data, and USB type-C for power. My gut reaction when I opened the box was, “Wow, this thing is solid.” You’ll notice the screen is built right in. You don’t need any kind of computer. The whole device is self-contained. My entry point into the industry was through AV. So, all of the inputs, outputs, plugging stuff in, setting it up, diving into the menus. It’s just what I love. They even include a cold shoot a/420 adapter. It’s nice. These look like external antennas. is they provide better Wi-Fi signal strength and range to enhance wireless connectivity for Alpha 1, Alpha Cam, NDI, and more. The Switcher is a computer. There’s no external device necessary, so you can stream right from this. It’s got a decentiz battery built in. Even if you have a power failure, this thing will stay on because that battery is right inside. All being powered by a Qualcomm 8 Gen 2 processor. When they say extreme, they mean it. What does it say on here? More power behind every capability. I think that sounds pretty true. Good tagline. I’m used to switching with the A10 Mini Extreme ISO, and this has eight inputs as well, but it’s only 1080p. I do like the ISO recording, but if I get ISO here, and some of my inputs are 4K, that’s even better. The other thing you need with the A10 Mini is a computer or a phone or a tablet or something to really configure and control it. With the Yolo Box Extreme, it’s all right here. It does come with a power adapter that you can adapt to your region. So, here in the US, this is the one I’m using. You do lose all of the physical buttons that the A10 Mini gives you, which I do like. I love the ability to hit a clickable button. So, I’m going to see if the touchcreen works as well. A lot of the time, I would use both of these boards in a somewhat automated setup where the software is doing most of the switching. Buttons are a convenience, but not a necessity. I’m glad to see that what you need is here, and the way it’s laid out really makes sense. This is one of those devices where there’s a lot of menus to dive into, but thankfully everything is fairly well organized. It’s really intuitive. So, even though there’s a lot to unpack and dive into, it’s very approachable. If you’re familiar with cameras, production, audio, a general understanding of how these things ought to work, you shouldn’t have any problems navigating the software. It’s very intuitive. Look at that. You can just drag and drop to reorder. Oh man, that’s awesome. In the default mode, a simple tap allows you to switch inputs seamlessly. Very little effort. You just tap and it goes. You can even use layouts as an input source. And there’s some default presets, but you can really customize your own. I was able to rebuild what I normally do in post-prouction right in the board. So here on the left you can see your standard video sources but on the right you can see multiv- views which are these different layouts. You have full control over position, scaling, all sorts of cool layering that you can do with your cameras. It looks like you can even take it up to four views in one. From a technical standpoint, this is really impressive. Now I have this incredible four camera layout that I was able to set up in a matter of seconds. There’s some different view modes between classic and director. Here you can tab through the different menu modes. So there’s overlays, audio, background music, some kind of scoreboard if you were doing sports, a replay option, recording settings, auto switching. I’m most excited for video follows audio. If you’ve seen any of my previous setups of automating a podcast or a live switch, you need video follows audio. And I love that it’s built right in. And you can even reorder these tool menus based on your preference. If there’s ones you don’t use, like background music for example, you can just remove it. Some disclaimers. This is a touch screen. So you will from time to time have that slight unresponsive little bit of a hiccup. You go push something, you got to push it again. So just be careful, especially on some of the smaller menu items. If you’re the type of person that loves tactile buttons, this probably isn’t for you. Although I’m sure you could get used to it if you’re familiar with any kind of smartphone. It’s very similar, but it just has that little bit of imprecision that you get with a touchcreen. But that also comes with so many advantages because of all the menus and layering and customization. I do believe they sell an external button device that you can plug into the Yolo Box Extreme. So that is an option if you want to take this to that next level and have those physical inputs. You can run a video from an SD card, images, PDFs. You’ve got HDMI inputs, USB inputs, and these built-in multiv- views. I love it. One of the things that’s always on my mind these days is that cameras have gotten incredibly powerful, and they’ve gotten really affordable. It’s very easy to have 1 2 3 four or more cameras, and then you’re wondering, what do I do with all these cameras? This is the perfect way to manage all of them. Whether you’re doing a podcast, sporting event, even a wedding, conference, whatever it might be, if you need multi- camera coverage, you need a good way to manage all those devices. Traditional broadcast switchers are still outside of the price range that I think most people would be comfortable with, but in the age of Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok, streaming everywhere, it’s kind of a necessity these days to be able to deliver a quality product in a live environment. There’s a few different products out there that’ll handle these types of productions, but I think the Yolo Box Extreme hits that perfect balance between price point and functionality. I think a lot of people will see the value once they realize what this is truly capable of. So, I want to show you guys NDI cuz this is pretty cool. This is what blew my mind. Take over any phone that has the ability to download the NDI app. And pairing it was probably the easiest thing I’ve ever had to do from a technical standpoint. It just connected seamlessly. What’s great is that you can run around with that and as long as you’re connected to the Wi-Fi router, you have signal anywhere. It’s not from the phone to the board, it’s from the phone to the Wi-Fi to the board. So, you could run throughout the whole house. You could even probably a backyard, front yard. You could go all over and still have really good, clean signal. It is so cool. Based on my current settings, it does look like I hit some kind of encoding limit with all the ISO tracks I’m trying to record at 4K. So, it seems like you kind of have to mix and match and balance exactly what you want to record. A point of caution, it’s very easy to take this to the extreme. But at the end of the day, it is a computer of sorts and you can definitely overdrive it. If you’re trying to do too much, get too much out of it. It will give you an alert. That warning is good and bad. I appreciate that it’s there letting you know, hey, this thing we it’s reached its limit, but also I kind of wish I could push it to that absolute limit recording all of my inputs all at 4K. It’s kind of crazy, kind of an extreme, but it’s in the name. So, just be careful. You might go a little bit overboard because the options are there for you to do so, but just know you can push it a little too far. So, you got to find that nice balance. What’s what do you need? What’s right on the edge? what’s going to check the most boxes without breaking things in the middle of your stream or production. So, it is good to note that even though there’s eight inputs and five of them are 4K, you can’t record everything at 4K ISO. That’s just a little bit too much. Maybe there’s a way to expand the CPU in this some kind of upgrade that I don’t have. But currently, I can’t record everything ISO 4K. I would have to pick three tracks and that’ll work. One thing that’s a little off-putting and I don’t know, maybe it can be fixed via firmware, maybe we’ll see an update eventually, is that the preview boxes have a slight stutter to them. They’re a little choppy. Once you’re in program mode, everything is smooth and crystal clear, exactly like you’d expect. But all the preview windows tend to have a slight stutter to them, which might make you think, “Oh no, something’s broken.” It’s not. It’s just kind of that lower frame rate preview mode. So, I wish that could be a higher refresh, more accurate to the realistic frame rate that every camera is sending. But, I do understand that that’s a lot of inputs to manage. That’s a lot of processing power. So, again, it’s one of those balancing acts. How much do you want? How much do you need? And what’s acceptable? You may be familiar with other devices, switchboards, etc. that show you previews where everything is is in real time. And that’s really, really nice. This isn’t quite there yet. Maybe one day they’ll get it there. Or it’s just a limitation of the processing power. Don’t worry, it doesn’t affect your final recorded content. It doesn’t affect the program, but your small lowresolution, low frame rate previews, eh, it could be improved. Now, one thing I don’t see is a headphone. H audio out. There it is. Just on the other side. Had me worried there for a second. and I wasn’t going to be able to do headphones. I’m still just scratching the surface. Like any new product, it really takes time. You got to dive in deep, play around, experiment, try stuff out, see what works, how it operates. And I love that about new tech and new gear. It’s so fun for me to explore and try something and learn something and realize, oh wow, I can do a lot more than I ever thought using this device. So, I have a lot more testing and triing, but I am absolutely excited to have this in my kit. It’s one of those things I can leave in the studio or take with me if I need to do some kind of traveling live production or just multi- camera production that’s going to be edited later. It’s still helpful to have that central hub where everything is going versus everything recorded internally and you got to sync it all up later and deal with all that. This is kind of the brains of the operation and so far I’m really impressed.

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This is not a tablet. It’s actually an 8 input 4K video switcher, recorder, and encoder. It’s the YoloBox Extreme from Yolo Live. And they sent it over to me to try out and make a video about to kind of show you guys how cool it is and all the things it can do. Don’t worry though, they’re not getting any input into this video. All the opinions are my own. And I’m going to talk about the things I like, the things I don’t like, and things that I hope they improve for the future versions. So anyway, let’s actually take a look at it. First of all, even though it looks like a tablet, I mean, it kind of is, you control the whole thing via this giant touchcreen. Let’s take a look at the rest of the hardware, though, before we actually dig into the rest of what’s going on here. So, up on the top here, we actually have eight HDMI inputs. So, the first three of them are just 1080p, but then the last five are 4K inputs. So, that’s awesome. It means you can feed in a ton of 4K sources into this bad boy. Right after that, we have two HDMI outputs. So these can be, you know, multiv- view out, a program out, whatever it is you need out to an extra monitor. Though again, this whole thing is your giant display. So for your main multiv- view, you don’t really need that. You can kind of just put it right here. Then you have a network port, so you can actually hardwire this thing into your network. Two USB ports, two mic line jacks, a type-C port, and a type-C charging port. On the sides, they have these little proprietary antenna connections for their little antennas because this thing also has Wi-Fi as well as 4G cellular. So, you can connect it to whatever you need to if you’re out in the field. On the bottom, you have an audio out, headphone jack. Love to see it. An SD card slot as well as a SIM card slot for that 4G connectivity we were talking about. There’s a quarter20 mount and a power button. And that’s it for IO on this guy. Oh, just kidding. And there is a big speaker on the back as well if you count that for I/IO, you know, whatever. So anyway, this thing is pretty hefty. It’s definitely not something you really want to sit here and hold for a long time, which is why it’s nice that they have that quarter20 mount on the bottom. I will say though, if you’re putting it on any kind of tripod or anything, you better hope that it’s a pretty steady one, especially once you start plugging things in because it’ll get kind of heavy and topheavy. Let’s go ahead and power this guy on. I’m going to do my best to actually record what’s going on on the screen with this camera. So you guys bear with me because unfortunately everything happens directly on this screen. So it’s a little bit hard to show in video when I’m actually interacting with it. So when it boots up, you have two options. We can go into live streaming or we can go into monitor mode. Now both of these actually have similar functionality except that if you actually want to stream, you do this one. If you want to just switch and do a local recording, you’ll do monitor mode. Before we jump into any of those things, though, let’s actually take a look at the settings that we can find over here. First of all, you have the option to log in with a Yellowcast account. I have one, so I logged in, but you don’t have to have one in order to use this. Next up, you can actually add different streaming platforms. So, whether you want to stream to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, or just custom RTMP or SRT or HLS locations. You can set up connections. So, this is where you can connect to Wi-Fi, as I’ve already done. Set up your Ethernet or cellular or USB dongle, hotspot, you know, you name it. This thing has a lot of different connections that it can have, which makes it great to use out in the field. You’re going to have a lot of options to actually get connected to the internet. Got some settings here for showing the CPU usage, settings about the versions you’re running, language, date and time, the keyboard you’re using, uh, display, brightness, storage management, FAQs, conus, you know, normal stuff here. So, now that we’ve looked at that, let’s go ahead and enter monitor mode here. So, right now, we are looking at a little bit of a multiv- view. There’s not a lot to see because we don’t actually have any sources connected. So, let’s go ahead and connect some sources, shall we? All right. So, here we are. We got some things plugged into the top here. I don’t know if you could tell, but it uh looks a little silly with all these things coming out the top. And at this point, I only have two HDMI cables and two hard drives coming out. You can only imagine if I was actually trying to use all eight inputs, as well as another hard drive, a power, an Ethernet, an audio cable. like this thing can get a little ridiculous looking as you start adding things to it and get a little unwieldy. So, you kind of need some sort of base like this to mount the quarter 22 if you’re going to use it in any kind of realistic scenario. I kind of wish that they had a way to just kind of lay it flat on the table. I mean, the only way you can is if it’s sitting flush, but then it’s hard to kind of see what’s actually going on with it. So, I wish there was yeah, some sort of a stand. I mean, obviously you could prop it up on something, anything really, but it’d be nice if there was something built in, some sort of kickstand, especially since this thing is a little hefty. But anyway, this works. We’ll use it like this for now and kind of show off the rest of the software here. All right, so first off, you can see we have two different video inputs showing up here. We have uh this camera that I’m looking at here showing up as HDMI 5, and then we have HDMI 4, which is actually a camera right right here, right here. Um, and it’s just showing what’s on this screen. Now, I don’t know if you guys can see that in the recording, but uh, even though the preview monitor is pretty nice and uh, smooth, those multiv- views are really delayed there, the little preview inputs. So, just something to know. They’re a little laggy, a little delayed. So, definitely don’t use those as something you’re really paying attention to. But, as we look at this page here, we are in what they call director view. So, we have our preview up here. We have our program over here. We have all of our inputs on the side here. And then over in this corner, we have different settings, and we’ll kind of dig in those in a minute. So, at this point, it kind of just works like a normal video switcher like you’d expect. Um, if I hit preview to program, great. That’s just a little cut there. You also have fade to black. You can change the transition type, whatever. But I can cycle between my inputs. One thing that’s really cool about this is the type of inputs it supports. So, obviously, I have two cameras plugged in right here, but I also have two hard drives plugged in. So, let’s add some sources. It grays out all the HDMI and the USB ports because those are just going to get pulled in automatically if they’re video sources, whether they’re cameras or if you plug like a webcam into one of the USB ports. But let’s say I want to add a video. Well, there’s an SD card on the slot and it checks there first, or you have internal storage, which you can load things to, but you also have USB storage. So now it’s grabbing things directly from the flash drives that I have plugged in here. So I can grab any video I want from here. So, say this drone shot and uh this B-roll here. And then I can hit done. And now they’re dropped right in there. And I can use that just like I could any other source. And that’s awesome. Let’s cut up those over there and pause that. But we also have other types of sources, not just video. You can also do images. So, same thing. Grab that. Go to the USB storage and let’s grab a picture here if we wanted that as a source. Finally, you can also grab. I mean, look at all these things. You’ve got PDF, live stream, NDI sources, SRT, SRT listener, RTMP, RTSP, web. So, you can be pulling in all sorts of things. Look at this. We could put in a website as a source directly on here. Now, Google.com probably is not an amazing source because it’s not exactly super dynamic. There we go. I can have google.com as a source. Obviously, you can’t interact with it. So, not a good source. But if you had a site where you had some sort of a dashboard or some other video feed showing up on it, that’s something that you could do. You can also use multiv- views as your sources. So let’s say I wanted a side by side here. Then I can select two different inputs that I want side by side. Put a little background in there. Or I could add an image to use as a background. So let’s get crazy with this, right? We’ll grab this image. Done. Use that. Add some border thickness. change the color and give it a little spacing. There we go. So now I have this awesome side by side that looks super cool. Everybody likes to see this one, right? And let’s cut it over. So you can see it’s super powerful and super quick to add and remove sources like that. You can then zoom in so you can see them a little bit better or zoom out so you get a little bit more space. If you want to remove a source, you just hold down on it and hit the trash. You can also rearrange sources if you want them to be in different places. So, you can see I think this would be a little bit slower in a fast-paced environment to cut because you’re kind of jumping around with your finger like that. But the flexibility you get from it is kind of amazing. You know, the ability to add and remove sources that quickly and set things up so fast and make these multiv- views really quickly. I mean, this device is really responsive and that’s pretty sweet. All right, let’s go ahead and look at the settings we have over here in the bottom right. So, first off, we have overlays. So, let’s just uh cut over to a normal shot here. Um, if I want to add an overlay, it’s as easy as just hitting that and then it pulls it up and I can hit it to turn it off. We can also create new overlays through this menu. They have a lot of um templates here and different types, you know, but they’re really easy to customize as well. So, like if I want to just change that text, great. If I want to change the size or the color, you know, like I said, this thing is super fast and responsive, which I actually think is really cool. You can set a duration so that it autohides after you’re done. But anyway, we can throw that on and boom, there you go. We’ll take it off. So, overlays are really easy to make here. And yeah, they just live here and they’re super quick to use. Next up, you have your audio panel. And so, you can see audio coming in on my different sources here as I scroll through them. Um, you can set them on or audio follow video or adjust some settings just like you could on any other switcher. Here you have your recording settings. Um, you can choose where you want to record to if you’ve got media plugged in and also the quality settings here. You can go in and dial those in to exactly what you need them to be. You also have your streaming settings here. Same thing, setting those settings exactly how you need them to be for your stream. Uh, you have a scoreboard feature. So, if we turn that on, great. we can take that and we can add some points. And in a similar manner, you can customize your scoreboard. So, if you’re using this in a sports scenario, this is something that’s really easy to do as well. Let’s go ahead and turn that off. You have a replay function um to be able to actually replay the last few seconds of something that’s happened. So, that’s really cool to see something like that built in. You can add background music, so if that’s something that you need to do. And here we have transition settings that I actually played with earlier. And then finally, you can choose what does or doesn’t show up on this menu bar and also rearrange them as you need to. So there’s a lot of flexibility there. Finally, we have this little gear icon right here. And this gives you a few different settings. So we can choose whether or not we want to see that CPU usage up in the corner. If we want to see kind of some zones there to make sure we’re not going over things we shouldn’t. We can change the way that we switch. So we can actually just set up a double click to switch. Um oh, we have to turn that in on in director mode specifically. Okay, there you go. And I can just do that. So, that’s a little bit faster way to actually switch our videos. You have local video settings, your input settings, how they respond, what the frame rate is, etc. And then what you want to come out on your outputs and whatnot. So, again, all of this stuff is really just right here. Your recording file management and other configuration. And then finally, we can change out of director mode to just into classic mode if we want, which is just a little bit different where um instead of having that preview program, you just have this one view on the side here. And then your settings over here on the right. Personally, I prefer director mode. I think you see a little bit more information and that preview program is nice to have. But you can see there’s a lot of settings here, a lot of customizability, and it’s all kind of right there. You know, one of the benefits of your switcher having a touchcreen like this is you don’t need companion software in order to control it like you would on like an ATM or something, you know, to get into those nitty-gritty settings. Instead, it’s right here on your switcher. I think they can be good and bad because if you need to change things live during a show with one person while another person is directing and switching, that’s going to be hard to do because it’s all on the same device. But if you’re setting things up ahead of time or on the fly and it’s a pretty slow event, you’re able to do that really easily right here without having to have a separate companion computer in order to do that. Finally, I didn’t show this before, but the button right up here that says wreck, you can use this to actually start a recording of whatever it is you’re doing. So that is the monitor view. So let’s go ahead and go back to get out of this and let’s go into the live streaming view instead. So this is going to be very similar except you’re actually going to live stream what’s on the output instead of just being able to record or monitor it. Now you can live stream to all sorts of different platforms with this thing. But I think the big thing that Yolo Live really wants you to do is use their Yolocast software and platform. you can stream to their platform directly. And it has some sort of extra settings to make sure that it’s buffered really well and that you hopefully don’t experience any lag with any of that. But if we go in here to our live stream, let’s go ahead and create one. Um, you know, we’ll call it test. We’re not going to give it a description or anything like that, but you can go ahead and open that. And you can see once we’re here, it’s honestly a very similar view to what we were already in before. Um, but we can change all of our streaming settings and whatever. Um, and then just start our stream. We can connect this to multiple different streaming platforms all at once. So, you know, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, whatever, and do a multistreaming directly from this device. Then, when we’re ready to go, we just hit go live right here at the top. Now, one of the selling points of this device is the ability to stream actually in 4K natively, which is really cool. You don’t often see that directly on the Switcher for one, and there’s not a ton of devices out there that do stream in 4K. So, that’s a big selling point of this device for sure. Now, as you’re streaming and you’re pulling in sources and whatnot, you do have to keep an eye on that CPU usage up here because that is going to make a difference in how well it’s performing because you have one device that’s doing everything. Every single thing that you add to it, every overlay, every video, every input, whatever it is you’re doing is going to add to that CPU load. So, you do need to be careful that you’re not overloading this device. The keen eyed among you might also have noticed that this is basically just running a custom version of Android. So, you do get some interesting things here. If you swipe down, you can see some network settings. You can see more stats right here for whatever it is you’re doing. You can change the brightness of the device as you need to change the volume on your headset, whatever, whatever. So, that’s kind of interesting. One more feature that this has that I think is actually really cool built in is the ability to bring in guests into your uh live stream. So, you can go here to invite guests and send them an email. And then essentially it gives them a web portal that they can log into and set up their webcam and mic and they can actually come and be a video source into your stream. And on their side they see the program feed. So if you wanted to have a conversation with remote guests, you can actually do that directly from this box, which again is not something that we do in our church, but if that’s part of your workflow, it’s really cool that you can do it directly through here. I did notice it was a little bit choppy on the video when I tested that, but really not bad at all. Finally, it does also have an auto switching feature. I haven’t specifically tried this out because again, it’s not something that I need to use for my church, but if you were to use this in a podcast setting and you wanted to set up a couple different cameras and have it automatically switch based on where the audio was coming from, it can do that. So, if you’re looking to use this in a podcast studio, that might be something that’s really helpful for you. Anyway, you may have noticed that I don’t actually have power plugged into this, and that’s because it does have a battery. I really wouldn’t rely on it for anything super missionritical, but it’s cool to know that you can unplug it and take it on the go if you need to, especially if it’s for something fairly quick, you know, or it’s just moving from one place to the other while you’re still streaming, you know. It’s more of a nice to have than a I’m going to rely on this having a battery and run my entire production off of it. So, that is the Yellowbox Extreme. It’s a very unique switcher, as you guys can see, but honestly, it does a lot of things really, really well. Right now, you can pick it up for $2,000. And that price point is really interesting to me because when I’m thinking about other switchers that are like not pro switchers, um $2,000 feels like a lot. But also, this has 4K inputs, can do 4K recording and streaming. It can do multistreaming. It can combine different networking solutions to stream kind of from anywhere. You know, it’s a really cool device that feels portable and can set up a really great stream kind of from anywhere. And at $2,000 when you’re thinking about all of the things that it does, I think that price point actually does make sense. But if I’m thinking about churches, you know, which is kind of my frame of reference for these things, most of the time we’re in a more permanent setup. And so a device like this, you know, that has like the weird touchcreen instead of physical buttons that probably shouldn’t be powered on constantly, um, is a weird form factor. Like I mean, good luck making this look nice on your desk. I don’t know that I can really recommend it to churches unless it’s like, hey, you’re having services out in the the lawn every week or something like that, you know, and you just need something really easy to set up. It’s also not completely professional, you know, all of your connections are HDMI. There’s no SDI to be found anywhere on this thing. So, like, it’s clearly targeted more towards like the consumer proumer market. And at that point, I’m like, do we really need to be streaming in 4K? Could we have brought the price down a little bit if we kept this as an HD device? Which I do think some of their other devices are like that. So maybe that’s a moot point, right? Maybe I’m comparing the wrong item. I’m just wondering if a 4K version of this really needs to exist at all. But like I mean I could see some use cases for it. Again, if you’re someone who needs to stream from kind of random locations and you don’t want to pack a ton of gear, it’s not a super fast-paced environment. So you are able to rely on just a touchcreen to be able to cut cameras. Um, if you like the flexibility to be able to call up videos on the fly and not have to have like a separate media machine to do all of that because I mean that’s the thing is now we’re talking about it’s replacing Proresenter a little bit, right? Because we’re bringing in lower thirds and graphics and videos more on the fly there. So it has a lot of flexibility packaged into this $2,000. Um, so honestly it’s a cool device. It’s not for me, but if it’s for you, like let me know down in the comments and if you’re looking to buy one, use the link in the description cuz I get a small kickback from that. But let me know what it is you’re going to use this for because I think it’s really cool, but I just wish I had something I needed it for. You know, like it’s this really cool tool. It works really well. It’s really snappy. I’m honestly surprised at how well it works. But I mean, there you go. I’ve been really happy with it. And I just like I’m just struggling to know who it’s for. And you know, maybe that’s just on me. Maybe I’m not being imaginative enough. But I feel like this is a product without, you know, it’s solving a problem that doesn’t necessarily exist. But if you have that problem, let me know. Anyway, I’m going to go play with this some more because maybe maybe I’ll think of it. But anyway, until next time. I feel like I’m being overly negative right now and I don’t mean to be cuz again, I really do like this. I really I really want to use it. I’m just struggling to think of what that would be. You know, you ever you guys ever have that? You’re like, man, I really want this. I really wish I needed this because that’s where I’m at. But anyway, buy it or don’t. You know, you do you, I guess. Like, if you need it, you know it. And if you don’t need it, you you know it. I don’t know. But also, really, this thing really is a It is a chunker. I mean, this whole thing wobbles with this thing on it. Like, I don’t know. I don’t know if that’s good. Yeah. It’s a uh it’s a solution without a problem, you know? It’s like this is cool, but like who really needs it? I don’t know. That’s that I guess. Oh well.

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This thing has eight HDMI inputs. I’m going to plug something to all of them. Eight HDMI ports on a mobile device this size sounds a bit extreme, but it’s actually 10 HDMI ports if you count the two outputs. The word extreme is literally part of the product’s name cuz we are looking at the YOLO box extreme. What we’re also looking at is me completely underestimating the sheer quantity of cables involved to hook up eight input sources. This is also the exact same Yolo Box Extreme, except now I’ve got a bunch of inputs hooked up to this which do not require any physical connections. Just because there’s a ton of ports on this thing, doesn’t mean you’re limited to only HDMI cables. You can mix and match all sorts of inputs to all sorts of outputs on this. So even though for example now I’m running a fully wireless setup I can plug this monitor into my HDMI out one and while this is cooking over here this is actually displaying a live program out from the YOLO box extreme wirelessly functioning as an NDI receiver and this monitor here is receiving the multiv- view out from the YOLO box extreme. So, there’s just such an overwhelming amount of options offered on this. To the point, this is a singular chunky tablet which can cover just about any use case because it’s practically got everything. To paint you a picture, I’m going to list all the ways you can get an input into this as well as all the outputs this can send. We’ll start with inputs. This has eight HDMI inputs, five of which can take signals up to 4K. two USB inputs if you’re using webcams as a video source. This can also take NDI inputs up to six for HX and two for full NDI. This can also be an SRT listener. So that’s another virtual input. Then you can still have remote guests call in to your session via a web browser. Then finally, you can load media in through an SD card or portable drive. Now outputs. Starting with the most straightforward ones. HDMI, two of them. USB webcam out up to 4K 30p. This can also output NDI. And instead of just being an SRT listener, this can also be a caller. And finally, you can output to a maximum of three streaming services concurrently. So that’s a lot of inputs which can be mixed into a lot of outputs. It can be a bit overwhelming at first, but that’s what you get on this $2,000 YOLO box. Being the extreme version, there are some very special features which are exclusive to this. One of the most exciting ones is being able to live stream directly from this in 4K at up to 60 frames per second. The Yolo Box Ultra was the only other Yolo Box capable of 4K streaming, but I believe that was limited to 30 fps. I did try doing a multi-cam stream with the Xreme in 4K 60. Quite a resource inensive stress test for the YOLO box considering it has to mix and encode multiple 4K 60 sources live. And we also had live replay enabled. So, it was doing some degree of recording as it was streaming. I’ll share a link below to watch the YouTube replay of that exact live stream. you would be watching a recording of the stream, but it was recorded on the receiving end of YouTube, meaning that’s exactly how it would have looked like if you were to watch it live. So, I’ll link that below as living proof of exactly why I’m not a professional streamer. Choked on my speech. That’s That’s live streaming for you. Good thing I’ve got my little standing copyright. While streaming, if you’re not recording internally on the Yolo Box Extreme, you can have up to five 4K 60p inputs. If you want to ISO record your inputs while streaming, that’s also possible, but you wouldn’t have to spec things down to 4K 30p. This way, you can stream with up to four cameras while being able to record three of those inputs. That’s because the Xreme still needs to work within the capabilities of the Snapdragon processor. It’s running on. This chip is already 1.8 times more powerful than the one in the Yolo Box Ultra. But as much as the Yolo Box engineers, I believe, would like to let you full send all the inputs while recording each and every single one of them, the system will only let you enable and scale its features to the extent of its processing power. This will advise you if things are about to exceed limits and there’s a CPU monitor to help keep an eye on resources. Same goes for the HDMI outputs. Even though both outputs can support 4K 60, the menu recommends only one output be set to 4K. Having two HDMI outs though is a feature exclusive to the Xreme, and it’s one of my favorite features because you can choose to display different things on each of the two outputs. Program out is of course an option, but you can also route one of the inputs to always be displayed on that output. You can mirror the YOLO box UI or you could output a multiv- view, which is extremely customizable. not just between a few layouts, but to the extent of being able to drag and drop to move chunks around. The USB output is currently program only, but your device should see the Xreme as a 4K webcam. This goes up to 30p, so if you prefer streaming from a computer, you could still hook up the YOLO box as an interface switcher in the more traditional sense or just use it as a 4K capture card. Another sort of an unfair advantage you get only with the extreme is how NDI compatibility is included as standard. On other models of Yolo Box, including the Ultra, NDI is an optional $99 license, but this round it’s included in the price you pay for the product. For full NDI FX sources, the Unolox Extreme can handle two of those as inputs, but for NDIHX, the Xreme can take up to six of them. There’s also a little toggle in your settings page which enables NDI output from the YOLO box. Cool thing is it’s not limited to outputting just the program feed. It’s possible to send only one of your inputs out via NDI, essentially functioning as an NDI enabler for any of your cameras which do not have NDI. If that’s the only function you’re going to be using this for, then a $2,000 device might be a touch overkill. But considering this is a fully mobile, fully independent batterypowered device, such a use case is not exactly that far-fetched if you happen to already own one of these. And since we brought battery up, battery life is actually spectacular on the Yolo Box Extreme. During our test stream, the battery level dropped by only 4% after streaming for 13 minutes in 4K 60p with multiple sources. So, the battery powered aspect of this is not just a safety net in case of power failure. You can actually run a show on battery power alone. This is housing a 10,000 mAh battery which contributes to it being a hefty bit of tech. Something a bit different from previous YOLO boxes as well is how this has a metal shell on the top, the bottom, as well as the entire back of it. This is built like a tank. For the first time on the Xreme, you can also attach the included external antennas for improved Wi-Fi reception. There’s four rubber feet on the back of the YOLO box, which functions not just to keep it in place when you place it flat on a table, it also provides a bit of clearance for the exhaust vent on the back. There’s also a/4in thread on the base for mounting, but this thing weighs a kilogram and a half, so do factor that into account when it comes to mounting. It’s a big YOLO box, but it’s actually a really nice size. It’s got a super bright 1,000 nitin OLED display this round. And it’s a 2.5K 11.2 in screen, so about the same screen area you would get with an 11in iPad Pro. The size is of course great news for operability and a new switching layout that’s currently exclusive to the Xreme is director mode. It’s essentially the program preview workflow where selecting a source puts it up on the big preview monitor without actually cutting the program to it yet. That only happens once you manually commit what you see on preview to program. Certain elements like overlays will still go live on program right away once you select them. Transitions are also accessible in a more upfront manner in director mode. Everything we’ve talked about up until this point are just the new features on the Yolo Box Extreme. This is built on top of everything else the Yolo Ultra does, which are also features included in the Xreme. I won’t be talking about all of those in detail, but just to quickly list some of those features down, we’ve got gigabit Ethernet, nanoLT SIM slots, customizable overlays, scoreboards, customizable multissource layouts, timed auto switching, auto switching based on video follows audio, remote operation via Android app or web browser, chroma keying, streaming simultaneously to three destinations, overlaying comments from the live stream, multicam replay, as well as the ability to control PTZ cameras. As of filming this, the only feature that’s currently not available yet is vertical streaming. That’s been said to be coming in a future firmware update, which hopefully will let you stream directly to Instagram and Tik Tok directly from the Yolo Box Extreme, just like how that’s possible back on the Yolo Ultra and I believe the Instream as well. The YOLO live team does have a really good track record of pushing new features out via updates. So, I am quite interested to see how this product evolves with time. I’ll put links below for anyone interested to check the Yolo Box Extreme out. And I’ll be seeing you around.

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I want to show you how to make a fully automated podcast studio. Damn, that looks super cool. This is the Yolo Box Extreme and it’s a switcher, streamer, and recorder allin-one. Is this system recording each camera independently? So, it’ll do the program and then it’ll do ISO version. So, right now it’s recording me as part of the program feed, but it’s also recording me as a backup, your cameras as a backup, and the computer as a backup. You can think of it as the brains of the entire operation. And it even has support for NDI capable devices. This is what blew my mind. Take over any phone that has the ability to download the NDI app. And pairing it was probably the easiest thing I’ve ever had to do from a technical standpoint. It just connected seamlessly. The Yolo Box Extreme has everything you would want, but the real magic happens here under the auto switch menu. You can auto switch based on timers. So like if you didn’t care what it cut to, you could just have it do this. And what it does is it cuts to each angle back to its master and then it’ll cut cycle through each camera. But what you really want to do is use video follows audio. But how loud do I have to be in order to Hey, Right. Basically, what’s going to happen is as the audio gets louder or quieter, that’s going to trigger the cameras to switch. There’s the microphone itself, the volume that it’s recording on the camera in the board. You tell it what level to detect. And there’s always this fine balance between a little too loud, a little too quiet, where that cut off is for it to actually hear and trigger. So depending on the condition, you can change your switching action. Meaning, if I’m talking, it’ll cut to my camera, but if audio is detected on this other input, it’ll switch to a different camera angle. As long as every microphone is run to its own camera, you can auto switch between them on the Yolo Box Extreme. That is pretty cool. Although I don’t get my own single. You have control over the switch sensitivity, the minimum switch duration, as well as the threshold or the decibel level needed to be reached in order to switch annunciate. I like that they give you all these different conditions. So whether it’s one camera input or if it’s combinations, you can change the switching action to go to any one of your other inputs. It’s very customizable and intuitive. Thankfully, this is just listening to volume, and that’s all it cares about, which is really nice if you get it dialed in. Right now, it’s limited to a maximum of three audio sources, and you can’t separate left from right, but I’m hoping that they add this in the future via firmware because I want more audio channels and more audio triggers. The problem is, even if I’m not talking, this microphone is still hearing you a little bit. So, if that sensitivity is too low or too high, one or the other, however you look at it, it’ll trigger this mic even if you’re talking way over there. So, you got to dial the sensitivity in. And then there are options in here to combo mic. So, you can do both of those as a third camera option. Wow. If all you want recorded is that auto switched version, you can just record the program at 4K resolution. You can even add some ISO tracks as backup for editing later in post-production if you want. But if you want to record all of your ISO tracks, you’re going to have to reduce the resolution. 4K is just too much for everything. Once you drop it down to 1080p, you should be good to go. Just so many features they’ve thought of and all in one thing. It’s important to know this is your switcher and computer allin one. So there’s no extra computer or laptop or phone required. Everything can be handled right by the Yolo Box Extreme. Except you should know you can overwhelm the system with too much. If you try and max it out, it will be too much for the CPU. So, you have to find that balance between what you need and what the board can handle. If you want a lot of different camera angles all recorded in ISO, 1080p is the way to go. But, if you just want that one auto switch sequence, you can get that plus a few others in 4K. There’s a wide of the room, the iPad if we had some kind of Zoom call or if we were watching a video. You would never call this Coco. We would never call it Coco. So then if I pause that and I manually switch back to me, back to you guys. Close up on David or you can use the video follows audio and then it does it automatically. How about that? I’ve got a computer hooked up to an external display also going into the board. This monitor is for external recording and monitoring. Cameras everywhere. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 live. It’s a really cool piece of technology, and I’m just scratching the surface. There’s so much more this thing can do for any kind of live event, podcast, or multi-cam production. Just be aware of those CPU limits if you’re trying to max everything out at 4K. I will say, how long do you think it took me to get dialed in? 20 minutes, maybe. with more time, with more optimization, even this studio is kind of just hodge podgeed together. There’s cords everywhere. It’s not clean. It’s not tidy. It was just to prove a point. And now that it’s all set up, if I did refine it and dial in, I think it would be a lot better. The computer can just do it itself. That’s a game changer.

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So, if you’re a local sports fan and you want to like live stream the games, YOLO Live has created one of the best and most simplest solutions to do that and actually look really professional. You have scoreboards, you have instant replays, you have all kinds of scenes that you could do and I’ll explain a little bit how that works. But, get ready for your mind to be blown because it is really cool. Mr. Black. And by the way, if you like gadgets and gear, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Don’t be a stranger to the channel. Also, if you like this kind of content, make sure you also hit that thumbs up button. YouTube will give you more of it and I’ll put links to everything that we’re talking about down in the description. Now, I’ve made a few videos highlighting this magnificent device and I’ll link to those videos covering all the specs and features at the end of this video. But for this one, I wanted to focus more on the live stream sport aspect, especially because I get a lot of people asking me, you know, what’s some good devices they could use to broadcast their local sports team or their kids teams or something like that. This is a lot of fun and it’s insanely professional. And some might say that this would be overkill for your kids games, but maybe you’re looking for something to do. You’re looking for a new hobby and you would fall in love with something like this. So, this is the Yolo Box Extreme, the all-in-one 4K live streaming powerhouse that puts professional quality production right at your fingertips. Whether you’re covering that nailbiting soccer match or a fast-paced basketball game at your local court, this device has got you covered. So, let’s break down what makes this exceptional, especially for live streaming sports. So, you can connect multiple cameras to this thing. DSLR, mirrorless cameras, action cameras, also USB webcams, and I’m actually using the new YOLO Cam right now to film this part right here, and I’ll be making a video about that next, so stay tuned for that. But imagine capturing all the different angles from different cameras and broadcast those games in crystal clear 4K quality. So all the action, every triumphant moment, big or small, will look incredibly sharp and vibrant. And besides live streams, you can also record it directly to this as well. And you can even be recording multiple cameras at the same time. But for streaming purposes, it’s got built-in Wi-Fi, it’s got Ethernet, and even option for 4G LTE connectivity with a SIM card. So you can just pop that SIM card right in there and just stream through that. And you can stream to all of your favorite platforms like YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch, and much more. And that’s like directly from the field. Like no other encoders needed. You could just stream direct from this box right here. You can add in your scoreboard. You can customize it. Put the names, put what game type it is. You can have a timer on there so people can see how much time is left. You can even add your own custom logos for the teams in colors. You can really go through that and set it up nice and easily. Now, you might be thinking, it’s going to be tough to have to go in and change the score every time. Well, you can actually use the YOLO deck and you can set that thing up and you can even add just plus one buttons to the home team or the OA team and just add those scores in when they do score. You can set it up as plus one, maybe plus two or plus three. Uh that way if it’s a basketball game or something, you can do it that way or just just one and just hit it a bunch of times. If it’s like the pregame or the intermission, you can have countdowns for it. It’s really easy to set up here in different scenes. You can have your picture and pictures. So, if you’re hosting it, you can uh pull up that picture and picture have me in one spot like, “All right, this is what’s happening now. They’re going for it. Yep. Okay, they’re going to kick the ball on the go.” I don’t know how you announce things, but you don’t necessarily need another monitor because you can monitor it all right here with this touchcreen display, which is really easy to see. It’s battery powered. It lasts a very long time. And yeah, you have the yellow deck over here if you want some quick access to some, you know, buttons if you’re just switching the the different sources right there or, you know, starting replays. And that’s right, you can add instant replays. So, you can set that all up in the replay button here. You can add how long you want the video duration, also the replay speed, if you want it to go faster or slower. You can put the audio on there if you want to capture the audio. You can mute any other audio during replay, or you can have that off in case you’re commentating on it. And uh you can also have the replay logo. You can even put in like custom like graphics for going into that replay or out of that replay, you know, just kind of like what you’d see like in professional sports games. But it works. So I have it set up on the YOLO deck. So I can just go start replay. And there you go. You got the replay right there. That’s what we just uh we wanted to see replayed. And then it goes back to the real-time shot, the shot that we had before. You can also set that replay to come back later so you don’t have to do it just like right then and there. So if there was something that happened you wanted to capture, you can save that and then play that back later on. And setting up sources, picture and picture, any graphics, it’s all easily done right through this YOLO box. It’s like got its own operating system and you can go through and again it might seem like overkill, but I think that if you’re using it for even like your bigger football games, the high school, the Yolo Box Extreme isn’t just for the big leagues. It’s perfect tool for any local sports organizations or a passionate individual who wants to share their excitement with that club uh with everyone online, maybe even for people back home that can’t come to the game. This is a lot of fun to learn and to show off those streaming skills. People will be very impressed. And if you are considering this, do check out the link in the description so you can see the most current and up-to-date price. And also check out some of the other Yolo Box videos that I’ve done. Yeah, they will explain a lot more. There’s a lot a lot that you can do with this thing. So do check that out. And thanks so much for watching and I’ll see you next time.

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So, now I’ve got five NDI cameras coming in and one full bandwidth NDI from Proresenter. Hello, I’m Steven Ballast. I’ve been a longtime fan of the Yolo Box line. I started out showing you on this channel the original Yolo Box and we’ve looked at the Pro and the Ultra, and today we’re looking at the Extreme. Now, we use a Yolo Box every week here at our church to live stream. It’s actually a secondary stream for us. We use it for an ASL or sign language alternate stream of our worship service. To do that, we take the video out from our video switcher and run it into the Yolo Box and overlay a camera of our ASL interpreter and we live stream that direct from the YOLO box to an RTMP destination streaming service. And I have to say, for our primary live stream, we use what many would say is the premier top tier live streaming service for churches. I’m sure you’ve probably heard of them. And for the two or more years that we’ve been streaming with the Yolo Box in parallel, the success or failure rate between these two methods of streaming has been the same. I’ll just leave that there. All that to say, I’ve been really happy with the Yolo Box as a live streaming solution. Each new Yolo Box model from Yolo Live, from the original to the Pro, Ultra, and now the Extreme, has incrementally given us more processing power, more inputs, and more features. One of the things to understand about the Yolo Box as a standalone live streaming tool is that they can do a wide variety of things from different overlays, bringing in different sources, 4K recording, ISO recording, sending out the stream to multiple destinations, just a whole list of things that these boxes can do. But what you need to understand to be successful with the YOLO box is that it’s also limited by the processing power of the box. What that means is yes, you can do all of these things, but it doesn’t always necessarily mean you can do all of them at the same time. Sometimes it’s taken people a little bit of experimentation to figure out if the combinations of features you need to use will all work together at the same time. And that’s where the extreme, as the next increment in the Yolo box line, brings us the most processing power we’ve seen in one of these boxes yet. And that enables more inputs. The Extreme has eight HDMI inputs, four of which can be used with 4K sources that can be ISO recorded while you are streaming. It has two HDMI outputs, which is a first in the Yolo Box line. You could use one to send your program out and the second as a multiv- view, or you could select a few different things that can be routed to that output. For instance, you could just send one of your inputs and pass it through to that output, kind of like an ox out on a regular video switcher. The Ethernet port for your internet connection. The Extreme can also connect through Wi-Fi and it comes with external antennas you can use to boost that signal. There are two USBA ports and a USB C port. This last USBC is for charging and an 8 inch mic input. On the bottom, it has a headphone output for monitoring your audio, an SD card slot, your SIM card slot for connecting through a cell tower and using cellular data for your live stream, a/420 mount, and finally the power button. Another feature of the Extreme that I think a lot of people have kind of missed the implications of, and that is the ability to bring in six NDI input sources. So far, most standalone switchers that I’ve seen might have the ability to bring in one NDI input, and it’s kind of added on as an afterthought to the switcher. So, to really switch a fully NDI based video system, you’d have to use a computer, maybe with OBS or V-Mix. And that’s what I want to focus on in this video. I want to look at using this extreme, this standalone portable device to set up an all NDI based video system. One of the things that makes an all-in-one streaming, recording, video switcher device like this appealing is its portability and simplicity. And how quick and easy of a setup would it be to just have to run one Ethernet cable to each of your cameras using a PoE switch? Beyond that, Yolo Live has also added a new NDI capability to the extreme that previous models haven’t had that make this work even better for churches that want to overlay lyrics. So, I’m excited to show you that in a minute. Let’s take a look at setting this up. I’ve gathered every NDI capable camera I could find. I’ve got the Honey Optics PTZ camera, an Obsot Tail 2, and just to throw another camera in the mix, I’m also using the Tail Air that has NDI out over Wi-Fi. These two cameras are connected to a PoE switch through their Ethernet cable. That’s what I’d recommend doing for reliability and latency instead of using the Wi-Fi. That Ethernet cable provides power to the camera as well as sends out the NDI video signal and it’s also going to let us control the camera. And yes, we can do that right from the extreme as well. I’ve already set up these cameras on the network and to output NDI. That process will be unique to the configuration settings of whatever camera you end up using. I’ve also set up the extreme on my wired Ethernet network as well in its configuration. So let’s first create an event and go into that event. And now to add these cameras to the extreme, tap the add video source button here and select NDI. And it will find the NDI cameras on your network. Select one and tap done. And that’s now coming into the stream as one of our inputs that we can select to go live in our video. I’ll just repeat that for my other cameras. But I want to max this out. I want to have five NDI HX camera sources and then our full bandwidth lyrics overlay NDI source to make six NDI sources coming into the extreme. I’ve set up computers here on my network using NDI tools to output their display over NDIHX as well. So those cameras are going to be my last two camera sources. So let me add those. Now I have five NDI HX camera sources coming into the extreme and I can select which one I want live on my video by tapping them. Now, to set up PTZ control for our cameras, tap the little gear icon in the top right corner of your input and select PTZ control. Now, here you’ll need to know the IP addresses of your camera on your network. You should know that already from when you set up your cameras on your network. And now I can control my camera right here on the Xreme. Before we add in our lower thirds from Proresenter, and that’s one of my favorite new features of the extreme, is that it can now use the alpha channel of an NDI feed. But before we get to that, let me say a couple things about bandwidth and data rates and all of that. NDI video is running over your network, so it has to follow the rules of the road for networking. What I mean by that is the NDI feeds coming into the extreme for my setup that’s using this wired Ethernet connection. All of that data has to fit through that one pipe. Now the extreme supports up to six NDI HX feeds and up to two full bandwidth NDI connections. And this limitation somewhat is probably related to the network bandwidth, but it’s also probably a limitation of the CPU of the extreme as well. Each of those NDI sources has to be decoded by the CPU. I found this setup to be most stable and to get the least amount of latency on my camera feeds when I set each camera to the lowest bandwidth setting that I could tolerate for quality. For my tail two, six megabits per second for the 1080p 30 video was buttery smooth and had decently low latency. Over a network, you’re always going to have some amount of latency to deal with. You know, this is never a setup you’d want to use for iMac. But by keeping the bit rates lower, we can reduce the processing time for both the camera and the extreme and keep the latency as low as possible. When I turned the bit rate up to 8 megabits per second, I started to notice some stuttering or drop frames, but I’m actually pretty sure it was on the tail 2 side because I’m able to get the Honey Optics camera up to 12 megabits per second and it’s still really smooth. All of this to say, depending on what cameras you have, you’ll probably have to do some experimenting with what bit rates get the best results. You’ll probably not be able to just turn it on and have everything work well. Okay, now let’s finally bring in our lyrics from Proresenter to be overlaid over our video. In Proresenter, go to screens, configure screens, and now we are going to add a new audience screen. Select new NDI. I’ll select 1080p 30. And let’s rename this to something more informative. I’ll call it video overlay. And down here in the NDI settings, let’s name this Prop P NDI. Now, here’s the important part. On the alpha key tab, we’re going to select premultiplied. Then under screens, edit looks, we’re going to choose a theme for our video overlay output that has our lyrics formatted to be at the bottom. And the theme doesn’t have any background, so it’s transparent. This is the really cool part. Because the extreme now recognizes the alpha channel that’s embedded in the NDI video, we won’t have to use a chroma or green screen key anymore. The transparency from Proresenter will be used in the extreme. So, back on the extreme, add a new video source and select NDI. And we should find our proresenter source. And now we have our lyrics coming in as a full screen input. If we tap that, it could be used just like any other input. But now let’s go to the overlay settings page and tap add overlay. And then on the video source tab, select our prop input. Scale it all the way up and tap done. Now we can turn this overlay on by selecting it in the overlays page and it gets overlaid over our video. And as we change cameras, it stays overlaid and it’s going to be updating as our lyrics operator advances our lyrics. So now I’ve got five NDI cameras coming in and one full bandwidth NDI from Proresenter. I just find this setup really cool because I don’t know of any other standalone portable device that can switch that many NDI sources, which really makes a fully NDI video production practical. Next, if you’re new to the Yolo Box and haven’t seen any of the previous models, let me give you a quick overview of how the Yolo box works and also a couple specific workflow things that I would do if I were setting this up for a live production. The way the Yolo Box interface is laid out, obviously this large display here is what’s live on your video with your camera input thumbnails below that. And tapping on these takes them live in your video. You can change the size of the thumbnails by tapping this little icon here. The right side of the screen are all your settings and where you operate some additional features. You select which menu you are in with these icons at the bottom. And you can change the order of these tabs by scrolling to the end here and tapping these three dots. Now you can just drag these to rearrange them. So if your icons are in a different order than mine, that’s why. This first menu is our destinations for live streaming. Just tap to add a destination and select where you want to go. And you’ll be asked to log in to your account. It also shows your encoder settings here at the top. You can tap it to modify it, but realize when you do that, you’re actually just being taken to a different tab on the bottom here. So, you could access it that way as well. Here you can set the encoder setting for your live stream, which also will be used for an NDI output or SRT output if you have that turned on. And this second set of encoder settings are for your recording. I love that we can record a different bit rate than what we are streaming because we’re always going to want a higher quality recording for later editing compared to what we send out for our stream. Then we have the overlays tab. We’ve already seen the video overlay that we added from Proresenter, but you can also add lower thirds with names or different titles, timers. The YoloCast overlays is a free online tool that you can use from Yolo Live where if you set up a free a Yolo Live account, you can make overlays in their browserbased tool and add them to your video here. Next is the recording tab. Here you can select where you want to record to. There is internal storage on the Xreme itself. You can insert an SD card for recording and you can also connect an external USB hard drive and record to that. Again, it shows you the recording encoder settings that came from the other page. And here we can select what to record. Obviously, the program output is the default, but you can also record an ISO recording of each of your inputs and then record limits. This will chunk your recordings into multiple files. So, in this case, every 10 minutes, the recording will start a new file. This is just a safety mechanism. So, if for some reason something happens and the current recording has a problem, you won’t lose hours worth of recording. You can bring in guests if you’re doing a podcast, maybe. I’ll be honest, I’ve never had a need to use this feature. The audio mixer. This lets us turn on and off audio from our input sources. You can select if the sourc’s audio is just always on or uses AFV or audio follows video. That means that the audio from a camera will switch on when that camera is live but then turns off when you go to a different camera. And finally, there’s a headphone and master volume slider for your program. And if you connect an external USB audio device, which is what I would recommend as the best way to get audio in from, say, an audio mixer, that will show up here in the audio page as well. The music tab, a new feature here on the Extreme is you can load in audio files from the SD card or a USB device that can be played from this interface. This is great for pre-show music. Auto switching. This lets you automatically switch between your inputs at a determined interval. Comments lets you see any comments that are coming in on your live stream from your social accounts. Then instant replay and the scoreboard. These are obviously useful if you are live streaming sports. Network bonding is a paid feature from Yolo Live that lets you use the shared bandwidth from multiple network connections. So, your Ethernet, your Wi-Fi, you could connect a USB dongle access point or the internal SIM card through a cell tower. And this will give you more reliable bandwidth for your stream. Especially if you’re streaming out somewhere where you don’t have one solid connection, you can divide your bandwidth up amongst multiple connections. And then transitions. The default is to cut between your inputs, but you could also set that to something else and then it will use a different transition when you switch. In the settings, this gear icon in the top right, there are a lot of different things that we can configure. This is where you would change your HDMI output settings. So, if you want HDMI 1 to be something different than program, and in this case, I have HDMI 2 set to be this entire interface that you’re seeing. Another nice new feature of the Extreme. This is a simple thing, but I really appreciate it. If you swipe down from the top, it gives you a little readout of some useful information. How much CPU you’re using, battery life remaining. You can control your headphone output volume, adjust the screen brightness, and then also down here you can see some information about your stream when you’re streaming. This is really useful because one of my I’ll say hesitations about using standalone encoders for live streaming versus a computer is that when you have an issue with your live stream, and I’ve been streaming long enough to know that it’s not if you have a problem with your live stream, but when you have a problem with your live stream, usually it’s a lot harder to troubleshoot what’s going on with a standalone encoder. So, having this information can quickly tell us the health of our stream. Once I have things set up and recording and streaming, I kind of prefer to operate the actual show in this view here where my inputs are on the side and I get a bigger view of what camera is live. It kind of depends on how many camera inputs you have, I guess, but you can still access the menus in a pop out from the side when you tap on them. You can also just tap and drag an input to change where it’s located. And if you tap the little settings icon in the top right, you can also rename your camera. I’ve been really impressed with all that’s packed into the Xreme. It’s also got a big screen that’s nice and bright and easy to see all your cameras on. Yet, this thing is still very portable. It could easily fit in, say, the pocket of a laptop bag. I’ve really enjoyed checking out The Extreme and I think you will too. Until next time. Bye.

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If you’ve spent time in the world of multi-input video switchers, you might know that there is a feature that is by far the most requested feature across all of these, and that is for them to be 4K capable. 4K capable. Now, I’ve said in other videos that if I had the option for a 4K switcher, I would definitely take that option, but there are just technical and practical limitations as to why it’s not super common, at least yet. 4K video is not just a little bit more complex than 1080. It’s like exponentially more complex when it comes to the amount of data being transferred, bandwidth, processing capabilities, graphics capabilities. It basically means that these things have to have a lot more power inside of them, have to be a lot more reliable so they don’t overheat and and crazy stuff doesn’t happen, and also then still relatively affordable. And so if you look at the world of switchers and you try to find 4K switchers, what you see a lot of right now are companies that make switchers that take 4K inputs, but then it still downscales it to a 1080 workflow. But sometimes they’ll call those a 4K switcher even though you’re not actually getting a 4K signal from it. So that’s that’s kind of a whole thing. If you find actual 4K switchers, you find that they’re usually pretty expensive. I have found about $5,000 to be the point where you’re getting an actual reliable multi-input 4K switcher. But the thing with those is that they tend to just be switchers. Maybe some picturein picture, maybe some basic like keying or something like that. The key to this workflow though is the Yolo Box Extreme because it makes it extremely easy to mix multiple 4K inputs. So everything you’re seeing not only in this video but in a lot of my recent videos has been recorded directly into the Yolo Box Extreme from my camera’s 4K signal into here being recorded in 4K and then edited and stuff. So I kind of want to cover that workflow. I don’t want to go through every feature of the Yolbox Extreme because uh there are a lot of them. So, I do have a separate review on the Yolo Box Ultra, which is a 4input 1080 switcher, but the the graphics capabilities, you know, the overlays, the auto switching, all the kind of cool stuff that these can do, which are very, very powerful. They’re not just switchers. They full-on production suites. Everything this can do, the Yolo Box Extreme can also do and more. So, I’ll kind of point you to this review if you want to know more about what a Yolo box can do. For now, I want to focus on the 4K workflow. The Yolbox Extreme, I guess I should have probably explained this earlier, is an eight input switcher. So, instead of four, you have eight inputs and five of those are 4K capable. And the price of this, the MSRP, is $2,000. So, it is significantly more expensive than like a $300 ATM mini Mini. But the ATM Extreme, which has eight inputs, is like 1,200 bucks, maybe even a little more than that, around that. So, for $800 more, you’re getting not only the 4K capabilities, five 4K input capabilities, but also then the built-in display and the graphics and everything else the Yolo Box can do, which is pretty intense. You don’t need a computer or anything else. If you don’t want to use one, you can just stream and record everything directly here. And when I am recording, I do a few different options. I’m recording to an external SSD right now just because that’s kind of the easiest way for me to just unplug that and then plug it in my computer and edit. So, that’s the fastest workflow. can also record to an internal SD card. I I just don’t have an extra high-speed card, so I’m not doing that. Or you can record internally to the 200 GB of built-in internal storage. And before going too much further into this, I do want to let you know that Yolo Box did send this with no obligation. They actually sent it to my wife Heather and for her to check out, but she has worked to kind of lock her setup in and she doesn’t do a ton of multicam stuff. So that was about five or six months ago. And then I kind of commandeered orandered the extreme because it fit in extremely well to my workflow. But neither of us are under any obligation to say anything, make a video, do anything. They basically just sent it for feedback and uh then it found a place in my workflow, which I am really excited about. And so for me, the reason that this is kind of a game changer is that about half the videos I make are like this. They’re like explainer style videos where I’m sitting here and I’m explaining something or showing something and I kind of usually have one or two cameras to talk into and then another one or two cameras to sort of show the, you know, the thing. And typically what I’ll end up doing for those videos is then recording internally on all my cameras, then take that footage, put it into Final Cut Pro, sync it all up and edit from there. That takes a lot of time. And my raw footage for videos, a typical video is usually something like I would say 40 to 60 plus minutes. And so that means each camera is outputting, you know, 40ish gigabytes at least of footage. And it’s just working with all it’s just kind of a hassle, especially for what ends up being a relatively simple video cuz it’s it’s just an explainer video. do other videos where it makes more sense to, you know, move the cameras, record internally, do different frame rates like 4K120, get all kinds of B-roll shots, and, you know, those those are a lot more production intensive. And it still to me makes sense to record internally for those cuz it’s actually kind of easier that way. But for a lot of the stuff I do, being able to just have all of my cameras go into a switcher like this, and then when I’m done, I just have one one file that has everything in it, and I can just chop it up and edit it. it. I cannot tell you like how much time it saves in this workflow. And so my main camera, like always, is the Sony FX3. That’s this camera here with a 24mm f1.4 lens. All the cameras are set to 4K 24. I like 24 frames per second. I’ve been playing around at 30 a little bit lately, which is fun. And then the Yolo box lets you choose different 30, 50, 60. You can do all kinds of different stuff. The second camera I’m using is my Sony A7S3. You can see kind of right here past the FX3. And that’s this camera with a 50mm lens. And this is also the camera that’s running my audio. So, the Yolo Box does let you connect 3.5 mm audio or USB audio. So, I could even connect like a full-on Roadcaster into this, but I can also bring in audio from any of my HDMI sources. I have the DJI Mic Mini right here. And then I have the Sony Hot Shoe on the camera. I guess you can’t see it on there, but on top of the camera is the Sony Hot Shoe. So, that way I can run this mic without needing any cables and it adjusts the gain levels automatically. And then I can bring in the HDMI audio source into the YOLO box. And the reason I’m doing that instead of my normal boom mic, which is the Sennheiser MKH50, is because I do have different cameras. So I’m going to be turning offaxis from the mic. And that sounds a little strange sometimes with the boom mic. Whereas when the mic’s connected to me, then it sounds the same no matter what direction I’m facing. And I did want to actually mix and match different cameras just to kind of show the different 4K capabilities. So, the next camera I’m using is the Yolo Cam S7, which is basically a micro four thirds webcam. So, it can output USB or HDMI. There are no physical controls on this camera, so everything has to be adjusted either with the Yolo box or with a desktop application to adjust things like color and all that, but this is this is a pretty sweet camera. It kind of deserves its own separate video. And I have a 25mm lens on there. So, this is a legit mirrorless webcam, interchangeable lens webcam, which is pretty cool. And then I do have an overhead camera, which is my Sony ZV1F. That’s just a really nice compact, lightweight camera that just works great for overhead stuff. And that’s to get this shot here, which is the top down shot of the Yolo Box Extreme. So you can see all of my inputs. These are my five 4K inputs. And then I have one other thing happening here, which is actually the Yolo Box’s HDMI output going in to one of the 1080 inputs. And that’s so I can actually show you what I’m seeing on the Yolo Box. So, when we go into the recording options, I can kind of show you exactly what I’m doing here. Like I mentioned, you can do USB, internal memory, or SD. And then you can also adjust your frame rate. So, I have 4K 24 set. And then you can also choose your sources. Right now, I’m just doing program because that’s the simplest workflow for me. But if you wanted to do isolated recording, I could record all the different inputs as well. I like the program because I’m just kind of relying on it right now. I’m not even recording internally on my cameras or anything as a backup. So, I’m putting a lot of faith into the YOLO box right now. But the reason I like this is because then it just gives me that one file and that’s what I chop up and edit. So, for the kind of workflow I’m doing right now, that’s what helps it be really, really fast. But if you do need to record isolated tracks or you want backups or whatever, you can do that as well. And you can also set a recording limit. So, right now I have it set to 30 minutes. That’s not how long it will record, but it’s how long it will break the files into. So for 30 minutes, that means it’s going to every 30 minutes create a new file. And that’s just kind of a way to protect yourself in case something goes wrong. If you have it set to never do that or to do it, you know, in a long period of time and then something goes wrong at the very end and the file becomes corrupted, you kind of lose everything. Versus if you’re breaking it down into smaller chunks, then you can just sort of put those chunks there. And so I have 30 minutes, which works pretty well. You can set it continuously if this is not something you want to deal with. I have noticed when I put those clips in the timeline, there is like one or two frames of black at the start of each clip. So, I just have to kind of trim out those one or two frames and then everything flows smoothly and the audio stays in sync and everything looks great. And then again, for my audio, you can kind of see here every source has audio options, but I only have HDMI 5 on, which is my A7S3. You can even see HDMI 4, that’s the FX3, has a decent signal as well because that’s a Sennheiser mic, but I’m not using that. So, I only have the audio turned on on the input that I want. And then when you start recording, there’s a little record thing up here kind of above the program option. Trying to point to it. It’s right here. You can sort of see there. And that is what I press to start recording and stop recording. I’m being very careful not to touch it. You can also see if you look over here with all of these inputs and all this audio, I’m using 49% of the CPU’s power. So, now down to 45%. So, I’m only using about half of the CPU’s power here. And that goes into the next part of the workflow, which is something it’s kind of the one bit of friction that I still have, and that is matching color. So, on my FX3 and on my A7S3, these match very well. They’re the exact same image sensor, different camera bodies, but it’s super easy to match these cameras. I forgot to mention, the other camera I was using is the Obsessbot Tail 2, and that’s how I was like doing the PTZ controls to show all the other cameras. I’m using the remote here, but you can control the OBSOT directly with the Yolo Box as well. I have a separate video on exactly how to do that. It is really cool. Sort of talked about the Tail 2. I really like this camera a lot, but the colors are a little tough to match with my Sony currently because the Obsot software doesn’t give me a tint option. This looks a little more magenta to me than this does. So, if I could take this and nudge it over to the green, I think it would then match a lot better. And then the Yolo Cam S7 I also think is a little more magenta. If I could push that to green, it would match the Sony’s a little bit more. I think I’m not sure what kind of sensor this has inside, but I don’t believe it’s a I think it might be even a Lumix or Panasonic sensor. It’s not a Sony sensor. The overhead camera, since this is a Sony sensor, it does match. If you kind of look at the skin tone, it matches a little bit better. But this is a different camera and a different sensor. So, the thing that I cannot do is go in here and adjust colors independently on the inputs. And honestly, like that’s just not a thing most video widgeters can do. But with all of the power, with all the capabilities in the Yolo Box Extreme, that would be something awesome if it’s something that could be added in a future update. At least the ability to adjust tint and sort of like some basic brightness and, you know, saturation controls because if I can make all of these match, you know, near perfectly, then that would just streamline the editing process. I would still want to put on a preset to just, you know, bump up the colors and the saturation like stylistically for what I like, but in terms of like correctness, that would make things that would make things pretty easy. Right now, that’s not something that’s possible, but I can do some like different things here. So, for example, on the overhead camera, I can bring up a menu to crop and rotate it. So, by default, this is actually a very wide shot and it’s flipped the other direction. So, I was able to crop in and then rotate it. So that way the overhead shot kind of looks like a nice typical overhead shot. And when it comes to that color issue, fortunately the type of stuff that I do with this workflow and the type of videos I make here, total perfect color matching accuracy is really not that important. It’s more important to be able to see the stuff and to show it than to have it be exactly right. Although it is really nice when it’s exactly right. So sometimes I just kind of leave it and they just don’t match. Other times what I will do is when I put the clip into Final Cut, I will go through and then do a rough cut and I will then kind of have my different shots. So, for example, when I’m using the tail 2 and I know that this doesn’t match perfectly as is, I can then add a preset to it that I made and then it will match a little bit better. And then so anytime that I see the tail 2 pop up in the timeline, I just drag that preset to it and then it it works. So that’s kind of my workaround. It’s not ideal, but it is still way, way faster than recording internally on all these different cameras and having to process all that footage and deal with, you know, project files that become 8 or 900 gigabytes by the time they’re done. It’s It’s still a lot easier, but being able to adjust color for each individual input on here is something that would be incredibly helpful if that’s possible. Not sure if it is, but I’m just sort of putting my request out there if it is. And as I’m recording here, I’m not trying to be perfect and do this all in one take, even though I am recording to the YOLO box. What I’m trying to do is sort of keep the edit in mind, but if I like, you know, flub up my line, I can just restart knowing that I cut that out. The thing that I really like doing with multiple cameras, especially for explainer videos, is avoiding jump cuts as much as possible. It’s just a personal preference. So that means I might deliver a line here and explain something on this camera, and then when it’s time to talk about the next thing, I can switch over to this camera. Or if I make a mistake, I’m talking on this camera and then I and stumble over my words halfway through instead of restarting here where it could potentially result in a jump cut. I can switch over to this camera and finish the line here. Now, sometimes I do still crop in during editing still to emphasize a point or if I kind of made a mistake and there would be a jump cut. Cropping in lets me avoid the jump cut. But having different cameras helps me avoid the jump cut. And even when I’m just sitting here talking, it lets things be more dynamic and more interesting because there’s different camera angles, different shots that I can incorporate without having to do full-on, you know, day or two of B-roll production and stuff like that. And so my workflow when I’m finished recording is to basically just import the footage into Final Cut. I usually then do detach the audio and adjust that if I want to, you know, process it or sweeten it up a little bit. And then I go through and I just kind of rough cut the clip together. And then I polish it up and fine-tune it. And if I need to add B-roll, then I’ll do that as well. But that’s usually not something that I try to do much of with this workflow because the whole point of this workflow is speed and efficient efficiency and very little friction. So like right now I added in the clips of me editing in Final Cut Pro. That was like B-roll that I wanted to add in. But in other videos I will, you know, I will spend a whole day filming product B-roll and getting all these different shots and all this really detailed stuff. This workflow is when I’m making videos that don’t require that and I just want things to be smooth and streamlined as possible to keep me as sane as possible. And overall, I’ve been really happy with the recording quality of the Yolo Box. And I’ve been using it on quite a few videos and nobody has said anything. So, that tells me that it’s obviously looking pretty much the same as my regular cameras. I do think Let’s go over here to the FX3. This is the Yolo Box recording. That’s everything you’ve seen so far in this video. And now this is the FX3’s internal recording. I did start recording on the camera so we could do a comparison here. So this is the FX3’s internal recording and this is the YOLO boxes recording. So the difference maybe I could even do like maybe I could get fancy and do a side by side where one half of the screen is internal recording and the other half of the screen is the yellow boxes recording. I do think that if you want to get into pixel peeping and you’re somebody who wants the absolute maximum image quality possible, no matter how incremental those improvements are, the internal recording on the cameras is still better than the Yolo Box. And that kind of makes sense. Like they are cameras. They should record internally really well. But the Yoo Box’s internal recording, which is what we switched back to over here, is pretty darn hard, if not impossible to tell the difference, unless you are that, you know, magnifying glass pixel peeper person. I don’t know, it’s like 98% there. And again, for me, the benefit of the way improved workflow outweighs, you know, incremental improvements in image quality I might get by return recording internally. And even that, I’m not 100% sure like what the difference is. The Yolo Box’s internal recording is really, really good and impressive. And you can also then output 4K as well if you wanted to use USB to run this into a computer for a live stream or to even then record into a computer for whatever reason as a backup or something. So again, there’s so much more that the Yolo Box Extreme can do and the Yolo Box Ultra as well. If you just need the four input 1080 workflow, these are full-on production suites. They’re very, very impressive. But for now, I wanted to focus specifically on the 4K workflow because that has been the most requested feature of switchers for several years now. It is something that has been incredibly helpful for me. And the Yolbox Extreme, even with its higher price than most switchers at $2,000, is still the most practical and in a lot of ways really the only option if you want multi-input 4K and you get five inputs, which is pretty sweet. If you do want to know more about what the Yolo Box can do, check out my Yolo Box Ultra review, which is ultra cool. It’s extremely ultra