Reliable connectivity is essential for high-quality podcast production, and YoloBox Ultra’s advanced network bonding solved one of the biggest challenges: unstable internet. By combining Ethernet, dual cellular hotspots, Wi-Fi, and even Starlink, Kevin ensured uninterrupted streams and clean audio, even during long sessions. With bonding enabled in a single tap, the system automatically managed network stability, removing technical distractions from the production process.

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hi everyone welcome back to our Channel this is Frank from YOLO live and today I’m super excited to introduce you to YOLO casts Media Center the ultimate stream management Powerhouse you need whether you’re a seasoned streamer or just starting YOLO cast has something incredible to offer let’s dive in before we dive into the media center let me first explain what YOLO cast is Yolo cast is a professional easyto use live streaming platform that allows you to broadcast video and Live Events seamlessly to your audience whether on your website or social media platforms like Facebook YouTube twitch or any rtmp destinations it’s an all-in-one solution for streaming hosting scheduling and monetizing your content some say it’s like YouTube but ad free and offers more control all right now that you have an understanding of what YOLO cast is let’s dive into one of its most important features the media center the YOLO cast Media Center is a featur rich Hub that serves as a repository for your live stream content and more with yoast media center you can easily store organize share stream and embed your archived video content let’s explore the YOLO cast Media Center and see how it can help you efficiently manage your streams YOLO cast makes managing your live stream content a breeze once your live stream ends all videos are automatically saved in the media Center’s video tab here you can transcode download or directly share the replay URL with your friends and on social media you can even embed the replay video on your website or create a new live stream from the replay it’s that simple now let’s talk about simulated live streams in the media center you can upload pre-produced videosos to create simulated live streams this feature is perfect for maintaining high production quality while still engaging your audience in real time you get the best of both worlds creating a new live event has never been easier just click the three dot menu under a video file in your media center and select create new live event this allows you to rebroadcast your video file as a fresh live stream reconnecting with your audience or reaching those who missed the original stream YOLO cast also extends the reach of your content with its embed code generation feature generate an embed code for any video and embedded on your website increasing your content visibility and enhancing your website’s user experience in the media center you can organize all your videos into groups after creating a group you can select the videos you want to embed in a specific order and generate a playlist to embed directly on your website it’s incredibly convenient right managing your files is crucial and the media center makes it easy you can rename files for better identification add them to groups to organize effectively or download them for offline use the robust file management system ensures your content is always at your fingertips need to share your videos YOLO cast’s link generation feature lets you create a download link for your video files simply share this link and others can download your content directly without needing a third party platform transcoding your live streams into downloadable MP4 files is a key feature of YOLO cast with a simple click your video is transcoded and a download link is generated allowing you to share high quality content easily efficient storage management is vital yoast lets you delete videos from its servers to free fre up space for more content this ensures you always have room for your next big stream okay so that’s all of this video I hope that after watching this video you have a better understanding of YOLO cast’s media center and how it can help you manage your streams more efficiently don’t wait to elevate your streaming game subscribe to YOLO cast today and experience the difference click the link below to start a 14-day free trial and see how YOLO cast can transform your live streaming experience don’t forget to like subscribe and hit the Bell icon to stay updated with all our latest tech insights also don’t forget to join our Facebook User Group where lots of our customers share their user cases if you have any questions or would like to know more about YOLO live you can contact us via email at contacto alive.com if your need is urgent you can call us at plus 86137 35812 589 if you need to express your needs through pictures or videos you can also contact contct us via WhatsApp the number is still plus 86137 35812 589 see you in the next video

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Welcome to Punch it Unboxed. My name is Markus. I’m the owner of Punch it. And in this video, I show you how you can live stream with the drone. So once a month we have in our gym the Soi fight. This is a fight event for beginners and there we always make a live stream to improve our live stream. We want to make something different. and I never see in a live stream for a fight event the drone shots. That’s why we try to make in our gym. We want to make all the setup quick as possible. So, we find out with the DJI Mini Pro 5 have the screen controller and you mirror all the screen to your roller box. The problem you have all the information on your screen also in the live stream and this was actually not that nice and we want to improve that too. The easy way you can use a HDMI cable with an adapter. So another way is you buy one more cable HDMI with USBC. Right now we will connect the USBC cable to HDMI and direct to the YOLObox. What is also important first connect the YOLObox with the controller and after turn on. So now you mirror exactly the same screen as you have on the controller and you can go here to the setting in the yellow box cropping and here you can scale the image and make that you don’t have the information on the screen. Just confirm done and all your image is clean and you can screen without any information of your drone. In this way we have only two issues. The one is the green line in the middle we cannot remove but maybe in the community of all the drone pilots someone have the solution. Let us know in the comment. And the second issue when you fly the drone you need to go a little bit more far about we have to zoom the screen and sometime the home point also show up in the live stream. Make sure the home point is out of your frame you want to record is not the best setup but is in my view one of the easiest setup you can make a live stream with a drone. If you want to make a clean image export of your stream you need to have another controller. This is the RC2 Pro and this is very expensive and we don’t want to invest another $1,000 just to make a clean image. And I hope we can help you for your next live stream to improve and make something different than others. If you want to know more about the YOLObox, we made already two different videos. one from the live stream event in the Punch it Fight Night and the other with a more detailed explanation of the Yolobox. I hope you enjoyed this video. Subscribe to the channel and see you in the next on.

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I’ve written about the Yolo Box before. It’s the Android-based tablet with live production software and hardwarebased connectivity. It marries the capabilities of software, the input output of hardware and the portability of a tablet. This market has other entries from Magewell, the director and the director 1 and Sinetri. But Yolo is not only the pioneer in the segment, they also offer the most diverse solutions from the single input mini to the 8 input extreme. It’s a production studio in a tablet. physical inputs, NDI, SRT, RTMP, web inputs, stills, video playback, PDFs. They can all be mixed individually or in self-created multiv- views. You’ve got built-in titles, graphics, scoreboards, audio mixing, viewer comments, remote guests, background music, instant replay, and all of that is handled inside the box. The Extreme can also record internally, both program and ISO feeds up to a frame rate data rate limit. You can encode for streaming. You can multiccast one stream to three different destinations. You can leverage optional integrated bonding capability and have the box auto switch, including switch the video to follow the audio. The internal audio mixer handles each input separately. You can turn channels off. You can solo. You can even do mix minus. So, if you’re self-hosting, you don’t hear yourself with a delay in your headphones. The Extreme is based around a large 11 in or 28 cm OLED screen offering a,000 nits of brightness. It has eight HDMI inputs. Five are autosensing 4K inputs and the other three are manually set HD inputs. There are also two HDMI outputs that can be assigned as program to mirror the YOLO box’s own screen, a customizable multiv- view, or you can select one of the individual input sources. Connectivity includes the gigabit Ethernet, internal cellular, and Wi-Fi. Plus, the Yolo Box will also leverage USB connected sources like a USB modem or a USB to Ethernet dongle for bonding. The Xreme has userreplaceable antennas on either side. You can use the included antennas or use something bigger or something directional. You can record to internal SD card or USB. And USB can also be used with video converters. So adding SDI via USB converter is also possible. So given the [snorts] flexibility of the USB ports, I wish there were more than the two USBA ports and the one USBC. The second USBC is for 45 watts of power input only. Stereo microphone and a line input as well as a stereo headphone port round out the input and output. New to the Xreme, in addition to the many HDMI ports and the external antennas, is more functional feedback from the Yolo box itself. From onscreen CPU load in the menu bar to a pull down status screen that also shows temperature and memory load, as well as encoding and streaming details. For me, this is a welcome addition because it’s it’s still an Android tablet. you’re not going to add RAM, upgrade the GPU or the CPU, or anything beyond what it came with. So, knowing how hard you’re pushing it and what its limits are is the key. Yolo Live has also taken big steps in this regard with posted limitations as you go to adjust various settings like the dual HDMI out warns you about plugging and unplugging cables while in use, using both outputs at 4K, that the audio only comes out one of the outputs, and more. There are pop-up warnings about exceeding the frame rate processing of the chips inside as they can only process so many frames. And your ISO records, your replay, and your streaming all count against that tally. There are warnings about exceeding the total data rate since the Extreme can handle multiple 4K sources and ISOs. Again, you’re not going to open it up and drop in a 4,000 megabyte NVME stick. There’s also warnings about exceeding the total CPU load where it will most certainly start dropping frames, and that makes for sad video producers like me. I hate frame doubling. You come away with an understanding that this is not a $10,000 gaming PC that has an i9 with 24 cores and 32 threads. This is not outfitted with multiple NVME drives at 4,000 megabytes per second. And this does not have an Nvidia 5090 or an A4000 in it. It also doesn’t suck 2,000 watts. This is just an Android tablet. So, the end user needs to adjust their expectations accordingly. At the same time, you’re not going to slip that $10,000 gaming PC into a tiny laptop sleeve, and it’s not going to run off a battery for hours. and it doesn’t include eight video inputs either, nor the well-designed Yolo Box software. The Yolo Box A sell excels at portability and ease of use. The Yolo Box interface itself continues to be revised and updated. There’s still a few user interface irregularities like changing the setting for video source switch or streaming mode gives you a popup while other settings take you to a separate dedicated page depending upon the amount of content or the conditions you need to be aware of. I also feel that several of the top level access panes control things that really ought to be buried in settings like bonding, streaming destinations, recording settings, transition settings. Those are all set once for a project and then just get them out of my way. During a show, I need access to my inputs, my overlays, comments, and the audio mixer. If you’re doing sports, you need replaying the scoreboard. Most everything else does not need to be in a tople ready access pane. But otherwise, the YOLO team continues to deliver a very intuitive user interface that despite its simplicity, delivers considerable power and capability to even the firsttime user. Do you want to do a green screen? It’s just seven taps, including picking the replacement background, and you’re done. Want to build a side byside multiv- view with borders and backgrounds? That’s just seven taps. Do you want to invite remote guests? You need their email address and six taps later, you’re done. You’d be hardressed to find anything simpler. And each of those features works well. New for the extreme interface is a director mode that gives you a preview and program monitor. While I’m personally still lobbying for separate cut and auto transition buttons, as of this writing, it enables the YOLO box to be used in more professional settings where a director will want to see the next shot before it goes live as opposed to singletapping everything in the input list. Akin to that, the Extreme also carries forward the multiv- view of the Yolo Box Ultra so that a director can see preview, program, and inputs in five different layouts where the user can pick what goes into each of the boxes, as well as borders, source names, and audio meters. I chose the Xreme to produce a 2-hour multi- camera live stream at the Texas Production Expo in May for several key reasons. The first was that the Xreme offers the ability to connect five NDI HX cameras. I was only bringing three Tail Air cameras with me, which have internal batteries for backup, but I also wanted the option to leverage a cell phone or two with NDI if I wanted additional camera views. The second thing I wanted was the Extreme’s 11in screen made it easier to have larger input icons and more viewer comments on the screen at the same time. I didn’t want to try to do this on a smaller unit and have to scroll around a lot to find things. Third was the functionality of the wired Yolo deck. It’s a USB control surface. It’s like Elgato’s stream deck but directly connected to the YOLO box. This means I do not need a separate computer or device in between the switcher and the deck, which lightened up my setup. I gave the deck to Kirk Riley, a fellow Yolo Box user, to co-w switch the show with me, and he did a great job. It also made it easy for me to host the show and speak directly to the camera, while Kirk brought up my title, went to the twoot, and then to the guests. And at the same time, I could cut to the close-up camera if I wanted by tapping on the YOLO box that was in front of me. Fourth was the dual video outputs. I set up a multiv- view monitor for Kirk to see the camera inputs and know when it was good to switch to the different cameras. And then I also set up a program monitor so each of the guests could see what the audience sees. Especially important when they were showing off gear. No splitters or additional gear bits were needed. I had a lot of videos to play, show sponsors, local organizations, etc., and that gave us time to go between live guests in the show. Having an icon showing the runtime for each video made it easy to pick a long or short bumper between the guests. The Extreme has external Wi-Fi antennas, but I chose not to use the Extreme as my Wi-Fi hotspot for the NDI I was slinging around because I felt safer using an ASUS gaming router designed to handle 2.5 GB of data through it, and it handled several 30 megabit NDI streams just fine. The show went quite well, but doing a live show on location in a challenging, noisy environment once again reminded me how important audio is. And unfortunately, audio is not the Yolo Box’s strength. For instance, it can’t even mix a mono microphone into both the left and right channels. It doesn’t have EQ. It doesn’t have a limiter. So, I needed an external audio mixer. I used my Zoom Live Track L8 because of the meters on each input, but what I found out that I needed during the show was I really needed limiters on each channel and the Zoom doesn’t have that. We checked our audio levels before the expo and then when we went live hours later in a loud crowded expo hall, we were all shouting over the crowd and we were clipping the audio levels. Lesson learned. The YOLO box doesn’t have a limiter either, so I asked YOLO if that could be added to the box in the next version via software update. Another issue with audio and the playback of the videos is that there’s no way to automatically mute the mics when we play back a video. This is another feature I requested of the YOLO team. Now, I know that having a dedicated audio op would have saved us on both the audio clipping and the audio mixing, but audio is the forgotten child and hindsight is 2020. If the videos could be set to automute everything else, that alone would have made it work much better. There’s a background music playlist feature, and after the show, I thought that a video playlist feature would be handy to help automate the playback of the videos. So we could ensure that everyone got at least one play by going through the list and also having it automatically continue to the next video until we were ready to come back to show. Having used the extreme for this in other shows, I can say it delivers on the Yolo box goal by going probably as far as you can go in the tablet form factor. While earlier models were limited by CPU and GPU chip capabilities, designing the extreme to such an extreme means that using it for HD production is so under the threshold you’ll likely not easily hit its limits. With the design constraints that YOLO has put in place, I had to work pretty hard and use a few tricks like 13 overlays to push the extreme to over 90% CPU. Earlier models could easily be pushed past their capabilities without even knowing and the frame rate would drop drastically. So, I appreciate both the overengineering and also the restrictions to make it hard to do the same with the Xreme. The Xreme is not the camera top or pocketable solution from YOLO. It’s heavy and big, but it’s a fine tabletop solution that I feel delivers on the goal of an all-in-one tablet production solution. What I hope comes next is software updates for the earlier models to help users know when their box is at its limits. As for hardware, I hope YOLO takes the lessons learned from the extreme and delivers updated Mini and Pro models. Similarly overengineered for optimum operation. Not everyone needs eight inputs. So, the three input pro and the one input mini, two if you use the USB, still have their markets and deserve better products that deliver true 60 and true 50 frames per second reliably every time. Also, YOLO’s quiet little remote guest feature is impressive, but it requires the mix minus capability that’s only available on the latest Ultra and Extreme to really be usable to any self-hosted production. New units with a CPU upgrade could make remote guest shows with the smaller boxes a reality at last. Now, I don’t know where YOLO’s naming convention goes from here, but I don’t think there’s a need for a tablet with greater than eight inputs. The Extreme will be at the top of its class for a while. Now, YOLO can focus on upgrading the other units and standardizing the software and capabilities across their [music] product line. Thanks for watching. >> [music] [music]

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Software & Control Highlights:

The Yolo Cam app supports:

• Continuous, single, and face-priority autofocus
• Manual ISO and white balance control
• 4K digital zoom with smooth transitions
• OBS integration for quick scene switching via keyboard shortcuts

This makes it possible to run a multi-angle production using only webcams—something that previously required more complex camera hardware.

Why It Matters:

What once required multiple DSLRs can now be accomplished with a trio of high-quality webcams. The Yolo Cam S3 introduces a category shift—bringing large sensors, 4K imaging, and manual controls to a product space that has historically been limited and predictable.

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Most video reviews I’ve seen where people are talking about a webcam, they will talk about the webcam kind of like I’m talking now, they’ll go over all of the nice cool things about it and then at the end they’ll finally switch over to the webcam footage and I I always kind of feel like, oh well that’s not really as great as they were kind of talking it up. And I’m always kind of disappointed that the quality is not as nice as, you know, the fancy camera that they’re using right now, the fancy DSLR or mirrorless camera that they’re actually using to film with. Well, here’s the thing about this video is I’m actually filming with this camera right now. In fact, let me pop up a graphic that just says what camera I’m filming with for this video. It’s going to stay there the rest of this video because this entire video is only going to be shot with this webcam. And when I say this webcam, I I’ve got one here. Got one here. And let me just pop out a bit cuz I’ve got one here as well. This is the Yolo Cam S3. And I think about two or maybe 3 months ago, Yolo Cam reached out to me. They asked me if I wanted to try out this webcam. I did. I was really, really impressed with it. I told them as much and I told them, I want to try something. My current setup, I’ve got two DSLR cameras set up on my desk. I’ve got one right in front of me, one that shows my desk. I want to see if I can recreate that setup with the Yellow Cam webcam. So, they sent me two more. I’ve got three in total. That’s how I’m able to show you this webcam while I’m filming with the same webcam, but different. That That’s That’s the webcam I’m filming with. That’s the camera I used to film with. I don’t know if I’m ever going to use that again. So, I’m going to use this camera. Just mount it here on the mount it comes with. Put it on a tripod because I want to show you the website. But of course, I’m going to film this whole video with only the webcam. So, rather than recording my screen, I’m going to record my screen with this. The main reason I want to show the website is just to go over the claims that they have with this webcam. So, 4K. Yes, it is 4K. Now, I’m filming this in 1080p, but because it’s 4K, it allows me to do things like zoom in, punch in a bit, or punch in a lot bit. Now, I’m not losing any quality because this is 4K. I can punch in this far using the full 4K resolution or I can go total widescreen like this 1080p. And yes, I am using keyboard shortcut keys to do all the jumping back and forth. That’s another reason I really like this webcam. So, jumping back to this other camera, one over 1.3 in sensor. They claim this is the largest CMOS ever in a webcam. I think there are a couple other webcams that are about the same size, but yeah, this is pretty big for a webcam. Very impressive. Fast autofocus. I’ll talk about this more in a bit when we go over the software. AI enhanced imaging. I don’t know what that means. Apparently, everything is AI now. It has good imaging. I don’t know if it’s AI software for camera settings. I will go over the software in just a bit. Let me just say what you can do with this webcam and the software is nice. That being said, the software I think is probably one of the biggest areas for improvement for this webcam. Picasso Resolve, I think they just mean you can do color grading, superb low light performance. Let’s check it out. Let me turn off my lights. This camera right here, I have manual ISO. And on this camera here, it’s automatic. So, let’s check out the difference. Let me go ahead and turn off all the lights. I just turned off the overhead light. Got a key light here. Turn that off. And another light here. Still got a couple colored lights behind me. Let me turn those off. So, this is the low light performance. Let me switch over to the other camera. And yeah, this is obviously pretty dark because it is manual ISO, automatic ISO, so you can tell the difference. The only light that is shining on my face is coming from my monitors. So, yeah, I would agree it does have good low light performance. No overheating guaranteed. I don’t know how they’re guaranteeing that. Now, I’ve got my hand on the camera right now. It is definitely warm. These cameras do get warm. They do not get hot. I’ve used several webcams similar to this that actually get really quite hot. These stay pretty warm. I leave them on 24/7. Never an issue. And lastly, plug-andplay flexible mounting. This webcam comes with a USBA to USBC cable. It has an adapter if you need USBC to USBC. And the way this mounts is it has a metal bracket that you can move it and then you can move it back and forth because it’s just attached via a magnet. So you can just plop it on there like that. If you want to do portrait mode, you can plop it on or portrait mode. I’d say that is pretty flexible. So here you can see me recording in OBS. Here’s the software. I’m not going to go over everything, but just point out a few things that I think are really nice. It does have a few different kind of focus mode. Right now we’re in continual focus. You can do single autofocus and also focus on the face. So, I actually have all my webcams set up for a different type of focus. You can also zoom the camera as you’ve been seeing me do. And what I really like is for exposure and for white balance. You can either have it be automatic or you can manually set things. So, I can manually set the ISO here. So, you can see as I adjust the ISO how that impacts things. The reason I love this webcam so much is it is extremely flexible. So, I’ve got three cameras here. If you look at this camera, you can see I’m using keyboard shortcuts to switch between all of the cameras. So, I’ve got camera one here. Hello. Camera two here, my top down camera. And then camera 3 here, my side camera. If I want to punch out, I can just go here. Or I can go into all sorts of different levels. And I can even keep going with all sorts of zoom levels. Wow, my keyboard is quite dusty. If you’re interested on how I’m doing all of this with keyboard shortcut keys, write a comment below. I could do another video on that. That’s a pretty fun setup. I’m using OBS and a few plugins to get that to work. But the reason I like that so much, I do product reviews. So, let’s say I want to move from this scene to a top- down scene where I want to show off this Rubik’s cube. I can switch there really quick. Or maybe I want to show this at a different angle. I can switch over really quick with my keyboard. Or maybe I’m reviewing headphones and I want to give a couple different angles doing that. I can just switch over like this. Just press the keyboard and I can show you what it looks like on the side view like that. If you are a live streamer, you get multiple of these webcams and you can set up different angles like I have. Or if you’re a teacher and you want to show a document on the desk, you can do that very easily. If you have a video channel where you do crafts or art, you can get really nice high quality with this webcam. You can see all the details of this gorgeous flower that I am drawing. If you need to zoom in, you can punch in. You can get really high detail with this webcam. If you have a music channel, then you can set up multiple webcams like this where you get a close-up of your instrument. Another shot of your whole setup. So many different options with this webcam. I’m just totally blown away by the quality, especially the versatility of this webcam. I plan on doing follow-up videos after I’ve used this for a while. If you have any questions, please let me know. I’ve honestly never been so excited for a webcam as I am for this Yolo Cam S3. Just incredible camera. 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This Streaming Alchemy overview demonstrates how to combine Zoom, Voicemeeter Banana, and the YoloBox Ultra to deliver professional, multi-camera layouts and seamless audio management.

You’ll see how to create interview-style side-by-sides, manage host views, and control your live feed like a pro — all while recording or streaming to your audience.
And when it’s time to scale beyond basic meetings, LiveToAirZ builds on these same principles for larger, multi-participant events, offering advanced flexibility for hybrid and virtual productions.

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Most Zoom calls look like Zoom calls, a grid of faces or a single speaker view. But what if you want something better? Something streamlined with professional layouts and the ability to feature a participant right beside you interview style? That’s exactly what I’ll walk through here. Built around the Yolo Box Ultra, a laptop, and a few supporting accessories. And with that, we can take our Zoom meeting from a default look to something deliberate and designed. To start, I’ll quickly show the gear and connections we used to make this work. I built this setup around four core pieces. A laptop to run Zoom, a Yolo Box Ultra to build and switch layouts, a USB headset with mic for the host, and a USB webcam for the host camera. On the laptop, I also installed software called Voice Meter Banana. It’s a free audio routing tool that lets us send a single audio source to multiple destinations at the same time, like Zoom, headphones, and the Yellow Box. And that’s something we need for this setup, and it’s not something Windows can do on its own. The USB headset plugs into the laptop, giving the host both a microphone for Zoom and a way to hear the meeting. From there, a 3.5 millimeter cable runs from the laptop’s headphone jack into the Yolo Box line. And this ensures the host voice doesn’t just go into Zoom. It also becomes part of the program feed for recording and streaming. To link the two systems, I connected the Yolo box back to the laptop over USBC. And this allows every Yolo box layout to appear in Zoom as if it were just another webcam. For the meeting content, an HDMI cable carries Zoom’s second monitor output from the laptop into HDMI input one on the YOLO box. That will be the feed we use to send a participant’s video over to the YOLO box, ready to be framed into different layouts. And since the host needs to appear in those layouts, I connected a USB webcam directly to the YOLO box. That camera becomes the anchor shot for the host throughout the production. With all the wiring and software in place, the next step was setting up the layouts inside the YOLO box. Now, inside the Yolo Box Ultra, I set up five layouts that we could switch between during the meeting. The first is a full screen of HDMI 1. Whenever I pin somebody in Zoom to that second monitor, that participant will fill this layout. Next is a full screen of the host webcam. That one came in automatically when the webcam was connected. The webcam layout didn’t need any changes, but HDMI 1 needed a quick tweak. I cropped it to remove the extra Windows elements, keeping it clean at 16×9, so the pin participant fills the frame. To build interaction, I created a sidebyside layout with the host webcam on one side and HDMI one on the other. This gives us that interview look where the host and participant appear together in equal balance. For presenting content, I added a layout that shows the slide deck full screen and I imported the slides as a PDF, copied that file to an SD card, dropped it into the YOLO box and selected it as an input. And finally, I built a news style layout that combines slides with the host. This way, the host stays present on screen while walking through material. The classic presenter with graphics frame. With these layouts ready, we had everything needed to move from a basic zoom view to something that feels like a polished production. Earlier, I mentioned Voice Meter Banana. This is the free audio routing software that makes this setup possible. You can download it from VB Audio’s website. And once it’s running, it works like a virtual mixing board inside your computer. When you open Voice Meter, the layout is always the same. Inputs are on the left, outputs are on the right, and what comes in on the left can be sent to whichever outputs you choose on the right. On the input side, there are two kinds. Physical inputs are real devices, the things you plug in. In this setup, hardware input one is the USB headset microphone. Virtual inputs are audio feeds from software. Here, voice meter’s VAIO carries the meeting audio coming from Zoom. On the output side, it’s the same story. Physical output sends sound to hardware. In this setup, A1 goes to the USB headset so the host can monitor the meeting. A2 goes to the laptop’s line out jack feeding the YOLO box and A3 goes to the laptop’s HDMI port which also feeds the YOLO box. Virtual outputs on the other hand send sound back into software. For this setup, B2 is the virtual audio out that Zoom can use as a microphone input. With that picture in mind, here’s how the routing works. The headset microphone comes in on hardware input one. I send it to B2 so Zoom gets the host mic as its input. I also send it to A2, the line out. So the Yolo box hears the host microphone as part of the program feed. The Zoom meeting audio comes in on the virtual input voice meter viio. I send it to A1 which drives the USB headset so the host hears the meeting and I send it to A3 which routes through the HDMI into the YOLO box. So the meeting audio is also part of the program as well. The result is clean and balanced. Zoom only hears the host. The host only hears Zoom and the Yolo Box hears both sides together as one program feed. In other words, everybody hears what they should and nobody hears what they shouldn’t. By letting voice meter handle the routing, a Windows limitation becomes a flexible, reliable audio workflow. And with the routing in place, the next step was dialing in the mix on the Yolo Box Ultra. Now on the YOLO box, I opened the audio mixer and enabled HDMI 1 and line in the two sources carrying meeting audio and the host mic. I balanced the levels so the host and participants sat naturally together. And with that done, the YOLO box was ready to capture the program feed. And here’s the real payoff. When you press record, the YOLO box is recording the layout you built, not Zoom’s tiles and menus. And if you go live, that same polish feed can stream directly to YouTube or any other platform. You’re not just screen grabbing a meeting. You’re producing something that feels put together. So with recording and streaming in place, I turn back to Zoom to make sure its settings match this workflow. With the YOLO box and voice meter configured, the last step is setting up Zoom so everything connects the right way. In Zoom’s video settings, I select the Yolo Box Ultra as the camera. Because the Yolo Box is connected over USBC in a UVC mode, whatever layout I switch to on the Yolo Box shows up in Zoom as the camera feed. That means that the directed program coming from the Yolo box, not just the ROAR webcam, becomes the view for everyone in the meeting. In Zoom’s audio settings, I set the microphone to voice meter output B2. That’s the virtual output carrying only the host mic. This way, participants hear the host clearly without any doubled audio. For the speaker, I set it to voice meter viio. That’s the virtual input device that takes Zoom’s meeting audio and brings it into voice meter. From there, voice meter splits it to the host headset and into the YOLO box so both get the same clean feed. The last step is enabling dual monitor mode in Zoom. This gives us two windows to work with. Monitor one will be where we manage the meeting. Monitor 2 is actually the HDMI input on the YOLO box. We can pin individual participants here to drive layouts like the sidebyside interview frame. So the division of labor is clear. Monitor one is for running the meeting itself, while monitor 2 feeds the YOLO box the participant video it needs for production. Working together, these two screens give you that director level control inside a Zoom call. With Zoom configured, the workflow is complete. And now we can see how it plays out in practice. Now imagine hosting a Zoom meeting with this setup. The Yolo Box feed is spotlighted so participants always see the clean layouts, whether that’s full screen, slides, or a side by side. If somebody raises their hand, you can pin their video to the second monitor and tap the side by side on the YOLO box. And in one move, you’ve placed them next to you in a professional interview frame. That simple combination, pin and zoom switch on the Yolo box turns a standard meeting into something that feels produced. It not only looks better, it also encourages people to take part. They’ll know that they can be featured cleanly and that their perspectives matter. And with both Spotlight and Pinning working together, you stay in control of exactly how the meeting looks to your audience. Hopefully, this has sparked a few ideas on how to elevate your own Zoom meetings, keeping what’s familiar, but giving it a more structured and polished look than your typical video call. We built this using the Yolo Box Ultra, which makes it easy to create professional layouts and manage a meeting like a production. But the concepts we’ve covered here, routing audio cleanly, framing layouts, and managing participants across two screens, those can be applied to almost any setup. And if you ever need to scale beyond meetings into something more eventlike, where you’re coordinating multiple guests, mixing content sources, or streaming to a wider audience, a tool like our live to air Z can extend the same ideas to that level of production. But whatever tools you use, the goal is the same. To create online sessions that look polished, sound clear, and keep people engaged. Thanks for taking the time to watch, and I hope you take what we covered here and make something amazing with it for your next Zoom meeting.

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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.