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YoloBox Ultra combines the best of YoloBox Pro and Instream

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YoloLiv has officially announced the YoloBox Ultra (buy here), first teased at IBC 2023 in Amsterdam in September. It’s an all-in-one streaming solution offering many great features, combining the best of the YoloBox Pro (buy here) and Instream (buy here) devices.

It also brings features that neither of those units offer, such as 4K streaming and a brighter screen for use in more locations. It also provides ISO recording, allowing you to capture each incoming video source in a separate file for future editing.

Exclusive: First look at the YOLOCam, Yololiv new camera

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You know YOLOLIV for its streaming boxes. Now, they are expanding their product line with the introduction of YoloCam. It is a feature-packed webcam offering a large 1.3-inch Sony sensor, 4K 60 support, and super fast autofocus.

We took a look at this camera at IBC 2023 with Frank Zhu. Check it out:

First look at the YoloBox Ultra independent streaming solution

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YoloLiv, just announced its new YoloBox Ultra, at IBC 2023, and it solves one of our biggest pains with the YOLOLiv line of streamers: You can steam to all services with one box. In the past, you needed to select between a YOLObox (Facebook, YouTube streaming) and Instream (Instagram/TikTok streaming). The new YOLOBox Ultra does them all.

The CEO of YoloLiv, Frank Zhu, shard that the new YoloBox Ultra has an improved CPU that enables streaming to traditional platforms like Facebook and YouTube, as well as new platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.

Hollyland VenusLiv streaming camera officially announced

We first got to take a peek at this one back in April at NAB 2023. It’s the Hollyland VenusLiv (buy here), and it was an impressive little streaming camera. Back when it was called “Venuss”. But that’s changed with the official announcement.

The new camera is pretty much as was stated at NAB. It’s a camera intended primarily for live streaming. It works in both horizontal and vertical orientations, with high-speed autofocus and multiple connectivity options.

Atomos Ninja Cast lets you control your AtomX Cast from your desktop

Two years ago, Atomos launched the AtomX Cast (buy here). Essentially, it’s an add-on for your Atomos Ninja V (buy here) or Ninja V+ (buy here) that turns it into a live-streaming video switcher. It allows you to feed four HDMI sources into it, with buttons to switch from one camera to another. It provides many of the usual live stream switcher features and lets you stream to your PC via USB or to another device over HDMI.

Now, Atomos has announced the new Ninja Cast Desktop Software, giving full control over your AtomX Cast from your computer. It’s available for both Windows and macOS and provides easy access to all of the buttons and settings you’re able to adjust on the unit itself. Any changes made to either the AtomX Cast or your desktop are immediately reflected in the other.

YouTube is killing off “Stories” to focus on Shorts and Live

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YouTube is killing off a feature you probably weren’t using anyway and won’t miss. June 26th marks the death of YouTube Stories, a feature released in 2017 shortly before the company announced “Reels” – now YouTube Shorts. What made YouTube Stories different is that the videos were temporary, disappearing after a week. It also wasn’t available to users with fewer than 10,000 subscribers.

This 10K subscriber requirement almost certainly doomed YouTube Stories from the beginning. It remained in beta since its initial launch and never gained in popularity at all. In fact, I can’t recall a single time in the last six years that I’ve ever seen any of the creators I follow actually post a “Story”. Sure, there have been plenty of Shorts, but not Stories.

Nvidia’s streaming software now makes your eyes look at the camera even when they’re not

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If you have a hard time focusing on zoom meetings or paying attention to your audience during live streams, then fear no more! Nvidia is here to save the day with the newest update to the Nvidia Broadcast software. It includes the new Eye Contact feature, which simulates eye contact with the camera when you’re looking away from it. It actually has some real-world applications besides just being distracted during virtual work meetings.

Eye Contact is currently in beta and has been introduced with Nvidia Broadcast 1.4.0. About the effect, Nvidia says, “the eyes retain their natural colour and blinks”. This is to help ensure that the effect is sold to your audience as well as possible. There’s even a disconnect feature that, if you look too far away from the camera, transitions the direction of your eyes smoothly from the simulated eyes to your real eyes, so nobody’s ever the wiser.

Elgato has launched the Stream Deck+ with fewer buttons and more knobs

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Popular streaming gear manufacturer, Elgato, has announced the new Stream Deck +. Like the original Stream Deck and its many variants, and as the name suggests, it’s aimed primarily at streamers, but it features abilities far beyond those needed to play your favourite game on Twitch. And now, for the first time, a Stream Deck device gets a bunch of knobs you can press and spin around for precise adjustment control.

For gamers, these knobs let you adjust things like the volume of your game vs your microphone vs your overall headphone loudness. But for people like us, using applications such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, these can offer fine control during the editing process for things like hue, saturation and brightness for colour grading, zoom or frame advance for video editing.

Rode’s NT-USB+ desktop voiceover and streaming mic comes with powerful internal audio processing

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Rode has announced the new Rode NT-USB+, an update of the company’s popular Rode NT-USB desktop USB microphone, released in 2014. It’s designed for voiceovers, podcasting, streaming and even singers who want to capture studio-quality sound into their computer without a bunch of expensive equipment and interfaces. And it satisfies that need easily, requiring only a single USB cable directly from the microphone to your computer.

It brings “next-generation” features over the original NT-USB, with a studio-grade condenser capsule with a tight cardioid polar pattern to minimise unwanted environmental sounds. It has an ultra-low-noise, high-gain Revolution Preamp with a 24-bit 48kHz analogue-to-digital converter and internal DSP for advanced audio processing directly within the microphone itself.

Canon is now charging for its EOS Webcam Utility Software

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When the COVID-19 pandemic took over the world, we all switched to living our lives online. And during this switch, Canon introduced its EOS Webcam Utility Software – a free tool that lets you use your Canon camera as a webcam.

Two years later, the free software gets some new features in the Canon EOS Webcam Utility Pro. But there’s a catch – if you want to use them, you’re going to have to pay.

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