28/07/2025
Just because I’m retired doesn’t mean that I’m really retired, I just stopped taking assignments and started doing video stuff that I never got to do before and loving every second. My oldest son Paul in his free time organizes adult sport leagues, mostly basketball and volleyball for people over 35. I voluntarily been video recording these events and posting the edited videos on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com//streams.
Few months ago he suggested that we go live. The only time I went live in my career in major sport events was with with million dollars of equipment and crews of 50 or more people. So I scaled these events down to a microscopic scale. I took a self learning crash course on OBS (Open Broadcast Software), a put 6 PTZ cameras together all going into a MacBook Pro computer on the OBS program with over 20 scenes and graphics that I just sit do the switching, control the cameras remotely and go live on YouTube. Still work in progress as I keep experimenting by combining traditional video with web video, many in the live-streaming business told me that this will never work, that the computer will crash, but it’s working with absolutely no issues. Not exactly the stuff that AARP recommends for an almost 80yo guy to stay busy.