MixOne声音 & Cinema's Kevin Garcia Talks Hybrid Streaming with Live Bands

12月中旬，我与 MixOne声音 & 影院视频合作伙伴 & Director of Film Kevin Garcia about the tentative return of live music as the pandemic continues, the challenges of streaming shows with hybrid (in-person and online) audiences, and the gear and techniques MixOne uses to deliver a unique experience to their online viewers. 当我在2020年5月第一次采访凯文时, MixOne声音刚刚面世, their adventures with Rock Nation and elsewhere on the festival circuit forced into hiatus by the global pandemic. The crew had just begun the pivot to livestreaming audience-less shows, 部署他们的摄像机阵列, 切换, and recording gear from Blackmagic Design in a new state-of-the-art soundstage, and renewing their industry contacts to put their new business model into play.

Live music with in-person audiences has come back in fits and starts over the intervening 18 months. 在那个时候, Garcia's crew has worked with Rock Nation and Danny Wimmer, done shows and hybrid events with the likes of Jimmy Eat World, 科恩, Brockhampton, 以人为本, 骚动者乐团, 和其他人, many of them in partnership with "Elevated Digital Experiences" producer 现在的房子. Rhe emergence of hybrid events as a new standard for bringing music to fans who are able and to those unable to gather in the same place to hear their favorite bands, 正如加西亚所说, 很可能会继续, and opportunities abound for versatile live streaming crews like MixOne's to show these concerts to their streaming audiences from angles they might never see when watching in a venue, 不管他们的座位有多好.

Much of what enables the MixOne crew to give their online viewers these experiences is the work they've been doing with live bands long before the pandemic or streaming itself came into play for them. But Garcia also credits much of what they're able to accomplish to the gear they use, which was already fairly Blackmagic-centric when he and I spoke in 2020, with several URSA Mini Pro 12Ks in their kit (as well as ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K switchers, 视频辅助7”监视器/录像机, 和更多), but since then Kevin says they've incorporated Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pros into their workflow, which have helped them to get shots they never have before. 

"I'll use the Pockets almost like in a way you'd use like a GoPro," 他说. "They're not much bigger than a phone, as far as a footprint goes. 你可以把它们藏起来.“在…… Pentatonix:常青体验 "worldwide digital performance" show MixOne did at the KFC Yum! 就在我们采访之前, 他说, "we had 10 cameras: six URSA bodies and four Pocket Cinema Camera bodies [Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro and Pocket Cinema Camera 4K), 四个URSA Mini Pro 12k, 和两个星空广播G2s, 这些都非常有用, because I put them in areas where the light was a little more volatile. 它们在弱光下更好看, so I can shade 'em up or crank 'em up and down in real time to quickly to compensate just for lighting, 到处都是. URSA Mini Pro 12k看起来真的很漂亮. I don't film often in 12K because most of our streams get delivered in 1080, but the sensor just looks better and it's sharper filming at 4K and 8K and then using that to get two angles out of one. Instead of 10 cameras, to the viewer it looks like we have 15."

As for how long he sees the current hybrid trend in live music lasting, 加西亚说,, "I think we're going to be living in a hybrid model for quite some time, 尤其是国际旅行. COVID将伴随我们一段时间. 如果你和一个高危人群住在一起, 但你还是想去听音乐会, 你不会想去的, 但现在流媒体提供了一种方法. It's going to enable a lot of people to still be at events in a safe way that they couldn't have done before, 如果它被正确地呈现, 它也可以同样有趣."