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Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

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Re: Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

#13
I love this. For structured presentations, this is really awesome.

It would be great if you also had more of a non-linear mode for content that is less structured and more suited to live events where anything can happen at any time.

For video meetings, podcasts/talk shows, etc. there is often content repeated between calls/presentations (theme song/intro, memes, sound effects etc) and also planned content from a topic list, but that content may be mentioned by anyone at anytime so it should be easy to trigger without too much scrolling.

Maybe it would look more like a sound effect board/stream deck/TV Mixer where there is a matrix of buttons to playback videos, add titles, show images, play sound effects, etc.

In the future, it would be awesome to have support for chroma key (green screen), data driven motion graphics (score board, live weather, live stock data, etc).

Basically, if you could dramatically simplify OBS, and it looks like you've already made some big steps in that direction, that would be highly valuable.

Re: Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

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I've been a paid presenter for a bunch of years, and switching to online presentations in 2020 was a huge chore. You're absolutely right about OBS being hard to work with.

This solves pretty much every problem I encountered. I would buy this in a second.

But I have to ask, why a subscription? Why can't I download this software like I do with all my other presentation software? What value does a subscription buy me?

Re: Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

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post #15

I've been a paid presenter for a bunch of years, and switching to online presentations in 2020 was a huge chore. You're absolutely right about OBS being hard to work with. This solves pretty much every problem I encountered. I would buy this in a second. But I have to ask, why a subscription? Why can't I download this software like I do with all my other presentation software? What value does a subscription buy me?

The typical answer is it funds ongoing development, support, and maintenance. The alternative is new versions requiring repurchase of a new license to fund ongoing development. As a developer I would much prefer reoccurring revenue as an incentive to keep developing vs having to build large shrink wrapped releases and managing LTS etc.

Whether $120/year is reasonable or not is debatable though. Seems steep for the casual user but for people that professionally do presentations, these sorts of things can be extremely pricey even on purchased licenses.

Re: Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

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post #15

I've been a paid presenter for a bunch of years, and switching to online presentations in 2020 was a huge chore. You're absolutely right about OBS being hard to work with. This solves pretty much every problem I encountered. I would buy this in a second. But I have to ask, why a subscription? Why can't I download this software like I do with all my other presentation software? What value does a subscription buy me?

The typical answer is it funds ongoing development, support, and maintenance. The alternative is new versions requiring repurchase of a new license to fund ongoing development. As a developer I would much prefer reoccurring revenue as an incentive to keep developing vs having to build large shrink wrapped releases and managing LTS etc. Whether $120/year is reasonable or not is debatable though. Seems steep for the ca…

There are lots of pieces of software where that makes sense, but presentation software is not one of them. Specifically, adoption of new features in presentation software is rare and slow because you don't want to be fiddling with unfamiliar things while trying to give a presentation.

I would be extra upset if a feature changed or the interface changed between practicing and giving a presentation for example.

I want my presentation software to have a set of features and then never change until I make a very deliberate act of upgrading to a new version while still having the old one around in case I get stuck.

A subscription to auto-updating software is about the worst thing I can think of presentation software in particular.

Re: Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

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I love this. For structured presentations, this is really awesome. It would be great if you also had more of a non-linear mode for content that is less structured and more suited to live events where anything can happen at any time. For video meetings, podcasts/talk shows, etc. there is often content repeated between calls/presentations (theme song/intro, memes, sound effects etc) and also planned content from a topi…

> It would be great if you also had more of a non-linear mode for content that is less structured and more suited to live events where anything can happen at any time.

I've been thinking on how to do this "non-linear mode for content" but haven't been able to figure out the actual infrastructure for it.

The problem I see is accessing the content in real-time; how does one pull up content in real-time without materially affecting the flow of conversation? Of course, this assumes you know the location of the relevant piece of content. And don't even THINK about combining different pieces of content together in real-time!

Re: Show HN: Presentations for your webcam, not a projector

#20
Maybe someone knows how to solve a common sharing issue, I didn't see it mentioned here:

I have a single ultra wide screen and would like to share a virtual area that has a normal size (16:9) with people via Google Meets, Slack, etc. Otherwise I have to share a window, stop, share another one etc.

Really bad, especially during some on call emergency session.

So far I couldn't make it work, only Zoom had this feature at some point but nobody uses Zoom where I have worked.

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