 One of my favorite companies in the Mac industry here is Boink Software and I'm here with Oliver Breidenbach who's a great friend of the Mac community and he adores me so we're going to have a chat we're going to have a chat about his products here. What are you showing at the show today? We're showing our live video production system MemoLife. It's able to switch multiple video camera sources, add graphics, social media, twitter feed, what have you and stream it out to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, anything that takes an RTP live stream. You can also record it to disk so if you want to do quick video production like for example record a presentation or something editing while it happens, live editing saves you a lot of time because you don't have to do post production. Very cool so this is this is software that replaces expensive hardware switchers correct? Yes absolutely everything that's in a TV truck that costs a million dollars is available in your laptop with MemoLife. So I am going to confess that we had breakfast with Oliver and his brother Akim just last week and he we started talking about MemoLife and he said well let's just go back to your house and we'll go set it up for you. So they did a private lesson for us which was that's quite the way to really learn a product. We're going to try to use this for the live show so that's why you guys care about this product if not to buy it for yourselves to see what we're going to be able to do with it. One of our goals is to move the production from me over to Steve because he's on a high-end iMac and I'm on a laptop and it doesn't make sense for me to be doing all the juggling while I'm creating the live show so why don't you start showing us what MemoLife looks like. So MemoLife is basically very structured very easily so you're on the one end you have your inputs on the other hand you have your outputs so the workflow is pretty easy from from left to right you have your inputs you have your mixing you set up the parameters of all the graphical elements that you can position you have a multi-view with overview of all your video sources and there's your outputs your streams your recordings your anything so it looks very intimidating because there's a lot of information on the screen but actually it's quite easy to follow and to configure once you've mastered the these basic principles. So when we first saw you doing this it was really intimidating but when after you left we start poking around on our own and we were able to put up a pod feet logo we put a clock on to on to the presentation so we started getting the hang of it a little bit pretty quickly. Yeah I mean this is one of the core philosophies of our company is we want to make software that's very very powerful so we have very big brand names and professionals using MemoLife but we wanted to make it accessible to kids so a lot of our most favorite users are children in schools and they are able to operate it by themselves and they figure it out and configure it and whatever and probably easier and faster than than their teachers and that's kind of the exciting thing you know enabling those kids to be like real broadcasters. Yeah so this is Becca I'm old enough that this was the equivalent of the intercom system that you'd say today at four o'clock there will be a festival in the Quad area right but now it's a video they're watching it on tv they're doing like little news shows and stuff it looks like it looks like a news show like two anchor people you know they have green screen and and like the b-rolls they play inserts and all the kinds of you can all do all of that in MemoLife. The kids are smarter than us too you're right they're gonna learn this faster than I am. Yeah that's let's hope that they are smarter so the future is bright. Yeah that's great so MemoLife for a home user what what kind of pricing are we talking about? So we have a yearly cost of 199 if you buy three years you get one free so it's two three for the price of two years you can do also a monthly license that's about I think 1999 something and you can also only purchase the months you want to use so you can you know only pay per use basically. That's a great way that's kind of a pretty flexible model that's good is there a free trial? Yes you can download free trial it will have a watermark overlay but you can play around with it and see if it's for you and if you want to do more production level testing then we'll be happy to give you a month or two free. So what I like about this is it allows you to progressively increase the level of madness of what crazy things you start doing and right now my production is real stable and working regularly so we need to change it up that's what we're looking for yeah we've spiced it up a little. Exactly now you also wanted to show us something else we have running on the iPad here. Yes called PhotoPresenter it's an app that we developed for Bastion actually so the idea is that you can school through your photo library pick photos and they will show up on your TV show so for example you're showing your grandparents your vacation photos you don't want to see them all of the photos right there's some photos in there they want don't want them to see so you can just scroll through your photo library and pick the ones you want them to see and they will show up so that's the basic idea useful also for non-linear presentation the business environment for example we have an aquarium and they do presentations talking about the fish that swim up to the to the fish tank glass and you can't tell the fish to swim up in a certain order and so the shark comes along and the person wants to talk about the shark so they find the shark images click on the shark image and it shows up and so this is a non-linear form of presentation where you don't have like a like a keynote or power point set up that you follow through so you just pick a photo and it will show up so you just tapped a photo on the iPad screen and that's been connected up to his to this monitor and I can tell it's going through MIMO live because I recognize that clock on the side and it's got some lower thirds actually actually we're showing what we're showing here is the NDI technology which is basically a software replacement for a hardware cable so your HDMI cable you know that from hooking up your TV to to your video right NDI tries to replace that so you don't have to hook up your TV and your your device with a special cable you can just use the internet or internet IP connection basically wireless or network oh really wireless or hardware yes and so this is wirelessly sending this NDI signal to our MIMO live and we use it as a video source here so we got this photo here you can zoom in zoom in to the photo that's the one one so kind of hard to press the buttons when you're doing this sideways like sideways and then we can highlight you know the important he's got a picture by the way for those only listening this is Oliver and Akim with Steve Wozniak with Wozniak yeah and what are you guys holding there that's that's an apple one computer wow so the raw board yes the Woz was kind enough to sign one for us so we've got a signed apple one board oh my gosh that's fantastic yeah so what's cool is if you look Steve over at the at the iMac Pro the beautiful dark gray iMac Pro you can see that he's set up at that the picture that's coming from photo presenter is in as a video source over on the left this one this is the this this is the incoming video source and this is the signal that goes out so this is called the program out this is the same image you see on the on the screen over there this is the same image that will go to facebook youtube live stream so this is the the program out and these are the sources you can see and you can quickly switch to a different source here so yeah we got a couple of cameras here and we can switch around and I think this one is he's clicking and just choosing different video sources as as the inputs and it's switching live one of the things that I really liked in the home tutorial that you did for us was you set me up with my iPad where I could actually do some of the switching from my room even though the software is running in Steve's room what was that call that's the remote control surface it's an it's a web service that we built into mimo life so you can use it on any other computer with the browser your ipad your iphone android device your laptop your mac so that actually solved the last piece of the puzzle was I want to give Steve control but I couldn't figure out was I going to have to say on the air okay Steve switch to my video source for my laptop screen you know because I want to switch between me and my screen and now I can just tap a button on my side and it's doing it but all of the hardware work is over on Steve's Mac so that's a really cool cool feature yes yeah with that what should I say yes I agree yes I agree approved thumbs up now do you charge extra for that no no it's all included in the basic package so see that's the beauty of I mean you know subscription models are very controversial but the beauty of it is on the other hand we don't have to charge you know all the nitty nitty pretty things there are some add-ons you can buy for mimo life which is additional content additional layers different kinds of lower standards and stuff like that but the basic functionality we when we update it if you have a current subscription you just get all the stuff for free that's fantastic okay if people want to find more about this where would they go points comm slash me more life boinx.com is the the website of course and and there's a big section about me more life very good thank you very much for for talking to us today thanks thanks for having me on the show it's a it's always a pleasure