 Hi everybody Thank you for watching this review of the new tech TC one product. My name is Ron Vargas I'm Alan Salkian. Hi Alan. We produce a show here in the San Francisco Bay area I personally have been a professional technical director using the new tech products since 2011 I've used all of the models the the 860 the 460 the mini the 8000 and as mentioned we purchased the TC one about a year ago doing this review kind of shoots my I shoot myself in the foot because I'm friendly with people that sell the product I'm friendly with people that rent the product and I'm friendly with production houses that use this product Professionally, so it's not going to do me any good by keeping it real For anybody interested in purchasing the TC one I Understand there's a special that new tech is running where you trade in your old new tech and get up to $7,500 if you trade it in for a TC one and I just want to Be clear about the new tech product all of the products in Theory it's a wonderful product. It says it does so much and they have Big props to new tech on their marketing department. They're selling these new tech Tri-casters, however in practice everything that it says it does it really can't do On a professional level if we have the budget, we're going to have to use a separate component to encode the live stream We're going to have to use a separate component to record wherever we can use a backup Component we guess we can't use everything that the tri-casters says it can do For primary we we definitely need backup to do this if you're looking to get into a video production as a Hobby then maybe you can get the new tech products because it's a toy But if you're going to buy it professionally where anything really matters if you're going to be hired out to use this Product at its fullest capacity It's not going to deliver the most recent event that the TC one was hired to do was the Maker Faire Bay Area Festival in Here in the Bay Area and I was hired to use it specifically for its NDI Capacity and we had all four SDI inputs Being used and we used six NDI sources using the new tech spark The problem that we encountered using this was processing. It seemed like the tri-caster was too Taxed a little bit too much to handle what we were doing granted We weren't using the built-in encoder which can deliver to two or more Content delivery networks in theory, but we've ran into problems throughout the year that we've used this With with that concern, but we just do it for our show simulation We're really not using it to its fullest capacity when we try to use it to its fullest capacity We run into problems the NDI scan converter, which replaces the IVGA component where you can see laptop or It just it doesn't it's not dependable it works sometimes in real time and other times It it doesn't but this has been the problem with all of new tech products from the get-go what it says it can do and What it actually can deliver? It's a little misleading. There are other There are other video switches that you can buy I strongly recommend the black magic Components where you get separate encoders separate recorders a separate video switcher. They just divide it all up but this whole Mobile truck in a box theory that new tech sells itself on Don't be fooled. It's it's not that good Even the new tech cameras that work with the PTZ controller in the new tech It's it's it works marginal. It's it's not it's not exceptional You know, you want to you're gonna get what you pay for For the most part with the new tech camera As far as the the new tech product itself You're you're gonna pay a significant amount of money, but you're really not getting The best component to use so we're using it. We're using the TC one right now a simple Recording we're not encode. We're not encoding. We're not going live We we trust it to do that But the more you want to use the tricaster for the less dependable it's gonna be did I miss anything Alan? So Ron Vagus is a preferred technical director here in the Bay Area, and he's been doing this the latter mostly the latter part of his life and I myself have been hosting the show simulation that Ron produces and directs and we have purchased this tricaster TC one so within my lifetime, I've only spent about a year and a half using the tricasters and Aiming to use their the connectivity of adding additional cameras and doing this multi-camera live stream technology and some some of the things that I can mention along this review are that initially when this Purchase occurred that I Figured that by spending upwards of $40,000 on the equipment that we were putting together that it would be like if you bought a Tesla and that the Tesla was to be able to adequately drive From destination to destination with a hundred percent accuracy but for some reason sometimes with the new tech technology and we understand that it's hundreds of engineers and That are really trying to build this this technology together and it's pretty good but it would be like if the Tesla was to Occasionally malfunction in the middle of the highway or the street And you would have to stop with the Tesla and then say oh, okay Now I have to call into support and I can't even really call and I have to chat into the support and then there's a Really strenuous process with that So you can really understand if you're trying to spend tens of thousands of dollars on something like a Tesla or a new Tricaster they should be in almost a hundred percent performance category just a couple of the other things that we've experienced with this technology When we first Ron mentioned this when we first bought the system, we also bought new tech's NDI PTZ cameras And they to say the least They had a leg when we were switching between Cameras on their system and it was a very noticeable leg And we had to return those and get JVC PTZ cameras instead because there is no leg with those cameras And we are not using the well We're not using them through Tricaster would just as I mentioned earlier. We're using a separate component and as Alan had mentioned, you know We purchased this new tech NDI PTZ system believing in its efficiency and I sold Alan on this idea and I I definitely retract Everything I said as far as purchasing this gear it didn't deliver as it said it would So there's a couple one one more another really pressing thing is that basically from the time in March of 2018 until What was it six months later? Maybe even longer nine months later? It took us a really long time to be able to have the audio and the video Sync when we livestream to Facebook and YouTube at the same time So going to two content delivery networks had we had an issue with audio video sync for six to nine months in 2018 until Finally, we were able to work and it was it was a very strenuous process working with their team Trying to figure out what the issues were working with the person that sold us the tricaster as well And I just don't wish that process to any content creators I wish for a content creator that wants to buy something like a black magic or or a new tech system Like Ron said the older systems Have had a greater amounts of efficacy and the issues that Ron has Ron's bringing up with what happened at the Maker Faire It's not just happened at just the Maker Faire. It's been happening at several of the technical the higher-end technical events that Ron has went and went and produced using the tricaster in its fullest capacity Any events where we use the tricaster minimally as mentioned and just get separate components. It works fine So we we get that it's it's hundreds of people that are trying to engineer this technology It's like trying to engineer a Boeing 747 or like I said a Tesla like it requires big teams of people that are working Their asses off But at the same time just don't market that the NDI PTZ cameras are so Exceptional the most complete production on the planet. Is that what they say? Yeah in theory, but in practice No So let's wrap it up here. That's enough We would have loved to have all the components here working to its fullest if we had the time and the patients However, we don't so wrapping it up if you want to buy the new tech product if you're going to use it as a hobby go right ahead and work with them as They are beta test their products But if you're going to purchase it for a professional capacity look into other products Thank you for watching. Thank you everyone. Good luck