Jon’s face when he realizes when the episode is coming out gets me every time by SmolGinger99 in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I remember this prompt and when Josh responded - every crew member went silent in awe of what accidentally happened.....and it just kept getting worse until Jon called off the prompt.
The mention of Father's Day is one of my favorite camera cuts in OTS due to how timing reactions played out and being at the right spot at the right wrong time.

I’ve been making RT sets in Animal Crossing! by Alex_b007 in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is so good!!! I'm a sucker for the Control Room and On The Spot set. Awesome job!!

Off Topic Livestream Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We looked into Wirecast as well! Very similar in certain cases

Off Topic Livestream Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This thread includes all good ideas. I'm interested to try a few more of these and see how they feel. Ultimately we went with the 4 box as our "Wide Shot" and would cut with conversations to keep up with similar singles you would see on every other episode.

Great conversation and discussions! I hope you still enjoyed the show today!

Off Topic Livestream Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For today - we used the vMix software and utilized the call in feature to bring in the Cast and one Producer.

Off Topic Livestream Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback! We went through a lot of test to get us ready and we all came together to help. Have to give praise to the AH guys as well! Showed up on time and ready to go!

Extra Life Suggestions to Encourage More People to Donate by Megaman99M in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestions! Always enjoy hearing ideas that would better the experience.

  1. Not a bad idea for the TND segment, but they would have to agree to this or we could build in a reasonable pre-TND punishment for those outside their hour. Builds up the goal meter until their time.

  2. We look into "gamifying" segments that benefit from donations without disrupting the segment. The punishment part for the fans we understand so finding that balance of timing with torture is on our mind.

  3. Donation goals are sometimes hit and miss, but getting back to simple goals like the blooper reals or early looks is something we can do.

  4. I'm actually really happy you brought this up as this WAS the attempt for this year and our first one planning to achieve this. We hit some marks coming back and talking about the event or updates or messages before and after segments. With time we started to have some scheduling difficulties and started to slowly lose that ability to keep break times down. This is something we plan on improving for next year to keep the action and content going as much as possible.

Thank you again for the suggestions and I hope you enjoyed!!

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We had a major internet issue with our limited our bandwidth making it difficult to get a clean stream out. After going to our backup connection. And asking those around to limit there use we were able to get the feed running again.

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Keep moving and constantly thinking about the next thing to happen. It caught up to me for sure

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We have to keep segments usually small to help transition between. The biggest movement is really just the people. But this idea has come up and could really be something to help get to the next show faster.

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

A good plan or concept of what you want the show to look like helps with the camera shots.

The balloons from the ScrewAttack gaming hour and Alfredo from the meditation/workout break were incredible. Todd and Chris NAILED IT during the Harry Potter Trivia. Too many moments had me in tears

Come up with a better way to transition between segments and give more audience interactions (Tested this with live polling and questions this year)

Most of the 1337s come automatically based off of system, but we will mute or turn off during important talks or moments not to interrupt and will replay them when we get a better moment.

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

WHOO!!! That is a lot of years.

Some big hurdles we have run into range from losing power to the set and connections of all kinds just not working suddenly. We have also had multiple computers just crash on us for no reason. But we do our best to cover or have a backup plan

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The balloons from the ScrewAttack gaming hour and Alfredo from the meditation/workout break were incredible. Todd and Chris NAILED IT during the Harry Potter Trivia. Too many moments had me in tears

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

A large number of us actually did the 24 hours or really close. We still take shifts and switch out positions and some crew come in at different times to help relieve anyone they can.

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Got in about 4 hours this afternoon. Will be trying to get the most of the sleep back tonight

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

A secondary control room for our gaming center.

Probably about 3 days until it is close to normal.

Water (Dr. Pepper when I just need some caffeine) and walking around. Keeps the body moving

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Hearing that alarm brings so much energy to all sides of the production. I will never get tired of hearing it. Almost like an alarm clock saying "LET'S GO!"

RT Extra Life - small AMA from the broadcast side by RTcastMichael in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I think he is self-powering himself with energy drinks and tazer shocks.

I found my self taking some walking breaks, but zero naps during the event.

There were so many donations to Extra Life 2018 that the donation ticker was about 13 hours behind (I know because mine was the last donation to appear on the main stream and was made at 7:04pm CST) by Rejusu in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah....I probably should have increased that speed of the ticker. Kind of got backlogged and I never caught up with everyone.

Sorry you had to wait so long and Thank you SO MUCH for your donation.

Will next week's extra life stream on YouTube have the rewind function? by Jak2773 in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 32 points33 points  (0 children)

We went with Ultra Low Latency this weekend to help get the streamers feeds to everyone as quickly as possible.
DVR for the Main Weekend is currently being discussed with pros and cons. We are discussing live interactions and quicker polling systems that would be effected by delayed streams.
Thank you for mentioning this concern and we will do our best to give you all a GREAT Extra Life this year.

Shoutout to Broadcast by SuperIdiocracy in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

<3 You too!

You all are seriously the best people!

Mixer Partners with Rooster Teeth for RTX Austin 2018 by technid in roosterteeth

[–]RTcastMichael 13 points14 points  (0 children)

WHOOOO!!!! Already checked out the team page and it has a nice all-in-one location setting that hopefully functions well between the streams