Daily Note - May 07, 2022

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Business

• Tried putting MacBook Air on the Rain stand, and I liked that the most. I can keep my head straight and my eyes don’t travel too far down. Luckily, I still had the USB dock that I had planned on selling, and it works great. At first it didn’t work because I plugged it into the wrong slot. For the computer to recognize it, I had to plug it into the USB-C slot with the laptop icon (duh). Then I connected the CamLink and it showed up in Quicktime. But when I connected the Stream Deck and added a new button, it didn’t show up. Then later in the afternoon, all I did was wake the laptop back up, and then after a bit, the icons showed up on the Stream Deck.

• After I installed Ecamm Live on laptop and installed the stream deck plugin, when I made changes to the stream deck, they showed up right away so it looks like it’s working now. One weird thing is that the text in the alerts from StreamDeck is not visible. I have to select all or highlight to see what it’s saying.

• Current distance between mic and camera is 33". The Rode SC10 is only 12". Looks like Adorama has the VC1 10 foot extension for $18.

• The VC1 is TRS, but the SC10 is TRRS.

• 6 orders today! Only $175 away from 10K revenue. I was expecting to reach 10K by May 12, but it looks like I might get there earlier.

• Automated emailing invoice to my client with Keyboard Maestro.

• From the Rode site: The auto-sensing output is an intelligent feature that seamlessly detects whether your microphone is plugged into a TRS input, like those on most cameras, or a TRRS input, which most smartphones and tablets have, and switches the output to accommodate. This means you don’t have to worry about using TRS to TRRS adaptor cables – the SC10 cable that accompanies the VideoMic NTG will work seamlessly with any device.

• Found videos confirming I should get Rode SC8 cable.