Zoom Spotlight two people on second screen

[Tortuga]

Zoom lets you spotlight two people at the same time, which is really nice for the student talks. Our A/V brothers are trying to figure out how to do that at the KH and show it on the big monitors. They can spotlight one person on the second screen and drag that to the second display so it shows up on the big monitors, but when they add another spotlight to the second screen, the spotlight doesn't work. Any suggestions?

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

OBS would have the power to do it. You just need to find someone skilled to set it all up. The zoom sound mixing back at the KH might need to purchase an add-on.

And then hope that the next series of updates (on any or all programs) doesn't trip it up.

 

The S-261 para 19,20 discourages this approach. 

Edited August 17, 2022 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

[Tortuga]

I heard they tried OBS and decided not to use it, so that isn't an option.

[Hinata]

54 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

They can spotlight one person on the second screen and drag that to the second display so it shows up on the big monitors, but when they add another spotlight to the second screen, the spotlight doesn't work. Any suggestions?

 

Zoom has the native ability to spotlight multiple users. So I’m not sure why there would be a problem regarding adding additional spotlight, unless there are some kind of problem with the Zoom set up on your side. (See Zoom support article: Spotlighting participants’ videos for more information.) So you will just add two publishers onto the spotlight as usually and it will appear on the second monitor on KH as it would. This way used to worked with us always.

 

However, as Brother Tony said, the organisation specifically has asked not to use this method of spotlighting multiple participants onto big screen. I’d suggest that it would be nice if the A/V servants of your congregations to prayerfully consider the directions given from the organisation.

 

[Tortuga]

2 hours ago, Hinata said:

 

The brothers always prayerfully consider the directions from the Branch...

Edited August 17, 2022 by Tortuga

[Tortuga]

2 hours ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

 

The S-261 para 19,20 discourages this approach. 

Thanks. I am not involved in the A/V so i haven't read the S-261 lately. 

 

It looks like my question is moot..

[Pabo]

On 8/18/2022 at 2:52 AM, Hinata said:

However, as Brother Tony said, the organisation specifically has asked not to use this method of spotlighting multiple participants onto big screen.

While most times we generally let Zoom switch between the two who are on Zoom alternating between the two speaking, we had an issue where one of the speaker's microphone wasn't picking the person up properly and the second screen stayed just with the one whose microphone was the strongest. We then had to resort of spotlighting them both onto the big screen so it is easier for all to understand the part.

[quincy]

On 8/17/2022 at 8:43 AM, Tortuga said:

Zoom lets you spotlight two people at the same time, which is really nice for the student talks. Our A/V brothers are trying to figure out how to do that at the KH and show it on the big monitors. They can spotlight one person on the second screen and drag that to the second display so it shows up on the big monitors, but when they add another spotlight to the second screen, the spotlight doesn't work. Any suggestions?

might be worth reading over the instructions we received for hybrid meetings. The instructions we got in California stated specifically to use active speaker mode rather than using the spotlight feature. 

[Tortuga]

2 hours ago, quincy said:

might be worth reading over the instructions we received for hybrid meetings. The instructions we got in California stated specifically to use active speaker mode rather than using the spotlight feature. 

Thanks, Tony mentioned that earlier and i sent it to the AV brother that had asked the question. We had read the instructions when it first came out but apparently both of us forgot. I appreciate being reminded.