Most of my work revolves around live-streaming. During this whole social distancing thing, I've been inundated with work at home to connect people who typically did in-person events/meetings. For each event, we use a series of graphics to overlay on the live-video. Names, job descriptions, titles, etc.
I suck at graphic design and cringe at the thought of every time I have to make them from scratch. Given where I work, we have to re-brand almost everything and it all lacks continuity. Also, I'd get most of the information needed (names, titles etc.) either the day of or on my way to an event. I can't even count how many times I've created graphics on an airplane just to land and learn the stakeholder needed to change everything and I had 2 hours to make 100+ new designs.
Yesterday, my coworker in the EU made a cloud-based library on Premiere with a single point of truth for graphics. Lower thirds, count-down timers, Q&A, the whole 9 yards. It's extensive, aesthetically on point and super easy to work with.
Now, any time I have a live event, all I need to do is change the text and export for my live-stream service (using wirecast) and add in a layer. Once all this social distancing shit ends and I get back to using a studio, I can connect Premiere as an NDI source and change the text in real-time for live playback, so 0 exports needed.
I don't know who this will make sense to or if anyone will care but it's revolutionary for both my stress levels and work flow.
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