Casey Zeman's livestream video looked choppy and robotic. He thought the Sony ZV-1 was broken, but friends pointed him toward the real culprit: a faulty HDMI cable or bad connection between the camera and his Mac mini.
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But what was happening was the video I was creating was super choppy. I look like a robot and I was like, maybe I couldn't figure out how to do it where I was using these livestream entry points, right? And my team was like, hey, Casey, you're going to have to film, you know, this way where you're into this camera, but you're using this audio. And it was like, I was like, I'm going through my head going crazy. So what I ended up doing is I talked to my friends and I said, what? You know, I'm about to throw this camera away and get a new one. What kind of camera should I get? And he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't think it's— let me see. Wait, I don't think it's the camera because you have a Sony ZV-1. I had to read that literally. See, Sony ZV-1. Okay. And it's basically like, um, uh, like, like a, like a vlogger's camera. You could do streaming with it. I've had it for a while. So I was like, well, maybe this is the problem. So he informed me that, no, I don't think that's the problem. I think your HDMI cables and how you set up into your Mac mini is the problem. And I was like, what the hula hoops?