![]() ![]() The orange dot is as offensive and unacceptable to these users as it would have been if you had chosen to overlay a watermark on all display screens with an Apple Logo. Whilst I have no objection to the orange dot appearing in a menu bar, professionals using Macintosh Computers for video playback must have complete control over what appears on output screens that are visible to audiences, which sometimes may include millions of people for a single event. The Microphone in use indicator on displays that don't have the menu bar visible is undermining the viability of many pieces of software used for video display in the live events, conference and theatre industries. Please do this before spending too much time in detailed theoretical debate about Apple's sales metrics which aren't really relevant to the inappropriateness of this feature to users in our industries. I think the really important thing here is that anyone that is adversely affected by the 'Mic in use indicator' on displays with no menu bars should write to Apple feedback and explain why. anyways, not something done with HDMI in most contexts without converters, and at that point using SDI makes a lot of sense. Many more entertainment based shows that come in are all SDI based solutions due to needing to run hundreds of feet to the projectors, or video wall processors, etc. quite often so that market likely not bothered, which lets face it, is a large portion of the live event market. There is one production company we use often that utilizes Playback Pro with direct output from the mac hdmi, but again, software that does strictly playback, likely isn't affected by this as it isn't using the microphone, thus no orange dot, and they do large corporate events for companies like Phillip Morris/Altria, Captial One, etc. And for production companies we bring in for shows, this is fairly standard. ![]() The one production Mac we use is minor, and while I am building a new playback rig currently there, it will be using SDI outputs from a decklink duo, which I believe should work around this issue anyways. However the marketing department all uses macs, and none use it for this purpose. Yes this is a rarity (Supposedly, another anecdote here) but the point stands. In the road house, I am the only one in production that owns a mac actually. ![]()
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