Tips from Live Streaming Experts
By Jim Bask
Our good buddy Paul Richards over at PTZ Optics put together this great panel discussion on Live Streaming. Lots of great tech tips, workflow ideas and gems form experienced users. Anyone looking into live streaming will find this a very valuable article.
We have just released an audaciously titled guide called the “Ultimate Guide to Live Streaming”. With such as title, we decided to request tips from 6 of the industry’s top experts to help us draft up the content that could construct such as guide (I am lucky number 7 :). Click here to view the video guide.
Our experts on Live Streaming Include:
- Andrew Haley – Product & Live Streaming Evangelist for Wirecast
- Tim Vandenberg – Chief Operator Officer at vMix
- Tom Sinclair – CEO of EasternShoreBroadcasting
- Jim Baskiewicz – Streaming Director at VideoGuys
- John Basile – Chief Streaming Officer at StreamDudes
- Greg Ellis – Vice President of DACAST
- Paul Richards – Chief Streaming Officer at PTZOptics
Tips from Andrew Haley
Test, Repeat, Then Test Again: Give yourself plenty of time to properly setup and test, test, test everything. Don’t assume you’ll just walk in an hour before an event and setup your microphones, cameras, your internet connection, outbound destinations, titles and content and everything will work perfectly — especially if you’ve never streamed from that location before. I know many live stream professionals who arrive 2 days before they need to be live. They give themselves one day just to setup all their equipment, and another whole day to test and troubleshoot…[continue reading]