Are You Ready to Livestream Your Worship Services?
By Jim Bask
No matter what choice you are looking at, start with laying out your end goal. With so many options coming out, livestreaming is quickly becoming a consideration.
Author: Jim Bask
Toaster to IP Series 4K With Todd Rundgren
By Jim Bask
When NewTek’s Video Toaster first arrived in 1990, it was a jaw-dropping moment as video professionals realized that you no longer needed an expensive SGI supercomputer to flip and spin video, create 3D animations, and other eye-candy video effects. The Toaster put a whole TV studio and post house on an Amiga computer for under $5,000.
Streaming Media Review: Wowza ClearCaster
By Jim Bask
Wowza ClearCaster is a future-proof, industrial-strength hardware encoder with outstanding software robustness with its interface with Facebook Live, which is just what you need when venturing into the Wild, Wild, West that still is live-event production. Though the $6,495 price tag will discourage many potential buyers, those who can afford the unit will find the reliability and performance worthwhile. For the record, for $6,495, you also get three years of updates plus dedicated 24/7 technical support.
Lights, Camera, 5big: Excelling with 4K Workflows
By Jim Bask
If you work (or play) in the video industry, you’ve likely heard of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, or SMPTE. They’re the people responsible for bringing standards that facilitate interoperability, to the film and television industry — or simply put, they’re the people who make sure that you can actually see and hear a quality motion picture, no matter where or how it was produced.
OBS | XSplit | Wirecast | vMix Software Compared
By Jim Bask
Mega computing to live stream using software streaming solutions. Really!! Learn more. What software to choose, like OBS, XSplit, Wirecast, vMix? George and Dan break it down.
New Product Alert – NewTek 3Play 3P1 IP Replay System
By Jim Bask
NewTek 3Play 3P1 IP Replay System: The World’s Most Complete Sports Production System
New 360 Video Effects in After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2018
By Jim Bask
Check out the new Immersive Video effects in After Effects and Premiere Pro CC 2018 in this tutorial. Including free 360 footage!
Media Composer — Best of 2017
By Jim Bask
2017 was a big year for Media Composer. Avid introduced many cool features to help improve the everyday editing experience. Some were big and grabbed a lot of attention (Hello, ScriptSync and 8K Project presets!) and some were smaller, but still very useful. Many of them were requested and voted upon by our Avid Customer Association. (Speaking of which, if you’re not already a member of the ACA, you should check it out. At the very least, come party with us at Avid Connectbefore we kick off NAB 2018!)
Making the jump to 360 Video (Part 1)
By Jim Bask
VR headsets have been available for over a year now, and more content is constantly being developed for them. We should expect that rate to increase as new headset models are being released from established technology companies, prompted in part by the new VR features expected in Microsoft’s next update to Windows 10. As the potential customer base increases, the software continues to mature, and the content offerings broaden. And with the advances in graphics processing technology, we are finally getting to a point where it is feasible to edit videos in VR, on a laptop.
New Promotion Alert! NewTek ProTek Amnesty Promo 5%
By Jim Bask
Starting on December 6, 2017, NewTek launched a ProTek Offer that provides increased channel margin to resellers for the program, and allows customers to add ProTek coverage to existing system(s) without incurring any penalties or reinstatement charges.