NewTek Studio Newsletter with Tutorials + More
By Jim Bask
How to Use the Facebook Live Plugin in TriCaster Advanced Edition
In this 2-minute tutorial, NewTek head of training Don Ballance brings you the very easy and quick steps for streaming to Facebook Live with the new plugin for TriCaster Advanced Edition. The plugin adds Facebook Live to the list of streaming presets, and you simply select it, make a couple of choices about the options for your stream, and start the stream. You can also use the preset to stream prerecorded material to Facebook Live. Read more
Advance Your Multi-Camera Workflow
Webcast #1 – Watch Here
Multi-Camera Production & Streaming with TriCaster®Advanced Edition & NDITM
See how this NewTek power-pair provides additional capabilities for you to create the most robust, sophisticated shows today—with the flexibility to transition to IP anytime.
Presented by: Kiki Stockhammer, NewTek Evangelist
Webcast #2 – Watch Here
3PlayTM: Instant Replay, Slow Motion, “Just In Time” Editing, & Automated Media Server
Learn how to make any seat the best seat in the house with 3Play and more real-time built-in capabilities than any other multi-camera replay server.
Presented by: Don Ballance, NewTek VP of Training
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Philadelphia Eagles Live Stream Exclusive NFL Draft Coverage For Fans
Hungry for information about their team’s landmark first-round draft pick and the many subsequent surprises the 2016 draft would hold, thousands of Eagles’ fans turned to their most reliable source for in-depth insider information about the midnight green and black, PhiladelphiaEagles.com. As part of their “Eagles Draft Central” coverage, the team’s internal video production department – Eagles Network – undertook a massive effort in an attempt to satisfy their fans’ insatiable demand for “everything draft,” coverage that extended far beyond the Philadelphia media market. Read more
Live Remote Video Production in the Field with the TriCaster Mini
While many of you may be using the TriCaster Mini as a portable TV production studio in your business, school or in remote locations where you can easily access AC power and a network connection, there are times where you need to be able to work in a really remote location and record your program or uplink it to the web directly from your vehicle.
Since I’m working a lot in the UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) or “drone” industry as a commercial operator and trainer, I’m often asked how one might capitalize on some of the newest streaming HD capabilities of today’s prosumer drones. As one of my friends and colleagues in the industry, Eric Cheng, formerly with DJI accomplished in 2015 by taking a couple of their Inspire 1 drones to the volcano in Iceland and were able to live stream an HD video signal to ABC’s Good Morning America live broadcast but that required a great deal of hardware and technology. Read more
How to Setup A Virtual Set on TriCaster: 2-Minute Tutorial
In this 2-minute tutorial, Don Ballance shows you how to very quickly set up a virtual environment (TriCaster LiveSet) inside of a Mix/Effects (M/E) bus using TriCaster Advanced Edition with NDI. Current TriCasters models come with either four or eight multiple M/E buses, where we setup our virtual sets. Each M/E can house a different virtual set or a different camera angle of a specific virtual set. Read more
How to Move a Virtual Camera in TriCaster Virtual Sets: 2-Minute Tutorial
In an earlier 2-Minute Tutorial video, Don Ballance showed you how to set up a TriCaster Advanced Edition LiveSet virtual set in a Mix/Effects (M/E) bus. While one requirement of virtual sets is that we are always working with a locked down camera that never moves, TriCaster Advanced Edition provides the ability to do “virtual” camera moves. Read more