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Twitch vs. YouTube vs. Facebook for Free Live Streaming

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 12, 2018

Let’s start with YouTube. While Facebook has gotten a lot of attention lately, YouTube offers some distinct advantages. Let’s consider audience first.
YouTube doesn’t have a newsfeed or pages or groups. All it has is video. Sure, there are channels and playlists, but they’re just a collection of videos. Even the discussions on YouTube are centered around videos.
So, it should come as no surprise that YouTube wants you to watch videos. In fact, they don’t care (for the most part) which videos you watch as long as you stay on YouTube to watch them.
With that said, newer videos tend to be more relevant to questions being asked, so YouTube tends to promote those. Since nothing is newer than live, anyone searching on YouTube (or Google for that matter) is likely to get some live, or recently live videos as part of the search.

Atomos quick to take advantage of EOS R’s external recording

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 12, 2018

Whenever a new product that moves the goalposts drops on the market, other companies are very quick to line up and show you how you can hit the ball into the back of the new net. Atomos is skilled at doing this, and while it has nothing with the EOS R to match the time it launched the Ninja Inferno and upgraded Panasonic’s GH5 from its shipping internal 8-bit 4:2:0 Long GOP to 10-bit, 4:2:2, ProRes/DNxHR in one fell stroke, its kit is a good match for the new camera.

LIVE STREAMING GOES PRO WITH A HACKED BACKPACK

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 11, 2018

The backpack starts with a Sony AS300 Camera. [Gunrun] likes this particular camera for its exceptional audio capabilities. Network connections are handled with no less than four LTE modems. You never know which carrier will have good service out in the field, so the modems are available from a variety of carriers. The real problem is bonding connections between LTE modems from various carriers, setting up streaming accounts, and piping captured data from an HDMI capture over those accounts. The average hacker would go at it with an HDMI capture card and a Linux Laptop. Most streamers need a more plug and play solution though, so [Gunrun] uses a LiveU Solo HDMI video encoder for the task

ATOMOS RECORDS IT. G-TECHNOLOGY SAVES IT.

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 11, 2018

For this system to be most effective, the speed, reliability and dependability of your storage media is key. That’s why G-Technology has partnered with Atomos to offer a range of fully qualified drives that deliver exceptional recording. With the Atomos Master Caddy 4K SSD you can record 4K video at up to 540 MB/s, and with the Atomos Master Caddy HD harddrive you can record HD video at up to 136 MB/s. Housed in a rugged aluminum case that simply slots into the Atomos device, these drives are ready to go out of the box.

LaCie ruggedises RAID to go (and then some)

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 7, 2018

LaCie has a reputation for building external drives with heft and resistance, and its latest lets you stabilise storage needs, too. There are folks happy with backing up once, and then there are folks who need to know their precious contents have been backed up twice, so they can securely delete them. Usually that’s people working in a creative field, but it can be anyone, because the failures of backing up where drives fail can affect anyone.

G-Technology G DRIVE mobile PRO SSD (1TB) Review

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 6, 2018

We have been reviewing TB3 external devices for some time now and it is great to be so far away from those 500MB/s and lower portable storage device speeds. TB3 has been a gift to media professionals, to say the least. Up until today, however, there has only been a single device that we have reviewed that has the portability of pocket sized mobile storage, and didn’t need external power of some sort. This was the Tekq Rapide TB3 Portable SSD and, as absolutely sweet as that device is, it just never hit main stream. Still, with such a beautiful cut and performance up to the TB3 ceiling of 2.8GB/s, the Tekq Rapide goes with me everywhere. Can we change that?

September Specials & Promotions Broadfield Liquid Lunch & Learn Live Webinar

By Adam Noyes 0 Comment September 6, 2018

As promised we aired our first episode of the NEW Broadfield Liquid Lunch & Learn live webinar.  This episode’s preshow featured one of Jim’s favorite craft beers Heady Topper from Alchemist Brewery in Vermont.

Broadfield Liquid Lunch & Learn’s Premiere Episode

By Adam Noyes 0 Comment September 6, 2018

It’s here, it’s finally here!  The premiere episode of the Broadfield Liquid Lunch & Learn live webinar airs today live at 1:00pm EST.

IBC 2018 Preview: An Expert’s View of IP Up-Take and Challenges

By Jim Bask 0 Comment September 6, 2018

If you are wondering what the big news and big topics will be for IBC, Sports Video Group (SVG) in a recent interview with NewTek’s Brian Olson, vice president of product management, touched on all the likely topics, both for the industry in general and for NewTek. Adoption of IP workflow for video production continues to gain steam, and no doubt there will be lots to see again at this year’s show on that front. NewTek’s royalty free NDI®, bi-directional IP technology for transport of audio, video, metadata and communications over standard networks, continues a huge lead with integration into hundreds of products in the hands of millions of users. Many other proposed solutions require expensive high-bandwidth networking infrastructure and proprietary hardware and software, or remain on the drawing board.

Avid NEXIS Gives Israel’s Largest Post House 4K and Shared Workflow Capabilities

By Adam Noyes 0 Comment September 6, 2018

Shared storage and shared work spaces, like many technological advances, are becoming more widespread.  The desire to implement shared storage devices like the Avid | NEXIS Pro and shared work spaces like Avid MediaCentral is a global trend.