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.
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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.
Roland Professional A/V: Roland V-1SDI 3G-SDI Video Switcher
By Adam Noyes
The V-1SDI is a flexible and versatile four-channel video switcher that makes it easy to connect and switch professional 3G SDI cameras and playback sources along with HDMI sources including cameras, smart phones, computers, tablets, Blu-ray players.
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
LaCie Promotions and Holiday Specials Featuring GNARBOX Webinar
By Adam Noyes
We have a bunch of LaCie Bundles and Holiday specials to share with you that are going on right now! Check out our most recent Dealer Webinar and Tune in every Thursday at 2 pm to view our Live Webinars.
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!)