Iditarod.com Brings “The Last Great Race” To Millions With Wirecast
By Jim Bask
In 2016, Iditarod.com decided to step-up their game by adding in multiple, live streamed daily shows with race coverage and highlights.
Tag: live streaming
What you need to know to get started with Facebook Live
By Jim Bask
Whether you’re shooting indoors or outdoors, you don’t want shaky video, bad light or poor audio. Invest in a tripod with a cellphone mount for both indoor and outdoor shoots — you can get a cellphone mount for as low as US$2. If you think you’ll have lots of moving shots, get a stabilizer so you don’t end up with shaky video. Something like the DJI Osmo is a little pricey (US$569 on Amazon) but gets the job done.
How to use the MediaDS integrated production system with Wowza Streaming Engine for live video streaming
By Jim Bask
The MediaDS™ (media distribution system) is a real-time media encoding and live streaming video delivery platform that integrates live production technology from NewTek with live streaming software and services from Wowza Media Systems™ in a rack unit. The integrated production system establishes a direct link between producers who create video content and viewers that consume it. This article describes how to use the MediaDS to deliver video from a production to viewers directly using the integrated Wowza Streaming Engine™ live streaming software (version 4.6.0) and Wowza™ Player.
Dynamic live event: All-in-one live streaming, recording, and switching Pearl Play
By Jim Bask
Running a live event can be daunting. Sure, setting up simple live streaming and recording using Pearl (or Pearl-2) is easy. The two, built-in auto channels makes setup a breeze. But today’s audiences want quality programming. So let’s turn a simple production into a dynamic live event including live switching between multiple video sources and fully-customized layouts.
Ensemble Video Live Streaming Webinar
By Jim Bask
We will show you how Ensemble Video makes live streaming easy and enable users to automatically record streams into their Ensemble Video media library. You can use third-party encoders like Wirecast, OpenBroadcaster, Videon Greylock HD and the Matrox Monarch HD to publish Live broadcasts to a webpage, CMS, LMS, blog or portal.
Epiphan Pearl 2 – 4k Live Streaming and Recording at Duke University
By Jim Bask
We’ll be looking at a number of new capture and streaming appliances here in the coming months, as there has been a lot of interesting activity in this product space. To start with, we wanted to highlight a significant update to the Epiphan Pearl. We’ve raved about the Pearl in past posts, and it appears there is a lot to be excited about in its successor. In the move from the Pearl to the Pearl 2, Epiphan cranked up the power of its core processor so that in could introduce a number of new features all built around support for full 4k. With the Pearl 2, you have six HD video inputs that you can composite or crop into any number of configurable layouts, and you can output the results into 6 separate HD streams. That’s a powerful toolkit for anyone looking to do mobile video capture and streaming.
$10k Can Get Live VR and a Mobile System for Streaming
By Jim Bask
Mobile streaming presents a new paradigm for live streaming. Imagine being able to switch with a compact unit with several wireless cameras or mobile phones that can be mounted on helmets or placed at different locations.
WOAI / KABB TV Stream Election Coverage Via Facebook Live
By Jim Bask
On November 8th, the night of the much-anticipated 2016 Presidential Election, two prominent San Antonio television stations did what affiliate stations traditionally do—they carried their respective network’s live national elections feeds on their primary HDTV channels. KABB-TV/DT HD—which is local FOX29—featured the Fox network’s coverage, and its sister station, WOAI-TV/DT News 4 carried NBC’s coverage
How to Shoot and Stream Live Interviews with TriCaster Mini and Skype
By Jim Bask
Lon Seidman’s Lon Reviews Tech Youtube Channel has over 80,000 subscribers and growing. Among his popular features are the “behind-the-scenes” videos that demonstrate how he produces quality shows as a one-person crew working both sides of the camera. In this video, he shows how he conducts live interviews, operating a TriCaster Mini for switching, graphics and streaming as he is also on-camera conducting the interview. He makes use of the TriCaster automation capabilities, including the ability to save profile templates for particular types of shows that include presets for the M/E buses, media players, graphics players and other resources.
Read the latest Monarch HD User Story from Matrox
By Jim Bask
Ever wondered if it’s ok to feed the squirrels that come out foraging after hibernation? Or use pesticides on the lawn? The City of Orem, Utah communicates its stand on such common and not so common issues through periodic council meetings and by-laws.