NewTek, Wowza Launch MediaDS Turnkey Streaming Appliance
By Jim Bask
NewTek has begun shipping MediaDS, a new 1RU appliance that integrates the company’s real-time production technology with live streaming software from Wowza.
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Newtek and Wowza Media systems have teamed up to create MediaDS
By Jim Bask
Newtek and Wowza Media systems have teamed up to create MediaDS, a hardware-software platform for realtime encoding and a live streaming video delivery mechanism. First teased at IBC2016, MediaDS is touted as an industry first, enabling among other features the ability for content creators to launch multichannel distribution networks from their own production venues and then deliver directly to viewers.
NewTek TriCaster 460 and NDI in the classroom: Election Day TV Coverage
By Jim Bask
Election Day 2016. Polling places jammed with harried voters, anxiously awaiting the opportunity to exercise their rights as citizens and vote for the candidate of their choice. For broadcasters, Election Day can be its own special kind of hell, testing resources, testing nerves, requiring everyone on the team to think on their feet and prepare for any eventuality. Election Day can make or break a young reporter’s career, something Dylan Cleland knows all too well as he stands before the camera grasping his microphone with an unsteady hand.
NewTek and Wowza Announce Availability of MediaDS
By Jim Bask
The First Ever Global & Local Media Distribution Platform
Multi-channel media encoding and streaming video system distributes content directly to viewers on any device both within your environment and externally through all common delivery services
NewTek 3Play Delivers Advanced Multi-camera Editing Solutions
By Jim Bask
Advanced multi-camera editing solutions.
Get more from your multi-camera productions.
Networks, Miracles, and Video Production
By Jim Bask
In a new article, RedShark News examines three of the most important factors that IP workflow offers to video production. The major emphasis is on how the workflow is able to carry multiple channels at high quality with one network cable as opposed to multiple video cables, one required for each video source.
We’d add a fourth: communication is bi-directional with an IP solution such as NDI…
2-Minute Tutorial: NewTek Connect Pro Automatic Playback Over the IP Video Network
By Jim Bask
In a previous Tip entry, 2-Minute Tutorial: How to Set Up NewTek™ Connect Pro for Media Playback, we showed how to set up NewTek Connect Pro and add its outputs to a switcher’s inputs. NewTek Connect Pro can be a source for any NDI-enabled production switcher, but there are some additional advantages when you use the application with a TriCaster, and we’ll show you those here. In many ways, using NewTek Connect Pro is like having four more DDRs for a TriCaster.
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
Colorado’s BuffVision Steps Up in First Production of Pac-12’s Twitter Streaming Package
By Jim Bask
Live streaming has been one of the big stories in sports media in 2016, and, when it comes entities in the forefront of live-streaming full games, colleges and conferences have been among the most willing to experiment.
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.