Jenoff saw the large increase in demand for live streaming due to COVID-19. When Baltimore’s GBMC HealthCare System wanted a quick and easy way to get information out to their health care workers, Jenoff knew the answer was live streaming. Jenoff helped them live stream an abundance of information to their workers. 800-1,000 of their workforce tuned in to watch live and ask questions in real-time. Hundreds more tuned in to watch on-demand. The Teradek VidiuGo is used by multiple businesses, freelancers, and organizations to seek the cutting edge of broadcast technology and allows users to easily and quickly live stream to their destination of choice.

“We’ve been working with the hospital for years, during which time we’ve produced several Facebook Live events. Since COVID-19 started in Maryland in mid-March, we also did 9 public Facebook Lives for them concerning COVID-19 and two more on another topic. For all of them, the Cube and their Internet is the primary and the VidiU GO with cellular bonding is the back up.”

Martin Jenoff

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Have you ever been on location for a live shoot and found that the internet just isn’t fast enough to provide the bandwidth you need for your livestream? Or maybe you’re in a challenging area, and the internet connection keeps going in and out.

If you’re relying on a single connection to livestream your video, you’re doing it wrong. The answer to unreliable internet is network bonding.

Simply put, bonding is the process of taking multiple separate internet connections and combining them into one large data pipe. This is by far the most robust and sensible solution for any mission-critical shoot, and whether you’re a professional producer or a YouTuber, every shoot is mission-critical.

Say you’re in a place like this soccer park. You’ll have at least 3-5 cameras scattered around the fields, and you’ll be live switching them from a booth, but this place could get really crowded with all the people showing up and using Facebook Live to stream it to their friends.

If you’re relying on a single 4G modem for your stream, what are you going to do when the network congestion turns your 1080 stream into a 480 stream? Or worse, your stream drops entirely?

The good news is that the Teradek VidiU Go can bond multiple internet sources together into a single robust internet connection for you to stream over. Ethernet, Wi-Fi, two 4G USB hotspots, and even iPhone hotspots can all be combined. You can even use multiple 4G modems from different carriers. This way, if most of the audience is on one carrier hogging the bandwidth, your other modem can do most of the heavy lifting.

If you don’t already have a 4G SIM or you’re looking for an out-of-the-box cellular internet solution, check out the VidiU Go Deluxe Kit, which includes Teradek node modems and Telna SIMs. With this kit, there’s no contract leash connecting you to AT&T or Verizon. You can pay as you need. No activation fees and no running around each carrier store to get set up.

Nodes attach seamlessly to the VidiU Go and offer enhanced connectivity and durability for 4G LTE wherever you go. They also have universal SIM compatibility so you aren’t limited to a specific carrier modem. Now that I’ve connected the node modems with the SIM cards and added a friend’s phone for additional bandwidth, you can see how all the sources are bonding and provide one robust, rock-solid internet connection to stream my video into Core.

Don’t risk your entire livestream on a single internet connection. Take the Teradek VidiU Go and the node modems with you, and make sure you produce a stream that will have your clients calling back again and again.

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Corner Canyon High School produces live streaming programming regularly and within a very small budget.  Teradek’s Live:Air Action and only a couple pieces of equipment including a Teradek VidiU Pro is all that’s needed to get their production up and running.  Daron Connely’s class gets an introduction to live production in a meaningful and effective way.  Just because it’s a less expensive production does not make it less professional for the students and that’s the important thing about learning live video production.

Since broadcasting is predominantly hands-on, one excellent way to give students the experience of live broadcasting is through publishing the high school’s sports games. This would not only give exposure to the school’s athletic department, but also give Mr. Connelly’s students an opportunity to learn live broadcasting. In the beginning though, this wasn’t an easy task.

Connelly’s class broadcasts at all major home games and some away games as well, including men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, football, etc. For these projects, they produce multi-cam live streams by using Live:Air Action, an iPad-based switcher app which offers a professional suite of production tools like graphics, scoreboards, transitions, and most importantly live switching. Here’s the setup:

Having the ability to publish professional live streams from an iPad is crucial for CCHS. With a slim budget and need for high-tech broadcasting solutions for the class, Connelly had to keep spending low while offering the right tools to educate his students. By using Live:Air Action with low-cost remote cameras like the AX2000 or iPod Touch 6, Connelly is able to deliver professional multi-cam coverage of their games. These broadcasts can reach thousands of views in a night….[continue reading]

Configuring the Teradek VidiU Pro for Facebook Live — PhotoJoseph’s Photo Moment 2016-09-09

Got a Teradek VidiU Pro and can’t figure out why your Facebook Live streams look like rubbish? In this video, PhotoJoseph goes through the VidiU settings and explains the proper configuration for Facebook Live, as well as lists out some technical detail web pages that were surprising hard to find on the internet!