One of the most important parts of live streaming is understanding the platform you are streaming to. However, if you have been streaming to YouTube recently you know their live creator studio has been seeing changes on an almost daily basis.
Live streaming has become more popular as a means to stay connected with your clients, audience and fans.
It has received a big boost with social media live streaming with Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Periscope/Twitter and now Instagram.
No doubt about it: Broadcasting anything live has its challenges. There’s no stopping and no do-overs, which makes multitasking mandatory and quick thinking critical. You also never know exactly where your content might take you. But the more you do it, the better you’ll get, as thousands of experienced live streamers out there can attest to. We picked the brains of some of those people to create this article chock-full of live streaming tips, which we hope will be of use to anyone—new to live streaming or not—who wants to make their process smoother and their product better.
Alister Chapman of XDCAM-USER.com presented a Webinar in conjunction with Visual Impact on how to shoot ProRes Raw with Sony’s FS5 and FS7.
My primary goal with every church congregation I work with is simple: enhance the worship experience.
I want members to walk away from worship feeling like they’ve worshipped God. I want the people who work in the control room to walk in, confident in their abilities to deliver video and audio to the congregation with no mistakes. On the flip side, if my suggestions:
Today I thought I’d share one of the most frequently asked questions I get, “Can you use Solo for a multiple camera shoot?” Although Solo uses a single connection (HDMI or SDI) and is typically used with one camera source for one stream, you can use Solo for a multiple camera shoot. How? Solo provides the same video transport and reliable bandwidth, whether you are taking a feed directly from a single camera or a produced feed from a switcher.
This table of maximum disk recording times, based on different recording options, can give you an idea how your choices affect the quantity of video that can fit on a disk.
The main purpose for NewTek Connect Spark™ is to convert SDI or HDMI video signals to NDI® to send as IP video on the computer network via Ethernet or WiFi. From there, the video source can be used by multiple devices and applications all at the same time. But Connect Spark and NDI offer much more: you can also capture and record your HDMI or SDI video in several ways.
In the nine years I’ve spent in my current role as production director [at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Ala.], I’ve learned some tips and tricks that can be applied to any video directing situation in any church. Regardless of the goal of the finished product, I feel that if a live video director can focus on these simple ideas, it will help improve the end product.
A directing mistake sparked Grace Church to develop a video philosophy. The result is a common language to communicate what success looks like to the staff and volunteer video team.