EventDV Live

EventDVLive selects the 11 top products of 2011 for live event production, including live production systems, streaming appliances, encoders, cameras, camera support, and more.

The Spring 2011 edition of EventDVLive includes features on producing sports event films, corporate meeting highlight reels, conference webcasts, and the 53rd Grammys broadcast, as well as a look inside an innovative event video sales and distribution model, a tutorial on Adobe’s Flash Live Media Encoder, and reviews of the Roland VR-5 AV Mixer and Panasonic’s shouldermount AG-HMC80.

Live production, video encoding, and streaming expert Jan Ozer discusses which camera functions to manage manually and which ones to run on auto when shooting a live event such as a dance performance or other type of stage event.

Why test charts like DSC Labs’ ChromaDuMonde colorimetry chart are such a critical piece of the broadcast and live video production puzzle

Tim Siglin | The use of a USB-attached webcam for live streaming will eat up a sizable slice of the USB controller chip, especially if the camera being used is 720p or higher and lacks its own on-board encoding. The new eSATA connectors, which can now be found integrated in to almost every windows laptop that is $500 or higher, offer the same throughput as the internal Serial ATA connectors used in most desktop machines–more than adequate for HD streaming.