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.

New v.3.4 Stream software for company’s StreamZ, StreamZHD, Flux and DRC-Stream encoding and live streaming solutions features Smooth Streaming enhancements, codec updates, expanded video and audio processing plug-ins and more.

Jan Ozer | ViewCast’s Niagara 2120 is a portable, configurable, multiple-stream, H.264 encoding appliance well-suited to live event webcasts that produces very good quality compared to software-based solutions like Telestream’s Wirecast.

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.