EventDV Live

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.

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

From IP cameras to wireless mesh HD delivery, there were a number of live production options at this year’s Government Video Expo, held last week at the Washington Convention Center.

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.

Anthony Burokas | Maxell’s iVDR on-camera, modular hard drive-based storage system gives you the long record time of hard drives but with removable media packs, so you can swap them out and keep the camera crews shooting. The media packs are ruggedized with internal isolation. Maxell touts operating shock tolerance of 350 Gs—something generally only possible with flash media. Plus, with the iVDR-X adapter, you get faster access to your footage than the FW 400-based FireStore or a USB 2.0 connection to anything.