EventDV Live

Wireless production in HD is now a reality

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.

Boinx TV’s “studio in a box” production capabilities provide a creative outlet for the industry’s finest digital storytellers via the web

Award-winning producer Shawn Lam looks at two key elements of the process: capturing multimedia presentations effectively for both live-switched productions and post-produced edits, and how to become a successful technical director of a live-switched shoot, whether for IMAG delivery or providing a live feed for broadcast or webcast.