When London s Guildhall School of Music and Drama upgraded its video infrastructure with NewTek s VMC (TriCaster) live multi-camera production system and NDI to solve a pressing issue, it also opened a world of possibilities.
Pizazz Chief Problem Solver Jef Kethley discusses the benefits and challenges of moving production to the cloud in this clip from his presentation at Streaming Media East 2021.
Streaming the North Texas Irish Festival: A Cloud Production Case Study Streaming the North Texas Irish Festival: A Cloud Production Case Study In interviews with two fellow producers on the all-virtual 2021 North Texas Irish Festival, a multichannel event combining six concurrent live feeds, produced in the cloud using vMix and AWS, Anthony Burokas provides a look inside a complex cloud production, including challenges and lessons learned. Page 1 of 2 next »
In this interview-based article we ll discuss how to transform a music and cultural festival into a live virtual event. The event we ll be looking at is the North Texas Irish Festival, which, due to social distancing requirements and restrictions on live events during the pandemic, was delivered online this year. The live virtual event featured six channels streaming six virtual soundstages.
How to Simplify Complex Remote Productions With NDI, Microsoft Teams, and vMix How to Simplify Complex Remote Productions With NDI, Microsoft Teams, and vMix At present, Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business are the only two videoconferencing apps that support NDI. We have built our remote streaming solutions around Teams. Here s how it works. Page 1
Network Device Interface (NDI) is a standard developed by NewTek that enables compatible video products to deliver HD video over a computer network. NDI is royalty-free software and is suitable for use in a live production environment. As part of my Streaming Media University Live Production With vMix session, I explained how producers can use NDI in the context of a vMix workflow. The same principles apply in workflows with NewTek’s NDI switchers and other software switchers that support NDI, like OBS.
Adapting an Existing Multicamera Switching Setup for Streaming The shift from live-switching to live-switched streaming since the pandemic started has required me to adjust my workflow to meet my clients current demands in the most cost-efficient manner possible. In this tutorial, I ll discuss the adjustments I ve made, explaining how to adapt the gear you have with one additional minor purchase rather than having to invest in a whole new streaming switcher. Page 1 of 2 next »
If you’re like many people in the live audiovisual field who have lost a lot of jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you are trying to adapt to the playing field and have a lot of expensive equipment sitting around that is not being used much. In a normal year, half of my income comes from producing multicamera, live-switched events produced on location and completed in post. The “new normal” allows only for live-streamed multicamera virtual events. Th