The teams at StreamingMedia.com and Help Me Stream Research Foundation are getting a jump on fall by releasing the Autumn 2023 edition of the State of Streaming survey. This survey is our twice-annual look at the overall streaming industry. Take the survey today and help us understand just how the streaming landscape has shifted in the past six months.
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Posted 20 Sep 2023
My current role as media coordinator at the State Bar of Wisconsin involves live production of Continuing Legal Education seminars for lawyers. Our job—as a two-person media department—is to make our speakers and presenters look good. Between us, we operate a NewTek TriCaster, audio mixing, projection, and multiple cameras. This article will discuss how and why we transitioned from Panasonic CX350s and SDI to an all-PTZ camera NDI workflow.
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Posted 20 Sep 2023
Look at the bigger picture when the wave of amazing gadgets hits. It's already on the way. You can see it coming. Is that item worth the possibility that it fails? Who stands behind it if it does? We're all looking for the next "game changer." That's natural. There are now a lot of companies, half a planet away, trying to be the next NewTek with cutting-edge technologies. Watch your fingers.
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Posted 12 Sep 2023
An inevitable question for any streaming strategy or workflow is "Will it scale?" When it comes to incorporating interactivity, promoting it, and delivering interactive experiences that are satisfying both for large-scale streaming audiences and the brands behind them, this question is more mission-critical than ever. In a recent panel at Streaming Media Connect 2023, B Live's Jay Kopelman, Bulldog DM's John Petrocelli, and LiveX's Corey Behnke break down the problem and the challenges facing streamers and brands when it comes to making streaming interactivity is popular and profitable for all its stakeholders.
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Posted 06 Sep 2023
This quick tutorial for remote producers should enable you to bring guest presenters into vMix via vMix Call and give you the ability to talk to them, and give them the ability to talk to you, without the audience hearing. Then, when the callers go live, the bus will automatically switch and the audience will hear them but they will not hear what's going on outside of the live show.
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Posted 06 Sep 2023
Voting is open until September 25 in 18 categories. Cast your vote today!
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Posted 30 Aug 2023
I had the opportunity to try and learn to surf earlier this year. I'm very glad that I took the lessons because I soon found out how hard surfing really is. While trying, failing, getting hurt, watching, and learning, I saw some parallels between my lessons on the water and the streaming business—which isn't quite as easy as it looks either.
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Posted 30 Aug 2023
As more and more live streaming content is consumed on a widely disparate group of devices—including both lowerand upper-end mobile phones and tablets, as well as smart TVs and 4K-capable set-top boxes (STBs)—the decisions around choosing a live streaming encoder have grown more complex.
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Posted 16 Aug 2023
In today's competitive online video market—where quality of experience is table stakes—ensuring your team has the right encoder for your unique needs is key. Streaming data must be compressed for efficient delivery without sacrificing quality. While most encoders deliver on this requirement, they vary in terms of performance and feature set.
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Posted 16 Aug 2023
New survey launches today covering live event market
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Posted 02 Aug 2023
There's a lot more imperfect gear on the market than ever before—gear we can't count on from gig to gig. Gear that can't deliver reliable video. Features that work and then don't. Devices that connect and then don't. We've lost core reliability. Bulletproof needs to be a feature.
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Posted 26 Jul 2023
What's your favorite streaming tool, tech, or service? What is the year's biggest innovation? It's time to make your nominations for the only awards in the online video industry that are chosen by end users.
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Posted 26 Jul 2023
Most live-streamed productions are almost entirely focused delivering a great stream to a live audience, but if you're not thinking about the flip to VOD when you're live, many producers would argue that it's one of the first things you should be thinking when the live show ends.
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Posted 18 Jul 2023
180º Productions leverages an ATEM Television Studio HD8 live production switcher, coupled with ATEM Microphone Converter for audio input expansion for live streaming and live production, along with two Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pluses to capture content and two Blackmagic Web Presenter streaming solutions, and the Blackmagic Video Assist 5" 12G HDR monitor/recorder and HyperDeck Studio HD Pro broadcast deck.
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Posted 18 Jul 2023
The USB Fusion is a device that can be used in a production environment for local content feeds/sources. It can be used to input various sources such as HDMI devices, webcams, USB microphones, videos, images, screenshares, and other items. The USB Fusion is touted as a tool to make your online lectures and virtual events more engaging and to easily combine numerous sources into attractive live presentations for remote education, webinars, live streaming, and video conferencing.
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Posted 05 Jul 2023
Streaming Media announced today that Evan Shapiro, self-described "media cartographer" whose incisive data presentation, analysis, and commentary is mapping out the future of the streaming media industry and overall entertainment sector, has signed on as host and MC of the next Streaming Media Connect virtual event, which runs August 22-24.
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Posted 05 Jul 2023
Ai-Media's Matthew Mello talks with Tim Siglin about the evolution of AI captioning in this exclusive interview from Streaming Media East 2023.
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Posted 28 Jun 2023
The Blackmagic Design Television Studio ATEM HD8 ($2,995) and HD8 ISO ($3,995) are all-in-one HD video switcher/broadcast control panels. On their own they are very capable HD video switchers suitable for studio installations and remote productions. The magic with these switchers is that when paired with other supported Blackmagic gear, they can unlock unique production workflow solutions that are easy to implement and go well beyond what you would expect a desktop video switcher to be able to do on its own.
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Posted 26 Jun 2023
Bob Caniglia of Blackmagic Design talks with Marc Franklin about Blackmagic's latest cameras, switchers, and Resolve in this presentation from NAB 2023.
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Posted 21 Jun 2023
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