Tutorial: Webcasting Live Events with the Winnov Cbox P2

Broadcasting and Webcasting with the Cbox P2

Once you get everything configured you’re ready to broadcast. In a classroom setting, you may want to schedule broadcasts--you’d do that by going to the menu at the top of the interface and choosing Tools > Scheduler. Otherwise, in this interface, you would just click the Record button (below).

Or, if you were in the field, you could convert over to a Touch session and start the broadcast from there.

The controls are so simple that even non-technical users should have no problem switching presets and controlling the recording. The red blinking button tells you that you’re broadcasting, and you can monitor CPU usage, disk consumption, and recording time in the top-right corner of the interface (shown below).

You click the Record button again to stop the broadcast, and Amagla opens Windows Explorer and shows you the newly created files.

Let’s take a closer look at the Silverlight output (below). During recording, Cbox converted the graphics input from the presentation computer into text, and recognized when slides changed.

Viewers on Mac and Windows computers can navigate from slide to slide via the Chapter Point view, or via Thumbnail view.

Viewers can even search for slides (below)--all without any post production or post-processing of any kind.

And that’s it. By combining multi-input mixing and encoding functions, Cbox saves you money on other gear, and the simple touchscreen interface can be driven by non-technical users, so you don’t have to bring a techie along to broadcast your live events.

Whether you’re capturing lectures, presentations, or multiple camera concerts, Cbox is a simple, affordable and flexible solution that’s definitely worth a look.