As Zoom and other videoconferencing applications dominate our professional interactions, and remote productions and presentations remain a necessary alternative in-person conferences and other events, webcam video is often the weakest link in our remote connections. Anthony Burokas recommends alternative camera sources--smartphones, DSLRs, and better webcams--and explains how to make them work.
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Posted 09 Mar 2021
What's the best way to handle a multiday conference with one remote panel event after another, with about 5 minutes between them, maybe less? What if you add video playback, remote slide presentations, and the inevitable last-minute changes? On a recent project involving the challenges described above, my team and I chose a cloud-based workflow. In this article, I'll discuss what we used, what the cloud offers, and why we went this way.
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Posted 02 Feb 2021
Stream4us' Anthony Burokas explains how to use "virtual audio cables" from vb-audio.com to connect multiple audio sources when using a laptop for live streaming production with multiple remote guests.
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Posted 14 Dec 2020
Anthony Burokas discusses a recent Stream4.us project where they brought in up to 9 remote sources from around the world using StreamYard to produce the show in the cloud.
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Posted 01 Dec 2020
IEBA Imagineer Anthony Burokas explains how to handle audio when doing live production with multiple remote-in participants in this clip from his presentation at Streaming Media West Connect 2020.
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Posted 09 Oct 2020
The Mevo Start is a little camera with a lot of built-in capability. Even though the Start can stream to social media directly from the camera itself, I'm going to take a look at it specifically for higher-end, multi-camera use as part of an NDI-based production.
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Posted 19 Aug 2020
An exclusive first-look review of the new BirdDog Flex NDI Converter, a tiny device that delivers tally, audio, video, PTZ control, audio intercom, and power via a single Ethernet cable.
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Posted 30 Jul 2020
With social distancing making in-person live production difficult-to-impossible, Anthony Burokas demonstrates how to produce a professional live show using multiple remote video feeds using vMix Call.
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Posted 21 May 2020
A large portion of my time is spent educating clients on what I do, what I can do, and what I can't do. In particular, what I can't do is key to managing client expectations. By making sure we're both working toward the same goals, we have a better chance of avoiding potential conflicts down the road.
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Posted 21 May 2020
Many people have gone all in on NDI. But how they use it can be very different from how you might want to use it.
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Posted 08 May 2020
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