Will be sharing more thoughts and some video from IBC on tomorrow’s (16 Sep 2011) ‘StudioTech Live’, hope you can join us at 2PM eastern, 7PM UK. The first Tricaster TCXD450 seen at the show was on the VFX paints stand. This UK company was demoing there very nice green screen material and frame (other… Continue Reading
My last day at IBC and didn’t make it around every Hall! Writing this quick update from Schipol airport. Highlights today included: Playing with the new Panasonic semi pro cameras 160 and 250 (full model numbers to follow) which may well give the Canons a run for their money. Meeting with Jeromy Young the boss… Continue Reading
IBC is a huge show, over multiple halls and today only saw less than half of it! There were some very polished presentations from Adobe (although their comments on supporting IOS devices with Flash were at best misleading and when challenged the response was ” will have to check”), Newtek ( yes including Don and… Continue Reading
For the first time saw video on a Mac delivered via Thunderbolt interface! The Telestream Wirecast team were demoing Wirecast using a Matrox MX02 plugged into the Matrox Thunderbolt adapter, plugged into an i7 MacBook Pro. The Matrox adapter should be shipping soon. Talked with Blackmagic Design about their two Thunderbolt products and they are… Continue Reading
The first ideas around the creation of TTFN TV quickly turned into a plan to be able to produce high quality video. The first episodes of Techcast Focus were shot with a Canon 5D Mk II in 1080p! However the workflow for this was time consuming so we soon started looking for other solutions, and… Continue Reading
“Streaming Guru” was their description, not mine! 🙂 – http://t.co/AIAqRCD Continue Reading
After writing the post last weekend about different fee based live streaming options the folks at Bitgravity got in touch and I have had the chance to chat with them a couple of times in the past week. It was a pleasure to talk to such knowledgeable people about not just live streaming but the… Continue Reading
Some tips on how to setup a green screen to get successful chroma keys, and how to set up chroma keying with the Blackmagic Design ATEM 1 switcher. The keying is not great with the ATEM 1. Our background and lighting were good so we suspect the keyer could do with a few tweaks by… Continue Reading
The selection of a Content Distribution Network (CDN) for live streaming is not an easy choice. In the last couple of weeks we have been investigating several of the offerings and comparing packages, costs and the flexibility they offer. Many live streaming podcasters are only able to have ad free streaming due to a subsidised… Continue Reading
In this StudioTech Special I was joined by Ankit Patel, Director of Switching Products at Blackmagic Design. Ankit chats about how he joined Blackmagic Design and gives an update on the ATEM product range including the new 2.0 version of the ATEM 1 Switcher Software released today! We also talked about some of the functions… Continue Reading
