Posted by: David Naves
In May we put the finishing touches on a PSA that we volunteered to produce for an association of military veterans. The five minute PSA is intended to help raise funds for a new War Memorial for the northern California region. These folks are putting their hearts into it and we are proud to have been asked to support their efforts. We have also been engaged in meetings with the City and County of San Francisco to help define a ...
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Wow we accomplished a tremendous amount last month and April is going to be just as busy. We completed all of our short form Public Service Announcements, one of which was nominated for an award we have been told. But this month we are also going to be very busy with many broadcasts in the cue including some news video work for a German television station and the coverage of a musical convention. Additionally this month is the National Association ...
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March is going to be very busy for us here at VideoSSC. We have more than 12 live broadcasts to produce in more than three different cities across California. We will keep several of our live broadcast crews busy. We have also completed some projects that were started in the fall to great reviews from our clients. We have been retained to produce two more Public Service Announcements (PSA) for cities in the region. We agreed with one of our ...
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In January, we sent a crew to Memphis, TN to broadcast four days and nights of live music from for the International Blues Competition. More than 70 blues bands competed. A good time was had by all. Long days, long nights working several of the most popular venues in Memphis. We also completed several remote broadcasts for commerical and government customers throughout the western US and produced and broadcast several live sports events for television. With more than 16 days ...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR from the cast and crew at VideoSSC. 169 days of live switched broadcasting in 2012, thousands of hours of post production, terabytes of video, streamed, archived and indexed, captioning, graphics, chromakey work, hundreds of hours of systems development and consulting and live remote broadcasting for television. It has been a great year for VideoSSC. We have added more equipment and more talented people to our staff as well. All of us geeks and creative types at VideoSSC ...
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Why does a home video camera cost $300-$600 dollars and a professional video camera cost $10,000-$25,000? Simply put, a professional video camera is designed with much higher quality optics, sensitivity, controls, and resolution. Home video cameras sacrifice quality for versatility… home video cameras operate well in many different lighting conditions. Professional Video Cameras produce very high quality images, but require better control over and usually more lighting, like you would find in a broadcast studio. The numbers of cameras, their ...
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Streaming media is video, audio or text sent over the Internet and displayed by the viewer on their own computer upon arrival. With streaming media, an Internet web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives just like your television set. Video Streaming Services Corporation, a Sacramento based business, makes managing, producing and delivering ...
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All major league baseball franchises in the United States today operate several minor league teams. The primary purpose of these minor league teams is to promote player development in concert with team managers and scouts who watch the players and make decisions about moving players between the minors and majors.
Each major league franchise has 2-3 dozen scouts and historically it was “butts in seats” for the scouts who traveled extensively to watch players. After several failed attempts to install ...
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The California Department of Education (CDE) is intimately involved in the development of educational resources in the State of California, but is also a leader in the United States in various emerging educational initiatives.
As part of this outreach to educators across the U.S., CDE asked VideoSSC to facilitate a number of broadcasts in several languages. In addition, VideoSSC was asked to provide live captioning inserted into the video during the live events. Many of these live events would go on ...
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Texas A&M Journalism School has been running a broadcast facility for some years now, but was beginning to run into limitations with respect to the way that they were broadcasting their news programming.
Texas A&M approached VideoSSC seeking solutions to the limitations they were encountering. Specifically, they had a hard limit of no more than 250 concurrent online viewers for their live broadcasts and furthermore, because of the way they were broadcasting their live events, they could not ...
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