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This past winter we were asked by a ski resort to live broadcast over the Internet a multi-camera event. We love a challenge so we said yes. The event was a national snowboarding competition the ski resort wanted us to cover from top to bottom. Literally. The concept was to have two video cameras, one at the top of the hill, one at the bottom of the hill to capture and follow each contestant as they raced down the hill. ...
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The last ten years have seen tremendous growth in online streaming. Early on it was Windows Media Encoder, then Silverlight and Flash Media Encoder. There was also Real Server, for people who operated their own Content Delivery Network (CDN). None of them solved the real issue of ubiquitous streaming to any device. Sure you could get these streaming engines to talk to various devices (IOS, Android, etc.) but only with the proper add-on software such as the Puffin or Photon ...
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Pansonic’s next generation GH5 camera is set to ship by middle of 2017, and it’s interesting they
announced it this early. The announcement was made yesterday at PhotoKina in Cologne.
One of the design features touted in the press release and presentation includes
“internal” 10 bit 4:2:2 recording in 4k
and up to 60fps according to whats being said. It will be interesting
to see how heat and battery life will be dealt with. Also Im guessing
the timing to ...
SDI is the acronym for Serial Digital Interface. It was first standardized by The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) in 1989.
It’s a way to connect video devices to each other via coaxial cables and what’s called BNC (Bayonet Neill–Concelman) connectors to move digital signals from one point to another. The SDI standard provides for video signals as well as multiple channels of embedded audio on a single core wire using bit serial transmission.
Since its standardization in ...
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A California State Government Agency recently asked us to compare video conferencing with webcasting and to demonstrate certain capabilities that differentiate the two. We thought that we would share some of this with you.
What are the latest features in Webcasting Technology? What Kind of Interaction and Screen displays are possible?
Webcasting, unlike video conferencing is more like watching television than conducting interactive events with scores of participants. However interactive webcasting (as apart from video conferencing) is available and has been implemented ...
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In the beginning producers and on stage talent would communicate during live events using hand gestures, waving flags, jumping up and down…anything to get the attention of on stage talent or others behind the stage involved in the live event production. Sometimes it was important…like when the gas lights caught the stage fabric on fire at the back of the stage. Then along came technology, specifically the telephone and its many derivatives. One application of telephone technology was to create ...
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We’ve been busy and away on vacation. It seems that every time that we go on vacation something good happens. This time we were notified that we won two new major contracts from State of California Government agencies.
The California State Lands Commission. Established in 1938, the Commission manages the state’s 4 million acres of tidelands and submerged lands and the beds of navigable rivers, streams, lakes, bays, estuaries, inlets, and straits. These lands, often referred to as sovereign or public ...
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We thought we would take the time to acknowledge one of our longest continuous customers. John Thomas Flynn has built a successful career in public service, specifically in the technology sector. In 2008 he approached us with his television show concept and asked if our company, Video Streaming Services, could assist in producing his show for television and the Internet. We are fast approaching the seventh year of producing this television show for John. His audience has expanded to many ...
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Video Streaming Services has been notified by the University of California Davis that it has been competitively awarded a multi-year contract for the production of live and recorded videos and video broadcasts for all of the schools and colleges that make up the UC Davis system, including the entire UC Davis Health system. A Copy of the press release is available here: .VSSC Press release-UC Davis
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The headline is correct. There is a way to combine the capabilities of some video switchers with a single HD video camera to create the impression of a three or four camera shoot. We did it yesterday for a live broadcast. The results are quite impressive…
How do you make a single camera look like four different cameras? You a need only two things using mature existing technology to make this happen: an HD video camera with an SDI output, and ...
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