Live Remote Broadcasting

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As the leading live Internet broadcaster in the region, VideoSSC is often asked to broadcast live events from venues where there is no available Internet connection. Friday night football is no exception. For years we had been rolling our production truck to high school venues every Friday afternoon during football season to setup and record live, play-by-play action between some of the most competitive high school football teams in the region.

The problem was that all we could do was record ...

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How to Calculate Internet Video Archival Storage

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We are often asked how much storage will be required to archive copies of live broadcasts online so that there is a permanent record of the live event that we had broadcast over the Internet. The math is pretty simple and we will give you that here, but first we need to point out that the single most common mistake that people make when doing these calculations is to confuse bits and bytes. Bits are a ...

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How to Pick a Wireless Microphone System for Video Streaming

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Ouch, we have made some mistakes with wireless broadcast rigs in the past to the point where our audio engineers refuse to use gear that was bought to meet a wireless microphone requirement and save money. But you don’t learn anything if you don’t make a few mistakes along the way. Here are a few tips on what to look for in wireless audio rigs. First, a little background. Today there are three kinds of wireless systems used in live ...

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The NAB Show in Las Vegas (2014)

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If you are in the broadcast business you probably know someone who is going to NAB in Las Vegas this week. It is the second largest convention in Las Vegas. All three halls are filled with everything from radio to television to pre and post production systems and services. There are more than 1000 exhibits.  If that isn’t enough, between the halls at the convention center there will be satellite trucks and production trucks for the conventioneers to visit. We ...

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Tips on Inserting Live Captioning into Internet Video

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We used to think that live captioning of an Internet video broadcast was rocket science. Television stations used special equipment to do something called “line 21 insertion”. Thankfully, injecting open captioning into live internet video broadcasting doesn’t require anything more than a good Internet connection at the live venue and a stenographer with access to the web. Here is how it works: First, setup all the audio and video gear at a venue like you would normally do for a ...

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Tips for Planning a Live Internet Video Broadcast

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More often than not, planning a live Internet Video broadcast with new clients all will have the same thing in common, a very strong idea of what they want without any consideration for things such as the ability of the venue to support their goals and objectives. It is equally true that they usually have no idea of what best practices are for video broadcasting which can use many of the same techniques as television broadcasts. Every plan ...

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The San Francisco Giants

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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

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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 University

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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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NPRC Studio

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The Non Profit Resource Center (NPRC) is the largest organization in the region that provides education, executive training and guidance to more than 400 non-profit groups in the western United States. They approached VideoSSC to assist with the design, integration and implementation of a new broadcast studio at their headquarters in Sacramento, California. Starting with room selection and a long list of tenant improvements, we began to design and build a first rate facility that would allow NPRC to record, ...

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