Conference Streaming

Recently I have been involved in some conference streaming jobs which have been great fun. There are a number of options open for clients for streaming pending on there budget and how complicated there shows are.

One great piece of kit I have used for a number of jobs has been the tricaster studio.

Tricaster Studio 350

 The tricaster is an amazing piece of kit for your conference or live event needs, not only can you mix 6 live feeds you can input computer feeds, overlay graphics, chroma key live, essentially its a TV studio in a box. Not only can you record the show as your mixing it you can simultaneously output it to a live stream across the Internet. Its amazing to think that something like this is now available to buy off the shelf at such a reasonable price. This kind of technology was only available if you had very deep pockets or had access to an OB Van a few years ago, now schools and places of worship and clubs have this technology for there events.

As powerful as the tricaster is some times it can be a bit over the top if say your client just needs a single video feed and the ability to stream there presentation to the web at the same time as the event.

So when the budget is tight using such streaming sites as Ustream can be an amazing tool. Even using the Ustream free Producer software you can do Picture in Picture which is great for when someone has slides in keynote or PowerPoint.

 You can also cue up videos to be streamed full screen or using pip in Ustream. All these tools weren't impossible to do a few years ago but they were hard to pull off.This kind of technology has meant that streaming your event live to the world is much more accessible than it ever used to be all you need is an Internet connection and someone who knows what they are doing like me :)