BUYER’S GUIDE: VIDEO STREAMING
DISTRIBUTING VIDEO ACROSS PLATFORMS
In this month’s Buyer’s Guide we examine a number of options for producing web and mobile video, each product designed for capturing, compressing, encoding and distributing video. Whether you’re sharing live events, creating content for mobile users or developing new means of reaching audiences, these tools will expand your delivery options.
STAND UP NY COMEDY CLUB STREAMS WITH TRICASTER MINI We just built a studio above the Stand Up NY comedy club so we can create our own content and stream a few podcasts. At first it was audio only, but now we’re also filming the podcast and broadcasting it with NewTek’s TriCaster Mini. I love how quick it makes my work. I use multiple cameras and pump out four hours of video content per day. The number one thing I like about the TriCaster is that if you have the graphics ready to go, you can put them on and edit even while you’re still filming. It’s all in one place, coming out of the TriCaster and ready to go online. There’s great technical support staff if
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you have questions, but it’s user-friendly enough that you can set it up even without going through all the instructions and start playing around with it to get an idea of how it operates. As we come up with new ideas for things to shoot, we can throw the TriCaster Mini in a bag and take it anywhere. I might take it to Times Square or a comedian’s apartment. The opportunities are endless. Eventually we’d like to shoot big comedy events from interesting places—grungy parts of Brooklyn, cool music venues. Not the normal places. With TriCaster Mini, we can actually do that without the expense of a huge crew. We can live-
stream in the moment and really use the product to its best potential.
Jonathan Fatigate is the creator of Stand Up NY Labs.
vised games they’ve seen, we’re very proud of that. And they’re grateful to be able to watch games they wouldn’t otherwise see on their TV, computer or mobile device. With growing interest from online fans and increasing
sponsorship from advertisers comes the responsibility to deliver a flawless show every time, and that’s what Wirecast enables us to do. Robert Munzing is owner of Munzing Media.
WIRECAST AND MUNZING MEDIA STREAM MAINE HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
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Munzing Media is a home-based business in Gardiner, Maine. In recent years, we have evolved from streaming live high school sports using a rudimentary production setup to creating broadcast-quality multicamera HD webcasts with Telestream Wirecast. We now provide live streams of the hottest local high school games in the state via web sites run by The Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine), Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine) and the Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine), three in-state newspapers published by Maine Today Media.
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Wirecast has catapulted us to a higher level of HD production and streaming. More importantly, we’re able to put sponsor logos on scoreboards and roll commercials during our breaks. Considering the success of our Maine high school sports webcasts, there’s no doubt we’ve caught lightning in a bottle. Wirecast makes it possible for people like us—with aspirations to play in the big leagues—to become broadcasters of high-quality HD sporting events. When viewers tell us our webcasts are on par with tele-
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