Top 6 Things to Look for in A Live Capture Solution
In the fast-paced world of live events and news broadcasting, a live capture solution can be make-or-break. Read this blog to know what to look for and avoid disaster.
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Telestream’s Must-Know Takeaways from IBC 2023: Exploring Media’s Biggest Technology Trends
The conclusion of IBC 2023 marks a truly exceptional experience! Telestream’s bustling booth and the accolades received were certainly noteworthy, but what truly stands out are the transformative conversations that took place.
Top 5 Tips for Hosting Engaging Live-Streaming Events
You’ve worked hard to promote your event and now viewers are joining the lobby. What can you do to craft engaging live-streaming events — or …
How to Improve Audio Quality with VST3 Effect Plugins in Wirecast
Now that you can use VST3 Effect Plugins in Wirecast, top-quality production value for your next live stream or VOD is just a couple clicks …
Wirecast Gear 3: A Powerful Video Production & Streaming Solution
Wirecast Gear 3 is a box that checks all the boxes: As a TV studio in a box, Wirecast Gear 3 enables anyone — from …
Top 3 New Features for Live Video Production in Wirecast
The release of Wirecast 15.1 introduces many new features for streamlined live video production in Wirecast. Learn about Wirecast’s support for VST3 effect plugins, simultaneous …
Live Streaming Toolkits
Congratulations on taking the first step to streaming your live stream. Where to begin? In this section we are going to go over beginner, intermediate, and advanced …
We’re on the verge of a virtual video headend revolution
What will that mean for video quality? Video delivery is very difficult. It takes high-performance headends to encode and compress video streams, combined with zero-loss, …
Plan and Prepare for the Remote Future
With anything, it’s important to have a plan. The COVID health crisis has brought forth a lot of last-minute grasps on how to set up …
Why Wirecast is the Best Software for Both PC and Mac Users
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Wirecast is a robust video switching software capable of producing professional, live broadcasts on the web. …
How to Set-Up Your Office for Live Streaming
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. The last couple of months have been a little chaotic in terms of working from home …
Technology insights: Charlie Dunn looks under the hood of Telestream’s strategic Waveform Monitor development
June sees Telestream announce major new functionality and software-based feature sets for its PRISM waveform monitor. The company has developed its market-leading PRISM Waveform Monitor …
How to Keep your Audience Engaged
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Keeping your audience engaged means you have to actively give people a reason to interact with …
Why a Live Streaming Strategy is a Must
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. This blog was originally published on livestream.com and can be found here- https://livestream.com/blog/live-video-strategy-marketing-statistics Live streaming for …
3 Things to Consider Before you Start Live Streaming
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Are you thinking of starting a live stream? Before you take a deep dive into available …
How Long Should your Streams Be?
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. The snarky answer is however long they need to be. But to give a guideline normally …
Ripping up the Rule Book for Live Capture
This article was originally published in TVB Europe and can be found here:In the current pandemic live streaming is becoming a much more influential communication …
Bringing order to broadcast operations with Vantage and MAM systems
By Scott Matics, senior director of product management at Telestream Once a broadcaster or facility deploys shared storage, the organization of media can take on …
How To Affordably Add Cameras To Wirecast
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. So you purchased Wirecast and the first question comes to your mind, “Now what?” You know …
Is High-Value Content Streaming and Playing Properly?
By Dan Murray, Director of Marketing at Telestream – When OTT services were first launched several years ago, the quality of consumer experience was not …
A High-Level Overview of SRT
The purpose of this article is to provide a high-level overview of the SRT open source technology for video streaming. For those seeking more in-depth …
The Next Phase of OTT Monitoring
OTT streaming has been with us for several years now, but only recently, have companies begun to research what makes one service better than the …
Building Your Own Streaming Computer
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Professional Streaming Productions Require Computer Hardware That’s Up to the task. We take a look under …
Wirecast Shot Properties Panel
In Wirecast, the shot layers properties are a menu system that allows for manipulation of the sources added to a project. The menu system is …
Speed Testing on the Streaming Super Highway
Streams fall apartYou’re all setup ready to start streaming. Wirecast Preview looks excellent. Everything’s behaving as it should. You’ve even done a quick test recording …
Best Practices for Setting up Shot Layers in Wirecast
One of the most powerful features of Wirecast is the ability to composite very complex shots using different layers. For example – you might want …
The Chroma Key Feature in Wirecast
Don’t have the studio set up required to best represent yourself? Do you have access to a green screen? Ready to take your live streaming …
Where to Find Background Music
When you want to use music in your screencasts, unless you create it yourself or get explicit rights from a composer, you will generally need …
No More Flying Blind
Cloud migration for live and file-based video services is the way of the future. See how video service providers are making the move to the cloud.
Speed and Efficiency – Fundamental to Profitability
It is well understood by media companies that their world has changed. Distribution strategies have fundamentally shifted from purely tape or file-based delivery to traditional …
Multiscreen Packaging, Delivery & Monitoring at CABSAT 2018
There is no media company that isn’t having to deal with multiscreen delivery. There is an explosion in the amount of content being distributed OTT …
Why Should You Automate Your Quality Control (QC)?
Over the years, the broadcast industry has moved away from tape-based workflows to file-based workflows. Since this transition, Quality Control (QC) has become an important …
Efficient Production and Testing for Compliance with ARD_ZDF_HDF Standards
Introduction Ever since file based broadcast video production became a practical reality in the mid-late 1990s there has been a drive to define some file …
IMF – What is it, and why should you care?
It’s almost impossible these days to open a media magazine or web page and not see some mention of IMF. From end users to equipment …
Disruptive Technology: Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR)
It’s often said that change is disruptive, and that’s certainly true for the most significant media distribution development in recent memory, which is the advent …
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What’s truth and what’s hype? [4K, 8K, HDR and UHD]
4K, 8K, HDR or UHD? The talk on and around 4K/UHD video has increased considerably recently. Specifically, many TV manufacturers have been proclaiming that this …
Overview of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a SMPTE standard for providing a single, interchangeable master file format and structure for the distribution of content between businesses …
Truth and Hype on HDR
In our last blog about Ultra High Definition (UHD), we covered the spacial resolution of the human visual system, and how (horizontally) the highest frequency the …
If 4K is Good, and 8K is Better, is 16K Best?
Another great contribution from our very own Paul Turner! Ch-ch-ch-changes One thing we know to be constant in our industry is that there is always …
4K vs. UHD – Are They the Same?
Another great contribution from our very own Paul Turner! The Future of Resolution You can’t have failed to notice that the volume of traffic discussing …
Demystifying MXF
Another great contribution from our very own Paul Turner! What is MXF? It’s hard to work in media without coming across the acronym “MXF” when …
The Mystery of Bit Rates – Paul Turner
Telestream’s VP of Enterprise Product Management, Paul Turner, is back for a investigation into the most used bit rate encoding methods. They can get a …
HEVC/H.265: An In Depth Review
HEVC/H.265 Webinar Every year the number of file formats, video formats and compression schemes continues to grow. At more than 200 and counting, it is …
Save Yourself Frustration: Use “Editing” Formats When Editing
We occasionally get support calls from people that are experiencing strange lagging, stuttering, or freezing of ScreenFlow when they are trying to edit their projects. …