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Anonymous
July 28, 2008
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What equipment to use for a Live stream?

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My company will be streaming a local event soon and I was wondering what equipment is needed/recommended to use. All I can come up with is a Camera, Laptop and Internet access? I'm sure theres something else. How do I get the stream to my server from a Downtown area? Will bandwidth be out of this world if it is High Def and lots of viewers? Looking for some some help in the right direction. Also, is it possible to have 2 cameras streaming?
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    Anonymous
    July 28, 2008
    Here is the thing with live streaming, you can have the most powerful server in the world, or have an unlimited budget to use a CDN such as Akamai , if you are not doing the production right, it will come out looking like crap.

    I would recommend talking to some video producers about it. Depending on how important the event is, you will want to prepare the event as if it were a live televisions how. You will probably want a mixing board, a switcher and multiple tv monitors for multiple cameras, and you may want to hire someone to act as the director for the show.

    A lot of the work may be done before the feed even gets to the computer for encoding. This would be handled by all your video equipment, which would output everything from one line into your computer.
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