Mods: I realize I posted this in photography instead of video. If you could move it, that would rock. Sorry and thanks!
I learned the hard way today that my parents' fancy camcorder with a 30GB hard disk can't easily be used for live streaming video over the Internet. We're trying to start doing video streams of events at work, and I thought the camera could be hooked up to a computer and do such a thing through Livestream. Well, I was wrong. It only has a USB and seemingly proprietary video connection for RCA cables. I should've known FireWire would be needed to stream video, but I didn't.
Well after some quick thinking, I recalled using Ustream to watch video being streamed live from others on an iPhone. I opened the app, registered, and did a test. Sho nuff it pretty much did what I needed, at least for our first try.
We're going to be in a convention center, so I assume either WiFi or 3G will be available to me. I'm going to rig my tripod to hold my iPhone with magic and/or duct tape. It will look stupid, but I don't care. That thing is not made to be held for 30 minutes. I just found a frakking tripod mount for iPhone 4, but it's only available online, which doesn't help in about 18 hours.
So basically I wanted to see if there's anything I should know before doing this. I'm mainly worried about someone calling me or something similar during the video. I know I can ignore it, but will the Ustream app just keep going? I highly doubt this will happen, but it could. I'm going to turn notifications off to keep that from ruining everything. If there's anything else I can turn off that would help, I'd love to know.
I'd also love to know if any of you have found this to be the best way to do live streaming video or whether some cheap video camera hooked up to a computer is better. I think it's great to have the software in the camera, but it has no zoom and I have to worry about all that other stuff. I don't own a camcorder myself because the iPhone 4 is good enough for the video I usually do.
Thanks!
I learned the hard way today that my parents' fancy camcorder with a 30GB hard disk can't easily be used for live streaming video over the Internet. We're trying to start doing video streams of events at work, and I thought the camera could be hooked up to a computer and do such a thing through Livestream. Well, I was wrong. It only has a USB and seemingly proprietary video connection for RCA cables. I should've known FireWire would be needed to stream video, but I didn't.
Well after some quick thinking, I recalled using Ustream to watch video being streamed live from others on an iPhone. I opened the app, registered, and did a test. Sho nuff it pretty much did what I needed, at least for our first try.
We're going to be in a convention center, so I assume either WiFi or 3G will be available to me. I'm going to rig my tripod to hold my iPhone with magic and/or duct tape. It will look stupid, but I don't care. That thing is not made to be held for 30 minutes. I just found a frakking tripod mount for iPhone 4, but it's only available online, which doesn't help in about 18 hours.
So basically I wanted to see if there's anything I should know before doing this. I'm mainly worried about someone calling me or something similar during the video. I know I can ignore it, but will the Ustream app just keep going? I highly doubt this will happen, but it could. I'm going to turn notifications off to keep that from ruining everything. If there's anything else I can turn off that would help, I'd love to know.
I'd also love to know if any of you have found this to be the best way to do live streaming video or whether some cheap video camera hooked up to a computer is better. I think it's great to have the software in the camera, but it has no zoom and I have to worry about all that other stuff. I don't own a camcorder myself because the iPhone 4 is good enough for the video I usually do.
Thanks!
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