I am just one portion of a team of people who are trying to put together a live web seminar. I am mostly doing the web aspect of it since i am a web developer, but I am looking to learn a little bit more of the video part just so that I understand it.
Basically I am looking to pick the brains of some of you who do semi-high quality live streams. We have a professional grade mini DV camera (i wish I had the name but i dont at the moment - will soon though). We also have audio mixers for quality sound.
My main concern is the quality of the stream as viewed from the web. I read up about streaming and understand that it's best to stream from a tripod and have little motion in the background - we intend to do this.
What I need to know, more specifically, is the best way to compress the video before it goes out to web. I read about external video capture cards and I also know of software like cam twist.. but i am SOO confused! I can't seem to tell if there is a difference in what these two different things do. Do you need both or just one?? Which is better?
Also, the streaming TO the web.. Obviously you can use 3rd parties such as USTREAM, but I need to either find a 3rd party streaming service that allows for COMMERCIAL streaming (pay to view - i know ustream doesnt have this YET) or to do it myself.
I do own a server and spoke to my server guy and he did say that my server was set up with these capabilities.. but I am a little confused yet again> If I were to stream to my server, what software would I need to connect the video to my server? How do I tell the video where to find my server?
Again.. i appreciate any help I get here.. hopefully someone will have experience with this type of stuff
Basically I am looking to pick the brains of some of you who do semi-high quality live streams. We have a professional grade mini DV camera (i wish I had the name but i dont at the moment - will soon though). We also have audio mixers for quality sound.
My main concern is the quality of the stream as viewed from the web. I read up about streaming and understand that it's best to stream from a tripod and have little motion in the background - we intend to do this.
What I need to know, more specifically, is the best way to compress the video before it goes out to web. I read about external video capture cards and I also know of software like cam twist.. but i am SOO confused! I can't seem to tell if there is a difference in what these two different things do. Do you need both or just one?? Which is better?
Also, the streaming TO the web.. Obviously you can use 3rd parties such as USTREAM, but I need to either find a 3rd party streaming service that allows for COMMERCIAL streaming (pay to view - i know ustream doesnt have this YET) or to do it myself.
I do own a server and spoke to my server guy and he did say that my server was set up with these capabilities.. but I am a little confused yet again> If I were to stream to my server, what software would I need to connect the video to my server? How do I tell the video where to find my server?
Again.. i appreciate any help I get here.. hopefully someone will have experience with this type of stuff