How to live stream an event ??
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Okay, we have to demonstrate a product to a customer in a field, doing various tasks over 2 days.
The actual tasks will take about an hour, and we are employing a wedding photographer on the cheap to film for the whole 2 days, including doing some interviews. It's cheap because a) he has no work and b) we are happy that he can put edited footage on his website as an example for marketing purposes. He will also edit a version for our website and for our customer.
The customer is a big organisation, but they will be sending one person as an observer. But they want us to "Live Stream" the demonstrations so that other people can log in.
It's outside. There isn't WiFi.
Commercial director said "I'll just WhatsApp footage from.my phone" I'm thinking no.
Ideas on best way to do this. I don't want the professional to have to worry about his content being live.
The actual tasks will take about an hour, and we are employing a wedding photographer on the cheap to film for the whole 2 days, including doing some interviews. It's cheap because a) he has no work and b) we are happy that he can put edited footage on his website as an example for marketing purposes. He will also edit a version for our website and for our customer.
The customer is a big organisation, but they will be sending one person as an observer. But they want us to "Live Stream" the demonstrations so that other people can log in.
It's outside. There isn't WiFi.
Commercial director said "I'll just WhatsApp footage from.my phone" I'm thinking no.
Ideas on best way to do this. I don't want the professional to have to worry about his content being live.
Get a clean HDMI feed off the photographer (presuming they are taking care of audio too, which would need to be embedded), whack it in to a laptop via an HDMI to USB capture device, and use a cellular mifi device for connectivity (or you could tether to your phone). Push content to platform of choice either directly or via software such as OBS if you want to have lower thirds or anything. Rough and ready but would work.
Nicer solution would be a dedicated hardware encoder with dual cellular modems bonded which would allow better bandwidth or resilience, but that's getting more specialist, and therefore expensive.
Nicer solution would be a dedicated hardware encoder with dual cellular modems bonded which would allow better bandwidth or resilience, but that's getting more specialist, and therefore expensive.
In some ways it's overkill but the Atem Mini Pro is worth a look:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/atemm...
You need to decide what you are going to stream & if the videographer is moving around you might need to think about a second locked off camera to stream. Don't forget audio as well - with the Atem you could plug in a cheap microphone to talk to the stream viewers. If the videographer is in a fixed position then it might be good if he can give you a feed of his camera with sound. The Mini can output a USB signal so it can look like a webcam to software such as Teams or OBS running on a laptop. The MiniPro can stream directly to services like Youtube over Ethernet but you'll need something to give you a cellular data connection.
If al that's too much then you could just use a DSLR that has a USB output & feed it into a laptop & stream it over Skype or Teams.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/atemm...
You need to decide what you are going to stream & if the videographer is moving around you might need to think about a second locked off camera to stream. Don't forget audio as well - with the Atem you could plug in a cheap microphone to talk to the stream viewers. If the videographer is in a fixed position then it might be good if he can give you a feed of his camera with sound. The Mini can output a USB signal so it can look like a webcam to software such as Teams or OBS running on a laptop. The MiniPro can stream directly to services like Youtube over Ethernet but you'll need something to give you a cellular data connection.
If al that's too much then you could just use a DSLR that has a USB output & feed it into a laptop & stream it over Skype or Teams.
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