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Robin Good: What does it take to pull off an effective live video stream for a real event? What are the problems and bottlenecks to face and how to spot them?
In this hour-long video Rob Roskin, senior manager for video operations and emerging technologies at MTV, explains everything you need to know, from cameras to encoding to bandwidth, that you need to know to stream a live event successfully.
Check full video and article: http://www.onlinevideo.net/2012/01/tips-for-pulling-off-a-live-streaming-production/
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Robin Good: If you are looking for a way to edit and add visual effects to your just recorded video clips directly on your iPhone, here are 5 tools that can do the job:
Useful. 8/10 Find out more inside the original article:
Robin Good: ReelSEO has published a very useful list of six online video editing tools alongside short reviews and basic information for each one. "Here's a list of online video editing software and cloud-based video editing tools, along with a description of the capabilities & features of each." Tools included in the guide:
Informative: 7/10 Full review set: http://www.reelseo.com/online-video-editing-software-tools/ 
Robin Good: OneLoad lets users upload a video once and have it syndicated throughout multiple platforms. "OneLoad is a video distribution service for brand The service, which was originally part of the TubeMogul service, in now fully independent. Key features include:
Pricing info: http://www.oneload.com/solutions/features Find out more: http://www.oneload.com/ ![HTML5 Video: What It Is and Why You Should Use It [Video] | Online Video Publishing | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/lt4jgMtax0CIMHN0eho1Qzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Robin Good: Jeroen Wijering, creator of the JW Player gave a valuable and informative presentation at the last HTML5 Video Summit event in Los Angeles, targeted at those video publishers wanting to better understand the key advantages of adopting HTML5 for video. "HTML5 video is just a tag like an image tag, that is supported by HTML5. So you put a video tag in your website, you say ‘the source is this video,’ and it will play. You don’t have to use Flash or Silverlight or other difficult tools or plug-ins. It’s a very basic way of embedding video on your website,” explained Wijering. So that’s what it is, but why is it more useful that other methods of streaming video, such as Flash or Silverlight? As to ‘why should I use it?,’ I think there’s two answers. 1) There’s a long-term answer in that if you have support in HTML5 itself, it’s a lot easier to have video interact with other stuff on your website. It’s a lot easier for accessibility purposes to be able to have blind people, deaf people jump into your video and see it in alternate ways. It’s a lot easier for search engines like Google to actually pick up the video. They have a lot of trouble right now because everybody has their own Flash player. ...That’s the long-term answer. 2) The short-term is much less elaborate. “In terms of short term, it’s very simple: Apple does not support Flash,” said Wijering. Any publisher that wants to stream to iPad and iPhone owners had better get familiar with HTML5." Recommended. 8/10 For more from the session including what audio and video codecs work with (some) HTML5 browsers, watch the full video: http://www.onlinevideo.net/2012/02/what-is-html5-video-and-why-should-you-use-it/ 
Robin Good: Synchtube allows you to create public and private rooms and share music, videos that you can watch synchronized with your other viewers. 
Robin Good: If you have a YouTube channel and you want to check your progress in terms of subscribers, views and more, SocialBlade offers a new free service which can check on any active YouTube account instantly. Not only you can view your own stats for the last 30 days, but you can get also an estimator of your possible earnings for each day as well as global ranks for the most viewed YouTube accounts according to category, region, type and more. Here are my own: http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/robingood Try it now: http://socialblade.com/youtube/ 
Robin Good: Not everyone likes YouTube new interface facelift, but what counts, is how effective your YouTube presence is in helping you reach your audience and in be found, linked and discovered by new potential fans. Casey Zeman at SocialMediaExaminer has some good, illustrated advice, to share. "#1: Add Your Custom URLs in the Newly Placed Description Area #2: Add Overlays to ALL of Your Videos (Previous YouTube guidelines required you to promote your videos in order to take advantage of YouTube’s self-branded overlays. However, YouTube has changed that requirement. You don’t need to have a running and approved promotion for a specific video to take advantage of overlays. Now you can simply create the promoted video, pause the campaign and still have the power of the branded overlay.) #3: Prevent Other Ads from Showing on Your Video" But there is more. Informative. 7/10 Full article: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/5-ways-to-brand-your-new-youtube-profile/ "Avid has launched a new video editing iPad app, which it hopes will give Apple’s iMovie a run for its money, and is Avid’s first prosumer video editing app for the iPad. Avid Studio for the iPad enables you to quickly arrange your clips in the Storyboard, make precision edits using the Timeline, and add high-quality transitions, effects, and soundtracks to your movie footage." Source: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/avid-studio-video-editing-app-arrives-on-the-ipad-02-02-2012/ "Avid has created an app with the power of a professional editor, yet is easy enough for newcomers. It looks to be a big step up from Apple’s iMovie app, which is strictly for home hobbyists. The Avid Studio app combines a storyboard and timeline interface, where users can arrange clips in the storyboard, then use the timeline for precise cuts. It also offers touch controls not found in the desktop, like the ability to resize and rotate titles with a gesture. To get media to edit, users can capture video or photos within the app, import media from iTunes, or capture from a camera using the iPad Camera Connection Kit ($29). More than a basic editor, the Avid app includes picture-in-picture effects, as well as multiple audio tracks for layering sounds. When they’re done, users can upload their creations directly to their YouTube or Facebook accounts, save them to their computers, or send them to their Avid Studio desktop program for further editing. Other features include 3D animations, transitions, and titles; full title and graphic control; pan-and-zoom for photos; and full screen playback." Source: http://www.onlinevideo.net/2012/02/avid-editing-comes-to-the-apple-ipad/ The new Avid Studio iPad application is now available to download from the iTunes App Store for £2.99 or $4.99 
Robin Good: The Tripad is a physical accessory that provides a flat solid surface that can be hanged on any tripod, and which can hold your portable computer while you shoot. This setup makes it easy for you to check shots and clips on a large high-resolution screen instead of the camera small LCD-screen while providing a solid and durable flat support for any other related equipment you may need to have next to your camcorder. Check out this video to see the Tripad at work: http://www.gotripad.com/flowplayer/example/tripad.html Buy: http://www.gotripad.com/buy/ ($ 99.95 + S/H) (A simpler and more economic version which can create a flat work-ready surface by using a typical suitcase costs $ 59.95 and it's called the Traveler) 
Robin Good: If you have ever transcribed a video interview, you know how frustrating is to pause, restart and rewind the video a million times to be able to get the full audio track to be transcribed properly. Transcribe comes to the rescue with a free online service that facilitates the transcription of any video. Transcribe provides a set of dedicated options to step through the audio track to be transcribed easily. You can pause, stop, slow down, speed up and rewind and forward of a few seconds the track at any moment by using a few keys on your computer keyboard. To use it you only need to upload your .wav or .mp3 audio track and you are ready to go- Very useful. 9/10 The service is free to use: http://transcribe.wreally.com/ (Unearthed by Ana Cristina Pratas - Reviewed by Robin Good) 
Robin Good: P2P video live streaming is now a reality albeit still in the Beta testing phase. BitTorrent has now a live web site where you can download the P2P video streaming software for either PC, Mac or Linux computers. Once installed you can test the effectiveness of P2P live video streaming technology by checking out the test streams or the live sessions every Friday night (8pm PST). "Conventional video streaming—through, say, YouTube or Netflix—eats up network resources because each user is pulling in their own individual feed. The live peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming protocol created by BitTorrent founder and chief scientist Bram Cohen, instead works much like BitTorrent itself does. Everybody that requests a certain video stream shares the feed between themselves, rather than just leeching the content. This reportedly reduces lag drastically, network load and increases video quality for those watching. And, just like when torrenting, the more people that sign on to a stream, the better it looks for everybody." Downloads: http://live.bittorrent.com/downloads.html
From the original article: "Did you know that major search engines want you to make video sitemaps for all of your embeds, even if you're hosting on Vimeo or Youtube? Not only does it help them spider your website by giving the search engines clues as to where to look for video embeds, it may also earn your site a click through boost by giving you a picture in the SERP. ... There are several reasons why you'll want to add a video sitemap. It makes it clear to Google what your content is.
Full article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube Robin Good: The DSLR Filmmaker Toolkit is an iPhone app which allows you to organize, track, set and measure your shooting-related tasks right from your iPhone. Key features include:
Uncovered by: http://hdslrnews.planet5d.com/ More info at: http://www.dslrtoolkit.com/ Available in the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/dslrfilmmakertoolkitat $7.99 |
Robin Good: If you want to be able to view just about any video format out there, while controlling every single feature of it, there is nothing better and more cost-effective than Videolan. Now out in a new completely revamped version 2. Key new features include: VIDEO
AUDIO
FORMATS
INPUT AND DEVICES
Download Mac, Windows and Linux new 2.0 version here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html#download Find out more: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html Robin Good: If you are new to video shooting with a DSLR you may want to get some of the basics correct right away. White balance, panning, tripod, depth of field and more are also covered in this short and easy to attend video tutorial. Very good (for novices). 8/10 For more details on this lesson: 
Key highlight from the article: "The H.265 video codec, also known as High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC, is being designed to replace the current H.264 standard used for high definition and Full HD (1920x1080) video encoding and decoding. ... The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding reached a new milestone for the H.265 video codec during the past week, and is about to unleash the new “monster” video standard within the next year. ... H.265 will be designed to support new, still to be created video delivery and streaming technologies from day one, including devices working at 4K and Ultra HDTV (also known as 8K or 4320p) resolutions. Just to put things in perspective, the Ultra HDTV definition contains about 16 times the amount of pixels present in a 1080p video stream." Full article: http://www.neowin.net/news/the-h265-codec-brings-ultra-hdtv-resolution-in-2013 
Robin Good: If you are interested in aggregating (bonding) multiple cellular network connections to live video stream a remote event, I have out together this visual shortlist of the few alternatives available today in the market. "At the moment, the key playing field that these devices compete in is link aggregation of 3G networks, where a single mobile/cellular data service may not be able to offer or sustain the bandwidths between 1Mbps and 2Mbps required for broadcast (or near-broadcast) quality video. These devices aggregate several such services together and use them in parallel to create a single, higher availabilty and higher capacity connection." All of these units allow you to utilize multiple standard USB-type mobile connection units, those typically used to connect to the Internet outside of your home, to aggregate the bandwidth available on each into one coherent stream. Nonetheless prices for this type of equipment are way out of my investment range, I am quite curious to see how this technology develops and whether there will be soon prosumer-level solutions. In depth article on Link Aggregators and Cell Mulpiplexers including the review of the Teradek Bond: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Teradek-Bond-Review-80518.aspx Find out more through these vendors: https://gimmebar.com/loves/robingood/collection/link-aggregators-cellular-multiplexers-and-bonding-solutions-for-live-mobile-video-streaming 
Robin Good: Vzaar is a hosted video delivery platform offering many useful features including support for all mobile devices, custom encoding, branding, analytics, subtitling, watermarking and more. From REELSeo: "They offer everything from uploading and encoding all the way through to final delivery of the video content you are putting online. Vzaar has a customizable player, multiple security options for your videos and an extremely ergonomic management solution." Interesting features include: - Playlist creation - Multiple uploading channels (A web uploader, desktop uploader (for Mac), iOS app, and API. - Preset and Custom encoding profiles - No-encoding at all option - High quality audio encoding at 256 Kbps - Custom brandable video player - Support for HTML5 and Flash embeds - Encoding support for all smart mobile devices Pricing: "Vzaar has a 2GB plan which is free, 10GB for $10/mnth - and plans suited for small business with 100-750GB for $29-199 as well as an enterprise plan of 5TB for $499 a month." Full review by REELSeo:http://www.reelseo.com/vzaar-video-platform-business/ 
From the official site: Meztura webKeyer is a software + hardware solution that makes it possible to overlay HTML5/Javascrip, Flash and Silverlight content on top of High Definition or Standard Definition video signals. In other words, the system is able to overlay on top of On-air video any Web page or Web application respecting the transparency values ​​(alpha channel) defined therein. This patent pending solution is unique in the world and allows television producers and broadcasters to easily create visual programs "widgets" to be used in their broadcasts: tapes loaded with the latest news in real time from RSS feeds, weather widgets, automatic generation of charts with real-time data coming from databases, markers for sporting events, clocks, insertion of messages with different effects and titles, integration with social networks as well as SMS-based interactive services, and generally anything that can be created with Web Standards, Flash or Silverlight. Download Meztura webKeyer for free. (The trial version has all the features presented in the licenced version but its output is watermaked.) Downloads page (Win only): http://meztura.com/main_site/en/downloads.php 
Robin Good: CapScribe Open is a freely available Mac-based video editor for overlaying captions, sub-titles and descriptions on Quicktime, YouTube, and Flash videos. CapScribe runs only on Intel Macs. To get a free copy simply send an email to: info[at]inclusivemedia.ca More info: http://www.inclusivemedia.ca/launch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=40 
Robin Good: Tom Guilmette has published an excellent guide on how you can use multiple GoPro camcorders to do a live video stream of a live event. From the original article: "For under $300 you get a tiny wide angle 16:9 1080p camera that is also a self contained video camcorder. The GoPro records picture and sound to built in SD cards as mp4 files. You can put GoPros anywhere (and yea, they are even waterproof in the included case). And now GoPro has released a Hero2 new model that has sharper optics, an easy to navigate menu, better light sensitivity and more recording options. ...many of you may not know that these little cameras can output analog and HD signals that can be fed into a live production truck. This article will tell you how to do it and why most attempts to get these to work as live POVs prove to be an epic failure." The article includes lots of tips on ancillary equipment you will need such cables, plugs, convertes and convertors of all kinds, including links and product images. Highly recommended. 9/10 Full article: http://www.tomguilmette.com/archives/3405 ![Adaptive Live Video Streaming: Everything You Need To Know [Video] | Online Video Publishing | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/ugdFmKbAt5bX3auAEtMs9Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
From the article: "In a 45-minute session at the recent Streaming Media West conference in Los Angeles, MTV Jan Ozer taught a roomful of attendees the basics and complexities of adaptive streaming. “There’s two basic types of adaptive streaming technologies: one is a server-based technology, and the primary server-based technology now is RTMP Flash. With a server-based technology, the server is in charge of delivering a different stream to the player,”... “With an HTTP-based system, which is HTTP Flash, HTTP Live Streaming — or HLS, which is the Apple system — the player monitors the same characteristics, but it’s in charge of going to get a different stream when the circumstances dictate a stream change, ...” If you are looking to learn more about adaptive streaming and its encoding needs, as well as related concepts, such as keyframes, chunking, and manifest files you need to check this video out: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid897709167001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAADEURYw~,kpjcfLGBbVfV_nqUUCkA1vYpmRTGak7R&bctid=1352506026001 Full article: http://www.onlinevideo.net/2012/01/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-adaptive-streaming%e2%80%a6/ (Curated by Robin Good) 
Robin Good: If you are looking for an easy solution to your need to either download or convert YouTube videos, WonTube has a solution that works well while being fully integrated with your preferred browser. Very useful. 9/10 Downloadable versions: An Android version of the video downloader is also available here: http://www.wontube.com/free-youtube-downloader.html as well as free desktop versions for PC and Mac video converter tool http://www.wontube.com/free-video-converter.html More info: http://www.wontube.com/ 
"Whether you love it or hate it, 3D Stereography is here for awhile. And if you’re totally into it like I am, you quickly realize that there are few turnkey workflows out there to capture and process 3D Stereo video that’s easy to setup, shoot and edit Stereo pairs. Sure, there are a lot of high-end (expensive to rent) systems for two cameras to shoot, software to sync/mux the footage and rigs you can build to edit it, but GoPro has brought it together with a fun and easy-to-use system that anyone can use." Full article: http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/lightscameraaction/story/stereo_3d_with_the_gopro_hero2/P0/ Via Nicolas Weil
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