Newbie with a TriCaster

[Ted]

Glad to find this forum. We purchased the "TriCaster Broadcast" from NewTek and have a lot to learn about this technology.
After 30 successful years in Broadcast I found myself in a dwindling industry.
We invested in the TriCaster and are learning the ropes.

Since I'm involved with several forums I might not check in here hourly. But I'm sure that I'll be benefiting from all those who have pioneered this "new technology" while I merge our business plan to reach audiences in this "Non Broadcast" industry.

Looking forward to making many new friends here and re-learning my trade. Thanks in advance for the help!

[PeterZ]

Ted,
You have the same situation as I do. I have been involved with video production in the Boston area since 1976 Self employed and currently contract tech manager with ABC News plus any other work I can find. I do a lot of live surgical procedures for surgeon training. Recently been involved with live video by satellite & streaming. testing a few different packages including Sony Anycast. How do you enjoy the the TriCaster? Good luck & I will add you to my contact list if need someone in your area.
Peter Z

[pesi]

Hi guys - I'm doing Live webcasts for conferences and training here in Canada (can't afford the Tricaster yet) but am using rental video switchers for multi-cam broadcasts.

While I have been in the multimedia / online promotion business for the last 16 years (and of course Streaming Video for the last 3), I used to be a physician in my previous life (many many many years ago) and would be interested in breaking into the medical field here in Vancouver, doing live surgical procedures like you're doing. Question is - what do you bill the surgeon/hospital per procedure? Is it an hourly rate? Which departments or types of hospitals/medical schools should one approach?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Pesi

Pesi Unwalla
MediaPower New Media Communications
visit: http://www.mediastreams.ca for Streaming Media to Make your Website Stand Out from the Rest!

[Will]

Hello Folks,

I use the Tricaster on a weekly basis and any questions you have i will be happy to help. The company i am based in is StreamUK who now have 3 Tricaster systems for doing live webcasts and have intergrated the Tricaster with our new system called Stream connect which allows anyone to plug in a Tricaster, Download an XML streaming profile a create a webcast in moments. This Tool also will present the webcast in a player and has the possiblity of a.ppt synchronisation tool added to any webcast.

Any questions please PM me.

Cheers

W

http://www.StreamUK.com

[streamez]

Interested to hear how everyone is sending their live output from their Tricaster to the internet. Also - what flash player are people using (custom or downloaded from a service?)

I am currently using the internal FME (live button on Tricaster) and sending to Highwinds CDN. End users are viewing through flowplayer. I have been unhappy with the quality and can't figure out if I am doing something wrong. Users have said quality is subpar, it buffers a lot on their end and some serious lag for some reason. Streaming 480 x 360, 500 bitrate H264. My upload speed is 1 MB.

I'm thinking about going with an external encoding box (quad core, black magic capture card, and either FME or another parties encoding software).

Please offer any an all experiences and suggestions. Much appreciated.

[cata12]

Hello Streamez:

You may have a look at: http://www.thehdstandard.com/hd-streamin...ey-700ehd/ You'll find out more details about how to broadcast live HD and encode video files. A CDN is recommended when you have a lot of traffic from different locations. If your audience is not so big then they can access the files from a central server. The users who reported buffering may have a slow download speed.

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Catalin
Professional Streaming Consultant