Stream or Die: NAB Showcases Portable Streaming Production

如果现在是四月初, it must be time for NAB-the National Association of Broadcasters show-held each year in Las Vegas, 内华达.

尽管该节目传统上一直在讨好广播公司, whose use of studios and large production trucks require significant high-dollar gear, 便携式电脑的影响, 加固的, 移动流媒体解决方案也越来越受欢迎.

背包方法
One example of this trend is VBrick's Mobile Broadcasting System. Similar to the Kyte LivePro Unwired backpack streaming unit introduced at SXSW a few weeks back, the VBrick solution offers 1Mbps streaming via a wireless infrastructure.

"The Mobile Broadcasting System is a live video contribution backhaul,VBrick在一份声明中说, ，装在一个轻便的背包里."

The trend toward this type of backpack reporting is key, 据凯特说, 转播画面, 和VBrick, 考虑到第一个报道事件的比赛, 不管它在哪里. Kyte's LivePro and 转播画面's Livepack use data cards from three distinct carriers-two each from Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon-to minimize locations where data service might not be available.

"We aim to providing first-to-the-scene news reporters with a means of gathering the news quickly and efficiently with a portable system,布里克说。, 取代昂贵的新闻车和新闻设备."

VBrick说数学很简单, and that the human factor with a backpack may replace the more expensive trucks-at least until a truck can get to the site.

"New trucks cost upwards of $250,000 and up to $3,000 per day to operate," VBrick notes. "Because most stations have more videographers and reporters than trucks, news directors must often choose between waiting for trucks to arrive on the scene to capture live shots vs. defaulting to a telephone interview with a journalist and no accompanying video to enhance the story."

设备方法
在等式的另一边, Newtek is looking to show how its TriCaster is able to replace-or at least complement-traditional mobile broadcasting microwave or satellite trucks.

Newtek将于周二举办一场活动, 4月13日下午6:30, at the Renaissance Hotel (across from the south hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center) called "Stream or Die: How to Capitalize on Portable Live Production."

The panel discussion will be moderated by StreamingMedia.com的编辑Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen说, MTV的代表也会参加, NBA, 美国国家橄榄球联盟的纽约巨人队, 以及录音艺术家彼得·希梅尔曼.

杰夫·雅各布斯, MTV制作策划副总裁, will talk about how MTV is using "network-style live streaming" in its portable production and streaming workflow. 史密斯, NBA发展联盟副总裁兼首席营销官, 斯珀林和, vice president and executive producer of Giants Entertainment, 为NFL的纽约巨人队效力, will discuss how streaming helps connect with a fan base that's hungry for behind-the-scenes and unique content. 除了, Himmelman, GRAMMY nominee and host of the online-only music and interview show "Furious World" will talk about how portable streaming production can be a key differentiator in getting the artistic message out, 而不是增加巡演日程.

像TriCaster这样的产品, which has traditionally been used in studio environments or as the sole video mixing and streaming solution, are now being used as a complementary video mixing solution alongside larger TV production trucks.

One of the main benefits of using a product like the TriCaster-which contains still stores, graphics overlays and even disk recorders and playback-in a portable setting is the ability to trim the time it takes to move a broadcast-quality clip through the post-production finishing process.

在我与TriCaster的合作中, especially in introducing students to the concept of broadcast switching, I've found that students who are comfortable multi-tasking between the various parts of a live production switching scenario find the TriCaster a very comfortable tool to use. Perhaps it's due to the fact that TriCaster feels more like a compute- where a mouse or an external T-bar handle can be used-or because they understand that doing the video mixing work during a multi-cam shoot can save them significant post-production work on a multi-camera edit. Similar products include ViewCast's Niagara GoStream SURF and Digital Rapids' TouchStream.

"I'm really looking forward to asking key questions that the production audience members at the Newtek panel want to hear about,舒马赫-拉斯穆森说, "such as what kinds of content those fans-whether sports or music-are looking for that just don't make sense to deliver with traditional broadcast production."

"One of the motivators behind embracing live streaming is the opportunity for interactivity that doesn't exist within the parameters of a traditional broadcast presentation,舒马赫-拉斯穆森说.

NAB starts on April 11 and continues through April 15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Here's a video preview of the "Stream or Die" discussion.