Facebook Stream Key: What It Is and Why You Need It
Like many social media platforms, Facebook makes it simple for those with sufficient bandwidth to upload videos or do live video streaming. There’s a relatively …
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Streaming Software: What it’s Like Using Wirecast
With the right live streaming software, anyone can create and send a live video stream that engages viewers on today’s popular social media sites or …
Best Live Streaming Software: Why Having the Right Solution is a Must
The many live streaming software solutions on the market today are the key to unlocking your opportunity to reach the universe of viewers watching video …
Live Video Streaming Pros Use Wirecast Gear All-in-One Appliance
In today’s social media environment, anyone with a good idea for a show or live event—and the best live streaming software—can become a live video …
Converting 29.97i for OTT is Often More Difficult Than Expected
Guest post written by Ernie Sanchez, VP & COO, Cinnafilm 29.97i is a wonderful container for broadcast television because it works even though it allows …
Load Testing Origin Servers: a Stream Monitor Application
Written by Ken Haren, Director of Product Management for Cloud Monitoring Services Background In the past we’ve talked about how we’re entering the next phase …
Broken Cadence: when 29.97i is actually something else, and it has to be fixed
Guest post written by Ernie Sanchez, VP & COO, Cinnafilm Content that originated at filmic rates of 23.976/24 FPS has been seen in broadcast for …
Broadcast-Grade Media Processing in the Cloud
Written by Reuben Cohn, Cloud Transcoding Product Manager Many factors today are disrupting the status quo when it comes to doing business in general, and …
Dynamic Ad-Insertion Monitoring for OTT
Unlocking the True Potential of OTT Starts With Assuring Advertising Revenue Consumer adoption of over-the-top streaming services grew dramatically in 2020, largely fueled by the …
How to Automate HDR Quality Control (QC)
In the past we’ve gone over why you should automate your quality control. Now, with HDR becoming more prominent, we need to automate HDR quality …
High School Band Video Production
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Recently I was asked to produce a production for our local high school band for “band …
How to Live Stream Successfully- A Checklist
When it comes to live streaming, anything can and probably will go wrong. So, having a checklist to assist with making sure you have all the gear, …
Live Streaming Toolkits
Congratulations on taking the first step to streaming your live stream. Where to begin? In this section we are going to go over beginner, intermediate, and advanced …
We’re on the verge of a virtual video headend revolution
What will that mean for video quality? Video delivery is very difficult. It takes high-performance headends to encode and compress video streams, combined with zero-loss, …
Plan and Prepare for the Remote Future
With anything, it’s important to have a plan. The COVID health crisis has brought forth a lot of last-minute grasps on how to set up …
Why Wirecast is the Best Software for Both PC and Mac Users
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Wirecast is a robust video switching software capable of producing professional, live broadcasts on the web. …
How to Set-Up Your Office for Live Streaming
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. The last couple of months have been a little chaotic in terms of working from home …
Technology insights: Charlie Dunn looks under the hood of Telestream’s strategic Waveform Monitor development
June sees Telestream announce major new functionality and software-based feature sets for its PRISM waveform monitor. The company has developed its market-leading PRISM Waveform Monitor …
Live Streaming Basics for Churches
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. In this unpredictable time in history, when things are staying closed due to health concerns, churches …
How to Keep your Audience Engaged
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Keeping your audience engaged means you have to actively give people a reason to interact with …
Why a Live Streaming Strategy is a Must
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. This blog was originally published on livestream.com and can be found here- https://livestream.com/blog/live-video-strategy-marketing-statistics Live streaming for …
Why Wirecast for Houses of Worship?
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. For years, our world has been trending more and more to complete virtual presences. So, the …
3 Things to Consider Before you Start Live Streaming
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Are you thinking of starting a live stream? Before you take a deep dive into available …
How Long Should your Streams Be?
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. The snarky answer is however long they need to be. But to give a guideline normally …
Live Streaming Set-ups for Churches on a Small Budget
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. With the shape the world is in right now, there is no telling when “normal” will …
A Checklist Before you Start Church Streaming
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. As stated in other posts, streaming your church services can be overwhelming or downright scary. Not …
5 Reasons Your Church Should be Live Streaming
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. I’m sure the question has crossed your mind. Why would a church need to live stream? …
Ripping up the Rule Book for Live Capture
This article was originally published in TVB Europe and can be found here:In the current pandemic live streaming is becoming a much more influential communication …
Life after Coronavirus: we will thrive and survive!
We live in extraordinary times. Apart from a very small group of macro economists, nobody will have foreseen COVID-19. At Telestream, we have a robust …
Bringing order to broadcast operations with Vantage and MAM systems
By Scott Matics, senior director of product management at Telestream Once a broadcaster or facility deploys shared storage, the organization of media can take on …
How to host a Virtual Graduation with Wirecast, Zoom and NewBlue Titler Live
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Graduations are a time for families and schools to come together and celebrate the achievements of …
How To Affordably Add Cameras To Wirecast
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. So you purchased Wirecast and the first question comes to your mind, “Now what?” You know …
Best Practices for Shot Composition
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Shot composition is often overlooked and one of the easiest ways to make your production look …
Building Your Own Wirecast Machine
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. So you want to take on the challenge and build your own Wirecast machine, but you’re …
Wirecast Now and Later
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Right now, the need for live streaming and the ability to be able to meet remotely …
Is High-Value Content Streaming and Playing Properly?
By Dan Murray, Director of Marketing at Telestream – When OTT services were first launched several years ago, the quality of consumer experience was not …
A High-Level Overview of SRT
The purpose of this article is to provide a high-level overview of the SRT open source technology for video streaming. For those seeking more in-depth …
The Next Phase of OTT Monitoring
OTT streaming has been with us for several years now, but only recently, have companies begun to research what makes one service better than the …
Building Your Own Streaming Computer
To learn more about Telestream desktop products, click here. Professional Streaming Productions Require Computer Hardware That’s Up to the task. We take a look under …
3 Tips for Using Transitions Wisely in ScreenFlow
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the importance of transitions, and how we can use them to enhance our ScreenFlows. Most ScreenFlows, after all, are ‘stories’. …
Speed Testing on the Streaming Super Highway
Streams fall apartYou’re all setup ready to start streaming. Wirecast Preview looks excellent. Everything’s behaving as it should. You’ve even done a quick test recording …
Best Practices for Setting up Shot Layers in Wirecast
One of the most powerful features of Wirecast is the ability to composite very complex shots using different layers. For example – you might want …
What Camera do you Use to Stream?
When setting up a live stream there are innumerable variables that need to be considered. Am I exceeding my bandwidth? Is my lighting setup dialed …
The Chroma Key Feature in Wirecast
Don’t have the studio set up required to best represent yourself? Do you have access to a green screen? Ready to take your live streaming …
Video Streaming: publish or be damned!
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Low Latency, 5G, and the Video Streaming Pipeline
By Stuart Newton, VP Strategy and Business Development at Telestream From attending some of the recent video streaming seminars, it’s clear that sports content providers …
No More Flying Blind
Cloud migration for live and file-based video services is the way of the future. See how video service providers are making the move to the cloud.
5 Simple Ways to Create Live Scoreboards in Wirecast
Learn 5 simple ways to create live scoreboards in Wirecast for your sports events.
Telestream Takes Home NAB 2019 Best of Show and Product of the Year Awards
Telestream walked away from NAB 2019 with several awards for OptiQ and Vantage Cloud Port. Award details include: IABM BaM (broadcast and media) selects OptiQ …
OptiQ Wins 2019 BaM Award
Telestream joined in on the celebration at the annual IABM BaM (broadcast and media) awards on Tuesday, April 9 during NAB 2019 and walked away …
Telestream and Cisco Deliver on Media Processing and Workflow on Demand
More than ever Media companies are facing the operational challenge of forecasting and subsequently executing on media processing workload demand that is more unpredictable than …
Ads – Are We Getting The Best Viewing Experience?
I’ve recently been watching a lot of commercial TV as I travel about the country, and I’ve been struck by one consistent issue: the low …
BoxCast integrates with Wirecast for simple, high-quality live webcasts
Creating and distributing high-quality webcasts just got easier yet again with a new cloud platform option from BoxCast! Today, BoxCast announced it has integrated Wirecast …
Improving Efficiency in the Editing Process
In past blog articles, I’ve emphasized the inherent value of automating processes in order to increase efficiency and in doing so, improve a media company’s bottom line. …
Facebook Posts – Order of Priority
People ask “does it matter what type of post I put on my page and how does Facebook rank that post?” Well….it does matter according …
Adjusting the Loudness in Your Live Stream
In a recent WirecastLive show, Andrew Haley our show host asked Mike Russell, Creative Director at Music Radio Creative and audio expert, “what is loudness?” …
Using Tones to Set Audio Levels
Setting the right audio levels for your live stream can be difficult, but Mike Russell, with Music Radio Creative shows how using tones can help. …
How to Create a Successful Content Strategy Plan
Ever wonder if your social media marketing strategy was on track? Are you getting all the Likes, Followers, and Subscribers on your social channels …
FOX Sports’ FIFA World Cup™ Now Show Produced Live for Twitter with Wirecast
The live video streaming market is estimated to grow to more than $70 billion by 2021¹ and traditional broadcasters are taking note. When FOX Sports …
Telestream at NAB 2018
Can’t get enough NAB Show? Check out these pictures from the Telestream Booth and elsewhere on the show floor. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for …