I just got off a streaming test with Mike Versteeg the developer of CastBlaster and VidBlaster. He’s very close to having a viable alternative to Tricaster at a price any individual, church, school or community group can afford.
VidBlaster can stream to the Internet now using Windows Media streaming, but we’ve asked him to make it work with Ustream.TV. He made it happen in about two weeks.
Steven Saylor is in town and we’re going to do a live stream with him tonight at 8PM (ish). We’ll probably limit it to one camera so we can have a higher quality video in the archive.
Mike isn’t quite ready to let me try the Ustream-friendly version of VidBlaster, but he said he’ll have a version I can test after this weekend.
I love this stuff!
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Cool! I am going to have to look into this for some of the efforts we undertake.
Hey I’d love to know what other OS X tricaster-esque software solutions you had played with before this?
Cheers!
Sounds great! I’ll defiantly check it out!
It must be so awesome to be on the cutting edge like you two are. To get to play with technology for a living…
Unfortunately, my wife and I are on different ends of the technology spectrum.
Woohoo! This is gonna be a blast!
@Grum - The first two years of GeekBrief.TV we used Wirecast from Varasoft.com. It does live switching and lower thirds. There is a version for OSX and a version of Windows. Wirecast will live stream using Quicktime server, but you have to buy the bandwidth.
Neal,
I have both VidBlaster and CamTwist.
I was working with Steve at CamTwist and he’s pretty much solved the multi-camera issue with Firewire cameras. There does seem to be an Apple OS problem, but other than that it works pretty well now. I even connected the XH A1 via my Kona LHe and two firewire HV30’s and it worked great on USTREAM. Stickam.com was more problematic, but I’m not sure why as its “just Flash”.
But bigger issue is, however there’s no Flash Media Encoder for Mac and the UStream “high quality encoding” feature only works on Windows for some reason. So even though I now have everything working on Mac, I just bought a new PC to run VidBlaster (which I’ve ownd for a month or two now).
But due to VidBlaster sucking a lot of CPU, I may end up just going with the middle-grade TriCaster if I can get it cheap enough.
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