Comments on: HQ Camera Switching About a Week Away

By: Bob Cozzi

Bob Cozzi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:55:39 +0000

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.

By: neal

neal — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:18:29 +0000

@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.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:14:43 +0000

Woohoo! This is gonna be a blast!

By: John Congdon

John Congdon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:05:15 +0000

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.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:03:36 +0000

Sounds great! I’ll defiantly check it out!

By: grum

grum — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:00:38 +0000

Hey I’d love to know what other OS X tricaster-esque software solutions you had played with before this?

Cheers!

By: Stephen M. Kellat

Stephen M. Kellat — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:00:24 +0000

Cool! I am going to have to look into this for some of the efforts we undertake.