In all fairness, we shot this a while ago – but those who are into this kind of thing might find this interesting: the demise of our initial analogue webcasting setup. We built this starting in 2008 as an experiment to see if we could create a multicam / interactive set-up without spending the kind of big dollars that Tricaster was commanding back in the pre-Wirecast days. It was a helluva system and it was a workhorse for many years.
Did it generate a lot of income? No, but it provided us with endless hours of broadcasting fun and experimentation as we learned what works and what doesn’t in the live webcasting space. We did manage to pick up an Emmy Award in 2009 (Heartland Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) – Advanced Media / General Multimedia category) with a weekly webcast produced on this very system. Initially we used Windows Media, but that became a stumbling block as FMLE became more common in the live space. Towards the end we hooked up a whole pile of encoders so we could go to all the live services out there simultaneously.
BUT – the only constant in this business is change – and we’ve moved to all digital platforms and continue to experiment in that space. Recently we constructed a complete Wirecast system from scratch and now we’re moving into an install mode with the new Livestream Studio. We’re going to be documenting this implementation pretty extensively as we re-group to begin the production of our latest weekly webcast coming to a PC, Mac & mobile device near you!
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