These days, live streaming has become affordable, allowing content creators to broadcast different live events to their audiences. Remarkably cheap broadcasting equipment is leading to an overall transformation of the industry – not only media giants can create and broadcast live events but also small website owners or small teams of content creators can carry …
Advanced/Technical Use Cases Videography November 15, 2019 24/7 Live Streaming – Building a Continuous Live Stream Channel
24/7 Live Streaming – Building a Continuous Live Stream Channel Most of the time when you’re doing a live stream for your video website, the broadcasting session lasts for a couple of hours. Regardless if it’s a sports event you’re streaming or a concert, the session has a beginning and an end. This article will …
Broadcasting November 11, 2019 How To Stream To WpStream with XSplit
XSplit is a live streaming and video mixing application initially released in 2012 by SplintmediaLabs. The application quickly gained popularity and became the norm for streaming live gameplays on different video sharing websites. XSplit features include recording, live mixing of videos and seamless switching between video sources. XSplit Uses and Features XSplit comes as two …
Advanced/Technical Videography October 31, 2019 360 Live Streaming with WpStream
360 degree video is becoming more and more accessible and popular among content creators. This increase in popularity is also partly due to the fact that high quality 360 video cameras are more affordable than they used to be. 360 degree video is amazing in itself but when combined with live streaming, it becomes a …
Advanced/Technical October 29, 2019 Video Compression Explained
Most internet users have, at one point, done a live stream on a free platform such as Facebook. But did you ever think how it’s possible to broadcast such high quality video over the internet? Let’s make some calculations – the average 1080p video has a resolution of 1920×1080, at 24 bits each and 30 …
Advanced/Technical Videography October 24, 2019 Chroma Key Live Streaming
Chroma Key is a technique of layering two images or video streams together based on their colour hues or chroma range – hence the name Chroma Key. This technique is mainly used to remove the background from a person doing a live stream or recording, and is being used in newscasting, live streams and even …
Advanced/Technical October 22, 2019 CDN Live Streaming With WpStream
Live streaming is a booming business nowadays, resulting in the growth of the content delivery network market as well. It is estimated that by the year 2020, over 70% of all internet traffic, including video streaming, will run through content delivery networks, or CDNs. By 2017, over half of the internet traffic was already running …
Monetization/PayPerView October 14, 2019 Leaving YouTube – Creating a Video Streaming Website & Monetizing Your Content
If you’re reading this, you’re probably quite familiar with YouTube – how it works, how to create professional videos and maybe even their dreaded algorithms. If you created YouTube videos for a year or so you probably started to gain somewhat of a following. That’s great, but soon enough you will start noticing that the …
Recording&VOD October 9, 2019 Setting Up Various Kinds of Videos With WpStream
VOD or video on demand is a media distribution system which gained immense popularity in recent years, over traditional entertainment devices such as the TV. From documentaries and movies to stand up comedy shows and even music videos, everyone simply loves VOD and they quickly became a part of day to day life. Let’s take …
Broadcasting October 3, 2019 Live Streaming to WpStream with vMix
vMix is a very popular live video production application with plenty of features, including live mixing, recording, switching and live streaming from SD, full HD and 4K video sources such as images, Powerpoint presentations, DVDs, video files and, of course, cameras. vMix Uses and Features One of the biggest advantages of vMix is perhaps its …