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Where video production and IT meet

Where video production and IT meet

From the course: Live Video Streaming: Essential Skills

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Where video production and IT meet

- Lights, camera, connectivity? If there's any realm where video production and IT converge, or collide, depending on your point of view, webcasting is it. But the fact of the matter is that your on-site or venue IT team is your lifeline to the outside world. They know the network infrastructure at your location better than anyone else, and they have the power to make or break your production. For any video livestreaming project, I always make it a point early in the planning process to bring IT into the fold and make them a part of the team. Much like a satellite uplink engineer at a broadcast facility, they control the flow of outbound information. CNN or Fox News can't beam their programs to the world without engineers to support them. The same rule can apply to you when operating in an unfamiliar IT environment. Some important things to work with IT on are confirming you have the needed ethernet and wireless connections and that there's enough bandwidth to send an outbound stream.…

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