Hello Richard Evans here
with another installment of remote production tools
designed to help you reach your audience during this Covid-19 outbreak
now I hope that you are all staying safe and taking proper precautions
now this particular video may be review for some TriCaster users
as I'm going to go over how to stream your broadcasts online
and in this environment this feature is going to be the most effective way to reach your audience
now there are tons of different content delivery networks or CDN's available to help distribute your content online
like Facebook, YouTube, etc.
now while we are social distancing from each other in our homes we can still produce video through these services to bring us together so let's take a look
So this is the TriCaster TC1 interface
So the first thing I want to show you is where you can go to configure what video feed will be going out to your streaming encoders
Now all of our TriCaster systems now have two streaming encoders on them
so you can send out separate feeds if you want to
so to configure that we'll go to the program output window here and click on this gear icon in the bottom right
and this will bring up the output configuration tab
so on the output side of things you'll see that I have my Mixes one two three and four
which are going to be your hardware and NDI outputs
and then beneath those you have your streaming encoder number one and two here at the bottom
what you'll end up having to do is you'll have to have teh streaming encoder echo what you're doing on one of these mixes
so you can choose from one of any of the four mixes above them but it will be basically
echoing what you're doing up here
and then same thing on the audio side of things. you can use either the master audio or send an aux signal as well
so you can either have your encoders assigned to the exact same source
and the reason why you might have to do that is if you're streaming to one particular CDN
that has a specific encoding settings
you might want to have one encoder go to specific settings and encoder two going to separate settings
so give it the same feed if you want it's just depending on your situation.
or you can have them be completely different mixes. so you can have one broadcast going out to one CDN
and have a completely different broadcast going out just depending on the content coming out of it
so that would be perfect if you have a sign language interpreter etc
or just another feed that will be going out to those
From here once you have that set up and configured
we'll go to the top of the screen and click on the gear icon next to stream and encode
this panel here you're going to see right now I only have the one source which is my facebook profile
so let's go ahead and fill these up with different CDN's
CDN's are going to be your content delivery networks
so places like youtube, facebook, etc.
and on this drop down here where it says new preset
these are the included presets for different streaming providers
so plugins for microsoft Azure, wowza, YouTube, Ustream, Facebook, Twitch, the list goes on and on.
lets go ahead and fill this up with a few other CDN's here
I'll put in YouTube for example and another iteration of Facebook
Now let me uncheck those and I now have three different feeds to go through here.
Now let's say that I want to have my Facebook plug in configured for a certain page.
so what I can do is click on this gear icon on the right next to that
and that will open up the panel for facebook
so from here this where I've gone to set up my tuesday tutorials etc so
what this will allow you to do is you can log into your Facebook page
and decide which page you actually want to stream to.
for example I'm logged into my account so it can either go to my personal page or to the NewTek page or whatever other pages that I have
You can also add your titles and your descriptions here as well
now that's for this particular facebook plug in.
so each one of these plug ins are going to look a little bit different
for example this configuration for YouTube
this is going to look a little bit different because you have to set up events on YouTube
So I won't go into all of the details of each and every one of these CDN's
but this gives you an idea of how these are set up
the easiest way to get these out to content delivery networks is to use these plug-ins
if for some reason I click on this drop down and there is a CDN that you typically using that doesn't appear on this list
and that you want to use that's not a problem all you have to do is go to the bottom of the screen here
and click on custom configuration
and that will open up kinda the old school way of being able to stream out to a content delivery network
what that requires of you is the server address which typically is just going to be an rtmp feed
and then also your stream id and user name and process
so you can type these in here manually which can be kinda complicated and whenever I've tried to do this I mess up one letter or something.
so the easiest way to do it is within the content delivery networks that aren't on that list
most of those sites will be able to supply you with an xml file
which will have all the information already in it.
all you would have to do is just download that from your content delivery network
and then you can load it into the tricaster by click on import settings button here
and then you can navigate to wherever you've download that file.
and load the xml file and then that will populate all this information for you so you don't have to type it out and makes things alot easier
now I have these four different sites here just for this example
you can load this up with as many as your bandwith can take. so you can stream to many different places at one time.
but we'll do is i'm going to put a check box next to these right here.
and then i'm going to have this other facebook feed be on my secondary encoder
so that way when i click stream it will send out these feeds to their respective locations.
if you need to go through and configure the streaming encoder for specific sites.
for example on that custom side of things. say you need to have a specific resolution sending out for that.
you can click on this gear icon here on number one
to open up the encoding settings for streaming encoder number one.
going down the list here the top you'll see that there's this preset for low, medium and high
and whenever i click on those you'll see that it will take the resolution down
and also change the bitrate etc and that's just kinda up to you on how you want to send that out.
and these are just presets that help you out with that and you can also have it match the session you're in.
but if i go beneath that on the video side of things if you need to go through and be a little bit more detailed
let's say that you want to send out a feed as a square resolution
you can go through here and change that so for example i can make this 1080 by 1080
you can definitely do some customization in here also choose the codec you want to use
also adjust your bitrates etc frame rates can be adjusted from here as well
this won't affect the tricaster recording configuration that's all going to remain the same.
same thing if you were sending a physical output like an SDI signal to a projector for example but it's not going to change any of that.
this is only going to change what's going on on the streaming encoder
you can also change the audio bitrate from here
and determine if you want it to be stereo or quad channel
now this is only if you want to get really detailed.
if you just want to do some basic streaming the easiest thing to do is to use these presets.
so you can just click on high or session for example and it will adjust your settings accordingly
same thing if you wanted to configure your streaming encoder number two a specific way just click on that gear icon and do the same thing
and then you'll just go to the top of the screen here and click on stream and encode
and then once that countdown clock starts moving then you know you are streaming out to all of those platforms at one time.
so again this feature is going to be vital to delivering your message to your audiences
during these unprecedented times
so i hope you all stay safe and keep posted for more videos like this for remote production tools.
byeeee