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Encoding the video in real time for a live stream

Encoding the video in real time for a live stream

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Encoding the video in real time for a live stream

- In order to send a video out, it's going to need to be encoded, turned into a digital stream. And there are many options for this. I'm going to show you a solution that's pretty reasonability priced. Its from Blackmagic, and it's called their Web Presenter. Now, this particular device makes it pretty simple. We're playing back a video file right now, but we're going to do a live switch here in a moment. And what's happening is I've got two inputs, so I can take the input in, in this case, directly from the switcher, but there is a secondary input so you can actually have two different sources. It has an SDI input and an HDMI input, and you can switch between those. I've just attached this optional panel in the front which makes it easy to do so. Now, within the menus itself you've actually got some basic controls, you can choose which video source you see, you can actually adjust the audio mixing, and one of the things that I really like is the built in audio meters. So when we're…

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