The Book On Webcasting

Written by a Webcasting expert, this book is a complete guide to broadcasting on the Web. It provides a general overview of Webcasting, covers business and.
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It's straightforward in its approach to technical matters -- lots of screenshots to illustrate settings and controls -- but it also lays out some essential considerations that are all-too-often overlooked by the beginner. Does this webcast really have to be live?

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What can I reasonably expect from an audience in terms of its connectivity? Can we handle this ourselves, or do we need to outsource this? Can we afford the bandwidth to do this? Folks just starting out seldom realize that getting a computer to spew out video and audio packets over the Internet is darn near the easiest thing in the world to do. Having content worth seeing, well, that's the hard part. One of the challenges of writing about webcasting is that the subject's a moving target. Quicktime is covered with respect to embedding the player in web pages and creating metafiles, but is generally sold short as a streaming platform.

Likewise, Flash is largely dismissed. Both decisions were reasonable at the time the book was written and released. QuickTime Broadcaster wasn't the product it is now with it's use of the H.


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I'd expect a second edition to use more examples from each of these, but the real meat of this book -- the business, video and audio production, budget and personnel considerations -- are really quite independent of the particular streaming architecture one happens to use. And, for all the hype surrounding Flash here in the Spring of , Windows Media and Real are still the industry heavyweights. There are other good books about the technical side of webcasting -- Damien Stolarz's "Mastering Internet Video: If you're new to webcasting, make this book one of your first purchases.

Dan Rayburn and Steve Mack are two industry veterans with incredible insight into the process and business of event webcasting. Steve brings a wealth of hands-on experience producing high profile events, and Dan knows the ins and outs of the business models and the digital media industry landscape.

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This book does a great job detailing, step by step, all the things you should consider when producing your own webcast If you want to get a head start on webcasting, this is the best book out there to get you going. This book addresses the tight interaction of the business requirements, the technical solution and control of the unexpected. There is nothing especially complex about planning a webcast. But there are so many factors, so many moving parts, that it takes years to build the expertise to properly plan.

Beyond providing the technical skills, this book lends the experience to make webcasting look easy. Even veteran producers will find valuable practical suggestions. Not rocket science; just tricks learned over many years of varied events. One person found this helpful.

Dan and Steve have captured and outlined the necessary ingredients for successful webcasting and have done so in an easily comprehensible manner. For anyone who is looking to start webcasting or for a pro who just wants a refresher, this book is an excellent resource.

If you have any interest in doing your own webcast, this is the book you'll need. It covers everything from getting a quick start for the novice just getting something small up and running , to setting up and configuring your encoder setup for pros. The case studies provide real world examples of what happens in live production settings and can help you forsee some of the many issues that arise when you are webcasting. Overall, I'd consider this one of the necessaru tools of the trade.

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The Book of Webcasting

The authors have written an in-depth guide to webcasting. It's deeper than a primer and most appropriate for small and medium sized businesses considering webcasting. Enterprise IT professionals that do a lot of webcasting already will probably find the information too basic for their needs. There are lots of screenshots and diagrams to provide visuals of the subject matter.

This book is a great place to start learning about the webcasting. It gives you all of the basic information to decide if you want to research further into the world of streaming media.


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