Category: Blog
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Photo by Pexels onThis is Live Streaming Production: Make Superior Interactive Virtual Experiences
Interactive virtual experiences have exploded since lockdown. The most engaging ones stand out. Live streaming has become an increasingly popular way to connect with your audience and create captivating virtual experiences. Whether you’re a business owner, content creator, or simply someone looking to engage with others in real-time, mastering the art of live streaming production…
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Inner Ear’s live coverage of Showcase Scotland at Drygate, Glasgow How to Choose: Live Streaming vs Recording for As Live
Live broadcast is exciting. It’s also nerve-wracking. Live streaming vs recording, which is best? Both create a live shared digital experience. One is truly live in the moment. The other one is simulated. So how do you choose? In almost 20 years of producing live audio and video content, I still get nervous every time…
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Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Now Targeted Live Streaming Can Save Your Job From AI
Creative people are concerned about AI replacing them. If you are one of them, what can you do to save your job from AI, or more specifically the potential threat of it making your role redundant? I think live streaming could provide the answer. In episode one of my video series, This Is What Streams…
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Photo by Mikołaj on Unsplash Want to learn how to make engaging live programmes?Join the waiting list for our book
Our forthcoming book This Is What Streams Are Made Of is a comprehensive guide on how to make engaging live programmes. Dougal is still writing it but it will be available later this year.
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Photo by Nevels Media on Unsplash Want to get started with professional live streaming right now? This is what to do
We deliver lots of training and consultancy sessions teaching people everything they need to know in order to live stream their projects and helping them overcome challenges and cure their dynamic content headaches. We’ve been teaching people about live streaming for over 20 years. We’re creating a masterclass and I am writing a live streaming…
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8 Tips for Engaging Your Audience — Extra Live Streaming Advice
Audience attention is valuable. Viewer numbers are good, but high engagement is better. That’s because an engaged audience pays more attention. But, whether you have ten viewers or 10,000, how do you go about engaging your audience? What would you rather, huge audience numbers or an audience that’s really engaged in your content? Both, obviously!…
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How You Differentiate Between Live Streaming, Simulated Live and Premiers
Live streaming is the broadcasting of real-time video content over the internet. But you knew that already. It allows viewers to watch events as they unfold, with no delay between the actual event and its online transmission. Live streaming creates a sense of immediacy and interactivity because viewers can engage with the content by posting…
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Illuminating Success: How to Choose the Best Video Lights
Whether you’re embarking on a cinematic masterpiece, a captivating web series, or a live-streamed event, the importance of proper lighting cannot be overstated. So, you need to choose the best video lights to make your production shine. While shooting outdoors in natural light is a photographer or videographer’s dream, the real challenge arises when you’re…
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All Jibs & Gimbals? How to Get a Grip on Your Video
When you are filming anything, whether it’s for live streaming or video production, holding the shot steady is essential for a good viewing experience. And that’s hard to do with just your hands; especially with a smartphone. So you need to get a grip on your video. Using some kind of grip can really help.…
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How to Choose the Right Microphone
Whether you are making a short film, creating a web video, live streaming a show or recording a podcast, if you want to record sound, you need a microphone. Working out how to choose the right microphone for the job can be bewildering; there are so many different makes and models available. Use this guide…
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12 Video Conferencing Tools for Staying Connected
If you suddenly find yourself working from home or another remote location, you’re going to miss those interactions with other people. Video conferencing tools can help by allowing you to talk face-to-face, even if it is via a screen.
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Photo by Sam McGhee on Unsplash Distanced Not Divided: Digital Media Is Helping Us Define Our New Normal
Distanced does not have to mean divided. Creative problem solving and innovative use of digital media is closing the gap of social distancing. Meeting people, chance encounters, expressing yourself, feeding off the energy of the audience, inspiring people, supporting each other. All of these things we often consider better in person. Now, due to our…