Twenty (or even five) years ago the broadcast landscape was a vastly different space, the costs for gear was outrageous, maintenance costs, hiring engineers, and means of distribution was heavily controlled.  We now live in a day and age where all of the before mentioned no longer are a factor.  This doesn’t mean that it’s all free but the barrier of adoption / acquisition of necessary goods is way less – than ever before!

Through lower cost cameras that now out perform what was more than double the cost, and new tool sets that are becoming available – you can now not only own your own space for distribution, but produce Live Programming that uses the same tools of Fox, NBA, and many other top level broadcasters! (Awesome video after the jump)

I’ve been in the process of perfecting live production with single camera setups coupled with a laptop to services like Ustream.com or using Procaster (which I’ve yet to get to work – think it’s been a hardware thing), and I truly see tool kits like this bring the ability to do live production to way more people than ever before!

Is the Tri-Caster the next magic bullet for LIVE Production?

There are many different paths to getting clean signal to the next, but none like the Tricaster – that I’m aware of!

Photos used in post:

PCR (Fischgibts 11. Mai 2007, h1-Studio Hannover) by schoschie