Archiving Presentations for Flash Streaming without Streaming Live
Posted by Derrick on January 16, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
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Archiving presentations for Flash Streaming without Streaming Live is a workflow that you can use with Telestream’s Wirecast tool. For those of you that are not familiar with Wirecast, it’s a software-based Live Encoder available for Mac and PC. The live encoder lets you perform tasks that you’ve only dreamed of. For this post I wanted to shared Wirecast’s ability to Archive your PowerPoint, Keynote or .PDF presentation along with a Web Cam or Video Camera.
Under the Broadcast Settings if you click the + button to add a new destination, instead of choosing a streaming server for the Destination you can choose Record to Disk. You can customize you output location and filename of your file to archive. For Flash you have the option to record files with the .f4v or the .m4v wrapper. Once you adjust your settings you can then turn on the Record to Disk mode without Streaming Live by clicking the Broadcast button. Click stop Broadcasting when you presentation is done. You’ll have to be sure to use the Desktop Presenter to display your PowerPoint, Keynote or .PDF presentation in Wirecast. When you finish recording your presentation you can upload your .f4v or .m4v video to your Flash Streaming Server.
To learn more about Recording to Disk and other features of Wirecast make sure you attend one of the FREE Episode Encoder, Wirecast and Sawmill Professional Trainings in your area. Training sessions are coming up in Orlando on Jan. 22 and in Ohio on Feb. 19 in 2010. You can also attend in Chicago, Las Vegas and New York.
