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09 May 2009, 03:21
Mike
I travel a great deal and while I love my 4 camera setup with the Tricaster Studio that I use when I am at home, after playing with VidBlaster today I have a couple of suggestions for the Studio version which I hope remains modular! My road setup is simple two cameras one is connected via firewire the other is a USB High Quality Webcam.
Here are my suggestions:
You should work to integrate VidBlaster to use the FME API so that users do not need to load FME. This would allow you to push the stream straight to ustream, stickam etc without loading FME in the foreground. With the Tricaster I do not have to even load FME, I assume it makes API calls to FME thus kepping resource usage down.
Seeing a lot of people are going to be using this traveling optimizing CPU usage is critical I already travel with 2 laptops and found it was going to be impossible to run VidBlaster with my current setup
Machine 1 is strictly used for show production I have 4-5 applications running all for show work flow.
Machine 2 is strictly used for Audio recording (My Primary Audience)
Note I tried running Vidblaster, FME and Adobe Audition while the audio patching was crazy it worked until Vidblaster blew out the CPU usage.
Machine 3 will be VidBlaster and FME only.
With a Mixer, Mics, Wireless, Cables, Camera, Extension Cords, Power Strip, Wifi Hub and variety of connectors etc I can get all of it packed in a single Pelican case that is 48 pounds, good to go for Airline travel.
In screen capture mode. You need a setting to allow the vidblaster to cover up the area highlighted aka I want the background streamed. This will help those of us trying to minimize travel gear. When I am home and have multiple monitors its sweet but I have to really smash the vidblaster control window down to get in a skype call.
You need some deeper documentation on IP cameras as this is obviously a great way to bring in more cameras without overhead on pc just need the bandwidth
The documentation really needs some work but I know when your in coding mode that documentation takes a back seat and we all want optimized features versus docs at this point.
Overall great product and will serve me perfectly when I travel
Todd Cochrane
CEO RawVoice
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I travel a great deal and while I love my 4 camera setup with the Tricaster Studio that I use when I am at home, after playing with VidBlaster today I have a couple of suggestions for the Studio version which I hope remains modular! My road setup is simple two cameras one is connected via firewire the other is a USB High Quality Webcam.
Here are my suggestions:
You should work to integrate VidBlaster to use the FME API so that users do not need to load FME. This would allow you to push the stream straight to ustream, stickam etc without loading FME in the foreground. With the Tricaster I do not have to even load FME, I assume it makes API calls to FME thus kepping resource usage down.
Seeing a lot of people are going to be using this traveling optimizing CPU usage is critical I already travel with 2 laptops and found it was going to be impossible to run VidBlaster with my current setup
Machine 1 is strictly used for show production I have 4-5 applications running all for show work flow.
Machine 2 is strictly used for Audio recording (My Primary Audience)
Note I tried running Vidblaster, FME and Adobe Audition while the audio patching was crazy it worked until Vidblaster blew out the CPU usage.
Machine 3 will be VidBlaster and FME only.
With a Mixer, Mics, Wireless, Cables, Camera, Extension Cords, Power Strip, Wifi Hub and variety of connectors etc I can get all of it packed in a single Pelican case that is 48 pounds, good to go for Airline travel.
In screen capture mode. You need a setting to allow the vidblaster to cover up the area highlighted aka I want the background streamed. This will help those of us trying to minimize travel gear. When I am home and have multiple monitors its sweet but I have to really smash the vidblaster control window down to get in a skype call.
You need some deeper documentation on IP cameras as this is obviously a great way to bring in more cameras without overhead on pc just need the bandwidth
The documentation really needs some work but I know when your in coding mode that documentation takes a back seat and we all want optimized features versus docs at this point.
Overall great product and will serve me perfectly when I travel
Todd Cochrane
CEO RawVoice
Host Geek News Central