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StudioTech 82: YouTube Live - first looks

Mark Johnson — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:50:08 +0000

YouTube are opening up their live streaming service to YouTube partners who have more than 1000 subscribers and have an account in good standing. We take a quick look at the YouTube lived interface and how to start a stream. You can use FMLE, Wirecast for YouTube or a source of your own choice. We used a Teradek cube for this test.

StudioTech 81: The Sony PMW-150 (PMW-160) XDCAM HD422 Video Camera

Mark Johnson — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:20:20 +0000

We take a close look at the Sony PMW-150, go over the controls, shoot video in the studio and outside and give our view on this camera. In summary we like this camera a lot!

StudioTech Live!: 86 - First looks ATEM Production Studio 4K, Canon HF G30 and Sony PMW-150

Mark Johnson — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:10:58 +0000

Colin Sandy joins us to talk about his first thoughts on the Blackmagic Design ATEM Production ATEM Production Studio 4k. Mark and Vance discuss YouTube announcing paid subscription channels. First look at the Canon Legria/Vixia HF G30. Hands on with the Sony PMW-150.

StudioTech Live!: 85 - The popular monthly Q&A show

Mark Johnson — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:50:55 +0000

The team answer questions from the chat room including choosing a CDN, using Blackmagic Design cameras for Live shows, DSLRs for live and more!

StudioTech Live! 84: NAB in 10, Skype & VMIX, Cinegy Air Express, Teradek Bolt and more

Mark Johnson — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:11:26 +0000

The team cover a range of subjects including videos from viewers on NAB (every aisle in 10 minutes!) and Skype return video using VMIX (vmix.com.au). We take a first look at Cinegy Air Express Play out software, show the Teradek Bolt in action, discuss NAB Broadcast minds, and give some thought to backup plans for studio setups. A busy show!

StudioTech Live!: 83 - Installing a VideoHub, post show workflow and more....

Mark Johnson — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:31:12 +0000

The StudioTech team discuss upgrading the UK studio with a Blackmagic Design Studio VideoHub, Mini Converters and the workflow used to record, edit and distribute the show.

StudioTech Live!: 82 - NAB 2013 highlights

Mark Johnson — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:50:51 +0000

Vance and Mark talk about the 2013 NAB Show and companies and products that caught their attention.

StudioTech Live!: 81 - NAB Coverage from Las Vegas

Mark Johnson — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:00:39 +0000

Mark, Vance and Colin Sandy talk about what they have seen and liked from day one of the 2013 NAB Show. Including Blackmagic Design, Teranex, Atomos, Canon and more. Improved audio version!

StudioTech 74: NAB 2013 - Teradek Product Announcements

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:10:14 +0000

Vance chats with Nicol, the head of Teradek, about new additions to their product range and some impressive software to help manage Teradek products around the globe.

StudioTech 80: NAB 2013 - JVC GY-HM650 camera and version 2 updates

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:10:12 +0000

Mark talks with JVC about the GY-HM650 and the just announced updates for the version 2 firmware.

StudioTech 76 NAB 2013 - Livestream HD50, HD500, HD900 and HD1700

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:10:11 +0000

Mark chats with Livestream about their expanded line of switchers and software.

StudioTech 78: NAB 2013 - Edelkrone slider

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:10:07 +0000

Vance checks out the cool Edelkrone slider and the automatic head coming later in the year,

StudioTech 77: NAB 2013 - Adder KM switch

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:00:06 +0000

Vance chats with Adder corporation about their Keyboard Mouse switch which looks like a greta solution for controlling multiple, mixed OS, systems.

StudioTech 79: NAB 2013 - Pivothead Video Glasses

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:00:02 +0000

Vance talks with Pivothead about their HD camera built into a pair of sunglasses.

StudioTech 75: NAB 2013 - Cinegy Air Playout Server

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:50:04 +0000

We chat with Cinegy about their Air Express playout server.

StudioTech 73: NAB 2013 - Tiffen Steadicam

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:30:06 +0000

Vance chats with one of the most entertaining people in the industry - Garrett Brown of Tiffen Steadicam about the Steadicam range.

StudioTech 72: NAB 2013 - Sony Anycast Touch and the Sony PMW-150/160

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:30:14 +0000

Mark talks with Sony about their newly announced Anycast Touch and the PMW-150/160 camera.

StudioTech 71: NAB 2013 - Blackmagic Design Executive Interview

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:20:08 +0000

Vance chats with Stuart Ashton one of the Blackmagic Design executives about their NAB product announcements.

ST 70 NAB 2013 - Canon XA25

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:50:04 +0000

We take a look at the exciting new video camera from Canon - the XA 25.

ST 68: NAB 2013 - NewTek 3Play 4800 and more

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:40:08 +0000

Vance talks with Philip Nelson about the new NewTek 3Play 4800 and a lot more!

ST 67: NAB 2013 - TVU Networks

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:40:07 +0000

Vance talks with TVU Networks about their remote connection products.

ST 69: NAB 2013 - Atomos

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:30:17 +0000

Vance talks with Jeromy Young about the new products Atomos announced at this years NAB show.

ST 66: NAB 2013 - Wowza

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:20:04 +0000

We talk with Wowza bout their media server

ST 65: NAB 2013 - Broadcast Pix Press Conference

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:11 +0000

Extracts from the Broadcast Pix press conference at NAB 2013. Unfortunately there was no direct audio feed!

ST 64: NAB 2013 - Matrox Monarch HD

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:50:06 +0000

Vance talks with Matrox about the Monarch HD.

ST 63: NAB 2013 - Datavideo switchers

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:30:04 +0000

We talk with Datavideo about their low end switchers

ST 62: NAB 2013 - Lightworks on OS X

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:20:05 +0000

We talk with Robbie Flemming of Editshare about Lightworks and the alpha version running on Apple OSX.

ST 61: NAB 2013 - Blackmagic Design ATEM Production Studio 4K

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:10:04 +0000

Dan May of Blackmagic Design talks to us about 4K and the new ATEM Production Studio 4K at NAB 2013.

StudioTech Live! 80: Looking forward to the NAB Show 2013

Mark Johnson — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:20:58 +0000

This week we talk about new supporters of StudioTech allowing us to produce even more content! Then we look forward to the NAB show in Las Vegas next week where we will be keeping you up to date on the news via our special NAB website, with thanks to Teradek for supporting our coverage of NAB.

StudioTech 60: Blackmagic Design Ultrastudio Mini Recorder and Mini Monitor

Mark Johnson — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:00:13 +0000

We take a look at the low cost Blackmagic Design Thunderbolt equipped Ultrastudio Recorder and Mini Monitor.

StudioTech Live!: 79 - Q&A and we try hard not to talk about NAB!

Mark Johnson — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:21:47 +0000

We answer questions from the chat room and despite our best efforts keep getting back to NAB. We will announce our exciting NAB coverage plans and how you can follow us and keep up to date with all the latest news and information next week.

StudioTech: 59 - Strata Apps - iPad and iPhone Remote Control for BMD ATEM Switchers

Mark Johnson — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:20:10 +0000

We look at Strata View, Strata Light and Strata Pro for controlling Blackmagic Design ATEM switchers, including the Television Studio. Strata communicates directly with the switcher via a Wifi access point so does not require a computer.

StudioTech Live!: 78 - Behind the scenes of a community TV station

Mark Johnson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:20:47 +0000

Vance talks about his recent trip to a community/town TV stations and shares some video with us. A very interesting behind the scenes look!

StudioTech 58: BVE Broadcast Minds

Mark Johnson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:50:20 +0000

Watch the NewTek supported Broadcast Minds panel discussion that took place at the BVE show in February 2013.

StudioTech 56: Blackmagic Design Teranex 2D Processor

Mark Johnson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:00:21 +0000

Mark takes a look at the Teranex 2D standard converter and shows how it can be used for a variety of applications from ingest, playback, Skype source, scopes and Test Card generator as well as being a standard converter for up/down/cross conversion.

StudioTech 57: GoPro Hero 3 Black and the SDI challenge

Mark Johnson — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:40:08 +0000

Find out how to get a reliable SDI source from a GoPro Hero 3 Black camera.

StudioTech Live!: 77 - Starting a video Podcast - Blackmagic Television Studio / Wirecast

Mark Johnson — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:30:47 +0000

Rob Ashard (broadcast TV sound supremo) joins us in the studio to talk about his experience of creating the first two episodes of Corvette Web Blast, the first with Wirecast and the second with a Blackmagic Design Television Studio.

StudioTech Live!: 76 - Monthly Q&A

Mark Johnson — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:00:55 +0000

Our popular monthly Q&A - questions from emails and the chat room

StudioTech Live! 75: Mark and Peter visited BVE!

Mark Johnson — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:50:51 +0000

Peter and Mark visited BVE 2013 (the UK Broadcast Video today and talk about some of the products they saw with Vance.

StudioTech Live!: 74 - Chroma Keying tips and keying on Wirecast and TriCaster

Mark Johnson — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:20:58 +0000

Mark and Vance talk about how to get a good key (lighting, position etc) and demonstrate keying with Telestreams Wirecast and NewTeks TriCaster 855. Includes virtual set demos.

StudioTech Live!: 73 - Peter and guest Robyn Rodgers

Mark Johnson — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:40:26 +0000

Peter talks with Robyn Rodgers, a former BBC editor who now runs her own production company.

StudioTech Live!: 72 - Monthly Q&A...

Mark Johnson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:20:55 +0000

Vance, Mark and Peter answer viewers questions.

StudioTech Live!: 71 - Streaming a live event

Mark Johnson — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:30:53 +0000

Outside Broadcast Special! Vance talks about streaming a concert by Parmalee - a Country Music Band at Deep South Venue in Raleigh, North Carolina.

StudioTech News: 30 January 2013

Mark Johnson — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:40:09 +0000

News items that caught our attention in the past week.

StudioTech Live!: 70 - Matrox MX02 Dock, Go Pro Hero 3 via SDI and more....

Mark Johnson — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:21:06 +0000

Vance and Mark chat about various new products and answer questions from the chat room.

StudioTech Live!: 69 - Skype Integration

Mark Johnson — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:11:13 +0000

Vance and Mark talk about the challenges of integrating Skype into your video productions and give an overview of the systems in use at TTFN TV.

StudioTech News - 15 January 2013

Mark Johnson — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:00:08 +0000

News items that caught tour attention in the past week.

StudioTech News - 8 January 2013

Mark Johnson — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:10:13 +0000

A new format for StudioTech News - let us know what you think!

StudioTech Live!:68 - New Year Q&A

Mark Johnson — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:00:54 +0000

Vance and Mark kick off the new year answering questions from the chat room.

StudioTech Live! 67: 2012 Highlights and our Product of the Year

Mark Johnson — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:10:56 +0000

The team look back at the highlights of 2012 including NAB, visit to see Leo Laporte and studio, TriCaster announcements and more. Plus we discuss the three shortlisted products for the StudioTech Product of the Year Award - Atomos Connect, Matrox MicroQuad and the NewTek TriCaster 40 - and announce the winner.

StudioTech Live!: 66 - Audio Workflow

Mark Johnson — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:40:51 +0000

Vance returns from vacation to find problems in the studio, and Skype decides to challenge us. We look at the audio workflow used in the studio.

StudioTech Live!: 65 - Your questions answered!

Mark Johnson — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:23:10 +0000

Mark and Peter answer questions from the chat room and Vance makes a surprise brief appearance!

StudioTech Live!: 64 - Dave Shapton of redsharknews.com

Mark Johnson — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:51:08 +0000

Dave Shapton, Managing Editor of redsharknews.com, joins us to talk about Editshare, Lightworks, 3D and 4K

StudioTech Live!: 63 - Converters

Mark Johnson — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:10:28 +0000

Vance and Mark sumup the weeks news highlights and talk converters. Vance really likes the new H2S and S2H converters from Atomos!!

StudioTech Live!: 62 - News and more Graphics discussion

Mark Johnson — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:22:02 +0000

Lots of news this week. We discuss the poor upgrade pricing for version 6 of the Longtail Video JW Player, the good upgrade pricing on NewTek Virtual Set Editor 2 and then have another quick look at CasparCG, and show how to use Apple Motion for Lower Thirds and much more!

StudioTech Live!: 61 - Peter gets a new toy, News and Graphics options

Mark Johnson — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:01:02 +0000

Peter gets a new TriCaster 855 Control Surface, Red camera price reductions, NewTek Audio Control iPad app, ChyronIP, CasparCG, Apple Motion and more....

StudioTech 54: NewTek TriCaster 40 ? Part 3

Mark Johnson — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:46:55 +0000

In the final part of our look at the NewTek TriCaster 40 we create a short video podcast as an example of what you can do with the TC40!

StudioTech 54: NewTek TriCaster 40 Part 2

Mark Johnson — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:27:32 +0000

In part 2 we look at the NewTek TriCaster 40 user interface and configuring the software.

StudioTech 53: NewTek TriCaster 40 Part 1

Mark Johnson — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:57:42 +0000

The TriCaster 40 allows you to record, stream and live mix (the Tri in TriCaster) HD and SD video. In Part 1 we look at the hardware configuration.

StudioTech 52: Blackmagic Design Ultrastudio Express

Mark Johnson — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:58:11 +0000

We look at the Ultrastudio Express a Thunderbolt device that captures or outputs SDI, HDMI, Component, S-video or component video plus a variety of audio options! Best watched in 1080!

StudioTech Live!: 59 - A week of news

Mark Johnson — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:32:02 +0000

Lots of news of interest to anyone creating video for the internet!

StudioTech Live!: 58 - Cameras

Mark Johnson — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:31:29 +0000

We talk about the new battle in 'action' cameras and look at the different type of cameras for live video.

StudioTech Live! 57: HDMI- Philip Nelson-Tricaster 40- EDID Conversations

Mark Johnson — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:48:43 +0000

Episode #57 of Studiotech LIVE! - Philip Nelson from Newtek joins Peter and Vance to discuss Tricaster 40, HMDI interface and much more!

StudioTech Live!: 56 - Monthly Q&A

Mark Johnson — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:21:07 +0000

Vance, Mark and Peter answer questions from the chatroom!

StudioTech Live!: 55 - Bit of this and a bit of lighting

Mark Johnson — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:31:13 +0000

Vance and Mark talk about the new TTFN TV store, the iPad control project, lighting and more.....

StudioTech Live!: 54 - Control

Mark Johnson — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 01:41:03 +0000

This week we were joined by Joe de Max who shows us his control software for Wirecast running on an iPad. Vance shows several USB specialist keypads and Mark demonstrates TTFN TV Control and iPad controlling a TriCaster and Tweeting as well!

StudioTech Live!: 53 - IBC 2012 Roundup

Mark Johnson — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:30:57 +0000

Vance and Mark talk about their trip to IBC 2012 and what caught their eye including NewTek, Matrox, Chryon, Blackmagic Design, MultiCam, EasyRig, Atomos and Teradek.

StudioTech Live!: 52 - #blamePeter Q&A

Mark Johnson — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:40:56 +0000

With Mark and Vance in Amsterdam for IBC 2012 Peter is in front of the camera for our monthly Q&A show!

StudioTech 50: Livestream Studio HD500

Mark Johnson — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:01:08 +0000

In an aggressive move in the live streaming market, LiveStream have announced an $8500 'all in one' switching/streaming/recording appliance with an SDI digital workflow. Weighing only 15 pounds and complete with padded case it is designed to be carry on baggage on an aircraft!

StudioTech 52: Matrox MicroQuad demo

Mark Johnson — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:40:42 +0000

We unbox, install and demo the Matrox MicroQuad. The MicroQuad takes 4 SDI inputs (they have to be the same format) and creates a quad screen output to an HDMI monitor.

StudioTech Live!: 51 - Vance visits the UK studio, TriCaster 40, Studio walkabout

Mark Johnson — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:50:45 +0000

Vance is in the UK, we talk about this weeks news including the TriCaster 40, and a studio walkabout.

NewTek TriCaster 40 Announcement - a StudioTech Special!

Mark Johnson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:10:32 +0000

NewTek releases the exciting TriCaster 40 and we have one in the studio along with Philip Nelson from NewTek to tell us all about it!

StudioTech Live! Special - NewTek TriCaster 40 announcement

Mark Johnson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:00:23 +0000

Mark and Vance talk about the NewTek TriCaster 40 announced today (29 August 2012) and play an extract of the video recorded when Philip Nelson visited TTFN with a TC40 last week!

StudioTech News Update!

Mark Johnson — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:20:02 +0000

Mark explains the current thoughts on StudioTech News!

StudioTech Live! 50 - News, Audio delay and Teradek

Mark Johnson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:50:54 +0000

The team talk about the latest news and developments in the internet video world, delaying audio to fix lip sync issues with the Behringer Shark and show the Teradek Cube and Bond.

StudioTech Live! 49: Teradek Bond / Cube and Livestream Broadcaster plus IBC.....

Mark Johnson — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:21:15 +0000

This weeks StudioTech Live! recording!

StudioTech Live!:48 - Livestream Broadcaster and more...

Mark Johnson — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:47:09 +0000

The StudioTech crew catch up on the weeks news and then demo the Livestream Broadcaster!

StudioTech 48 - Ray Conkling of Teranex / BlackMagic Design

Mark Johnson — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:30:19 +0000

Mark talks to Ray Conkling of Teranex / BlackMagic Design about the new 2D and 3D Teranex processors announced at NAB 2012 and about to ship!

StudioTech 47: Panasonic AW HE120 PTZ Camera Part 2

Mark Johnson — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:38:52 +0000

Part 2 of our look at the impressive Panasonic AW HE120 PTZ

StudioTech 46: Panasonic AW HE120 PTZ Camera

Mark Johnson — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:45:03 +0000

Richard Payne from Holdan visits the studio with the impressive Panasonic AW HE120 PTZ camera and demonstrates its capabilities with both a hardware and PC controller.