ClearCaster Gives Facebook Live Videos Broadcast Quality
The following is a snippet of a glowing review of Wowza's ClearCaster professional Facebook Live broadcasting appliance. It's a high end, feature-rich, streaming and management system for serious Facebook Live productions. If you are shopping around for a reliable live streaming device, take a look at this impressive gear. Here are a few features:
- Ensure Success: Auto-configuration and real-time health monitoring
- Broadcast-Quality: Delivery of 1080p content with x264 encoding
- Incredibly Simple: Setup in less than 5 minutes, start new streams in seconds
- Follower-Driven Broadcasts: Talent View feature for real-time interaction
- Professional Productions: Designed for high-production value with SDI inputs and countdown to live
- Expert Help: Includes three years of 24/7 phone, chat, and email support.
...We really have nothing to compare the ClearCaster to. This is a far cry from the type of consumer gear we normally review, but it was quite fun to get to play around with a piece of such high-end, dedicated hardware. This is a purpose-build machine that really does just one thing, but it does it very well. So well, in fact, that we’re a bit miffed there isn’t a more consumer-friendly solution to streaming to Facebook Live from a real camera.
While solutions do exist, they all require special video capture gear and software. Or, like the Freestream (previously Freecast) or DxO One, they still rely on your mobile device to actually transmit the stream. Why isn’t there a simple box that we can just plug in to our routers and access through Facebook’s live-streaming portal?...[continue reading]
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