Connecting NewTek TriCaster Mini to Wowza Streaming

The folks over at Wowza put together this quick demo video for connecting the NewTek TriCaster Mini to Wowza streaming services. This tutorial is good for connecting any TriCaster to Wowza. Wowza offers you two options: Connecting to their Streaming Cloud or to your own Wowza Streaming Engine. To learn more about Wowza and TriCaster, give us a call and or techs will walk you through it. The NewTek TriCaster, an integrated video production and streaming system, can capture, encode, and publish live video to the Wowza Streaming Cloud™ service. When you choose NewTek as your video source, Wowza Streaming Cloud generates a connection settings file that you can use to easily connect the TriCaster to Wowza Streaming Cloud.

How to Connect NewTek TriCaster to Wowza Streaming Cloud

Wowza Media Systems joined the NewTek Developer Network to integrate Wowza Streaming Cloud with NewTek TriCaster to combine the strengths of these products. Ryan Jesperson, senior manager of Technical Product Marketing for Wowza, demonstrates quick and easy steps to set up and stream using these products. For a user already set up on Wowza, this takes literally less than five minutes from startup to streaming. The video also introduces viewers to the capabilities of Wowza Streaming Cloud and NewTek’s portable multi-camera integrated production system, TriCaster Mini. In TriCaster’s streaming pulldown menu, both Wowza Streaming Engine and Wowza Streaming Cloud are available selections among the many built-in options. Ryan also demonstrates is the ease with which you can save a new configuration from Wowza Streaming Cloud and import that to TriCaster, where it is added to your Streaming menu options for future use.