The Beginner’s Guide To Operating A PTZ Camera
Many schools provide students opportunities for hands-on broadcast experience. Unfortunately, in the past, all but the best-funded schools were seriously limited in what they could offer. PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) cameras and other innovations like computer-based video production software can now give students access to broadcast-quality equipment at costs that school budgets can handle.
Introducing The Unofficial Guide to NDI
The Unofficial Guide to NDI is the perfect book for anyone interested in the future of video production. NDI (Network Device Interface) is quickly changing the world of video. With the potential to eliminate the need for custom cabling, interfaces, capture cards, and other additional hardware, NDI provides a versatile solution for sharing, recording, displaying, and broadcasting video over standard ethernet networks.
Esports: The New Sports Trend in Education
I don’t make a lot of guarantees, but I can make one about esports. They aren’t going away. They aren’t going to fade. They are going to grow and now is the time to jump on board. If you are a video production instructor, this plays right into your wheelhouse. You most likely have computers in your control. You most likely have the best computers in the building. You have the ability to connect those computers to the internet and you have the kids who are already playing most of the games.
Esports in Education
New Esports in Education book shows how student broadcasters are finding careers in esports! Esports is an interesting new sport where students are competing at the high school and college levels nationally. At the high school level, esports players are not only competing to win tournaments but also to gain scholarships to prestigious universities.
Learn How Schools Can Stream Esports Tournaments
During the 2019 StreamGeeks Summit, a three-versus-three RocketLeague esports tournament took place. The event was live-streamed by a student-run team from New York City’s S.A.R High School and broadcast to Twitch. The student-run broadcast team used a Wirecast Gear video production system, which was connected to three PTZOptics cameras via SDI and seven gaming computers using NDI. The main PTZOptics camera was a 12X ZCam connected via SDI. This camera was used to capture the play-by-play announcer team from Hofstra University. Students from the S.A.R High School also had access to two PTZOptics 20X-SDI cameras they could remotely control using Wirecast and Xbox controllers to capture various views throughout the esports tournament.
Moving to PTZ
How did PTZ Optics cameras make my life easy? Well… If you have read my stuff for a while you know that I hate graduation. Graduation and cats may be on the same level when it comes to how much I hate them. Graduation always brings something to the table that makes me want to scream and throw things. This year was no different.
Why Athletics Departments are Live Streaming High School Sports
The S.A.R. High School Broadcasting Club in Bronx, New York was started in 2015 and is now one of the most popular clubs at the school. The club leverages the schools access to Google Apps for Education to provide students with online tools that extend the clubs online collaboration capabilities. Every student at the S.A.R. School has an iPad and a school-issued Google email address.