A glamourous production via the Livestream Studio program. So the ideal reader of this article is someone who’s considering buying a video mixer for live events, has heard about the TriCaster and Livestream Studio, and wants to know how they compare.
On the other hand, 99% of live event webcasting is setting up the right audio channel at the start, clicking the Stream button to get that going and mixing cameras during the event, and hey, I know how to do that much. TriCaster is deep enough to produce television episodes for broadcast, and the person who drives the TriCaster for those types of events dwarfs my knowledge and skill levels. So, I’ll try to ignore the input/hardware related observations and focus on the software.Second, though I’ve mixed a few (he said with deliberate lack of specificity) live events with several different systems, including various versions of the TriCaster, I am far from an expert. From a hardware perspective, the two systems don’t correlate: The Studio system that Livestream sent me was a four-channel HD-SDI system that more closely mapped against some of NewTek's higher end systems.
There are many, many caveats, so let me start there. Fortuitously, the day that the new Studio box appeared on my doorstep, I was just finishing a review of the TriCaster 40 (TC40), a $4,995, four-channel analog-only system. NewTek’s TriCaster has owned the high end of the live event mixer market for so long that any newcomer, like Livestream’s new Studio software, has to be compared against the incumbent.
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