Patrick Mcnamara
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Right now it’s a tie between encoding with h.264 and using a nice streaming package like streambox (thanks for the tip — I was familiar with slingbox, but couldn’t find a professional equivalent), or leasing a VOD service with one of the local broadcast companies here in Sacramento. I’ll have to get some quotes before I share these solutions with my department, but both sound like extremely viable options. Thanks so much for the great tips! Really appreciate it.
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Richard and Mark,
Excellent ideas! Thank you for sharing your expertise and experience with me. I’ll have to do some more investigation on my own here launching off some of the ideas you suggested above. But here are a little more of the specifics/logistics for your curiosity:
We currently shoot SD video and up-convert the signal to Hi-Res using the Grass Valley Indigo. A higher resolution “broadcast” would be ideal, however SD would also be acceptable. I can’t definitively say how large our budget will be for this project as it’s still in the early stages of consideration, but I imagine $50 K is a good ballpark estimate. (Of course, we’ll be doing our best to economize our resources for quality.) We might be starting with just three satellite campuses, but it may very quickly expand to five or seven within the next year.
I really appreciate your suggestions, and I’ll be sure to give you some updates as I go along. Thank you!
Patrick