Business opportunities


tionality that we needed, all from a single box. With Lightspeed Live from Telestream, we found the ideal streamlined solution,” said Weston Carter, Director of Video Services for Media Sys- tems, Auburn University in Au- burn, AL.


On the recording side, Au- burn Athletics needs to record roughly 350 live events per year, amounting to thousands of hours of programming. For live football, baseball, softball, and basketball home games, this means record- ing live video produced in one of two control rooms in the Athletics Video Services Building. Howev- er, it could also mean recording live video feeds of ISO cameras at different playing fields, sports facilities and arenas across cam- pus. On the streaming side, the solution needs to run uninter- rupted for long periods of time; for example, throughout foot- ball gamedays for pregame and in game events. It must also be able to live stream


important


The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has undergone substantial regeneration and development as part of its mission to expand its campus and enhance its student experience, including opening a London campus.


Extra-curricular activities


University life is about more than academic life. For many. It is also a life-changing exper ience built on social, sport- ing and leisure activities. How does the distance learning stu- dent take advantage of these


“Each student has a unique


student-to-


professor video feed to simulate the typical


conversational per- spective,


with additional vantage points pro- vided by


multiple in-studio cameras.”


extra-curricular activities? Te- lestream has provided tech- nology to a product at Auburn University.


The US institu-


tion selected Lightspeed Live Stream to live stream special events,


such as graduation


ceremonies, sports events and other activities.


Lightspeed Live Stream takes live video feeds from produc- tion


switchers, video routers, ISO cameras, or other sources and streams them simultane- ously to the University’s Face- book, Twitter, and YouTube channels, as well as its own website.


From its production facilities in the Athletic Video Services Building, Auburn Athletics also uses a companion product from


Telestream - Lightspeed Live Capture - to ingest and record live video of sports and spe- cial events onto their network attached storage system. An added attraction of the system is that both the stream and


and deliver exclusive live video of its Auburn Tigers Southeast- ern Conference (SEC) sporting events that the major sports network streams, the use of the integrated Lightspeed Live Capture solution constitutes a


Auburn’s valuable sports foot- age that can later be repur- posed into fan engagement videos, highlights reels, and other promotional materials. It’s also used to record live events video into the archive,


events to a mix of social media sites simultaneously, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. “Lightspeed Live Stream and Live Capture have proven to be affordable, user-friendly systems that run reliably on a single piece of hardware. And, Lightspeed Live Stream simultaneously de- livers up to four video channels to the social platforms we need to stream to, all from one box,” said Carter.


aging the live streams and recordings. With this great- er


efficiency, we’re saving


considerable time training students, who can quickly be entrusted to handle these important tasks independent- ly. We’re now filling our social media channels faster, while preserving video of our cher- ished moments and heritage for posterity,” adds Carter.


Education upturn


The continuing potential for an education is entering a vir- tuous circle, where a combi- nation of technologies, includ- ing interactivity, collaboration and streaming, enables edu- cational institutions to share resources and learning experi- ences. The choice of courses and expertise can be greater, and the number and diver- sity of tech-savvy potential students is almost limitless. The new technology platforms for distance learning also of- fer the potential to address the educational elephant in the room – the rising cost of education. By delivering edu- cation to its consumers digi- tally there is real potential to engage potential students de- terred by tuition fees and the cost of accommodation etc incurred in relocating to the locality of the institution.


Lightspeed Live Stream takes live video feeds from production switch- ers, video routers, ISO cameras, or other sources and streams them simultaneously to the University’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channels, as well as its own website.


capture applications run on the same server hardware simulta- neously.


While the University has con- tracted with ESPN to produce


completely separate and un- related workflow.


During live


games and special events, Lightspeed Live Capture is used to create an archive of


while Lightspeed Live Stream simultaneously streams video to social media.


“Our goal was to find a ro- bust, reliable solution that could provide streaming of multiple feeds to various so- cial media platforms simulta- neously and recording func-


“Since students make up a big part of our production team, we wanted to make sure that the Lightspeed Live solution would in fact be very easy to learn and use, yet robust enough for the tasks we need to perform. We found that our students could indeed jump on it and start man-


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