Adobe Video Communicator and lighting. Quality video for less.

The $399.00 price just threw me off. I'm not a photo or video bug at all.

I was just looking for some simple way to edit and deliver.
 
I'm beginning to understand about the Co$t$ involved in the video arena.

I don't plan on making any money doing streaming or even sales from the matches on DVD. I just want to archive some of the great matchups we get at Hard Times.
 
Hope I'm not showing my ass here but from my experience there's not as much hassle and time and money needed for getting video to people as it might seem like. I think the people who sell this sort of software want you to think there's more to it so they can convince you to buy their product.

As far as I know, you can get just about anything done with non-live video using the various free tools out there, or the less expensive ones. You record, edit and add any effects or spliced ads or whatever. If you don't expect a lot of viewers or have a ton of bandwitch, you can use windows media encoder / movie maker to stream live.

re: Adjusting 'lighting'... are we talking physical lighting (nothing to do with the software) or brightness and contrast stuff? That can be adjusted with fairly inexpensive software, esp. if it doesn't have to be done on the fly/live.

I would take jcin's word over mine tho :)

Tom: I would just save the video in a digital format on the camera, transfer to the computer, and do the conversion to make DVD's. Then from the same source convert it to a decently compressed format such as h264/flv. You can then stick that video on a website and people can view it through an embedded flv player like the ones youtube uses. It's not quite the same as live but it's nice because you can't miss any part of it, and seeing stuff a few hours or a few days after is still great. And there are none of the headaches that I'm sure jcin's gotten pretty familiar with.
 
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Hope I'm not showing my ass here but from my experience there's not as much hassle and time and money needed for getting video to people as it might seem like. I think the people who sell this sort of software want you to think there's more to it so they can convince you to buy their product.

As far as I know, you can get just about anything done with non-live video using the various free tools out there, or the less expensive ones. You record, edit and add any effects or spliced ads or whatever. If you don't expect a lot of viewers or have a ton of bandwitch, you can use windows media encoder / movie maker to stream live.

re: Adjusting 'lighting'... are we talking physical lighting (nothing to do with the software) or brightness and contrast stuff? That can be adjusted with fairly inexpensive software, esp. if it doesn't have to be done on the fly/live.

I would take jcin's word over mine tho :)

Tom: I would just save the video in a digital format on the camera, transfer to the computer, and do the conversion to make DVD's. Then from the same source convert it to a decently compressed format such as h264/flv. You can then stick that video on a website and people can view it through an embedded flv player like the ones youtube uses. It's not quite the same as live but it's nice because you can't miss any part of it, and seeing stuff a few hours or a few days after is still great. And there are none of the headaches that I'm sure jcin's gotten pretty familiar with.
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If you are not trying to do live feeds then it makes it much easier with more possibilities for doing things inexpensively. Windows Movie Maker is a capable free tool which can do most of what you need if you just want a straight forward video.

To do multiple camera live feeds with multiple audio sources, simultaneous streaming and high quality capture is a whole other world. For that the Tri-Caster really is the nuts. We will have one before to long and then things will start to look really cool. :D Think instant replay, picture in a picture, inserted taped segments in a live broadcast, animated overlays and titles. I get all excited just thinking about. All I need is about $15K. :D
 
The tricaster I have played with cost about 8500. Camtwist on my mac can do several things that the tricaster does, however I can't switch between cameras. Adobe lets you do that.

Justin have you tried Adobe? If you can't raise the cash for the tricaster give it a try.
 
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