When i’m not a Sysadmin at work, i’m two thirds of our Stream Team, an informal group of two which is sometimes called upon when we have events of moderate complexity that need streaming. Another colleague of mine is the wizard of sound, when sound wizardry is required. Doing live multicamera video production is challenging, a bit unnerving, and fun. There are a whole bunch of things to think of.

You’d think that creating a live video stream these days would be uncomplicated, a “solved problem”. Sure, things might be complicated by the fact that the production has multiple remote controlled cameras, slides/video with possible embedded audio, two audience screens (thankfully showing the same content, and no speaker screen), live dubbing, a separate stage on another floor to show the dubbed version of the presentation, streaming to YouTube in 1080/50p and record the thing on local storage, oh, and keep an eye on the Slack channel for questions and feedback from those on the other side of the stream.