2015年10月14日
By 科里本克先生生产商 & 联合创始人,LiveX
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从包装工训练营到球迷直播的奶酪头电视流

作为联合创始人 CheeseheadTV.com, 一个致力于绿湾包装工队的独立网站, 我一直在寻找创新的方式来吸引粉丝. We stream multiple live webcasts every week, including our flagship show 封隔器移植 (or, “Two Guys Who Think They Know Something about Football”) on our 奶酪头电视直播.Com企业账户. We have been on Livestream for more than 6 years and love it—especially the flagship product, liverstream工作室. [充分披露:我曾经在Livestream工作. 也充分披露:我是一个死忠的包装工球迷.]

After losing the NFC Championship by the thinnest of margins and by keeping the roster mostly intact, 对包装工队本赛季的期望很高. Accordingly, Cheesehead TV kicked off the season by going big from the very beginning.

在七月包装工训练营的第一天, 我们在网上播出了一个独家节目, 斯蒂尔曼啤酒厂现场直播, 我们节目的啤酒赞助商. (Stillmank是格林湾当地的一家酿酒厂，生产Wisco Disco, 这是兰博球场在比赛期间销售的第一款微酿啤酒.)只有受邀的包装工队超级球迷才能参加, the show’s success served as our jumping-off point to push the envelope on the rest of our training camp coverage.

5月份的时候，我下载了 Teradek生活:空气. I was intrigued by the potential to switch a show from an iPad. 作为一名直播制作人, the notion of wireless streaming via multiple wireless devices sounded daunting (and just a little bit crazy), but I knew there had to be multiple use cases where this technology could have a big impact, 在某些情况下, even make it feasible to produce a show that would’ve been impossible otherwise.

从2007年我们创办Cheesehead TV开始, we’ve covered training camp using the CoverItLive live blog platform, which enables fans all over the world to interact with each other and see updates in real time with photos and text. 但是，CoverItLive没有实时视频功能. We started with context gained from our NFL Draft coverage this year, 我们把实时博客和视频结合在一起, by streaming for 3 days from our studio with the live blog on the left side and a video player on the right side of our homepage.

斯蒂尔曼啤酒厂的派克移植物

我们的三摄像头直播节目， 封隔器移植, 斯蒂尔曼啤酒厂的溪流.

We contributed to the fan experience by offering a supplement to network television, 观众的体验是干净的. The two-component coverage meant the live blog would be continuous, 即使视频被拍下来了. For the upcoming season, we’ll build and enhance that combination method.

给刚加入绿湾包装工队的人, training camp is a fun and circus-like family experience that is best seen in person. In a tradition started sometime in the ‘60s during Vince Lombardi’s tenure, the players borrow bikes from Green Bay children to ride from the stadium to the practice field. 这是粉丝们近距离观察的好机会, 与球员的个人经验, and it was the perfect opportunity for us to try out the Live:Air software to bring that experience to fans worldwide.

配置

为设置, 我们用的是一台iPad Air 2, one ASUS Router powered by battery and attached to a Verizon 4G-LTE card, one GoPro HERO 3+ Black connected via Teradek VidiU Mini (which our technical director, 尼克米可兹认为, 当他打开iPad时，他戴在头上。), and one Sony PMW-300 connected via Teradek VidiU Mini that received audio from a wireless handheld mic for our cofounder, 《百家乐软件》NFL分析师Aaron Nagler说. iPad为我们提供了第三个摄像头, 我们添加了自定义图形(双框背景), lower-thirds, 透明四边形网格, 和平板).

The biggest challenge was choosing the router and configuring it to work with our 4G card. We chose the ASUS AC3200 because it provides two 5GHz and one 2.5GHz Wi-Fi channel, and it is made for larger-bandwidth applications. It took a little tweaking to get the router configured properly with a 4G card. (在livex上查看我们的操作视频和更多设置信息.电视/ ipadstreaming.)而两家公司的技术支持人员都无法提供帮助, significant internet research and new login variables in the router’s USB 4G settings got us connected, 之后4G卡变成了即插即用.

拍摄包装工球员在训练营骑自行车

捕捉包装工训练营最有趣的部分, where players borrow bikes from local kids and ride them from Lambeau Field to the practice field

第二个挑战是用电池给路由器供电. 幸运的是，像B&H Photo have many D-Tap adapters that work with various DC inputs. (注意:当尝试使用这种方法时, check the connector sizes and power requirements of your router.)

After we had the wireless router working and connected to the internet, 我们把VidiU mini连接到iPad上. iPhone and Android VidiU apps allow Wi-Fi configuration on the VidiU Minis. Using the app, we connected each Mini to our router’s Wi-Fi channel. 我们在iPad上也采取了同样的做法，推出了Live:Air, on which the Minis showed up automatically as camera input sources. We then accessed the iPad’s rear-facing camera as the third source for our show.

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