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TV interviews via webcam

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JackMurphy

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Hi! I'm hoping there's a TV engineer lurking here...I want to try to set up interviews with TV stations where my personnel will be on webcam...do I need any special equipment on the webcam end to facilitate this successfully? When Fox News Channel and others have someone seemingly on webcam how does that work? Do I need any special software to make this happen? My intense gratitude for your time and consideration!

JM
 
It depends on the quality of the news and content you're providing.

I can tell you in our shop, if it's something other than a real hot news story, they won't want to deal with anything "web" quality. The only time we've aired web quality is when it's on fire, being shot at, or people are fleeing from it.

Keep in mind that with the transition to digital, stations are looking for better quality, and not YouTube video. You would be better off getting decent lighting, a Canon GL2, an editor system like Sony Vegas, and then just send good quality DVDs to stations.
 
The "webcam" video you see on Fox and CNN is actually coming from $75k sat-phone/laptop, IP-based, equipment. The reason its so expensive? Because its in real-time (or less than 2-sec delay max). If you're near a teleport, check into leasing a dark fibre; if you're not, there are IP-based solutions that can get you there with minimum latency - but they require a 3mB pipe (bonded T1's) with QoS and you'll spend about $35k on either end for the I/O (and you still have to pay for the satellite time if its on on your dime). I'm in that same situation right now with a client who is 65+ miles from a teleport, yet needs to uplink headshots for the various networks. Ultimately, if the interviews don't have to be in real time, then you can get by with building a decent head-shot studio and shooting the person while they are interviewed via phone hybrid. Then, you can FedEx out the tape/DVD.
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JackMurphy said:
Hi! I'm hoping there's a TV engineer lurking here...I want to try to set up interviews with TV stations where my personnel will be on webcam...do I need any special equipment on the webcam end to facilitate this successfully? When Fox News Channel and others have someone seemingly on webcam how does that work? Do I need any special software to make this happen? My intense gratitude for your time and consideration!

JM
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WNDU-TV is using a sling box to backhaul a SkyView camera over IP, but latencey is several seconds and builds up over time.

This technology is pretty inexpensive and could be adapted for your purpose if you can work out the time delay for Q & A.

The TV station would put its camera and audio into a sling box connected to the internet, and you would use your computer to retrieve.

Your audio back to them could go via a dial-up telephone link into the talent's earpiece.
 
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