streaming of concerts

[OzGizmo]

Great idea..... But ..... Not trying to put a dampner on things but copyright and intellectual property rights?
Do they pay you? You pay them? Does the viewer pay?
Often the actual financial side of things dictates the technical path you might take rather than the other way around.

[mortenbrekke]

Ozgizmo, this is only on the planning stage.. The ideal situation for me is if I only have to worry about the audio-technical side of things, and someone else can be responsible for the rest of the buisness. To create my own services directly to the public requires alot more work: then I need PR, nice internet-site etc..
This seems to be an interesting business-model:
Livestream Concerts - Powered by Livestream

[Bixby]

Livestream is just a service provider, they're not the ones producing the content you see there. They're just aggregating it and providing the bandwidth.

There are lots of people doing live streaming of concerts, including major broadcast outlets, startups, venues themselves and others. NPR, Concertwindow, Jazz at Lincoln Center all do live streaming for instance.

There are many services that provide video hosting, Livestream being one of them. Livestream has recently changed their offerings and business model a bit to a no-ad service. They do have a paid service, as most pro services are of course.

Big picture, you just need to get audio into an encoder (that's doing both video and audio encoding). The best way to do that will depend on your specific requirements and only you can decide.

[fifthcircle]

The hardest part I find about dealing with a live stream of a concert online is making sure that the audio and video sync. If you're in a situation where there are multiple cameras and a live cut happening, there is almost certainly going to be a latency. Coming off your board, there is likely pretty much no latency. You'll need to know at what point the audio and video are going to meet up and how you're going to make sure they sync.

Everything else is just standard technology and isn't really an issue to put together.

-Ben

[mortenbrekke]

thanks for good advice.. I guess you could go with high buffer-size in the audio, meaning you could use some interesting plugins.. I also looked at this little box: TV One AP-411 Lip Sync Corrector | Location Sound Corp.

For mixing the live-stream, do you guys think it will work with Pro Tools and a daw-controller like Command8, or would it be necessary with a digital-mixer?

[Bixby]

All you're doing is creating a live mix of an event. If you're comfortable using ProTools, go for it. If a mixer, analog or digital suits your needs, use that.

Live mixing audio to video is nothing new. The only relatively new thing here is that the video is being distributed over the internet.

There are lots of boxes that can handle delay. Some digital mixers can also do this. I have no experience with your linked product, but the fact that it only has RCA connections would make me very suspicious.