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The popular web resource Wikipedia® hosts many articles on the subject, notably
these two:
Microsoft even hosts an animation on the subject at:
www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/wminaction/stre
aming_pushpull.asx
(Ignore the detailed discussion of configuring the encoder, and just enjoy the pretty
pictures
– your TriCaster makes that part easy for you!)
SECTION 18.7 PRODUCTION AND CAPTURE CONSIDERATIONS
If you’re not intent on live streaming, but wish to capture a live switching session,
you would likely record at full resolution using the Record button (rather than
Stream). The high quality captured files can then be used later in TriCaster’s DDR,
edited in SpeedEDIT™, or even be transferred to another computer (even on a
different platform) for external processing or editing.
Hint: use an external hard drive to transfer the files between systems, or simply transfer
them across a local network.
You can always convert these files to a streaming file format if you later decide you’d
like to supply them for ‘on demand’ Internet viewing. This lets you retain best
quality right through to final output. When you eventually encode for streaming,
you can choose settings that best suit the intended audience and streaming
environment.
At the very least, if (perhaps to save conversion time) you capture video for web
distribution, it’s best to capture it at least at the size that you intend for final output.
This helps ensure satisfactory video quality for your viewers. When video is
compressed (as it invariably is for web viewing) you can lose important detail;
compressing a full-screen video down to a quarter or a sixteenth of its size is a
lesson in humility!