播放影片 Unveils Entry-Level Integrated Streaming System

播放影片 CEO Graham Sharp took to Zoom today to deliver an announcement that would have been the cornerstone of the integrated video production solutions provider’s presence at NAB this year had the show gone on. 夏普推出了流媒体Pix, a new integrated streaming production solution that features the company’s familiar capture-to-delivery approach but at a modest $6,499 price point that makes it accessible to a considerably broader base of producers than other solutions in its line, 13美元起的有哪些,000 to more than $50k for the top-of-the-line 22-camera system.

The new StreamingPix solution leverages some of the same components and automation technologies of 播放影片’ major 2019 release, 广播照片. Designed to enable “visual radio productions” that “turn listeners into viewers” and dramatically simplify these shows’ creation, RadioPix集成了PTZ相机与标题, 图形, 视频内容, and the behavioral intelligence to automate their application at appropriate times in a broadcast.

Streaming Pix brings that same approached to live-streamed video productions delivered to popular social media platforms and other streaming destinations. The new StreamingPix system targets for event, meeting, lecture, and worship streaming. Designed as a turnkey solution, it includes the following:

集成控制的RoboPix相机
高质量音频捕获
the ability to input PowerPoint and social media feeds
广播Pix的软件控制UI
“随时可用”的媒体资产库
“visually aware macros to make your content visually interesting”
and support for a one-to-many streaming and a range of delivery options including popular streaming services and ascendant virtual meeting options including Zoom, Skype, 参加会议, 和更多的.

在简报中, Sharp explained that StreamingPix grew out of the company’s observation that a significant portion of the organizations looking to stream lacked traditional broadcast training—a condition that’s only become more pronounced in recent weeks as social distance measures have necessitated the virtualization of meetings, 会议, 以及其他沟通工作. 这需要一个更简单的, 更容易, 和更多的 easily automated way to produce compelling streams and get them online.

播放影片 also identified a need to make the company’s solutions more affordable. Recognizing that its control and automation software was the heart of its offering, the challenge was to make it work on lower-cost (and necessarily lower-powered) PCs. Sharp recounts asking the company’s hardware partners what PCs they could supply in volume, and resolving to “do a version of our software that runs on the PCs we can get, 马上发货, 而且价格更低.”

图1(下面) shows a basic schematic of the StreamingPix setup, 媒体是如何介入的, 以及它是如何熄灭的, leveraging Switchboard Cloud’s technology for one-to-many streaming. While acknowledging that even with the new entry-level StreamingPix solution, 播放影片 still doesn’t offer “the cheapest way of getting online,” he says the company designed the system for “users who want a cheap solution in a box, but also want to take streaming to the next level, to make content that’s interesting but also professional.”

图1. StreamingPix原理图

广播Pix控制软件显示在 图2(下面) 能在触摸屏或浏览器上运行吗. While it comes in a fully functional default configuration, users who find they have specific recurring needs in their productions can customize it by adding buttons to suit their requirements. 播放影片 touts the functional integration and automation features enabled by the software’s “behavioral intelligence” as its primary differentiators in the live production world.

图2. 广播Pix流媒体Pix UI

“这就是广播皮克斯的意义所在,夏普说, “was to take all the elements of live production and put them in one place, with camera control and software that knows which clip to pay or graphic to call. This level of integration led to a level of automation that led to this product being really easy to use.”

Sharp noted that like virtually all other streaming solution providers these days, 播放影片 is getting requests from organizations that have never streamed before to help them move their meetings and events online as they adapt to current restrictions. “我们已经走上了这条路. But hopefully we can help people doing meetings in these trying times.”