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To see all of this in action is a truly impressive sight. You can be running two live feeds, two movie clips, a live audio feed (in addition to the audio coming through your video sources), an audio clip, a graphic overlay and a text title all at the same time, all in real time, all with real-time effects. Plus you can swap out graphics, audio and movie files on the fly just by dragging them from your media bin. Even if you don't plan to buy this product, you ought to download the demo just to see this happen on your Mac.
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Live Channel's Broadcast window shows the live
production in real time as it's streamed.
Finally, to stream your broadcast, all you have to do is click the "Broadcast" button. You can select your CODEC for audio and video just as you would for any program, and it gets encoded on the fly. To "announce" your broadcast, the program will automatically create a reference movie, which you can then post on your Web site. Viewers who log into the site will automatically start receiving the broadcast after a pre-determined buffer period. To synchronize with multimedia files on the Web, you simply click the "Present" button. There's really nothing else to it, unless you happen to be broadcasting from behind a firewall, which is problematic. (I'll detail this below in the next section.) The end user can either log into the page containing the reference movie or log in directly from the QuickTime player (4.1.2 or higher) using an address that looks like this: rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/movie. (The "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" is your IP address. The ":554" is the port used for RTSP transmissions. The "/movie" refers to the name of the broadcast, which you can set yourself in the program's Settings dialog.)
Logging into a stream via the QuickTime Player application
I've been playing around with this software off and on since version 1, and it simply performs flawlessly. I've had one crash in all that time, and it was when I tried to trash a media file in my bin that also happened to be playing in a preview window at the same time. Of course, I haven't used all of the program's features, but, in terms of all of the production, live feeds, clips and broadcasting from the built-in streaming server, I can attest to great performance, wide degree of functionality and strong ease of use.
Live Channel supports overlays in a number
of graphics formats, including Photoshop files
with alpha channels and layer effects.
However, no software is without its limitations.
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