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Hello all, Hope you are all safe and healthy in our crazy world.

Looking for any feedback on colorists who are using remote streaming devices like Evercast. I am a freelance colorist who has been working form home remotely. Been doing pretty well. I would like to explore live streaming for clients/ They will for sure be using laptops and iPads for viewing thats the reality of it.


Any suggestions on live streaming software that is easier to swallow the the $1000 a month for Evercast. Which I've used and its works fine.

thanks

https://www.medialooks.com/video-transp ... 96535017-1

takes SDI or NDI feed. 1350$ (for 5 channels) per year.
Or simply share your screen with TeamViewer. Success depends and your/client bandwidth and locations.

Rick Unger wrote:Hello all, Hope you are all safe and healthy in our crazy world.

Looking for any feedback on colorists who are using remote streaming devices like Evercast. I am a freelance colorist who has been working form home remotely. Been doing pretty well. I would like to explore live streaming for clients/ They will for sure be using laptops and iPads for viewing thats the reality of it.


Any suggestions on live streaming software that is easier to swallow the the $1000 a month for Evercast. Which I've used and its works fine.

thanks

A less expensive and very flexible option with SUPER low latency and full raster resolution:
SiennaLink Remote Monitor Server
http://www.sienna-tv.com/ndi/remotemonitor.html
combined with:

Either NDIScanConverter
Linux: http://www.sienna-tv.com/ndi/scanconverterlinux.html
windows: http://ndi.tv
or
HDMI to NDI Converter like Kiloview or Magewell

How well it works on global network?
NDI was designed for local networks.
It may work well if you have good fibre business link and use Premiere in AWS like mentioned in video.
For any to any location I'm doubt it always going be that smooth. It's still not that easy to push 100Mbit from any to any point on global network.

I’ve been using Streambox Cloud Sessions, with the macOS Streambox encoder (on a dedicated Mac Mini with a Thunderbolt BMD Mini Recorder box, taking an SDI feed from my main Resolve workstation) for supervised sessions. You pay up front for a minimum fixed amount of data transfer (in my case around $1200 for 1.2 TB), and you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription fee, in the event that you don’t use it much for a certain month.

The software encoder caps your quality at 6 Mb/sec (and 1080p max resolution), but their codec is so good that a 6 Mb stream is more than sufficient for most review purposes. And unlike many other general purpose streaming systems, Streambox is designed for color accuracy. For what it’s worth, Company 3 uses Streambox, if that matters to you.

I calculated that it costs roughly $2.70 USD per hour, per viewer, using the maximum 6 Mb/sec quality stream.

If your clients are using recent model iPads, this is probably one of the best solutions for color accurate remote streaming, as iPads are very color accurate, out of the box. There’s probably no other commonly used consumer device that is as accurate to 709/P3 as a 2018-2020 iPad or iPhone, so using Streambox with those devices is as generally as close as you can get to having a supervised session in your grading suite.