Production Solutions for Live Streaming, Part 2: Sony Anycast Touch
In Part 1 of this series on production solutions for live streaming, we looked at two key pieces of the live production puzzle: cameras and audio. Here we'll look at a product that ties it all together for live producers: the Sony Anycast Touch.
Anycast Connections
Figure 7 (below) is a quick sample system diagram for you of what you can accomplish with the Anycast Touch. It's not just for consumer or prosumer connections. You can have a mix of broadcast cameras, including studio cameras, or use PTZ cameras. You can even have field recorders and field playback devices, and some consumer devices like laptops, and also import video via USB drives into the unit.
Figure 7. Anycast Touch system diagram. Click the image to see it at full size.
Of course, the Anycast Touch also supports professional audio XLR/TRS inputs, and those can be output to the same complement of devices: projectors, televisions, and streaming to the web or to a local server. If you use Adobe Media Server or Wowza Media Server, or if you use Ustream, you can output to those types of services, but the idea is you want to create the highest-quality product coming into the Anycast, so on the output of the Anycast, you also maintain the highest-quality product for delivery.
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In this 2-part series, we'll focus on some of the tools that are available to you as content creators when you're delivering content for the web, beginning in this first installment with cameras and pro audio gear.