Capturing and Encoding

Capturing your Content
Before you can encode your content it will have to be captured into digital format. If the source is from an analogue device, such as an analogue camera or VCR, you will need an audio-video capture card in a PC along with suitable a/v capturing software. Many capture devices are available today, but to ensure that the highest quality image and audio-video synchronisation is maintained, a capture device specifically designed for encoding is recommended. A range of high quality capture cards for the Enterprise and Professional Broadcast markets is available from Winnov a world leader in this market.

If your source is already in digital format, ie. from a digital camera, you will be able to feed this into a PC with the appropriate USB or FireWire digital input. However, if your source is SDI format you will need a capture card with an SDI input.

Winnov Capture Cards

Encoding your Content
To produce a simple live web cast stream you can use either Windows Media Encoder or Real Producer. For on-demand webcasts in both formats, encoding products such as Cleaner 5 can be used. However, if you want to want to integrate Rich Media, such as graphics, images, PowerPoint slides, text and animations, synchronised into the stream will require a lot more effort if it is done manually. This is achieved by inserting 'events' into the stream at the appropriate time. An easier way is to use professional tools to simplify this process and provide a level of automation which minimises the possibility of mistakes occurring by loading the wrong slide, often associated with a manual process.

To produce Rich Media web presentations for both LiVE and on-demand presentations, with no HTML programming knowledge, a range of products is available from EDAS.

	i-CONTROL - For On-Demand Rich Media Encoding Software
	LiVE-CONTROL - Live Rich Media Encoding Software
	Winnov Encoding Appliances

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