Hands On Guide To Webcasting

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In "Hands-On Guide to Webcasting," industry experts address the fastest-growing application for streaming media - broadcasting live audio and video on the Internet. Used in all industry verticals from corporate to entertainment, this book provides an end-to-end technical overview of the webcasting process. Providing you with step-by-step instructions from audio/video production, encoding and authoring to delivery and business issues, this guide provides both the depth and breadth necessary for mastery of the subject

A total hands-on guide to producing interactive live webcasts Here's all the practical information you need to create exciting online broadcasts that take full advantage of the Web's unique interactive nature. Webcasting pioneers Novak and Markiewicz offer an honest appraisal of the capabilities and limitations of current webcasting technology. They acquaint you with the various forms of webcasting now possible. And they use fascinating case studies to show you what today's most successful webcasters are up to. Focusing on webcasting production, they tell you everything you need to know about: * Datacasts, wordcasts, audiocasts, animacasts, and videocasts * Webcasting hardware, software, and development tools * Assembling and managing a webcasting team * Using e-commerce technology to make webcasting a paying proposition * Scheduling broadcasts, managing venue operators, and working with performers, copyrights, and other day-to-day issues * Successful webcast publicity, marketing, and promotion * The future of webcasting and the impending consolidation of traditional broadcast media and the Internet into one medium Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/novak supplies you with: * Links to webcast multimedia players, servers, and authoring tools * Demo versions of audio/video. streaming and media management software * Hundreds of links to webcast resources and live Internet broadcast sites

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This book describes the steps for creating an on-demand and live streaming video in an all-in-one refernce guide for new users and companies that need introduced to the technology. After reading this book, you will understand: - How the Internet works in relation to streaming media - Client/server technology, specifically related to streaming media - Strengths and limits of streaming media, including best uses for the technology - Choices of streaming media content creation tools