TABLE OF CONTENTS Just as television was to radio, webstreaming is to television today. Television, in its infancy, delivered exceptionally poor information with fairly poor quality. Streaming media is much like that today; while the information might be high quality, the quality of the view is compromised because of the delivery medium. Until greater bandwidth is available for the public, a need will always exist for editors that have the ability to edit just for the web.
Vegas 5 is one of the most powerful web-delivery authoring and editing tools available today. Preproduction, however, is equally important as the editing and encoding ability when it comes to creating great streaming media. While many resources are available for great streaming media authoring techniques, I ve included some tips in this chapter for shooting and producing great media.
Perhaps the most important part of streaming production is knowing more about video than simply knowing how to turn on a camera. Understanding the basics of production is equally important to the flow of the production process and to the quality of the media itself.
People trained for working directly in broadcast are often the worst at generating quality streaming media shoots. Much of what is known about broadcast shooting is diametrically opposed to shooting good web video. Keep in mind that television is a lean-back experience, in which viewers are laid back, perhaps with a bowl of popcorn in hand, relaxing in some form. Streaming media, or media...
