Vimeo webcast - off topic

[wwaldman]

Sorry to be off topic - my question relates to the how-to of the web casts, not the content (but the content is cool too).

I'd like to know how the dual screens plus chat are recorded - what software is used to get that effect?

Can someone point me in the right direction?
I'd like to be able to do something similar for my school.

Thanks

[Chankster]

Ustream Producer Pro

[wwaldman]

Thanks for the reply - I could see that they were using either WireCast, Producer or something similar.... My real question is do these software support the 3 frames at once: 2 cameras and the text chat stream. Pretty neat trick.

[george graves]

Hello. The effects in the video are produced live with (I believe Ustream producer pro - or the like).

Then the show is screen captured form a custom HTML page that is set up for approximate widescreeen D1/DV video format (854 x 480 pixels). It has the video and chat embded side-by-side and tweaked a bit to make the final product. I then use some screen capture software to capture the video. That that screen capture is pumped into some video editing software where I put a overlay(created in photoshop) on top of the video to clean up the look of the raw recording(getting rid of some of the ustream interface stuff).

Then I usually pump the audio through a compressor/limiter to help the audio levels a bit - it smooths things out and makes it easier to listen to.

It's then up-converted to a 720P HD resolution for youtube/vimeo and encoded.

I hope to make a tutorial on it someday.

If you have any questions, or would like a show recorded, feel free to contact me at george.graves@gmail.com - I'm glad to help. It does take a bit of software to pull it off. I haven't found any free/open source tools that can pull it all together yet.

George Graves