How To Broadcast Live?

Submitted Question:

Is your morning show broadcasted live to televisions in the all the classrooms?  If yes, how do integrate VC3 into your cable TV broadcast system?  I'm eager to upgrade and integrate VC but not sure how to go about doing this with our current system.

Yes we broadcast live via analog closed circuit TV to every classroom.  Our district had wired the buildings years ago with RF television cable, and they have equipment (RF modulators) that allows us to choose which channels we use.  They provided me with a modulator that accepts a (yellow) composite video cable, and an audio (white) mono input.  I simply plug into the modulator from the TV-out jack on my computer's video card.  The sound is sent from the soundcard (where you'd connect speakers).

Of course every school is different, so my brands/models may differ from what your school might have available.  Since many schools have the Channel One system, or simply ability to plugin a camcorder or VCR and send out a feed to the school, that's all that is necessary.  Many of the schools I've consulted with already had a camcorder plugged into the wall jack, now they simply plug in the cable from the computer and can use Visual Communicator like we do.

I do have details on this in chapter 8 "presenting Live Shows" on my training DVD volume 1.  It's a commonly asked question I see alot.

Now if your school doesn't have wired RF television cable like we do, then I'd suggest looking at the live web-streaming capability of Visual Communicator for your live newscasts.

If live isn't a requirement, the easy and cheap way is to record and publish your shows to WMV, and then upload (free) to SchoolTube.com  Then your teachers would play the show at their choosing during homeroom, etc.

Hope that helps get you started, let me know using the comments area below!