Channel tools
With make.tv tools you can enhance and simplify your live show production significantly.
The make.tv Live Encoder makes it possible to transmit every video or audio signal from your computer or mobile device into the make.tv Studio. The tool is flash based and no software installation is necessary. The Live Encoder Front-End enables the adjustment of individual signal resolutions, frames and data rates. With a single mouse click -- Stream to Studio -- the desired signal becomes available for all make.tv applications, such as the make.tv Studio or the Simple Show Control.
The make.tv Simple-Show-Control enables the production of a show without entering the make.tv studio. This might be a good solution, if you want to produce your entire program on-site and simply transmit the complete video (including the Video-Monitor control) to your viewers. All video input signals of the attached encoders are accessible via the make.tv Simple-Show-Control. After the selection of a signal source the image of the attached encoder becomes visible immediately filling the whole scene. Additional buttons allow you to control the aspect ratio of the video content. Using the control-buttons, your live show and recording can be started and stopped; viewer numbers and viewed minutes are displayed in the make.tv Simple-Show-Control.
The Mobile Broadcaster enables you to send live streams from your mobile phone to the make.tv Studio and is available for free for Android and Apple smartphones.
You can use your mobile live streams as an additional video feed, or even broadcast a live show entirely from your mobile phone.
The live signal from your mobile device will be seen on the make.tv channel at http://make.tv/[yourchannelname] as well as on any website that you have embedded your video player on -- for example, Facebook or your blog.
If you chose to record your show, an archive of your show becomes available shortly after you finish recording.
After logging into the app, a menu appears where you can make adjustments such as bandwidth and frame rate. Additionally, make.tv Whitelabel customers can choose which channel they wish to use for broadcasting.
The live mobile video is immediately available in your make.tv Studio. The live mobile video can be used like any other video source. For example, a picture-in-picture composition or an onsite live report.
Another great feature of the make.tv Mobile Broadcaster is that during a live broadcast you can still make phone calls. This way, a show’s producer can give directions to the on-site camera operators.
Now that’s exciting!
Download the Android App Download the iOS App
The Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder (FME) allows you to broadcast video inputs in higher resolution than if you chose your video input directly from the make.tv Studio. FME gives you flexibility to use video codecs not recognized by the make.tv Studio, such as H264 or VP6, and lets you broadcast your audio in stereo quality.
Capture your screen in full-resolution and broadcast it in the make.tv Studio to create workshops or presentations, or to simply show your audience something you’ve found on the web.
Download the Screen Grabber and run the installation, or double click the program icon.
After the successful installation of the make.tv Screen Grabber on your system, you can start the application under Start > Programs > make.tv Screen Grabber, or, if on a Mac, in your Tool Dock.
After a short performance test of your system to determine the maximum possible framerate, a surface appears where you can log in with your make.tv user account e-mail and password.
After the successful log in you can choose which of your channels you want to broadcast to your screen. Additionally, you can select the bitrate and framerate of your screencast as well as choose a name for the stream.
With clicking the “Start Stream” button, you start your broadcast to the make.tv network. Now you can select your screencast stream in the studio live inputs, or in the simple show control and use it in your show.
This software by Telestream offers you the highest convenience and the highest quality.
Like the make.tv Studio, Wirecast allows you to prepare and design
scenes -- shots -- with pictures, videos and of course, camera signals. You have a lot of preset effects such as, picture, masks or aperture, with which you can design your show. One click and the selected “shot” will go live the way you want it to.
Additionally, Wirecast transcodes (H.264 Codec) your video signal with the solution and bit rate determined by you, and will stream it into the make.tv studio via your rtmp-link; similar to the Adobe Live Encoder.
Configuration:
More information: http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm
VJDirector allows you to connect up to five camera and audio sources to your computer. You can mix them offline beforehand, and then broadcast them live with make.tv. VJDirector is useful if your Internet connection is too slow for different streams to run simultaneously.
With VJDirector, you can mix down one to five video streams.
In addition, VJDirector offers you a large number of 2D and 3D cross-fade and fine-tuning effects such as color adjustment for the cameras.
[PLEASE NOTE: Every camera stream takes up to 600 kbit/s, at least. This breaks down to 500 kbit/s for the video + 48 kbit/s for the audio and media conversion puffer.]
If you use VJDirector with make.tv and don’t transmit through the Adobe Live Encoder, you will have to change the solution rate to 320X240 in the output settings, so the stream will be correctly displayed in the make.tv Studio. If you use the Adobe Live Encoder, you can broadcast in PAL (720X576) – the standard make.tv Setting.
Click on the large “Output” button above the aperture control pad and select “virtual device”, so that the video signal from the make.tv Studio or the Adobe Media Encoder can be recognized. Now you can choose the “VJDirector” stream under “Inputs” in the make.tv Studio or under “Devices” in the Adobe Media Encoder.
Download the VJDirector Test Version for Windows here: http://www.nagashare.com/vjdirector.html
Teradek Cube & make.tv Guide
"How do I stream my video signal from the cube to Teradek make.tv?"
In order to start using your Teradek Cube, the Cube must be on the same network as the computer youʼll use.
You need to configure your Cube with the TeraCentral software, which you can download at the following link: http://www.teradek.com/pages/downloads
Once your computer and your cube are on the same network and you started the TeraCentral software, the software searches your first cube in the network. Once the cube is found, youʼll see an overview with the current settings. Click on the "Configure Settings" button to change the settings of your cube. A browser window will open and you will be asked to enter the username and password of your cube. If youʼre doing it for the first time, or have not yet changed the login information of your cube, you can find this on the back side of your cube.
Once you have logged in successfully, you will see another overview.
To transfer your picture signal to make.tv, your cube must support RTMP. Go to "Video Setup" -> "Streaming settings" where you can choose “RTMP” under "streaming mode".
Under "Server URL", please enter your RTMP URL:
Under “Stream” please name the Stream. If you are creating more than one stream - with either the Adobe Media Live Encoder, with more Teradek Cubes or with another Encoder with which youʼll push your RTMP URL - each stream needs to differ by name.
Now click on "Start Broadcasting" and "Apply" within TeraCentral . Once the cube has been successfully connected to the make.tv servers this signal appears in your make.tv Studio and in your Simple Show Control.
If your cube does not support RTMP Streaming:
From Firmware 5.3.0 and up, RTMP is integrated by default in your cube. If your firmware is older and you can not upgrade to 5.3.0 or higher, you have to get a license from Teradek. In that case, please contact support of Teradek: http://www.teradek.com/pages/contact-us
With the DVI or VGA2USB converter, you can stream your screen content into the make.tv Studio in full resolution.
The device is great if you want to broadcast several speakers from several computers at the same time.
You don’t need a driver to catch the DVI/VGA signal from the presenter's computer. Simply split the signal, put one cable in the camera and one in the DVI/VGA2USB converter, which will then convert the signal into a video signal. Now you can connect your USB converter to the computer that will broadcast the signal.
Download the Epiphan driver below. The computer broadcasting the video signal uses the driver, which allows the make.tv Studio and other streaming software like the Adobe Live Encoder to recognize the signal immediately.
Compatible: Windows and Mac
More information: http://www.epiphan.com/products/frame-grabbers/
Download driver: http://www.epiphan.com/downloads/
make.tv Tools
Software
Hardware
Live Encoder
Simple Show Control
Mobile Broadcaster
You can use your mobile live streams as an additional video feed, or even broadcast a live show entirely from your mobile phone.
The live signal from your mobile device will be seen on the make.tv channel at http://make.tv/[yourchannelname] as well as on any website that you have embedded your video player on -- for example, Facebook or your blog.
If you chose to record your show, an archive of your show becomes available shortly after you finish recording.
After logging into the app, a menu appears where you can make adjustments such as bandwidth and frame rate. Additionally, make.tv Whitelabel customers can choose which channel they wish to use for broadcasting.
The live mobile video is immediately available in your make.tv Studio. The live mobile video can be used like any other video source. For example, a picture-in-picture composition or an onsite live report.
Another great feature of the make.tv Mobile Broadcaster is that during a live broadcast you can still make phone calls. This way, a show’s producer can give directions to the on-site camera operators.
Now that’s exciting!
Download the Android App Download the iOS App
Adobe Flash Media Encoder
- To connect the application with your make.tv Studio, just copy and paste the following address to the “FMS URL” field in FME:
To use this feature please log in
- Name your stream and choose the video settings. When you enter the make.tv Studio, the FME input will appear in the top section of the Studio, and you can now use the feed in your show like any other feed.
- NOTE: Please DO NOT USE the “Degrade Quality” feature under Advanced Settings in FME. This can affect problems with the recording of your stream on the server. Instead, use the “Drop Frames” option, which will not affect the recording.
- You can also use your [channelname], e-mail address and password to connect FME to your make.tv Studio. Just replace everything after “.../stream/” with your channel name, e-mail address and password. It will look like this:
.../stream/channel_name/my@email.com/mypassword
- If you want to broadcast from a location where a firewall is blocking all outgoing traffic to destination port “1935”, you can change the protocol in the URL from “rtmp://” to "rtmpt://" and manually select the destination port “80” by adding “:80” after the top-level domain. Your URL will then look like this:
rtmpt://encoding0X.make.tv:80/...
- If you want to duplicate your stream server side, and stream to additional channels, simply add “/COPY/[HASH-STRING-FROM-OTHER-CHANNEL]” to the URL above. Your URL should then look like this:
rtmp://encoding0X.make.tv/stream/[FIRST-HASH-STRING]/COPY/[SECOND-HASH-STRING](/COPY/[OTHER-HASH-STRING])
Using this formula, you can duplicate your stream to all the channels you have access to.
Download the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder here
Screen Grabber
Download the Screen Grabber and run the installation, or double click the program icon.
- Windows download as .zip file
- Windows download as .exe file
- Mac download (64 Bit only) as .pkg file
- Mac download (64 Bit only) as .dmg file
After the successful installation of the make.tv Screen Grabber on your system, you can start the application under Start > Programs > make.tv Screen Grabber, or, if on a Mac, in your Tool Dock.
After a short performance test of your system to determine the maximum possible framerate, a surface appears where you can log in with your make.tv user account e-mail and password.
After the successful log in you can choose which of your channels you want to broadcast to your screen. Additionally, you can select the bitrate and framerate of your screencast as well as choose a name for the stream.
With clicking the “Start Stream” button, you start your broadcast to the make.tv network. Now you can select your screencast stream in the studio live inputs, or in the simple show control and use it in your show.
Telestream Wirecast
Like the make.tv Studio, Wirecast allows you to prepare and design
scenes -- shots -- with pictures, videos and of course, camera signals. You have a lot of preset effects such as, picture, masks or aperture, with which you can design your show. One click and the selected “shot” will go live the way you want it to.
Additionally, Wirecast transcodes (H.264 Codec) your video signal with the solution and bit rate determined by you, and will stream it into the make.tv studio via your rtmp-link; similar to the Adobe Live Encoder.
Configuration:
- Encoder Preset: Flash
- Destination: RTMP Flash Server
- Address:To use this feature please log in
More information: http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm
VJ Director
With VJDirector, you can mix down one to five video streams.
In addition, VJDirector offers you a large number of 2D and 3D cross-fade and fine-tuning effects such as color adjustment for the cameras.
[PLEASE NOTE: Every camera stream takes up to 600 kbit/s, at least. This breaks down to 500 kbit/s for the video + 48 kbit/s for the audio and media conversion puffer.]
If you use VJDirector with make.tv and don’t transmit through the Adobe Live Encoder, you will have to change the solution rate to 320X240 in the output settings, so the stream will be correctly displayed in the make.tv Studio. If you use the Adobe Live Encoder, you can broadcast in PAL (720X576) – the standard make.tv Setting.
Click on the large “Output” button above the aperture control pad and select “virtual device”, so that the video signal from the make.tv Studio or the Adobe Media Encoder can be recognized. Now you can choose the “VJDirector” stream under “Inputs” in the make.tv Studio or under “Devices” in the Adobe Media Encoder.
Download the VJDirector Test Version for Windows here: http://www.nagashare.com/vjdirector.html
TeraDek Cube
"How do I stream my video signal from the cube to Teradek make.tv?"
In order to start using your Teradek Cube, the Cube must be on the same network as the computer youʼll use.
You need to configure your Cube with the TeraCentral software, which you can download at the following link: http://www.teradek.com/pages/downloads
Once your computer and your cube are on the same network and you started the TeraCentral software, the software searches your first cube in the network. Once the cube is found, youʼll see an overview with the current settings. Click on the "Configure Settings" button to change the settings of your cube. A browser window will open and you will be asked to enter the username and password of your cube. If youʼre doing it for the first time, or have not yet changed the login information of your cube, you can find this on the back side of your cube.
Once you have logged in successfully, you will see another overview.
To transfer your picture signal to make.tv, your cube must support RTMP. Go to "Video Setup" -> "Streaming settings" where you can choose “RTMP” under "streaming mode".
Under "Server URL", please enter your RTMP URL:
To use this feature please log in
Under “Stream” please name the Stream. If you are creating more than one stream - with either the Adobe Media Live Encoder, with more Teradek Cubes or with another Encoder with which youʼll push your RTMP URL - each stream needs to differ by name.
Now click on "Start Broadcasting" and "Apply" within TeraCentral . Once the cube has been successfully connected to the make.tv servers this signal appears in your make.tv Studio and in your Simple Show Control.
If your cube does not support RTMP Streaming:
From Firmware 5.3.0 and up, RTMP is integrated by default in your cube. If your firmware is older and you can not upgrade to 5.3.0 or higher, you have to get a license from Teradek. In that case, please contact support of Teradek: http://www.teradek.com/pages/contact-us
VGA2USB
The device is great if you want to broadcast several speakers from several computers at the same time.
You don’t need a driver to catch the DVI/VGA signal from the presenter's computer. Simply split the signal, put one cable in the camera and one in the DVI/VGA2USB converter, which will then convert the signal into a video signal. Now you can connect your USB converter to the computer that will broadcast the signal.
Download the Epiphan driver below. The computer broadcasting the video signal uses the driver, which allows the make.tv Studio and other streaming software like the Adobe Live Encoder to recognize the signal immediately.
Compatible: Windows and Mac
More information: http://www.epiphan.com/products/frame-grabbers/
Download driver: http://www.epiphan.com/downloads/
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