Not strictly RED but could be and really need help. Remote Broadcast

[Louis Maddalena]

Hello Guys,

Sorry this is not strictly RED but I am having a bad day and only knew that the REDUser community would be able to help me.

My girlfriend was admitted into the hospital late last night and they are not letting her leave. Tomorrow is her youngest Brother's high school graduation. Its broadcast to the town but it will not be broadcast further than that and she will be in NYC. I have a RED Scarlet, a Mac Pro with a Black Magic Card, and a Macbook Pro. The school has a super high speed internet connection. The school will also be broadcasting from a TV van.

Do you guys have any recommendations on how I could send a signal from my RED or from the TV van over the internet so that me and her can watch the graduation from her hospital room? (I'd like to be a set it and forget it system where I can set it and then go with her for the rest of the day)

Thank you so much if you have any advice!
Louis Maddalena.

[John Saunders]

Use your Mac pro and try google hangout. I haven't tried it with a built in card (I use MBP and IO XT) but you could try it out and see if it works. Then take a feed from the truck (or your scarlet). Pretty simple, I do it all the time.

[Jaakko Rinne]

I'd probably get a cheap I/O to use like a webcam over Skype and use that to get footage from the Scarlet (over HDMI or SDI) or from the broadcast van (over whatever they can provide and the I/O can accept) and send that over Skype to her.

Or you could probably also use a DVB receiver on a laptop in the same way to send the actual broadcast over Skype.

[Louis Maddalena]

wow my last post was written when really upset so it makes little gramatical sense...


Anyway, just spent a few hours trying to deal with high school firewalls but what I have done is use UStream to to send a feed from the truck through my Mac Pro over to a server that I'lll log on to tomorrow when its trime for graduation.