

First, you’ll be inserting multiple video windows into a composite shot. Making the Rendezvousīefore jumping in, let’s review the high-level workflow for generating and providing a Rendezvous-based presentation.

This is a workflow we plan to use for several upcoming interviews for broadcast on YouTube Live and/or Facebook Live.

I set up the project in my office in Virginia, with Steve and Eric in their offices in New York and Wisconsin, respectively. I created this project while acting as a producer for my two editors, Steve Nathans-Kelly and Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. Since then, however, Telestream has upgraded the feature’s functionality in several subtle but critical ways, which I’ll discuss in this article. Through its Rendezvous feature, Telestream’s Wirecast was one of the first video mixers to enable completely customizable multiple-party conferencing, as I documented in a review back in 2017. In addition, the audio and video quality produced by these conferencing systems are often underwhelming, particularly for long-tail content that will hopefully outlive our memories of when in-person gatherings were illegal, inadvisable, or both. Although systems like Zoom and GoToWebinar provide an extensive range of functionality and ease of use, they lack customizability and the easy ability to syndicate to social media. The COVID-19 pandemic brought the concept of remote production to the forefront for many producers.
