Sunday, December 22, 2019

Live Streaming of Aerial Photography and Drone Filming: Setup and Monetization

Streaming is the strategy of delivering the video or audio contents on the internet. Live streaming of aerial videos is one of many hottest trends in sports, events, content creation and music industry. It is because of the increasing popularity of drones and advances in drone and drone filming technologies. There is a huge demand for aerial videos, and filmmaking and short-film industries, are thriving on the advances in consumer drone technology.  Pinoy Lambingan Tv
However, how can we make videos and how exactly to stream them and most of all, steps to make money out of them. In this article, I discuss several of those issues and explain how exactly to setup a movie streaming system, and how exactly to earn money from our video contents. What equipment should you utilize, what software are available and pros and cons of numerous platforms and services available to us for video streaming and marketing?The demand for aerial videos:

Aerial videos are in huge demand in nearly every sector of life. People want to see the aerial views of sports and events from some unusual angles. Before consumer drones, it was extremely expensive to produce such videos. However, now it's dirt cheap to have some amazing aerial views. Also, agricultural imaging and industrial inspection of large structures are some other places where aerial videos are being used.The application for Live Streaming of aerial videos:

The drone owners may use their FPV (first person view) and VR (Virtual Reality) forms of headsets to see some amazing outdoors when flying their drones. Now imagine that with live streaming of the videos, tens and thousands of other people can experience the exact same effects from the comfort of their home. It is the ability people wish to have. You are able to fly your drone and share the view with thousand others.

Another wide scope application is the streaming of industrial inspection videos to the control rooms and boardrooms of plants and companies. It is usually carried out by small drone companies offering these services. This part of video streaming has an enormous potential, and in future, we can expect a huge growth in this sector.

Other applications include political and religious event streaming to show the aerial view of the gatherings. Also, news channels are utilizing live streamings for important events. Similarly, people desire to stream the videos of the weddings to someone not attending and so on.Aerial Live Streaming setupYou can use a helicopter for aerial photography, but we're referring to a cheaper version, so here we only discuss drones. Live streaming from drones continues to be a novel technology. A few of the considerations for aerial live streaming are following:Live streaming services:

The very first thing you wish to decide is where you intend to live-stream your drone videos. Some of the live streaming services are YouTube Live, ustream, LivestreamTwitter's periscope and Facebook live streaming service.The drone camera: Some cameras output the videos in an universal way, but you'll need a drone with a camera gives a clean HDMI output to be able to use live streaming services. If your camera doesn't provide a clean HDMI output, you would need to find the right adapter.

Then you need an encoder which takes HDMI and transmits it on the internet.There are two main protocols used by streaming services. RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) and RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol). Have a look at the appropriate one for your service because the selection of the encoder depends upon it. There's also HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) where you divide the video file into small segments and deliver it to a new player via HTTP protocol.

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