This weekend, August 6th through 8th, I am helping VGBootcamp with video and live-streaming services at the APEX 2010 tournament.
The tournament will be taking place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the large Student Center auditorium.
VGBootcamp was founded by Matt & Calvin Lofton in 2008. Their goal is to educate competitive gamers with their website. They also offer tournament hosting and live-streaming services, which is where I come in to play.
What I set up for their tournament is a simple interview desk with a backdrop and the ability to fit 3 people on-screen at a time.
It took a couple hours to set up the 2 cameras, light the backdrop and hook up the computers.
You can see behind me the area where all of the gamers will be seated for one half of the tournament (Melee Stream).
The interview booth was set up with 2 cameras so that the live-stream booth on the Melee side as well as the live-stream booth on the Brawl side could be fed video signals.
The live stream booths in both rooms also have webcams attached so that viewers of the live stream could listen to and watch commentators.
Here we see Calvin Lofton (pictured left) and John Lofton III (pictured right) setting up the Brawl Live Stream booth.
Throughout the weekend, VGBootcamp's Matt Lofton will be interviewing top players for the stream.
We have been using U-Stream Producer Pro on both Live Stream computers for the live stream. It has worked pretty well so far with minimal glitching.
However, it is painfully obvious that in order to use helpful and creative overlays, the computer needs to be pretty beefed up. Other than that, it has run very smoothly.
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