Podcasting For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 17

One Giant Leap for Podcasting: Streaming Content

IN THIS CHAPTER

Discovering the obstacles of video podcasting

Introducing streaming

Finding out what you need to make a stream

Creating a workflow from streaming to podcasting

Working with HitFilm Express to edit video

Mutation: It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.

— PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, X-MEN (2000)

Even when you read the preceding quote, you can hear Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice. Or is that just us?

We open with that prologue to the original X-Men film because the same thing can be said about podcasting and what we are talking about in this chapter: streaming. To understand how streaming impacts podcasting, it helps to look at how podcasting first dabbled with video and even “live” podcasting ...