MyEvent Productions, Melbourne-based which provides live event technical solutions, has recently streamed its largest live streaming project to date and they chose Ultra Encode universal live streaming encoders from Magewell.

That important project consisted in streaming more than 20 simultaneous feeds for RMIT University’s December 2021 graduation event. RMIT is a global university and the school held its 2021 graduation ceremony at the sprawling Marvel Stadium in December. With the university’s students hailing from more than 200 countries, live streaming of the event was important in enabling graduates’ family and friends worldwide to share the moment.

MyEvent had previously used Magewell solutions on a smaller-scale project for point-to-point delivery of SRT streams. This successful experience, along with recommendations from industry peers, led Duncan Underwood, Live Streaming and Production Manager at MyEvent, to choose Ultra Encode for the RMIT event. “I’m always talking to other professionals about their experiences, and the Magewell name keeps coming up as a trusty product,” he recalled. “So even though the Ultra Encode product itself is fairly new, I had no hesitation in buying multiple units for this project.”

MyEvent owns 17 Ultra Encode units, and hired additional Ultra Encode devices from another production company to round out its needs for this project. During the graduation event, multiple vision switchers combined live camera feeds and PowerPoint presentations from each stage. SDI outputs from each switcher were routed to the Ultra Encode devices, which encoded them into high-quality, live H.264 streams for viewing through RMIT’s multiple YouTube channels.

MyEvent also took advantage Magewell Cloud management software to centrally monitor the status of the Ultra Encode units and access individual devices’ web-based dashboards as needed.

Underwood also loves the feature-richness, cost-effectiveness, and versatility of the Ultra Encode devices, and looks forward to using them on future events. “Nobody else in the market is doing what Magewell is doing with the feature set and price point of Ultra Encode, making them an easy choice,” he said.