Biographical Information
Derrick Freeman, MLT
Program Manager, the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Derrick Freeman, MLT is Program Manager at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where he produces their CME webcast series, OSU MedNet21. He provides technical support and technical onboarding to over 25 subscribing hospitals that utilize their weekly webcast series for physicians. In addition, Derrick recommends streaming tools, manages video encoding, and develops streaming media production workflows for remote webcast recordings. He also produces video tutorials for OSU MedNet21 viewers.
Articles for Derrick Freeman, MLT
Review: AirenSoft OvenMediaEngine
30 Jul 2024
This review will highlight OvenMediaEngine, the open source streaming server from AirenSoft, and explore its features for providing sub-second latency for live streaming. The article will also touch on OvenMediaEngine's options for LL-HLS and WebRTC. Finally, we'll dive into testing SRT and RTMP ingest options.
Review: JW Player
17 May 2024
This review will highlight the JW Player online video platform and explore its on-demand streaming, captioning, web player capabilities, and other features. It will walk viewers through using the platform, including the core features like uploading videos, importing streams, and creating playlists in the Media Library and configuring the media player, as well as more advanced features. It will also discuss testing done using the platform.
Review: NETINT Quadra T1U Video Processing Unit
05 Dec 2023
This review will highlight the NETINT Quadra T1U and explore its capabilities as a video processing unit (VPU) for high-volume encoding and transcoding of single files, encoding ladders, and live streams.
Review: Ant Media Server (Enterprise Edition)
04 Oct 2023
This review will highlight Ant Media Server and many of the features supported with the streaming server. Viewers will also learn how to configure the WebRTC streaming server on Amazon Web Services and how to get up and running with delivering live streams and video-on-demand streams.
Review: Magewell USB Fusion
17 Aug 2023
The USB Fusion is a device that can be used in a production environment for local content feeds/sources. It can be used to input various sources such as HDMI devices, webcams, USB microphones, videos, images, screenshares, and other items. The USB Fusion is touted as a tool to make your online lectures and virtual events more engaging and to easily combine numerous sources into attractive live presentations for remote education, webinars, live streaming, and video conferencing.
Review: GoPro Hero11 Black
07 Jun 2023
Well-known as an action camera for capturing on-the-go video, the GoPro is popular with those involved in sports, underwater activities, capturing vacation footage, and a host of other use cases. However, the GoPro Hero11 Black can also serve as a high-quality webcam for meetings or online conferences using web applications like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and GoTo Meeting, and it can be deployed in production streaming workflows for YouTubers and video podcasters.
Review: Videon EdgeCaster EZ (w/ LiveEdge Core 8.5)
17 Jan 2023
This review will highlight Videon's EdgeCaster video encoding appliance and explore its unique LiveEdge Compute technology for encoding and delivery, as well as how it works with popular video streaming platforms. I'll also discuss why many video production and remote production teams will likely move to a tool such as this in the future for streaming delivery.