This is a 6-hour webcast streamed to multiple platforms. It includes interviews with people celebrating in the square, performances, and ends with the ball drop at midnight.

Dates:

12/31/23

12/31/22

12/31/21

Roles:

Encoding Engineer 

Manages the stream and ensures end-to-end quality, monitors recordings, and reports status as needed.

Primary responsibilities include: 

• Gather streaming credentials from the client

• Collect stream Title, Thumbnail, Description, and Watch Page URL from clients (if necessary)

• Perform test streams to platform(s)

• Ensure clean and proper transmissions of streams

• Configure encoder and adjust resolution, bitrate, etc as needed

• Initiate and manage streams on the platform side

• Start, Stop, and Manage records 

• Note the start and end timecode of records

• Manage stream distribution/transcoding 

• Push streams to GO LIVE on platforms as directed

• Ensure audio and video quality, audio sync, and captions by monitoring the final stream on consumer page(s)

• Communicate any issues immediately to the Producer / Director 

• Document (at regular intervals determined by the producer, the concurrent viewership, total viewership, health, and other key metrics

Accessibility Producer:

Coordinates and directs ASL stream.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Provide interpreters updated run-of-shows and scripts leading up to the event

• Route main program to interpreters Zoom meeting

• Route feed with ASL interpretation to destination

• Communicate upcoming segments and breaks to interpreters during the event

• Switch to slate when interpreters are not on camera

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