MyEvent Streams RMIT University Graduation Live with Magewell Ultra Encode SDI

Based in Melbourne, MyEvent offers event services ranging from production and design to equipment rentals and IT consulting, with an emphasis on live streaming. The company specializes in corporate events, with clients ranging from financial services corporations to health promotion foundation VicHealth.

RMIT is a global university of technology, design, and enterprise that placed in the top 250 schools worldwide in the annual 2021 QS World University Rankings. The school held its 2021 graduation ceremony at the sprawling Marvel Stadium in December. With the institution’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 a small number of Magewell Ultra Encode devices on an earlier project for live, point-to-point, remote video contribution using the SRT protocol. In that project, SRT streams created by Ultra Encode were pushed to Magewell Pro Convert for NDI ® to AIO decoders, which decoded the streams for output to a massive three-projector display.

The success of that project, along with recommendations from industry peers, led Underwood to choose Ultra Encode for the large-scale 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 many more units for this project.”