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Quick answer: Live streaming gives your event spontaneity, big announcements and real-time audience interaction, while pre-recorded ‘simulated live’ video offers higher production values and tight scripting. Canapii supports both formats equally - most customers mix the two - broadcasting in HD with pause and replay, plus AI-based live translation into 32 languages.
How the event manager’s role changed - many events now resemble a TV studio
The advantages of live event streaming - spontaneity, market-making news and audience interaction
Why choose pre-recorded (simulated live) video - higher production values and tight scripting
How Canapii supports both formats - HD broadcast, replay controls and AI translation into 32 languages
Few roles changed more as a result of Covid than the event manager’s. The skills required to negotiate with hotels, schedule flights, coordinate transfers, and build stages and green rooms became, temporarily at least, redundant. The growth mindset behind most intrepid events people propelled them to learn video skills fast - many events now resemble a TV studio.
Live streaming brings spontaneity to the performance, lets you deliver market-making news without leaks and - most importantly - lets you interact with your audience in real time. The excitement, or frustration, is that live events can sometimes go wrong. On Canapii’s live streaming platform, viewers can express their likes and dislikes, chat about the themes and post questions that a skilled presenter can respond to on the spot.
Canapii supports live and simulated live events equally, and most customers mix between the two formats. We broadcast in HD quality, and attendees can always ‘pause’, ‘replay’ and ‘start from the beginning’. Some competitors think it acceptable to post messages like “come back in a couple of days to replay this stream” - we feel that approach is antiquated.
Every Canapii live stream also includes integrated AI-based voice recognition and translation into any of 32 languages. The AI translation is not perfect, but it is far better than nothing at all - and it improves every time we use it.
Simulated live video is a pre-recorded session delivered to attendees as if it were happening live, or on demand. It allows tighter scripting, higher production values, perfect subtitles and translation, and seamless mixing between virtual and real venues.
Neither is better in every case. Live streaming wins on spontaneity, big announcements and real-time audience interaction; pre-recorded video wins on polish and control. Most Canapii customers mix both formats within the same event.
Yes. Canapii broadcasts in HD quality, and attendees can pause, replay or start any stream from the beginning - there is no waiting a couple of days for a replay to appear.
Yes. All Canapii live streams include integrated AI-based voice recognition and translation into any of 32 languages, and the translation improves every time it is used.
Whether you go live, pre-record or mix both, Canapii makes your event video easy to deliver and easy to watch. See it for yourself by requesting a demo today.