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Re: about the video+administration meeting yesterday



Hi,

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 23:06, John Lightsey wrote:
> We really need to focus in on what we're striving for though.  There are
> three different ways we can go about this:
>
> (1) Live streaming + recording of the streams.
> (2) Very simple recording (1 camera per presentation with no real
> editing) and a rapid turnaround time for putting the presentations
> online.
> (3) More complex recording and editing with a longer turnaround time.
>
> We've already discounted (1) as a primary goal because no one has
> experience with it.  I take it that (3) makes some people skittish
> because timeliness is an issue and there are worries that complex
> editing will never get done; (3) is what I've been aiming for at my
> local LUG.  So if we're shooting for (2), rapid turnaround as top
> priority, then we'll end up with 1 camera panning between the speaker
> and the screen.  You film the presentation in one take, dump it to a PC
> using kino, run it through mencoder to create a web-suitable clip, put
> it online somewhere and save the original Quicktime DV files in case
> there's any call for a higher quality version.

Just to sum up some "new" events: as we now have a person (hrobak) with 
experience in 1.) it seems we can and will take more sophisticated approachs, 
like live editing and streaming. We should settle for fallback-solutions, 
too.


> For wireless vs wired mics, we use wireless at HLUG so that the speaker
> is free to move around without worrying about the mic.  There is
> occasionally RF interference on the tapes, but it has never ruined a
> presentation.  Pack 100 laptops and cellphones in a room and it might be
> a different story.

As we have a room with >100 laptops and cellphones before the 9th, we can and 
should test this.


regards,
	Holger

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