Re: [Debconf-video] [FOSDEM-Dist2010] Video team

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

Hi,

I'm a member of Debian's video team.

An overview of the setup's we ussually have can be found
at http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf9/Videoteam

In short, in each room we have:
- a laptop/pc near the speaker.
- laptop/pc for the video mixer.
- audio mixer
- 2 camera's
- 1 twinpact
- 2 wireless headsets
- 2 wireless audience mics
- 2 wired mics

And then some external server(s) to do the streaming.

Sometimes we split the capture of the main camera and the
video mixer so that they can be further apart, but that
would require an additional laptop/pc and probably won't be
needed.

We normally don't have amplification at fosdem, we just record,
because we always got a rather small room.  I assume that since
this is a larger room that there will be equipment there to do
mixing/amplification.  If we want to amplify, we'd need a mixer
which can do 2 mixes: 1 for the recording/stream, 1 for the audience.
I only seem to have the small mixer here that can only do 1 mix,
so this is going to depend on what is already available in the room.
It would be nice to know what is in the room exactly before we
go to fosdem, so we can plan how we're going to connect things.

The equipment we have here right now is:
- 1 twinpact
- 3 wireless headsets
- 2 wireless audience mics
- 2 wired mics
- 1 audio mixer
- lots of audio cables to connect all of them
- vga cable
- some firewire cable
- 1 tripod (?)

Things we always need to borrow are:
- laptop/pc: needs ethernet and firewire input
  I think we have some firewire pc-cards.
  The speaker laptop/pc needs to have 2 firewire boards
  The mixer laptop/pc needs to be reasonable fast to be able
  to do all the effects, and gigabit ethernet would be nice too
- camera's: needs to have dv/firewire output
- tripod's

And then there are other small things people bring, like power extention
cords, ethernet cable, firewire cable, ...

We ussually borrow most of this from members of our team.  We
didn't ask yet what people can bring.

I think the most important questions from us is what is available
in the room, and what is the layout of the room.

It's important that the people doing the video and audio mixing
have a good overview of what is going on, which ussually means they
sit somewhere in the room and need something to put there equipment
on.  The tables attached to the chairs are probably enough for this.
But this might also mean that we need to move existing audio
equipment in the room around.


Kurt