[GRLUG] Status of things

[Michael Mol]

Did this ever get uploaded anywhere?

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Steve Romanow<slestak989 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> >> Oh, lovely.  I'm not particularly impressed with my own recording in
>> >> this case, either.  Ah well.  If this is going to be a regular thing,
>> >> maybe we can get a mounted camera that can stream DV to a Linux box, a
>> >> hands-free kit to capture presenter speech, and a hanging omni mic or
>> >> two to capture table talk.
>>
>> [big snip]
>>
>> > Next thing is to figure out how to automate this.  Lots of work for any
>> > and all presentations.
>> >
>> > I can see it, Attribut-amatic
>>
>> The only bit I think can be automated is the actual recording and
>> possibly scripting up a few intro frames based on form inputs. (Which
>> I will probably have the skill to do in PHP, by the end of this
>> particular work day.)
>
> It really doesn't take much time to make simple text-only title and
> attribute screens. All I did with the video was crop it down to the
> presentation. The content after the presentation is audio-only, so I may try
> to extract that and upload it. Most of the time is spent waiting for the
> videos to render. Using Kino, it has to render to DV before editing, then
> you render to DV/XVid/whatever after editing. Even on my six year old
> computer, it was not disruptive to do other things while the video rendered.
>
>>
>> Actually obtaining the licenses from the involved parties is
>> necessarily a manual thing, and there's no reliable way to pull a
>> human being out of the editing side of things; We're talking about at
>> least three audio input channels, and which channel is most
>> interesting is a matter of subjectivity. (Even if you provide each
>> audio source as a separate stream, you still need a master mix track
>> since the vast majority of media players won't let you play mix the
>> audio streams during playback.)
>
> I have not dealt with multiple audio streams.
>
>>
>> But good source material is the first step. :)
>>
>> I might suggest using VNC server on the machine in question to pull
>> high-quality video source directly from any computerized presentation
>> if there's no human being in front of the camera, but that could be a
>> tricky thing to arrange, and would require a wired connection for
>> latency's sake.
>
> I think there is screen-casting software created just for this purpose.
>
>
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