Hi, We have the audio recording thing pretty well licked. This will be the fourth conference we have done and Zeth and Ciaran now know pretty well how to do it.
2008/12/18 Christian Scholz <[email protected]>: > Hi! > > M.-A. Lemburg schrieb: >> >> On 2008-12-18 16:37, Dinu Gherman wrote: >>> >>> M.-A. Lemburg: >>> >> >> Here's another example that was recorded this year at >> PyCon 2008: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cecJ9o5GGmw >> >> Without the slides at hand, you can't read anything on the >> screen, except for the title line. The audio isn't great >> either. >> >>> From my own experience trying to record such presentations, >> >> I found that getting a half decent audio recording is a lot >> harder than getting video. > > Right and maybe that's a good point to raise the question what possibilities > there are to get audios directly from the Mic. Last time the hotel tried but > I only got audio after a while with lots of humming sounds. So that wasn't > usable (and only in the big room). > > In smaller rooms that's also not quite such an issue though. > > So is there a possibility to get direct audio input (input needed is usually > some minijack line-in). I might also be able to bring some mixer though so > we can have differnt inputs/outputs. We get the audio feeds direct from the PA system. > But that being said we need to make a list of things to have anyway (esp. > volunteers, laptops and cameras). So my proposal would be to get mainly > clear what sort of agreement there needs to be. > > We can then check early 2009 what is needed to make this whole recording > thing actually happen. If it does not work out we might have discussed this > needlessly but then again this will alway come up again so maybe we can > solve this for all years :-) > > As for slides I agree (and I am probably guilty myself of not loading it up > to the right site). I also would suggest to upload it so slideshare.net as > well as it's an easy process and EuroPython even got featured there last > year. Maybe we can even tell them about the event in advance. Let's make sure we have the facilities to upload them to our own site. Using someone elses almost guarantees that it won't be done in a coherent way. > Also ustream.tv might also feature EuroPython on their homepage if the > stream is working and enough people are watching. This might also gain us > some free publicity. > > >>> >>> Well, sorry if you already knew all this. I just wanted to draw >>> your attention back to quality again and deemphasize the cool- >>> ness factor for a medium that clearly has the potential of pro- >>> ducing great documentation, but neither at zero nor little >>> effort. And this effort must be balanced with the results you >>> get, and for the videos I've seen so far, quite frankly, most >>> of the time I would have been happier with a PDF document. > > Right, hence I go for streaming because there is no editing needed.. of > course there is also no intro/outro but I think that's ok. Alone the time > for capturing the video, compressing it and uploading it again is a very > time consuming process esp. if you have tapes where capturing takes the same > amount of time as recording. So in the end you spend 3 days of capturing > alone. There is a possibility that people from the BBC may be coming and recording as well. Don't bank on it though. > So as you said, sound is probably most important so we should make sure this > works out. Speak to Ciaran. Best wishes, John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
