All in all, we rocked. This is what sucked: The crowd cam (camera pointing towards the audience) needs to be more than eye-height to see all the faces in the audience if the auditorium floor is flat. At least a meter higher up.
Fat fingers WILL find the camera's controls and change them in randomly complex ways. This will happen when those who are least familiar with the camera are present to get them back in a sane state. Cameras tend to lack features you need and have other features you REALLY DON'T want to use during the conference. These unwanted features will be enabled by the fat fingers mentioned above. Example: Recording to memory card instead of tape. Mid-range cameras are probably the worst in this respect. Even artificial lighting that you believe is under your control may vary, for some unforseen reason. So "set and forget" is _per day_, not really per conference. Example: On Saturday, the exposure of the Speaker cam had to be adjusted up by more than one stop. Reason unknown. White balance and colour matching with anything lesser than pro cameras with remote CCUs is a bitch. You may get it right the first day, but the settings will likely get lost, or the colour of the light will drift, or both. The LCD screens on consumer video cameras tend to display a misleadingly bright picture. Don't trust them for exposure settings. -- Herman Robak fussy nitpicker _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
