Hi Rich, I can also help with the post-processing for the video.
- Ashish On Thursday, 5 May 2016, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 05/05/2016 11:27 AM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > > > I will be in Vancouver starting the morning of the 11th. I can help and > > I think I can provide (at least temporary) storage for the data and some > > processing time. I am estimating some 75M/hr for audio and somewhere > > under 1G/hr for video. I may bring a 4k camera, not sure how much that > > uses per hr. > > Thanks. I'll be bringing a 1TB USB drive, which I expect to be able to > handle everything, but I'm not certain what default settings these new > recorders have. But, yeah, I tend to figure 1-2M/minute for Audio, and a > lot more for video. > > > > > I would like to use this opportunity as an experiment to see if the > > process could be crowd sourced and automated for future events. If we > > could find some 15 mins to chat to educate me on what worked in the past > > it'd be appreciated. > > > > I'm all for crowdsourcing this, but it does need some lead time. We have > not, to date, effectively crowdsourced video, although we have done the > on-site audio editing a couple times now. I would love to see if we can > get the keynotes video'ed, at the very least. > > I'll be on site Sunday evening at some time. I won't have much time > before the Monday morning keynotes, as I have an early meeting. but if > we can get your camera set up for the 9am keynote that would be wonderful. > > Getting the recordings is, of course, the most important thing. > Post-processing can happen any time, even if we can't get it done on-site. > > --Rich > > > > > > > On 05/05/2016 08:29 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> As some of you know, we do not have a sponsor to handle audio/video > >> recording at ApacheCon this year. Thus, we'll be doing it ourselves - > >> just audio, not video. > >> > >> So, I need volunteers for the following things: > >> > >> If you are willing to video presentations and put them on YouTube, > >> please step up and do this. Keynotes, in particular, would be > >> appreciated. > >> > >> More importantly, I'll be dealing with 8 tracks x 9 hours x 5 days of > >> audio that will need to be edited. This isn't complicated, it just > >> requires: > >> > >> * Computer with Audacity ( http://www.audacityteam.org/ ) installed, > and > >> your own headphones > >> * Lots of patience > >> > >> The process is: > >> > >> * Dump huge files off of SD cards at the end of each day > >> * Split large recording into sessions > >> * Strip off leading, trailing noise > >> * Encode to mp3 > >> * Upload to feathercast.apache.org > >> * Write brief boilerplate blog post (Name, Session title, Abstract) > >> > >> If you are willing to do this for even an hour, please let me know. I > >> will be doing this each evening, for the duration of the event, and > >> probably quite a bit during the days. If you just drop by the hackathon > >> area, and help me out for even a brief time, I'll be very grateful. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> --Rich > >> > >> (Looking towards next event, if you or your company want to sponsor > >> audio/video for the upcoming ApacheCon EU, your company will get a lot > >> of thanks and retweets out of this.) > >> > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com <javascript:;> - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >
