On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:47:04PM +1000, Mary wrote: > > 1.5 Video of SLUG meetings > > - Jeff is yet to report on vendors' thoughts about selling SLUG video > > - speakers have requested that they be able to review videos and > possibly have a say in the editing - some may make offhand remarks > that they do not want to be available on video etc. > > - Conrad Parker has requested copies in the original DV format in > order to test encoding techniques - video needs to be released by > speakers before this can happen.
just to clarify: the intention is to put the recordings on the web as Annodex media (www.annodex.net), probably using Ogg Theora and Speex as codecs. Theora (www.theora.org) is currently in alpha version so it would be necessary to keep raw content around until Theora matures, hence we've offered to keep a copy of the raw footage at CSIRO and would be working with SLUG to structure it :) > 8. Review of May meeting > > - it was suggested that getting speakers to use the lecture theatre's > microphone would be good, but Jan pointed out that they are already > using the video camera's microphone > > - speakers are using the lapel microphone bought for the video camera, > but the long cable to the camera introduces quite a bit of noise to > the microphone signal. We really need a box to boost the signal level > so that the noise is not noticable, and drop it back to microphone > levels when injecting into the camera. A lapel mic is good for preserving speech quality, so please keep using it :) The noise you're getting is only because the long cable is physically attached to the microphone. If you could separate these then movement of the cable against the floor wouldn't be audible -- eg. plug the mic into a mixer on the lectern, then run a normal audio cable from the mixer to the camera. Another advantage of this approach would be that the computer's audio output could also be plugged into a mixer channel. If you can't use the lectern's inbuilt facilities you may need to buy a cheap 2 channel mixer for this (prolly < $100). The other solution is of course to use lots of gaffer tape to stop the cable moving :) > 12. Possible future talks > > - Conrad could update us on what's been happening at the Audio/Music > SIG Probably better if Denis or Chris do this, in any case check out the meeting report at linmagau.org :) Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
