[57north-discuss] Tapemeasure Yagi Fieldtrip

[Tom Jones]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:40:00PM +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> I've now got the footage from Krzysztof's (Derecho) talk on Tuesday
> about his field trip to test his tape measure yagi cut up and online:
> http://idea.bodaegl.com/static/Derecho-Tapemeasure-Yagi-Fieldtrip.webm
> 
> Where do we want to start collecting these? There was talk of having our
> own media server at some point. Or do we just want to go with
> youtube/vimeo/other?

I would aim for a CC license(I like 0) and putting the video on the internet
archive. We could easily have a page on our website (not the fucking wiki)
where the Tuesday videos and maybe other videos are collected together.

> I screwed up a few things with the recording so notes for next time:
> - Very few people still use 4:3 screens so that's a stupid aspect ratio
> to shoot in
> - Auto white balance gets messed up when a projector dominates the shot
> - don't use it.
> - We could really do with more light on the speaker or a camera that
> handles low light better than mine (the noise is a bit annoying).
> - The audio recording should be somewhere other than sitting on the
> table to reduce the background of people typing/knocking the table. I
> have a shotgun mic somewhere that I will try and find for next week.  
> - If using separate audio the speaker should clap once at start and end
> of the talk to make the sync a lot easier (or we could get a clapper
> board and look like we're doing things properly).

I haven't watched the video, but I think a shotgun mic for the presentation
sounds good. Having another mic for questions might also be an idea.

> Anyone spot anything else that is wrong or could be improved?
> 
> What are others using for video editing? I used Pitivi for this as it
> works (most of the time) with enough features to make this kind of edit
> easy and doesn't have a huge learning curve. But it does crash
> occasionally (and the autosync doesn't seem to work) so I'd be
> interested to hear of alternatives. 

I have been using iMovie at work, it is not good. If you find something better
than will run on linux AND OS X that would be awesome.

-- 
Tom
@adventureloop
adventurist.me

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