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Making great conference video on a budget – Ryan Verner and Ben Hutchens
- Guys from team doing lca2011 conference video
- BOF on this later in conference
- 2004 used tapes, hard to scale
- Volunteer AV very different from using pros, skillset limited
- common chellenges from conferences, not LCA specific
- each component relatively simple, very easy to underestimate, many components, many rooms
- incomplete AV workflow, focus primary on tech
- Volunteers – limited manpower, expeience, training
- unforseen tech issues – Small varience in hardware
- workflow – automate as much as possible
- workflow – manage schedule , feedback loop (recording sheets) , rapid post editing, distribute tasks, automate transcoding/.uploading
- mistakes – LCA 400 hours of video, too much to do ANY manual editing, combining vga,main,audio feeds
- vga capture – twinpact 100 – $600
- Basic mixer – mike, usb sound – $300
- Firewire camera – $300
- Laptops running linux, DVDSwitch software mixes into single DV file
- Audio quality – often neglected
- Get a VGA capture device
- 100% test befoe conference, impossible to solve once things start
- Train volenteers
- Managment important, clear roles, delegation of specific tasks
- Clear Documentation
- Examples http://pythin.mirocommunity.org
- http://videokollektiv.org – example of best practices
- DVswitch software – video mixing, recording, streaming
- Designed for free software confs, limited budget
- Ofter used, sometimes without streaming
