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{ Monthly Archives } October 2007

On streaming audio and video

This is a reply to a message I posted to the Refresh-Austin listserv. The original question wa: “Does anybody have a recommendation for good video resource websites or forums or mailing lists, etc?” And then I got a bit verbose on the topic of streaming media, etc.
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Creativecow.com, dv.com, videomaker.com and streamingmedia.com are two pretty [...]

Trial by Fire: Putting a Newtek Tricaster to Work

The Latino Congresso project required a live, switched feed that needed to be webcast. (We also provided a video feed to the room’s video projectors.) I looked at a few options but the simplest way I found to do all that was with the Newtek Tricaster.
Now, the only time I had seen a Tricaster was [...]

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance

I’ve started a little lessons learned doc. There were quite a few things we could have done to make this conference project go easier. So here’s the highlights.

Create a Tape Naming Scheme: I actually had this on my To Do list but it dropped in priority. We came up with a scheme on site but [...]

Project Blogging is Not Easy

Well, its Sunday, which means the whole “project blogging” idea hasn’t happened. Not for lack of, well, not trying, but at least thinking about it.
I’m leading a team that is covering the 2nd National Latino Congresso in Los Angeles. We’re video recording almost every workshop, general session or dinner at the five-day conference. That’s about [...]

Conference Video Shoot in LA

I’m headed out in a few minutes to a project in LA. It’s  a 5 day conference and we’re shooting 151 hours of sessions (for future streaming) and live webcasting 33 hours of it. Wish me luck. I’ll ad dupdates here as we go along.
I have to admit that this is a bit of getting [...]