The camera is appreciated, James. Seriously. :-) If we used a smartphone, I bet the quality would be suckier for one (digital zoom, vs. lens) and somebody would have had to part with their cellphone for the entire day.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:41 AM, James Yeo Paskaruk <[email protected]> wrote: > I warned em. Also kinda regret giving the camera to skull now ;> > > On Jun 25, 2014 1:48 AM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Forgive me for asking, but why didn't someone just tape a smartphone to a >> tripod and use that? >> >> >> On 25 June 2014 07:29, Mark Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 24/06/14 09:18 PM, James Yeo Paskaruk wrote: >>>> >>>> PCI will be good enough to get the video off this cam, I'm sure. I >>>> wonder if we could hack the cam into working like a webcam, but with its >>>> good CCD and lens and all? It does take good video, just a pain the arse >>>> to transfer it... >>> >>> >>> For future reference, yes this can be done with most firewire cameras. >>> >>> I've done it -- ran two 24 hour fundraiser marathons at 91 Albert St. >>> this way -- was glad to never have to worry about tape changing. I also had >>> the sound techs put a line out feed from the sound board right into the >>> camera external mic input with input setting on camera set to line level so >>> they could make a live mix from all the different microphones they were >>> running to the sound board. >>> >>> But boy, did I fill hard drive space. These things output great quality >>> MPEG2 at pretty high bitrate. >>> >>> Back in the day when I did this I ended up switching to an insane >>> pipeline where I had a live down-transcoding happening on the source >>> computer, that signal put out to my LAN by multicast, and then different >>> computers taking that an doing different roles, one archiving to disk, one >>> showing this LAN feed for people sitting around on the 2nd floor, and three >>> others encoding to three other formats for internet upload (one of which was >>> a hacky livestream.com setup that used some cool free software to fake this >>> incoming multicast stream as being a "camera" that the proprietary >>> livestream.com flash stuff could pick up on .....) >>> >>> Good times with VLC. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
