Hi All Sotouthampton University have used a webcam to record talks at seminar/conferences.
The quality of video and sound from skype can be quite good. I would think most LUG members have webcams to experiment with. John Eayrs On Sunday 03 February 2013 10:49:09 Tony Whitmore wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 02/02/13 23:43, Chris Dennis wrote: > > I think it was Alan Pope who used to video HantsLUG talks, and he became > > adept at creating good presentations from them, complete with titles and > > stuff. > > No, it was me. Though I did use Alan's video camera in the early days. > > > If Alan is reading this: did you find a way to directly capture what's > > being shown on the screen in the meeting room as well as videoing the > > speaker? > > I took the slides from the presenter and generated images of each slide > in JPEG, PNG etc. Then I used a video editing programme to insert the > slide at the appropriate juncture. > > That technique doesn't work for live demonstrations of course. VGA > scanning kit is expensive, but having the speaker run screen recording > software (like recordmydesktop) might be a workable alternative. > > > Do you have any tips for the next generation of HantsLUG > > videographers? > > Audio, as you pointed out, is important. If you don't have access to a > video camera that has an external microphone socket, then you could > record it separately and dub it on afterwards. For example connect a > lapel microphone to a laptop running audacity. > > > Does anyone have the necessary equipment and skills (and inclination) to > > do this properly at future meetings? > > Nope. :) > > Tony -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
