Churches do live recordings all the time and its no big deal. Our company does multimedia consulting and design for churches, large organization and conventions ranging from 100 to about 50,000 people. I do not believe that RS has 50,000 people.
And now days, lighting is not that big of a deal, provided you are using cameras like the sony VX2000 or better, HD even. They have really good light tolerance. For conferences, we normally record using two source cameras for the main evens and one genlock computer input. So that the quality is superb, its the best way to go. The quality rivals quality from a screen recorder. Equipment cost can be done through profit sharing so that RS would not have to come up with the money. Like I said its no big deal. Marc Zeedar wrote: > On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:35 p, Kim Kohen wrote: > >>> Sad story. They should at least video record the conferences and sell >>> the DVD's it would be so awesome. >>> >> •••• >> agreed - was discussed at length a couple of years back but boned by >> RS. They're probably fearful of a drop in actual attendances. >> > > I was told the main problem was the expense: getting professional > videographers to video dozens of sessions over a three-day period and > edit all the footage into DVDs would be extremely expensive (do the > math). You'd also have to do some major setups to ensure proper sound > recordings, lighting, and other factors. They'd have to sell a huge > number of DVDs to justify the expense (and they would lose some > conference revenue too). > > I suggested just sticking a camcorder on a tripod in the back of each > presentation room and whatever you get you get, but the quality would > be extremely poor. For example, where would you focus? If you do a > wide view to get _both_ the presenter and the projected display, the > screen information would be tiny and unreadable. Cutting back and > forth between presenter and screen would be difficult, and editing in > screenshots of presentation graphics later would be a huge amount of > work. Certainly much more work than RS would have time for themselves > -- they'd have to outsource and that would be expensive. Also, the > sessions are informal and the presenters tend to move around a lot > and refer to on-screen graphics frequently, and sometimes don't go by > the script (like when audience interest provokes a different > direction). You'd really have to have professional videographers > manning the cameras. > > Once I started thinking about the details, I came to the same > conclusion. > > What might work, however, would be to do a simple audio recording of > each session. Bundle an MP3 audio file with a PDF of the presentation > for the listener to follow along and you'd have a pretty decent > learning tool that wouldn't cost much to produce. > > > > Marc Zeedar > Publisher, REALbasic Developer magazine > www.rbdeveloper.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
