Mike Cohen
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Not just for live events. We get asked for our certificate of insurance all the time by property managers, hospitals and equipment rental houses.
In addition to insurance, gaffer tape and sandbags are essential when working in public spaces.
Good luck
Mike Cohen
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we ended up using CrowdConvergence.com – they offer a $50/week option which is perfect for a 3-day event. you have to buy each visualization separately, so if you want a ticker and a full screen visualization, you need to pay twice.
But they offer a ticker with variable colors. You can set it to pull from a twitter account, hashtags, a facebook account or keywords, or particular users. You can also blacklist words, users or hashtags.
I set all content to moderated, so I had to approve each posting, then choose to either loop the ticker or play only once.
It was too distracting having the feed up full time, so we only brought it up during panel discussion and then only when there was a good queue of new content.
We also played it during breaks.
Getting this to work in a live event setting required an extra video switcher. Our switcher of choice is the Panasonic AV-HS410 which has two PIP channels plus a background layer. However to add the ticker as the background and keep our two PIP channels which we use to show slides and I-MAG at the same time, we had to take the output of the Panny and pass it through a Folsom Screen Pro II so we could bring in the ticker and bring it out again by simply going in and out of a preset.
All of this was at 720p including KiPro record of the show.
Mike Cohen
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For all the emphasis on 3D there has not been much in the way of discussion on the COW about actual production tips.
Try this article from Adobe – a bit dated but might point you in the right direction
https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2010/08/stereoscopic-workflows-for-premiere-pro-cs5.html -
We use one of the transfer file services, for client ease of use. Most people know to download the file, though most of the services let you view in the browser as well. I see the download count and some files are downloaded once, others 20-30 times by the same person.
In the corporate/hospital world, youtube type sites are sometimes blocked so a file sharing service is the best bet. We also have our own web server where we can setup custom pages with some boilerplate html code for showing videos via native h.264 playback or flash for older browsers.
We also use Basecamp with some clients.
Mike Cohen
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You use the term “cheap” a few times in your post, yet you are running 2-day workshops which cannot be cheap to attend. It’s 2014, go with HD.
Look at the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle. Using a Macbook Pro with Thunderbolt you get real time full HD.
If you are training people to work on camera, don’t use consumer gear.
As for software to use I’ll let others chime in.
Mike Cohen
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Commercials that I have retained 12 hours later, without the internet to help:
Radio Shack 80’s clearance sale. I am somewhat shocked that Radio Shack has managed to stay in business after all this time. It seems kind of like JC Penney in that it is trying to stay relevant. It used to be you went to Radio Shack for a free battery (Grandpa made sure each family member had a free battery card), cheap electronics (Realistic), cordless phone batteries, disco balls and parts for science fair projects. Since the late 90’s, no matter what you went in for, they tried to sell you a cell phone and were generally unable to identify anything else you were looking for. It will be interesting to see if a facelift can save this chain.
The Muppets – I think they were advertising an SUV, though obviously they have a movie coming out. Do the Muppets pay Chevy, or does Chevy pay the Muppets?
Note, the Muppets also helped with the Puppy Bowl.
Bob Dylan – weird – don’t think he has spoken this much in years.
Transformers 4 teaser – looks about as bad as the previous one.
ok I need to look at the internet…
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if you position your outgoing clip on a track above the incoming clip, and add a dissolve on the 1st clip, as long as it is overlapping the 2nd clip, you may get what you are looking for, though basically the same thing as a regular dissolve
Mike Cohen
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Does all of this only apply if the wedding video was done as work for hire?
If your Uncle Frank records the wedding on his phone and edits it in iMovie, retaining the natural sound music, and of course posts the edit to YouTube, what are the ramification? I suppose a record company could sue Uncle Frank.Mike Cohen
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I recently encountered the Vaddio line of switchers which can control PTZ cameras and have SDI and DVI inputs. You’d need a external recording device, such as a Blackmagic Intensity attached to a computer, or a standalone recorder such as a KiPro or PIX240. But you’re looking at over $10,000 for that setup.
Inputs on low-priced switchers could be an issue.
Mike Cohen
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Happens multiple times a week to millions of people. I wonder how many years worth of time are wasted waiting for people to join these calls.
Some systems announce the name, others simply make a sound, so it goes like this:
Host: Hello?
silence
BING
Host: Who joined?
Bob: Bob from corporate.
Host: Hi Bob. I invited 26 people but you’re the only one here. I better send a reminder.
(email then goes out 2 min past the call time saying “Hi are you joining the call?”)
BING
Host: Who joined?
Joe: Joe.
Host: Hi Joe. What kept you?
Joe: It’s 9:02.
Host: Yes, what kept you?
Joe: Sorry.
it goes on very similar to the video
Other situations:
Calling into someone else’s call on the same line, and wondering what the heck is going on.
Someone calls from an airport, and every 2 minutes there is a loud announcement.
Using WebEx but someone tries to play a video and everyone sees less than 1 frame per second at 8bit color or worse, and nobody has the nerve to tell the host how bad it looks.
Moral of the story – use conference calls sparingly and only when a one-to-one call will not suffice.
Good for introductions of team members who are separated by geography. Not so good when two out of 10 people actually have things to talk about.
But it is part of business especially in the corporate world.
Mike Cohen
PS – Until I switched to Outlook I never understood the degree to which people live by their Outlook calendars.
Ooh, my calendar is telling me to check the TV and Film forum. Gotta go!