May 20th was a sad day, as we are now learning. Echolab, maker of what I thought to be the very best small video switcher, the ATEM, has closed it’s doors and is in liquidation. Echolab had transferred sales of the ATEM to Harris, but apparently the money man behind the deal didn’t see it [...]
Posts under ‘Video’
Replacing Good Gear with the Right Gear
While following my normal lunchtime ritual (reading trade magazines while eating my sandwich), something occurred to me. I was reading an article about the new EAW KF740. As I read it, I started thinking about our current PA, made up of KF 750s and 755s. It’s a system that I’ve been advocating changing since I [...]
NAB 2010
This year, I finally got to go to NAB. I’ve wanted to go for probably 15 years now. It was good to–mainly because I spent the day with some good friends–but overall, it was a bit of a disappointment. Perhaps it was because it is so huge and I didn’t really have enough time to [...]
Multi-Track Audio in QuickTime Movies
This year for Good Friday, we need to run some video. But not just any video; it needs to have two tracks of synth/pad and music stuff, a sound effects track and a click track. And each track needs to be discreet so we can mix it with the live music (not to mention send [...]
Producing The Webinars
I had a lot of questions about how we produced last week’s webinar on IEMs. It took a bit of testing and several different bits and pieces of software. The tricky part was getting both audio and video routed to LiveStream in a way that didn’t cause weird internal processing delay echoes. I was able [...]
#Installation Fail—Wiring
On the heels of my last post on getting installs right, it seemed like it was time to re-visit our old friend, #Installation Fail. It’s been a while since we had some fun with, how shall we say, creative installations. I’ve been collecting these for quite some time now, and I won’t reveal where they [...]
Sizing Tripods
I’ve been thinking about tripods lately, or more correctly, tripod heads. I think it started last week when someone on Twitter asked me what tripods I liked. It continued this past weekend as I dialed in the drag and counterbalance settings on the ones in our auditorium. I’ve written about this before, (Improving Videos–Get a [...]
Ooyala–A Better Way to Stream Video?
Last week I was invited to view a demo of a very cool web-based video delivery system. It’s called Backlot and it’s from a company called Ooyala. If you’ve never heard of them, don’t feel bad; neither had I. It was started by 3 former Google employees (you’ve perhaps heard of Google?) as a project [...]
Quicker h.264 Rendering
I’ve said it before; when it comes to rendering, there’s no substitute for horsepower. Typically that means upgrading to a bigger computer with more processor cores running at a higher speed (and more RAM–you can never have too much RAM). The downside of that approach is that it gets expensive really fast. For example, the [...]
Cutting the Cord
I have a love/hate relationship with cords. I love making cords, I love designing cable assemblies and I love the sense of satisfaction I get when I successfully wire up a rack and everything works. On the other hand, cords area nuisance. They seem genetically predisposed to tangle themselves and others together, they wrap around [...]
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