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 [...]
Posts under ‘Video’
#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 [...]
A Couple Useful Links & A Personal Update
Well, it’s Miscellaneous Wednesday, so I thought I’d share a few things with you that I’ve found useful. First of all, I saw a Tweet last week from @Macs In Church that was a link to a pretty interesting site if you work with video at all: Zach Poff Software. Zach Poff is a New York [...]
Equipment List
Since I’ve received several comments on recent posts that start with, “Is that a [fill in the blank]?,” I thought I’d run down the list of equipment we put in our new worship space. Almost all of it is new, since we came from another church that had a pretty complete, though not very good, A/V [...]
Saving Audio-for-Video Levels
Let’s say you are assigned to shoot an interview video. You set up the location, position the lights, mount the camera on the tripod and test the mic. Everything is in order. Your interview subject arrives, sits in place and as the tape rolls, the interview begins. The shoot is a success–or at least you [...]
Using Compressor
After my previous post, I’ve had a lot of questions about Compressor. It seems a lot of people have never delved into this great little program, so I thought I’d write a quick tutorial. Compressor’s job is simple. It compresses whatever video project you give it into another format. For example, if you need to [...]
