I totally agree with Ryan:<br>* audio is really important to get right - sort out your mic situation<br>* HD recording a DV camera to a laptop is a valid alternative to a hard disk recording camera (in fact: it is what we did a FOMS) - but you may need to invest in both a DV camera and a laptop ;-)<br>
<br>Simply put: every LUG will need to analyse their situation and find the best solution for themselves. Our experiences can just be recommendations.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Silvia.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2008 2:32 PM, Ryan Verner <<a href="mailto:ryan@uanywhere.com.au">ryan@uanywhere.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On 11/02/2008, at 11:31 PM, Julien Goodwin wrote:<br>>> - We let LUGs choose the equipment/approach they want, but point at<br>
>> existing<br>>> suggestions, such as:<br>><br>>> <a href="http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2008-February/016575.html" target="_blank">http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2008-February/016575.html</a><br>
>> -- Julien Goodwin voluteers to do transcoding from HDDs or DVDs<br>> Stuff that. I'll just say that if a LUG gets the talk recorded should<br>> they request it I commit to working with them to get me source media<br>
> in some format and I'll get it edited, encoded and uploaded.<br>><br>> If all six groups all decide to buy DV cameras and post me tapes<br>> then I'll<br>> just have to go and buy a deck.<br><br></div>
More to the point, we should be about distributing knowledge and<br>assistance to enable more people to do this, rather than assigning<br>tasks to a single person. Do you honestly really want to take on that<br>workload? :-)<br>
<br>I'll put an emphasis on audio, too, if we're talking about grants -<br>audio is something often neglected, and the microphones built into<br>camcorders often totally suck for recording talks as they're generally<br>
not hugely directional and pick up tons of ambient noise (which is<br>distracting). As Silvia suggested, ensure cameras have audio in at an<br>absolute minimum; investing in some mics would be ideal (there's a ton<br>
of options here; lapel, handheld, on-desk, shotgun, etc).<br><br>I've seen some comments too where people have been scared off the HD<br>recording route, I'm assuming due to the technical issues in '05 and<br>
'06 - I need to do a blog post about all of this, but they've got to<br>do more with bleeding edge software rather than the technique being<br>flawed. Recording DV from a camera to a PC is a completely valid<br>option, and it's been done tons of times in the past for production-<br>
grade things with success, but the advantage of the DVD recorder route<br>is that it is a simple 'appliance' (less prone to failure) and one can<br>easily transport and distribute out the encoded media for transcoding.<br>
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