[Video] Current state of the art for conference recording

[Paul Wayper]

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On 06/18/2013 01:22 AM, Tim Ansell wrote:
> * Very difficult to get accurate information about what is actually
> being recorded.  You can hear this in the variable audio levels in this
> year's LCA videos.  This is also partly operator training, but a system
> that gives you no idea of how the recording sounds or looks cannot be
> fixed no matter how good the operator is.
> 
> 
> This is one of the things I've been banging on about with live streaming,
> it gives you a crowd of angry people who'll complain at the first sign
> of problems - things like the audio being incorrect.

Agreed - but then OTOH you need someone watching the stream who can get in
touch with the relevant room to tell them about the problem.

That requires either a dedicated person monitoring all the room streams
(which isn't going to catch everything) or some kind of public feedback
(e.g. via IRC) to let the public talk to the media people.

And this is where you and I may have to differ.  Streaming within the
conference is a drain on sometimes limited resources.  But then you have to
have your media people watching an IRC channel as well as their equipment,
and you have to have the general public aware that they can use the IRC
channel to complain if there are problems with the stream, and hope that
they don't tie up the media people's time with stupid comments or "helpful"
suggestions.

OTOH, what I'm suggesting is a kind of 'post-mix' feed in the room that the
media people monitor.  Most mixing desks give you the headphones output
after the main mix output, so the headphones will hear exactly what the room
and the tape will hear.  The video is less of an issue, since of the things
that can be fixed by media people in the room, only a few will show up on a
video feed.

So maybe this point really is "use a mixing desk".

Have fun,

Paul

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