New camera…

We have entered the 21st century and bought a video camera.  It is actually our Christmas present to each other, but the reason is simplicity.  We had a camcorder that we bought before Olivia was born, so it’s a bit outdated. Plus- digitizing all the tapes is a pain.  It’s a surprisingly common problem.  The [...]

Ustream TV

I’ve added an embed of my webcam at work. I know….who or why would anyone want to watch me at work? Is my work that exciting? No. It’s just an experiment to play with live streaming which is something we’re looking in to at the Hall. I hooked up a small security [...]

WGI World Championships Weekend

It’s that time of year again when thousands of crazed winter colorguard fans descend upon Dayton for a 4 day overload of pageantry.  I kind of miss going…but it’s pretty much impossible with kiddos and work.  I’m glad to see that WGI has jumped on the streaming bandwagon though.  You can buy a day or [...]

Gear I use: Sony EVI-D70

Since my job is a little nebulous to most, I figured I would write about pieces of gear I use on a regular basis.  Attached is a really basic diagram of the system I’ve built at Clowes over the past 4-5 years.

I’ll start with the cameras (circled in blue).  I have four of the Sony [...]

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

I am really into the whole streaming webcast thing, so I keep my feelers out for great examples.  The best I’ve seen so far is the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music streaming site.  The quality is outstanding and it got me thinking about the scope of that project….it must’ve been huge.  To stream that amount [...]

Teaching Audio Video

I teach a class in the Apprentice Training Program for my Local.  It’s mainly about what we used to call in the entertainment industry “video”, but it often times falls into many different categories.  I started last year by trying to discuss TV and the mechanics behind it, but I soon found I was discussing [...]

Webcast Technology

I got to dive in to web-based broadcasting technology over the past couple of days.  We had 2 events that needed to be available on our website immediately following the event.  In the past, this kind of thing would’ve required recording the event, then capturing it, then transcoding it to a format suitable for the [...]