April 8, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
When collaborating on the design of classroom AV systems, having the ability to rapidly sketch, modify, innovate, and share a signal flow diagram is an invaluable tool in avoiding expensive mistakes before install. But, creating signal flow diagrams has traditionally...
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February 28, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
We wrote in April of last year about the impact of new AI and machine learning advances in the video world, and specifically around captioning. A little less than a year later, we're starting to see the first packaged services...
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December 7, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Rev.com's captioning services have been in wide use at Duke for the last couple years in part because of their affordability (basic captioning is a flat $1.00/minute), the generally high accuracy of the captions, and the overall quality of the...
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November 20, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Creating a basic Zoom Room couldn't be easier. You get a computer, connect a display, keyboard, and mouse, and then install the Zoom Room software on the computer. Once you register the room and iPad (or another control device capable of...
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November 12, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
With their commitment to innovation and fresh ideas, it might be too early to call Warpwire an "old dog," but they definitely learned a cool new trick recently that has expanded the ways it is now possible to use Warpwire...
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November 5, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
One of the most overlooked technical aspects of in-office or at-home online teaching is audio capture. AV folks are quick to recommend $100-$200 webcams to significantly improve the video quality and flexibility of the teaching environment. But, when it comes...
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November 2, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Logitech offered a sneak peek at their soon-to-be-released Rally USB-connected video conferencing solution. While Logitech has had somewhat similar offerings in the past (ie. Logitech Group), the Rally is a bit of a game changer as it competes more directly with the...
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October 26, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Duke is considering deploying Crestron's NVX network-based AV solution in a unique active learning/gaming environment, so we sent a few members of Duke's AV community to attend Crestron's NVX Design and Application (DM-NVX) and DigitalMedia Networking Certification (DM-NVX-N) classes. This was a...
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October 23, 2018
By: Mich Donovan
In a recent live recording, the microphone sensitivity ended up a bit too high for the speaker's voice which resulted in some pretty noticeable clipping. To remedy the problem, I ran the audio through RX 7 Elements which made a...
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October 8, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Thanks to Libby Evans from the Duke Digital Initiative for this find. Zoom, a trusted manufacturer of hand-held digital audio recorders, is making strides into the word of AR/ VR/ Mixed Reality content with a recorder tailored for recording 360...
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