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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May 3, 2018
By: Michael Blair
Pedro Lasch, a faculty member in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, recently launched “Art of the MOOC: Experiments with Sound,” the latest Coursera course in his Art of the MOOC series. As the title implies, this newest...
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April 17, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
In June of 2017, Crestron announced that their 3 series processors were capable of integrating with Amazon's Alexa voice control. While initially viewed with a bit of skepticism, the updates and enhancements Crestron has implemented to their modules over the past...
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April 11, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
As a self-proclaimed accessibility nut, offering subtitles/closed captions isn't simply a nicety in 2018... it's a necessity. This is particularly true now that my ears have passed their prime, perhaps due to one too many Guided by Voices concerts in my...
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April 10, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Big advances are taking place in intersection of video with AI (Artificial Intelligence). I ran across an interesting article in Streaming Media Magazine called The State of Video and AI 2018 that takes stock of some of these changes and...
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March 7, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
The good folks at NewTek were nice enough to send Duke's Office of Information Technology a demo unit of their new Connect Spark. The Connect Spark is a difficult device to explain to someone that has never produced or recorded a multi-camera...
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