April 3, 2019
By: Michael Blair
I recently discovered “4K for $10K,” a video series on AbelCine’s blog. The limited series profiles and compares six cameras that capture 4K video, meet certain minimum criteria, and cost between five and ten thousand dollars. Late last year when...
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March 29, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Recently, I had the opportunity to make a short profile video about a robotics graduate student here at Duke, Victoria Nneji. The goal of the video was to compel middle school students to start thinking about college and their future...
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March 18, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
While Logitech has been in the small conference space for some time, when Logitech introduced the Rally platform in the summer of 2018, the AV industry took notice. In essence, the Logitech Rally is a modular video conferencing system for...
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By: Richard Mitchell
When we first received the news about Crestron XiO Cloud in early 2018, we were excited about the possibility of a more modern (and honestly, easier to configure and manage from a higher-education perspective) Crestron Fusion. Our Crestron representative made...
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March 6, 2019
By: Devon Henry
It’s a bit difficult to find the definitive software that should be the default suggestion to an audience that is new to video editing, or just wants to edit casually. With so many things to consider, Adobe Premiere Rush is...
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March 4, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Last week, Duke's Video Working Group's monthly meeting focused on media outreach and how to best work with external video distributors. Keith Lawrence, from the Office of News and Communication, led the discussion. We primarily focused on the use case...
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February 7, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
Evertz AV is best known for its high-quality broadcast AV switching offerings, in fact, if you've ever watched a division one basketball game on TV, you've probably seen their handiwork. But, while Evertz is well recognized in broadcast, it has slowly been...
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January 31, 2019
By: Devon Henry
In this meeting, we spoke about how much video technology has changed in the past decade. We discussed the changes in live streaming, the expansion of 360 video, use of drone footage, and more. We also talked about how resources...
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January 23, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
We had an opportunity to test the Meeting Owl from OwlLabs this past week and wanted to share our thoughts on this unique conference room technology. The $799 webcam, mic, and speaker all-in-one unit is intended to sit at the center...
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January 17, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
One energy-saving feature of Zoom Room is Zoom Rooms Operation Time. This feature allows the room administrator to schedule business hours for an organization, say 8am to 5pm. During regular hours, the Zoom Room display(s), control interface, and scheduling panel will...
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