October 31, 2018
By: Joseph Johnson
It's fall, pumpkin spice is in the air, the holidays are Christmas decorations are going up, and software giant has just released updates to their entire Creative Cloud suite of applications. Because the updates are so extensive, I've decided to...
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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 25, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Let's face it... wirelessly sharing content can be a pain. Even in very basic AV setup such as an Apple TV, you need to know the name of the Apple TV (which sometimes is named very differently from the room...
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October 19, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
I'm sure if we went far enough back in time, there was once a person in a cave teaching tribal hunting techniques while pointing at a cave drawing with a stick. And thus, the "pointer" was born. Sure, the stick...
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October 15, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
First and foremost... do not do this at home. I'm a trained professional in the audio and video arts and have various pieces of paper tacked to my office at home to prove that fact. But seriously, this is more...
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By: Richard Mitchell
With the rise of active learning in higher education, AV groups have been tasked with designing, installing and managing these unique and complex digital media systems. Unlike traditional classrooms, where you may see a few projectors, a single control interface,...
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October 8, 2018
By: Mich Donovan
We've recently been exploring the potential of 360 video production and how it can best be utilized for our future projects. To view the 360 video, we've been using an Oculus Go which is a wireless VR headset - no...
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By: Teresa Jennings
We recently needed a quite, relatively inexpensive, keyboard for our sound and recording booth. After some research, we ended up selecting the Kensington Slim Type USB wired keyboard (Mfr. #: K72357USA), which turned out to be amazingly quiet. I won't...
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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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October 5, 2018
By: Devon Henry
Adding to the list of free video editors for Macs and PCs, I found OpenShot! For positives, there are many. It’s very user-friendly, similarly set up to other editing programs but without many distractions for users unfamiliar with them. A...
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