April 12, 2022
By: Todd Stabley
This April I attended the Northwest Managers of Educational Technology conference held this year in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Since there’s nothing quite like this group in the Southeast, it felt well worth it to me to fly across the country...
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March 23, 2022
By: Stephen Toback
Just one month after my last update, we've taken occupancy of the new studio space in the basement of the Bryan Center on Duke's West Campus. Now we just have to move all the equipment and people in and we'll...
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By: Scott C Frey
The DDMC hosted Sennheiser's Steve Wingo who spoke about two very interesting technologies that might serve our community. Team Connect 2 The TeamConnect Ceiling 2, with its patented automatic dynamic beamforming technology, was already a leader in conference room audio technology....
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February 25, 2022
By: Scott C Frey
[embed]https://youtu.be/MbzNr-bCdhg[/embed] The DDMC hosted a new comer just 2 years old to the Zoom/Teams appliance world of approved products called neat. " Neat designs simple and elegant pioneering video devices for Microsoft and Zoom, helping make the meeting space experience...
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February 15, 2022
By: Stephen Toback
I made a visit to the construction site that is or will be the Bryan Center Studios - here's a quick update: https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/F5gGAA/ We had a few changes and ended up with a conference room that we'll try to fashion...
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February 3, 2022
By: Scott C Frey
As follow up to the ZOOM meeting from January, 28th. We just finished a product preview of the new POLY X70. That can leverage the ZOOM ability to share multiple screens simultaneously and be that "all-in-one" videoconference solution. The X70...
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January 28, 2022
By: Stephen Toback
We met with Zoom today and reviewed some of the options in Zoom Room software and hardware and talked about some new features: Smart Gallery – Using a digital camera (not PTZ camera), Zoom Room software can take a wide...
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May 4, 2021
By: Richard Mitchell
The good folks over at Neat were nice enough to send us a Neat Pad evaluation unit to test in Duke's Zoom Room environment. Neat says that their Neat Pad is "a simple and elegant touch screen you can configure...
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February 25, 2021
By: Stephen Toback
I was recently contacted by a staffer that had wildly differentiating audio levels for participants in a Zoom recording: They had tried using "Normalize" but unfortunately the difference between the two was too much for that plug in to handle....
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January 29, 2021
By: Stephen Toback
One of the challenges with Final Cut Pro's "Simple Border" effect is that it will not work if you crop the image. There are work arounds for this but I found a better solution. BretFX's Better Border is a free...
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