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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January 25, 2021
By: Richard Mitchell
Technically, this isn't an "AV specific" piece of hardware, but the Middle Atlantic RLNK-215 makes its way to AV racks regularly and for good reason. The two-outlet "intelligent power" control device provides basic metal oxide varistor (MOV) surge protection to...
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January 4, 2021
By: Stephen Toback
I recently moved into a new home and my previous method of mounting my webcam wouldn't work in my new home office. I thought I would try one of the low cost webcams offered on Amazon since it came with...
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November 30, 2020
By: Richard Mitchell
As we enter year 700 of COVID-19, some faculty and staff are looking at 2021 wondering how they can spice up their online teaching environment without spending hours or days learning a full-blown video production application. While Zoom offers a...
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November 16, 2020
By: Richard Mitchell
While on a classroom technology Zoom session, a peer institution mentioned that they had installed a few Atlona cameras in a subset of their classrooms. While I was somewhat familiar with Atloma as a complete AV solutions manufacturer, our University...
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