November 5, 2019
By: Devon Henry
The video working group meeting was about project management and organization. It inspired a lengthy back and forth discussion about best practices! Julie showed us how her department organizes their footage and gave us a little handout with her folders...
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October 29, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
This past Thursday, Jack D'Ardenne provided the Duke Digital Media Community (DDMC) with an overview of Duke's Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) offering, called CampusVision. The platform features approximately 135 DirecTV channels and several Duke internal channels from Duke Athletics and...
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October 25, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
While we've worked with the Insta 360 Pro fairly extensively in the past, we hadn't yet tested it's capability for livestreaming. In particular, I was curious about viewing the livestream from within our VR headset, the Oculus Go. Though there's...
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October 24, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
As long as I've been working with 360 video, one element has always been out of reach: interactivity. Particularly when viewed through a headset, the immersive nature of 360 video lends itself well to exploration and curiosity. The challenge has...
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October 8, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
Some of Duke's Communications staff have been experimenting lately with Otter.ai, a new transcription service that offers 600 minutes per month, and seem to be enjoying it. Otter, which was started by an ex Google engineer in early 2019, is...
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October 2, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
Last month, Kontek visited the Technology Engagement Center (TEC) on Duke's campus to provide an updated overview of their services, introduce new faces at the company, and to detail the updated organizational structure of the company. It was also a...
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September 27, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
With the release of a new audio plugin on FX Factory called De-Clipper, we decided to compare our previous audio cleanup tools and see what came out on top. De-Clipper ($59) by Accusonous is billed as "the world's first entirely...
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September 25, 2019
By: Devon Henry
Today our Video Working Group meeting was led by Steve Toback and he discussed our review tool, lookat.io. Lookat is something we all use now in Academic Media Production. It allows us to collaborate more efficiently and clearly with staff...
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September 24, 2019
By: Stephen Toback
So I got one of those annoying ads in my Facebook feed about this amazing wireless microscope that's regularly a buhzillion dollars but can be yours today for only $79.99. I actually thought that was a pretty neat idea so...
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September 18, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
In March, Apple announced the 2nd generation of AirPods. At $159, I was a bit hesitant to purchase them as I didn't really need yet another thing to keep charged. Sure, the addition of "hey Siri" control, 50% more talk...
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