July 22, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Overview In July of 2019, the Duke Media Productions team was due for an upgrade on our computers. Through a mix of research, budgeting, and consultation (the fine folks at Adobe were incredibly helpful) , we arrived at two candidates...
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July 19, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
It's always nice to have a visit from Biamp in the summer. For those that aren't in "the know," Biamp is "a leading provider of professional AV equipment well-suited for a variety of applications, including conferencing, paging, and video," or...
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July 7, 2019
By: Stephen Toback
I attended Anime Expo 2019 this past weekend and saw a few things that may be of interest to our community. WACOM has been so dominant in the drawing tablet industry, it was interesting to see a different manufacturer, XP-Pen,...
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July 1, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Our team is due to get some new computers this month and we have narrowed our choices into an equivalently specced PC and iMac. To best decide between these options, I've found a few free-to-use tools that have helped me...
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June 26, 2019
By: Michael Blair
As part of our continuing exploration of new options for transcription and captioning, two members of our media production team tested the automated services offered by both Rev and Sonix. We submitted the same audio and video files to each...
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June 13, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
We recently posted about some exciting new options in the world of captioning spearheaded by a company called Sonix, which offers a page for account set-up for members of the Duke community that waives monthly subscription charges as part of...
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June 4, 2019
By: Devon Henry
These transitions are another bundle from Fx Factory that work for Final Cut Pro. The main idea of the set is to create an ink-blot effect that wipes one scene to the next. It creates a pretty cool effect. The...
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By: Teresa Jennings
With the release of MacOS Catalina, a new feature called Sidecar has been added that enables an iPad to be used as an extended desktop for a Mac. Also, when paired with an Apple Pencil, it can be used to...
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May 31, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
The bring your own device (BYOD) meeting or teaching space has been a popular model for small and medium meeting and teaching spaces. With the rise of inexpensive and ultra-portable laptops and tablets, the traditional "local computer" has slowly lost...
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May 14, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
We're excited to announce that our 2019 Lecture Capture Survey is complete. We had a chance to take a birds eye view of ten of the leading lecture capture tools and make some observations about general trends in this rapidly...
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