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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April 23, 2019
By: Devon Henry
Rumor has it that Apple is working on a feature named Sidecar that will allow you to seamlessly use your iPad as a secondary Mac display. While there have been workarounds for this for a while, as someone who just...
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April 22, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
"If only I could be in two places at once!" - Every AV Technician... Ever. But... what if you COULD be in two places at once? During a training earlier this year, I discovered that one hardware manufacturer offered a...
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April 8, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
When collaborating on the design of classroom AV systems, having the ability to rapidly sketch, modify, innovate, and share a signal flow diagram is an invaluable tool in avoiding expensive mistakes before install. But, creating signal flow diagrams has traditionally...
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April 5, 2019
By: Devon Henry
I was using Keynote to show how the simple tools could be used to create effective and interesting animations. I was a little stuck on how to easily make items from scratch or where to locate free-to-use vectors for people...
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April 4, 2019
By: Richard Mitchell
We're going to make this a short DDMC post... We will definitely answer the age-old question of, "Is 4K video content worth it?" The easy answer is, YES, absolutely! Well, maybe... OK, sometimes... well, it's complicated. First, what is 4K?...
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By: Richard Mitchell
Last month, I had the fortune of attending Extron's Control Professional Certification Program. The three-day course, which Extron recommends for "advanced users or control system programmers" was painless enough to pass with my meager programming background. The class was taught...
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April 3, 2019
By: Michael Blair
I recently discovered “4K for $10K,” a video series on AbelCine’s blog. The limited series profiles and compares six cameras that capture 4K video, meet certain minimum criteria, and cost between five and ten thousand dollars. Late last year when...
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March 29, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Recently, I had the opportunity to make a short profile video about a robotics graduate student here at Duke, Victoria Nneji. The goal of the video was to compel middle school students to start thinking about college and their future...
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