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September 6, 2018

Wirecast 10 Adds Live Captions

By: Todd Stabley

Wirecast recently announced a new cloud-based service that supports live captions based on ASR (automatic speech recognition) and an rtmp re-streaming service. Both work in conjunction with Wirecast 10. This means that if you are using Wirecast 10, you can automatically caption your videos and simultaneously push them to another provider like YouTube or Facebook […]

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July 17, 2018

Kaptivo

By: Richard Mitchell

Let’s face it… humans like articulating concepts by drawing on a wall. This behavior dates back over 64,000 years with some of the first cave paintings. While we’ve improved on the concept over the years, transitioning to clay tablets, and eventually blackboards and whiteboards, the basic idea has remained the same. Why do people like chalkboard/whiteboards? […]

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April 2, 2018

Epson Demonstrates Pro L1300U

By: Richard Mitchell

This past week, Epson provided an overview of their Pro L1300U projector at the Technology Engagement Center. The projector is an impressive 8,000-lumen beast, specifically designed for medium to large environments where image and color accuracy matters. The laser light engine is designed to provide 20,000 hours of near maintenance-free service. If you’ve ever seen an […]

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January 19, 2018

Warpwire Workflows and Guides

By: Todd Stabley

Many of you by now are familiar with Warpwire’s support website since we feature their collection of video tutorials, called Guides, in the Help section of our service landing page.  Warpwire recently added a new section to their support site, called Workflows. These Workflows show how to use Warpwire from the standpoint of particular use cases, such […]

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January 11, 2018

Warpwire 2.2.3 Now Offers Downloading

By: Todd Stabley

One of the oft-cited feature requests we’ve received for Warpwire since we began running it at Duke in 2014 is the ability for asset owners to download their media files from the system. With Warpwire 2.2.3, which we launched on January 3rd, we now have that ability. Since Warpwire’s main purpose is to function as […]

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December 7, 2017

New Features at Rev.com

By: Todd Stabley

Rev.com, currently the most widely utilized caption service provider at Duke, just announced some new features we wanted to let you know about. All are included at no extra charge in their standard $1.00 per minute service. For more information about getting started with Rev or another caption provider, you can visit https://oit.duke.edu/what-we-do/services/captioning. You may also […]

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June 12, 2017

Wolfvision Cynap

By: Richard Mitchell

First announced at InfoComm 2015, the Wolfvision Cynap continues to add and enhance core features to the device to adapt to the changing wireless connectivity landscape. To categorize the Cynap as a wireless presentation and collaboration device is a disservice to the robust capabilities of what Wolfvision has created. The Cynap can also acts as a media player, provide web conferencing for […]

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April 11, 2017

New Interactive Walking & Bike Tours App

By: Todd Stabley

This past year interest in a pilot service called MyTours has been growing as users across campus discover it and learn about its many benefits. Through MyTours, you can easily create walking or bicycle tours by uploading images, videos, audio, and text through a web browser, and geo-locate each stop on a map so users can navigate from […]

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November 30, 2016

Panopto Rated a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

By: Todd Stabley

Congratulations are in order for Panopto, the classroom and mobile recording system that has been the flagship for DukeCapture since 2010. Gartner, one of the most respected American research firms that provides market analysis in the IT space, has just selected Panopto as a “Leader” in the Enterprise Video Content Management Space, the highest of four categories in its Magic Quadrant for […]

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