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August 3, 2016

Warpwire Summer Upgrade: New Features

By: Todd Stabley

The Warpwire team has been working hard all summer on v. 1.8, which contains a wide range of new features we’re very excited to be able to share with the Duke community as of this morning when we went live with our upgrade. Here are the highlights: A completely new Video Player with improved streaming […]

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May 24, 2016

Raving about the Epiphan AV.io & the Pearl (and Possible Demo for Duke)

By: Todd Stabley

EPIPHAN is a name many of you will recognize, as they’ve been creating hardware devices for bringing external signals into applications for capture or real time communication for about 13 years. The VGA2USB and DVI2USB are framegrabbers that have enjoyed great popularity over the years. But two relatively new products are shaking things up a bit, and we wanted to […]

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May 12, 2016

50% off Single EDU Licenses for Camtasia and SnagIT until June 10

By: Todd Stabley

TechSmith recently announced that they are ending support for Knowmia, a video recording app for iOS which allows users to record videos that can then be uploaded to Knowmia.com, a searchable learning object repository. TechSmith, which expanded its array of products and services in recent years (https://www.techsmith.com/products.html) will also discontinue support for ScreenChomp, the Teach apps, and […]

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April 11, 2016

Panopto 5.0 Upgrade

By: Todd Stabley

Mark your calendars for May 9 when we are rolling out some significant improvements for DukeCapture (Panopto). We are moving to version 5.0 of Panopto, which supports a number of highly anticipated new features, including a long-awaited overhaul of the Mac Recorder, a newly updated Windows recorder to match it, and enhancements to the Panopto Mobile app that […]

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New Progressive Download Capability for Warpwire

By: Todd Stabley

One of the cool features we rolled out out in our last major Warpwire upgrade is an option for progressive download. This work has grown out of our involvement with Duke global programs, such as our campus at Duke Kunshan University. Specifically, we’ve noted that in situations that combine low bandwidth with high network latency, we […]

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October 21, 2015

Panasonic Fall Tech Tour – 10/27/15 9am-3pm

By: Jack D'Ardenne

The Panasonic Fall Tech Tour is underway and will be in Raleigh next Tuesday 10/27 and Atlanta on Wednesday 11/4.  This will be a great opportunity to see some of our newest technology – including laser projectors, video walls, interactive displays and large screen 4K displays.  Please be sure to register by clicking on the link […]

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September 18, 2015

Harvard Business School and Cisco team up for the HBX Live virtual classroom

By: Jack D'Ardenne

The Harvard Business School recently launched the HBX virtual classroom.  “HBX Live is a studio based classroom located at WGBH Boston (public TV station) that enables 60 individuals from different locations around the world to join in a real-time discussion with Harvard Business School faculty.  The HBX Live platform combines a physical studio with unified […]

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August 4, 2015

Warpwire 1.6 Update

By: Todd Stabley

Great news! The talented team at Warpwire together with OIT Media Technologies implemented a significant upgrade of Warpwire (v. 1.6) at Duke last week that adds a number of eagerly-anticipated features. These new features include: Closed Captions: – Added ability to upload closed captions in SRT format for any video asset – Closed Caption icon […]

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January 12, 2015

Duke Has a YouTube-like Video Publishing Tool!

By: Todd Stabley

Some of you have been following OIT’s three year search for a replacement for our antiquated DukeStream servers. We searched diligently for something super easy to use and that would integrate seamlessly with our identity management systems so that users can secure videos based on Duke NetIDs and groups. Finally, after spinning our tires with the […]

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