January 23, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
With the launch of a brand new drone called the Mavic Air, DJI has further solidified its hold on the prosumer drone market by upping the ante on its already phenomenally popular Mavic Pro. The Air is even smaller...
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January 4, 2018
By: Mich Donovan
Apple has updated their flagship video editing software recently and it's fairly substantive. There's a variety of small tweaks but the biggest things to look at are: 360 video editing, color grading, and HDR. While 360 has yet to fully...
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December 7, 2017
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...
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October 11, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
Duke OIT in conjunction with the Duke Digital Initiative (DDI) continues its search for innovative 360 cameras with our recent DDI-funded purchase of the Garmin VIRB® 360. At $799.00, the VIRB was a chunk of change, but so far has proved to...
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August 28, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
In February we wrote about the Insta360 Nano 360, a then-new-on-the-scenes 360 camera that solved usability challenges many devices in this space were suffering from. Today Insta360 announced the hotly-anticipated release of the successor to the Nano360, the Insta360 ONE. At...
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June 6, 2017
By: Stephen Toback
https://youtu.be/uYmkMXqEDEQ We added our third and largest teleprompter to StudioONE today. The Magicue Stage Master Studio 19" Prompter Kit with Hard Case, Black (MAQSTUDIO19KIT) is reasonably priced at $699 and includes a 19" monitor, the glass, all the hardware and cover -...
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May 30, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
In the 360 camera space, we're seeing a continued shift toward user-friendliness as more contenders follow the path set by the $200.00 Nano360, which broke ground late last year. The genius of the Nano360, which we wrote about here, is in its...
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May 10, 2017
By: Joseph Johnson
One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job is animation. Unfortunately, time constraints prohibit my forays into the arena from being too complex. This is extremely problematic for character animation specifically. Animating a ball moving across the screen or...
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March 20, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
A number of products are reaching into and helping redefine what we might think of as the lecture capture appliance space. One sub-category of these includes appliances that, while they could be part of fixed installations in classrooms and other venues, also have...
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February 16, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
OIT recently purchased the new Nano 360 360-degree still and video camera by Insta360. This camera seems like a game changer in bringing a new level of user-friendliness to the world of 360 cameras. By integrating with your iPhone (version 6 and...
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