March 7, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
One of the many joys of being a Digital Media Engineer with the Office of Information Technology is obtaining and evaluating AV equipment on behalf of a wide range of groups at Duke University. When asked to research small projectors...
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March 2, 2018
By: Mich Donovan
One of the quickest ways to make an amateur video feel more professional is adding some decent lighting. Unfortunately, typical lighting equipment can be bulky and hot. The LumeCube seeks to resolve this in providing the most light while taking...
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February 16, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Hosting a Crestron DDMC session can be a bit of a challenge at times. Crestron has a dozen new or updated products since their last visit in November and one could explore each device for an hour... GO! The February Crestron DDMC...
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February 12, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Late last month, Jay Paul from Biamp Systems visited the Technology Engagement Center on Duke's campus to showcase some of their upcoming hardware offerings and to provide the DDMC (Duke Digital Media Community) with an opportunity to ask general AV-...
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February 7, 2018
By: Devon Henry
While searching for low-cost software and equipment, I kept reading about Filmora, so I downloaded it to see how well it actually ran. It’s cross-platform editing software that has a limited “free version”, which is what I downloaded to test...
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January 24, 2018
By: Joseph Johnson
AI is here! Fortunately our robot overlords have refrained from annihilating us and instead want to help us curate and edit our pictures. All jokes aside, Adobe has developed a collection of deep learning algorithms they call Sensei. They initially...
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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 19, 2018
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....
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January 11, 2018
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...
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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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