December 16, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
https://youtu.be/mD3dHjEAZAI We were looking for a small, portable monitor that would do 1080p for use in troubleshooting some of our servers in the server room at the Technology Engagement Center. We stumbled across the GeChic 13" Monitor on Amazon for...
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December 13, 2016
By: Todd Stabley
Duke's announcement of a new president last week gave us a fantastic opportunity to take a big stride forward in our use of and advocacy for video captions at Duke. We've been making strides in encouraging the use of captions...
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December 1, 2016
By: Joseph Johnson
With the rising popularity of whiteboard animated videos, our department has received a few requests to create some and now we have the ability to provide that service. Thanks to a new software acquisition of VideoScribe, we are now able...
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November 30, 2016
By: Richard Mitchell
It's time to throw away your old Crestron touch screens. The new "60 series" screens have arrived! </thick AV sarcasm> A few weeks ago, Crestron announced three new touch screens, the 5 inch TSW-560, 7 inch TSW-760, and 10 inch TSW-1060....
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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"...
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November 22, 2016
By: Devon Henry
A lot of faculty for courses we’ve worked on like to do remote shooting on their own, so we’ve recommended shooting video on their iPhones. Obviously, built in-audio on phones has not improved at the rate video has, so mics are...
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November 21, 2016
By: Mich Donovan
With the recent Camtasia update adding a bevy of new features (and doubling its price for Mac users), some screen capture enthusiasts may be looking for an alternative. Though we moved away from Screenflow in our productions (largely due to...
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By: Devon Henry
I came across Mister Horse while looking for plugins and trials to test out, and it comes with a variety of transitions, backgrounds lower thirds, animated illustrations and titles. While the features aren’t really groundbreaking, they do offer a way...
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By: Mich Donovan
Last May, Todd raved about the Epiphan AV.io as an easy plug-and-play tool for screen capture. After personally working with it at multiple shoots over the past few months, I can second its ease of use with a few caveats....
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November 9, 2016
By: Todd Stabley
When I was riding bikes with the Duke Cycling Team several years ago, one of the things I enjoyed most was getting to know a few of the incredibly talented and smart students who represent the core of this great university. Watching...
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