October 14, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
https://youtu.be/K2lIUYioZmI The Technology Engagement Center, or TEC on Duke’s West Campus recently held two events that required live video streaming - the Duke Robotics Club Bot Battle competition and the TEC Open House. For the Battlebots, we wanted to live...
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October 13, 2016
By: Joseph Johnson
Since joining OIT as a video producer last year, my responsibilities have broadened to include animation and its integration into our production workflow. Our process normally incorporates 2D animation however we see a need for 3D animation/modeling rising on the horizon. Utilizing...
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October 6, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
Zach Kerr and his team from SONY paid a visit to the TEC where over 30 attendees from Duke and our peer schools such as NCSU were treated to some great demonstrations and conversations around laser projectors and PTZ cameras....
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September 23, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
At the Duke Eye Center, Guy Miller and Michael Juday thought they were going to give a quick tour of their new "Cisco Only" or "Crestronless" conference room to Pratt School of Engineering's IT Dean Jim Daigle. Little did they...
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September 21, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
We used the 3D printing technology at the new Technology Engagement Center at Duke to help solve a tricky integration problem for our Crestron Scheduler. [duke_media src="https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/PmEBAA/"]
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September 20, 2016
By: Mich Donovan
SoundSoap is a desktop app / third-party plugin that does an incredible job of reducing noise and other unwanted artifacts in your audio. While the desktop app works great, the plugin for FCPX fits seamlessly into our workflow as a...
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By: Mich Donovan
For anyone looking to add subtitles or captions onto a video in Final Cut, X-Title Importer by Spherico makes pretty short work of the job. [caption id="attachment_2642" align="alignright" width="242"] XTI Interface[/caption] To start, you'll need a supported source format for your captions....
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September 19, 2016
By: Richard Mitchell
I'm happy to report that I survived and passed Crestron's DMC-S Certification class from this past Friday. Overall, the class wasn't too difficult, but a strong networking background will help. The class was broken up into ten modules (1. Overview...
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September 13, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
[duke_media src="https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/m1gBAA/"] I was in a "Skype For Business" meeting with a vendor when I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. The Skype session had truncated my camera and was auto-panning based on the position of my eyes....
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September 12, 2016
By: Richard Mitchell
This past week, Apple unleashed the iPhone 7, and yes... it's a big and potentially anxiety elevating upgrade for AV technicians. The Good: The iPhone 7's camera has been completely overhauled. It sports a higher resolution lens, upgraded flash, provides hardware-based...
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