April 29, 2016
By: Devon Henry
When I sat down to edit the video of the keynote I shot at TechExpo, the quality was distorted and grainy, due to the bright light from the projector. After various filters and color corrections showed no significant improvement, I...
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April 28, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
The new carbon fiber 4k hover camera is now in beta. It's lightweight and foldable and uses facial recognition to follow a specific individual. It's battery will keep the device up for about 8 minutes. Although billed as a "selfie" camera,...
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April 11, 2016
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...
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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....
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February 26, 2016
By: Mich Donovan
FXFactory recently released the third iteration of their Callouts graphics as professionally demoed here: [youtube]https://youtu.be/kkYc7Ln7Vj8[/youtube] And as personally demoed here (cheesy bgs are built-in to FCP): [duke_media src="https://warpwire.duke.edu/w/_hEBAA/"] Of the various features, it’s probably about 50/50 stuff we in...
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February 25, 2016
By: Mich Donovan
Recently, I was preparing some sample video lectures for a course on statistics. The instructor had prepared PDF slides through LaTeX which were a departure in style from what we usually produce with Keynote. The main reason? It's difficult to express complex...
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February 23, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
In January 2016 I spent two weeks at Duke Kunshan University for the commissioning of the various AV installations throughout campus. The AV design for this project started 6 years ago and is finally close to being completed. IVCI began the...
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February 11, 2016
By: Stephen Toback
Looking for a way to replace our desktop Blue USB mic to reduce ambient noise for faculty. Think we found a solution but concerned about the durability of the mic - then again, for only $40, seems like a good...
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January 19, 2016
By: Mich Donovan
In a review of the Wacom Companion 2 last year, I concluded that it was ultimately overpowered and overpriced for the utility of simply recording video lectures. This was despite the fact that consolidating our Lecture Recording Kit into an...
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January 5, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Creston has starting shipping the HD-MD-400-C-E, which is its new huddle room presentation system. It features an HD scaler, display control, HDBaseT, and automatic input switching. The system uses a transmitter and receiver which are connected by a single cable...
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