November 19, 2015
By: Mich Donovan
In the move from DIY video production kits to professionally produced recording sessions, providing faculty with prompting material has become more integral than ever. The approach changes with each presenter. One goes low-tech with a large white board with bullet...
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October 30, 2015
By: Todd Stabley
As legal trends and the push toward universal design increase pressure on creators of educational video to include captions for their materials, many of us are comparison shopping for caption providers. Two of the vendors you may be hearing about at Duke these days are 3Play...
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October 28, 2015
By: Stephen Toback
On October 21st, media professionals from “Ivy+” schools gathered in person at Brown University and via teleconference from 8 other schools to meet to discuss topics include MOOC video production, lecture capture and video streaming. We had met once several...
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October 21, 2015
By: Todd Stabley
There's a new niche emerging for a user friendly way to record and broadcast classes and presentations, as evidenced by the emergence of the Epiphan Pearl. The Pearl is similar to hardware capture appliances such as the Extron SMP-351, the Crestron...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
Next Friday we are having a three part DDMC meeting, which will be co-hosted by OIT and Trinity Technology Services. We will be meeting on Friday, October 30th at 2pm in the Sociology-Psychology building room 130. Please check below for...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
The Panasonic Fall Tech Tour is underway and will be in Raleigh next Tuesday 10/27 and Atlanta on Wednesday 11/4. This will be a great opportunity to see some of our newest technology – including laser projectors, video walls, interactive displays...
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October 19, 2015
By: Stephen Toback
Dr. Stephen Craig, Chair of Duke's Chemistry department wanted to use live green screen for a presentation to some undergraduates at Florida Gulf Coast University. We had used Wirecast to try this in the past in the MPS Video Recording...
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October 16, 2015
By: Stephen Toback
Izon Technologies delivered our long anticipated 3D TV that requires no glasses. We had been waiting for a "short throw" version which is still in development so we opted to get their standard model. This model is designed for digital...
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September 29, 2015
By: Todd Stabley
I wanted to get the word out that Duke University Libraries is sponsoring a talk on Wednesday, October 7, from noon to 1PM in Perkins 217 about video captioning. This talk features a company called SpeakerText that has a local...
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September 28, 2015
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Vaddio has released the OneLINK HDMI, which provides a one cable solution when installing PTZ cameras. The OneLINK HDMI extends power, video and control over a single Cat5e cable up to 100 meters. A few different models are available to support...
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