December 14, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
http://youtu.be/1lQqHcCPE04 Thanks to Sharon Kaiser and the Duke University School of Medicine for hosting the 2013 DDMC Holiday Meeting. Buckle your seat belts for a fast ride through the state of the art Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for...
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December 12, 2013
By: Teresa Jennings
Crestron Winter 2013 Integrated by Design Road Show will be held on December 18th, 2013. They will be offering two sessions, one targeted towards the Product and Applications, and the other for Programming and Commissioning Tools. Morning Session (9am -...
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December 11, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVviDvsBQ78 Several of us from OIT and Trinity Technology Services met with Cisco and iRobot to learn more about the new Ava™ 500 TelePresence Robot due to be release in early 2014. As mentioned previously, we have a staffer that...
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By: Chip Bobbert II
Airfoil We had an interesting use case come up. A question was posed about being able to listen to multiple audios streams in the same room and be able to select between them. The first thing that popped into my...
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December 6, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
VGo has returned home to OIT. Although we tested the unit a few years ago, we now have an need to connect an OIT Staffer that will be offsite for a while. VGo seems like a great fit to allow...
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November 8, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Sharon Kaiser from the School of Medicine will give us a tour of the School of Medicine's Teaching and Learning Center in the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center. This will also be our holiday gathering and we'll have cookies and beverages. If...
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November 6, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
On Tuesday, November 19th from 3-5PM, Duke's School of Medicine will be showing a short piece of video shot last summer as detailed in these blog posts: http://sites.duke.edu/ddmc/2013/06/26/4k-no-way-yes-way/ http://sites.duke.edu/ddmc/2013/06/26/4k-the-shoot/ Dr. Len White...
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November 4, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
Two months ago we were asked to begin exploring 4K streaming. My initial reaction was "well that's not going to work" and "we're years away from 4K streaming services". I was wrong. Today, Netflix began offering a 4K test video...
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October 31, 2013
By: Todd Stabley
Some of you noted that it was not possible before to embed Panopto videos on sites.duke.edu (this was due to security-related iframe embedding restrictions implemented on the site). As of our recent Wordpress upgrade, we now have a workflow to...
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By: Todd Stabley
While testing transcription software tools, I ran across a handy list of keyboard shortcuts for controlling video playback speed using the J, K and L keys. These controls work within QuickTime Player as well as any other editors (such as...
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