June 1, 2012
By: Michael Faber
In the "Solving Problems we've just learned to live with" department, überconference. First, this (the problem): http://youtu.be/DdqnU5liPBA?hd=1 Then, this (the solution): http://youtu.be/NhJHAK80n38 Looks like a cleaned up version of Google Hangouts (one of the uberconference guys is a former Google...
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May 22, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Ben Kimmel in Duke OIT's Web Services group found this one. Very cool new tool called the Leap that allows you to use your hands to interact with your computer. It connects via USB and is compatible with both Mac...
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May 2, 2012
By: Todd Stabley
We recently came across two interesting and (fairly) inexpensive accessories that may be of interest to those of you involved in or supporting classroom and mobile capture. The first is the Swivl (http://www.swivl.com/), a mount for iPhones, iPod Touches, Go...
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By: Stephen Toback
What: Creating 3D Images—and You Thought This Was Going to be Hard - A presentation by Todd Berreth, Art, Art History, and Visual Studies When: 21 May 2012, noon to 1 o’clock Where: Perkins 217 (Bring your lunch, we’ll provide...
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April 16, 2012
By: Michael Faber
Here's a very cool Kickstarter project for a very affordable pan and tilt accessory for iOS devices. I think the real interesting part of this is the different ways you can control it, and the possibilities for extension. You can...
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April 11, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
For those of you who are using Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5, Apple released updates for both apps yesterday, April 10. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/10/apple-updates-final-cut-pro-to-version-10-0-
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April 2, 2012
By: Todd Stabley
With the addition of several new staff members, Panopto’s engineering team has seen a lot of growth in recent months. Unfortunately, though, as part of these changes they are losing John Ketchpaw, one of the architects of Panopto and a...
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March 27, 2012
By: Stephen Toback
I'll be heading out to the NAB show again this year. If you have any technologies you'd be interested in learning about, please feel free to comment here or on the NAB blog here: http://sites.duke.edu/nab2012 I won't be broadcasting live...
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March 22, 2012
By: Todd Stabley
Long time streaming industry encoding guru Jan Ozer compiles statistics each year on his blog (http://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/average-us-broadcasters-streaming-at-837-kbps-total-data-rate.html) that you can use as a rough guide for determining what video data rates, sizes, codecs, and other specs are being used by the big...
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March 9, 2012
By: Todd Stabley
Monitor calibration is a simple process that can dramatically improve the appearance of the screens we spend so much time looking at every day. Even more important, accurate color and brightness is essential for anyone who edits images and video...
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