May 2, 2012
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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February 23, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
A few of us in OIT recently visited Cisco in RTP to check out one of their Active Collaboration Rooms (ACR). For the demo we visited one of Cisco's ACRs which was 24'x24'. This room contained the default ACR functionality: SmartBoard,...
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February 22, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
We recently received two computer monitors from Dell to demo for potential use in the new MPS lab: the UltraSharp LED U2412M and the UltraSharp U2410. We were looking for something somewhat comparable to the NEC PA241W-BK but a little...
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February 21, 2012
By: Scott Wells
The price might be just right. Very intriguing article delivered in an engaging online digital format. Lots of suggested add-ons and modifications to power up your GoPro camera. Found this one in the latest digital edition of "Digital Video." Got...
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