[PLUG-AV] a bit of encouragement

[Euan de Kock]

Hi all,

Good to see people downloading the video - makes it worth the effort.

I do think we should plan on passing around a Mic for questions. I can
bring along an extra Mic/Stand and XLR Cable to the next meeting.

Although the speaker is captured on the wireless device, I still think
we need to have a dedicated wired Mic for the speaker - wireless mics
fail for many reasons (presenter turns it off, places it wrong,
batteries fail, interference etc) and it is always good to capture a
clean wired signal anyway.

The Shure Mic that Plug owns has a mute switch, so that will be best for
the audience Mic, my Shure mic (SM57) can be used for the speaker pick
up and can be set up on a stand to get the best sound possible.

I'm willing to stand up and offer to man/monitor the audio mixer desk. 

We should be able to get an even better sound signal once we have the
right connectors for the mixer!

Regards,

Euan.

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 12:16 +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
> On 13/08/2011 11:32 AM, Jason Nicholls wrote: 
> > Just a bit of encouragement, since releasing the Luakit video from
> > Tuesday it's been downloaded 44 times by unique IPs: 
> > root at pot:/var/log/virtualmin# grep -i 'Luakit-mason.mp4'
> > plug.org.au_access_log | awk '{ print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l
> > 
> > 44
> > 
> > I think that's pretty good! 
> 
> That's great. Well done all, especially Jason who mixed on the night
> and took the time to encode and upload the video after the fact.
> 
> I'm pleased the XLR mic worked well this time. We did miss all the
> questions from the audience - I hadn't planned on passing it around
> and the cable was behind some obstacles. Shall we plan to pass around
> the wired mic next month?
> 
> The banner looked good this month, but was mostly too far beside the
> speaker to get in shot. Looked great in the room, but I suspect we
> need to think again about the background for the speaker. Ideas
> people?
> 
> We need some serious practice at camera work - particularly framing,
> and coordination between mixing desk and camera ops (ie, the mumble
> aspect I keep going on about). I grabbed the cam at the back of the
> room on Tuesday and took us to a tight (close) shot of Mason which
> framed up nicely, especially when it was shrunk into a
> Picture-in-picture window. Keeping the camera wide may seem natural
> when you're in the room, but when all you can see is whats on screen,
> its a different matter. That's why I put the mixing desk at the rear
> of the room; if you can't see or hear it using the screen and
> headphones, then neither can the people watching (whereas, if you
> overhear the person at the front then you may not notice that its dead
> on the stream!). 
> 
> Next month I'd like to get an extra PC if we can, running dvsink to a
> full screen display for the presenter to see -- what's called a
> "confidence screen". Anyone got anything to use?
> 
> Lastly, we need more people turning up and getting involved! Between
> running network cables, testing connectivity, running and connecting
> power, connecting cameras, running audio cables, there's a lot to do
> in 45 minutes or so between having access to the venue and starting
> the stream.
> 
>   James
> 
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