From harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au Fri Nov 22 09:04:59 2024 From: harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au (Harry McNally) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:04:59 +0800 Subject: [PLUG-AV] Feedback from committee discussion Message-ID: Hello List We revisited our AV state while discussing talk for 2025 and Nick rightly suggested opening discussion here rather than a committee working document. So from the meeting here are some points I gleaned. Please break any out into a different Subject thread if you wish. - James H has had ideas for a new workflow model for which he is preparing a short document. We can build our design on that 'spec'. James was happy to work away on that but if anyone wants to ask James for a brief list of tools and has experience, I would suggest contacting him directly to offer. - We aren't sure (other than one complete set of hardware) what equipment is stored and may be serviceable. Nick may know where that is squirreled away but if anyone is holding any dusty boxes of AV gear, please speak up. - There was discussion about a another grant. I'll start with my opinion that I think most effort is building and testing a new workflow. Might we do that on one set of good hardware and use that as a demonstrator for a grant ? Also, my sustainability hat guides me to ordering second-hand gear from RebootIT in Melbourne. Is it possible to obtain a grant for a larger set of lower cost systems for redundancy and spares ? Can we spend it on used gear ? As long as the workflow software has longevity, we can keep using equipment with purchased performance. - There was discussion about limited numbers of live streamers but committee noted the recording was the main value; for PLUG as well as for the speaker as a CV addition. AV can address that as a priority. - Jacek explained that many of the events/talks he attends now are recorded (or streamed?) with a mobile phone. My observation is that anyone can do that and the video may capture other aspects that can be edited into a recording. How might we invite that to happen and capture and sync it with any of the AV recorded content into a final edit ? Is it possible to stream those mobile sources to BBB or is the streaming tech all proprietary (I don't know). Can mobile video usefully be cropped to maintain the AV aspect ratio ? - Any other pointer I missed, feel free to open a thread :-) All the best Harry