On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Rich Morin <r...@cfcl.com> wrote: > On Mar 24, 2013, at 18:44, Cedric Greevey wrote: > > Where are these costs coming from? ... > > To get professional results, you need more than a camera > on a tripod. For example, someone has to: > > * keep the camera on the speaker >
The speaker can stay approximately in one place, or, any random person can be paid minimum wage to rotate the camera. Cost: $0-8 per hour. I'd not be surprised if there are automated solutions for this, involving some motorized gadget in the tripod head and some invisible-to-human-eyes mark or reflector on the speaker's clothing perhaps, and then there'd be only a one-time cost (plus some trivial amount of electricity). > * get clean copies of the slides > Whoever is giving the presentation should have these already. > * merge the slides with the video > A lot of computers are shipping with free no-frills video editing software these days that probably suffices for this. > * create assorted web pages, etc. > Youtube will create a page for your video for you if you upload it there, and a page for your channel/account/whatever listing all of your videos that are uploaded to Youtube. There are other sites that will do similar things. For ongoing series, there are sites optimized for that, too, usually with .tv domains. > * ... > > Outfits like InfoQ and Confreaks do a very good job, but > they use professional staff (who expect to be paid). And I'm guessing what they're doing is obsolescent, if not already obsolete, in that it can be done about as well for a lot less money. If they're charging $400 a video I smell a market ripe for disruption. > I'm > delighted that these folks provide high-quality recordings > of talks, at no cost or inconvenience to me. It seems that the delays before the videos get posted, and not having control over when videos get posted, qualifies as an "inconvenience", or this thread wouldn't exist. > It's also wonderful to have a local meeting recorded by a > volunteer, but I _really_ don't want this to be the way our > conferences are recorded. I can wait a bit for the editing; > clean results are more important than saving a month or so. > Why are you so convinced that a volunteer couldn't do a good job? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
