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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Chicago Code Camp session video: Update

Well, after ripping the DV, I learned a couple things about recording sessions yourself.
1.) Try and find a cheap wireless mic to feed into the audio port, because in a decent sized room, even though everyone in the room could hear me well, the camera in the back picked up the AC unit that was running next to it far, far better than it did anything coming from the front
2.) Make sure the projector screen is right next to you or behind you. Sadly I couldn't change this one, there were a couple rooms in the conference with the projector screen on the other side, and I was in one of them
3.) Make sure you get tape that fits the minutes your presentation is for. 75 min presentation, but 60 min tape. So lost 5 minutes at the 60m mark when the camera operator changed it out
4.) Make sure whoever is doing the camera knows to go to the code instead of zooming in on you whenever you're in the process of writing code, this was my fault. It was asked of me what I wanted to do, and I didn't have an answer.

I've got to fix the audio though, trying to turn it up and what not. You can hear the guy under the camera cough a couple times, and boy, does that ever get picked up by the mic...
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3 comments:

  1. Hey Hudson, just wanted to say again. If you're going to present let me know and I'll come out and record. I've a nice digital camera, so no limitations on time and less effort to pull and view quickly.
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  2. Hudson,
    I missed your presentation. I was working registration. Are going to post up the solution? I haven't worked with Fluent, so....
    Jordan
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  3. Michael,

    Cool man, will do, I appreciate the offer. This was a good excuse for me to do some HD camcorder research and look at upgrading to that and a directional mic :) So hopefully that works out too. It appears that I might have several speaking engagements in the next month or two, so I'll keep you up to date as things progress.

    Jordan,
    The session material can be found here:
    http://www.bestguesstheory.com/2009/05/fluent-nhibernate-session-material-from.html

    But as a warning, it's very code heavy and powerpoint light, i.e. it may go better with a speaker, but hopefully you can get something out of it :)

    I'm still working on trying to fix the sound on the video for what was shot to get it to acceptable viewing levels for publishing. Right now, the sound is horrible, you can barely hear me, have to turn it up all the way, and the AC ambient noise drowns everything out.
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