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leehambley / hhav

Hamburg User Group A/V Coordination
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Gather list of hardware we have, and/or want. #2

Open leehambley opened 6 years ago

leehambley commented 6 years ago

A big deal, a decent video->sdcard capture is a big open question:

For Mics I've always liked Røde and own three of their mics already

scruplelesswizard commented 6 years ago

Røde's are good. I have also had really good experiences with Shure when I used to work in theatre. They are the most durable I have used, and the sound quality is also quite good

leehambley commented 6 years ago

Good point :)

christianhuening commented 6 years ago

What camera do we have?

leehambley commented 6 years ago

So far only Go-Pros (which with the "anti-fisheye" post-processing work out really fine) but I'd like to find something better.

Go Pros for timelapses and audience shots are totally adequate though.

Hardware list open questions is basically:

oliverlorenz commented 6 years ago

I could provide have:

But to be honest: Webcam, RODE and GameCapture is also in private use. So we have to think about how we can handle this.

I always miss a second Wireless headset, because some talks are hold by two people.

leehambley commented 6 years ago

I have also a Røde Podcaster, which is not in a lot of use, and a Røde VideoMic Go (http://www.rode.com/microphones/videomicgo) which is sitting in a box since 1yr (used it a lot when we were pre-recording pitch videos and doing pitch training with my startup.

The GameCapture looks cool, but I've only been able to find one standalone device (records directly to removable media) - perhaps it would suffice to find cross-platform screen capture software and ask people to record their own laptop screens. I have good experience with iShowU and iShowU Instant (https://shinywhitebox.com/ishowu-instant) for that. I suppose unlike gaming capture, there's not as much performance pressure, so we can easily rely on the host system to capture it's own output?

oliverlorenz commented 6 years ago

I suppose unlike gaming capture, there's not as much performance pressure, so we can easily rely on the host system to capture it's own output?

Thats true if you speak in the primary use case of recording. I fully agree in that case. My equipment set is currently more focused on streaming, and capturing is a drive-by result.

So usually I do live production. While the talk is running, I switching between prepared screens with static content, speaker total view and slides. I like this setup because I don't have to cut anything afterwards. Its instant available.

Here a little example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_K5S1NAZOU&list=PLhpmRI4kKiciy410nus97cZ1WITHaEXYu&index=3

As I understand you capturing different audio and video sources split and putting all together afterwards, correct?

Just some Ideas:

scruplelesswizard commented 6 years ago

From the perspective of a presenter I would have a hard time installing capture software on my machine, and especially for lightning talks or similar formats it would be hell to edit.

leehambley commented 6 years ago

Thanks to @chaosaffe for recommending a guy on twitter who had posted some stuff.

I link his tweet here and his notes on live production:

Live Production puts more burden on everyone than "stuff to capture AV that people can use" - and it relies a bit on the skill of an operator at every usergroup.

I can't say now if it raises the bar for this idea too high, and/or the costs because a HHAV laptop and hardware seems to become more important as we dig deeper into this.

leehambley commented 6 years ago

sorry for radio silence all, I changed jobs and have been flat-out getting up to speed.