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How To Document Events

How To Document Events

Presented at Hacker Archive

Michael Cheng

May 09, 2015
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  1. HOW TO DOCUMENT
    EVENTS
    Lessons learnt on Engineers.SG

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  2. AGENDA
    • An overview of video recording techniques under
    different scenarios
    • How to set up the recording equipment
    • Intro to video editing

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  3. RECORDING FORMAT
    • Usually 1 video camera, focused on speaker.
    • Screen grabber for presentation slides.
    • Software video mixer.
    • Picture in Picture format.
    • Audio from digital video camera.
    • Or you edit in post-production (optional).

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  4. TO DO CHECKLIST
    • Where’s the speaker presenting from?
    • Standing, sitting or walking about?
    • This determines your camera placement.
    • Lighting situation?
    • Test with presentation slides on projector - is it reasonably
    viewable?
    • Switch off some lights? Will your video still be clear?

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  5. TO DO CHECKLIST
    • Projector input - VGA or HDMI?
    • Affects your screen recording output.
    • All presenter’s video output - VGA or HDMI?
    • Affects your screen recording input.
    • Best way to find out is ask the presenters to test their
    slides on projector.

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  6. TO DO CHECKLIST
    • Will the presenter need to show case anything other than
    the presentation slides?
    • Like a live demo of some equipment, hardware or
    physical installation.
    • May require 2nd camera or visualiser.
    • Or you could just pivot the 1st camera to focus on the
    the additional things.

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  7. EQUIPMENT SETUP
    • Position camera & tripod stand for optimum audio
    capture and video angle.
    • Preferably setup and forget its there.
    • Find good and inconspicuous spot for the laptop
    setup.
    • Ensure you have audio feed! And the levels are good.

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  8. SCREEN CAPTURE SETUP
    • HDMI from presenter / HDMI to projector
    • HDMI out, HDMI splitter (1 to projector, another
    to screen grabber).
    • HDMI from presenter / VGA to projector
    • HDMI out, HDMI splitter - port 1 to HDMI to VGA
    converter -> projector, port 2 to screen grabber.

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  9. SCREEN CAPTURE SETUP
    • VGA from presenter / VGA to projector
    • VGA out, VGA splitter (port 1 to projector), port 2
    to VGA to HDMI converter, HDMI to screen grabber.
    • VGA from presenter / HDMI to projector
    • VGA out, VGA to HDMI converter, HDMI splitter
    (port 1 to projector, port 2 to screen grabber).

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  10. LIVE PRACTICE

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  11. TIPS ON CAMERA WORK
    • Focus on the speaker. Widen the view by moving the tripod back.
    • Minimise movement of camera. Lateral movement only.
    • Too much movement creates handling noise on microphone.
    • Capture field of microphones.
    • Only record the screen if speaker gesture to part of the screen.
    • If the speaker has too much movement, I'll just switch to slide + audio
    to minimise distraction.

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  12. VIDEO EDITING
    • Choice of software: iMovie, Premiere Pro, Final Cut
    Pro.
    • Non-linear video editing system.

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  14. PROCESS
    • Import all the files.
    • Trim to the bits you want.
    • Picture in picture with slides requires synchronisation of the
    timelines.
    • Normalise audio levels.
    • Add pre-roll (usually a title slide of the talk).
    • Fade to black at the end.

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