On 2006-07-29 13:35:44 -0400, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> said:
required when videotaping a projection screen. But the audio can be remarkably improved by using a wireless clip-on microphone and connecting the receiver to the camera's "mic in". Of course, the standard "please repeat the question" protocol must be used. I realize that all this makes it slightly more of a "production", but I assume that "editing in the camera" is the norm, and that copying DV tapes to DVD has been made quite easy with most DVD recorders.
I went whole hog in 2003; the DVDs I produced that year (I never did finish all the video work I wanted to do, and only got three discs done out of a planned five) had two cameras on some things, with picture-in-picture displays of the slides and the presenter, alternating depending on what was going on.
That year, I didn't need an external microphone -- I was using my camera, which has very good sound pickup.
The borrowed camera this year didn't pick up sound as well -- plus the room we were in had a terrible echo problem.
If we could get a room with less light and without the echo, doing video would be pretty painless.
I'd be inclined to go for a low-priced videocast of the sessions; let people pick and choose the ones they want to see.
I do my DV editing in Final Cut or in iMovie (Used FC for the 2003 videos to do all the fancy footwork I did in those).
Anyway, hopefully next year I'll be able to bring my own camera, and hopefully we'll have a better room. This year, the camera stayed home because I have a daughter who's only a smidge over a year old, and the camera is required to remain within a 60 foot radius of her at all times. :)
Sheppy