Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 11, 2009 17:12 UTC (Sun) by smadu2 (guest, #54943)
Parent article: Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Please for the sake of folks who couldnt be at such conferences, ask somebody with commonsense if not professional to take videos, I would want to look at the slides NOT the person all the time.

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Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 11, 2009 22:52 UTC (Sun) by jamesmrh (guest, #31622) [Link] (2 responses)

The people making the videos were professionals, and they did a great job, IMHO.

Possibly what we need are more experts to volunteer to sync up a second video stream with the slides (having also organized, funded and managed the extra equipment), and then help with the editing and publishing. Can you help next time?

Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 12, 2009 8:52 UTC (Mon) by smadu2 (guest, #54943) [Link] (1 responses)

You need not sync up, just focus the video on the slides. Is that so hard ? I felt very bad when I was watching Linus tutorial on Git and couldnt see what he was showing. Ditto with other keynote speeches.

Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 12, 2009 9:21 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

for interactive presentations like the git one you are correct.

however for static slides, I much prefer to be able to use the original slide rather than having to go projector to screen to camera and deal with the quality losses that imposes. turning static images into video is also extremely inefficient in terms of file sizes for the presentation.

what is really needed for interactive presentations (and I don't know if it's available at all) is a (relatively cheap) device that you can plugin to the vga port inline to the projector that can capture the video output (and ideally an audio feed at the same time so that they are auto-synced).