On 01/04/16 5:07 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [...]
Buying and owning equipment has its own problems. Since the meetup happens once in a month, who will keep the camera rest of the time? Who owns it (PyDelhi is not a legal org)? What happens if the interest to take videos goes down?
I suggest considering live streaming instead of recorded video if you are keen to improve the participation. Recorded video is really boring. live streaming will help members of the community to join the meetup without having to travel long distances.
Again I would recommend to try it out with a simple camera or webcam first.
+1, I would like to quote Noufal's input here. On 30/03/16 10:13 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: [...]
I think the ChennaiPy people recorded (atleast one of) their presentations with a simple screen capture tool and audio of the speaker.
Would that not be enough?
Going progressively screen recording + audio is a much better approach to go for. For audio, inbuilt mic doesn't work well so I would suggest we purchase a hands-free Bluetooth Mic. Next step, I would combine the screen-recording with a webcam input wherever possible. An external webcam would be a plus as it will allow the presenter to move across the stage. No DSLR is needed here. The screen capture including slides and audio [,and a webcam window] can be live streamed to YouTube, where broadcasting bandwidth is available, or stored for upload later. In terms of equipments, I feel at-least a hands-free mic should be purchased. Then try out the whole process of screen-capture, stream, upload, if all goes fine and smooth, only thing left would be adding a webcam feed which is not much of a pain and totally optional anyways. If anyone doesn't agree to the plan, please let know. -- Saurabh Kumar https://saurabh-kumar.com