On 30/03/16 12:46 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote:
On 29 March 2016 at 23:12, Anuvrat Parashar <anuvrat@anuvrat.in> wrote:
Namaste
We need video equipment for recording talks and workshops conducted at pydelhi meetups. Could someone here suggest what to buy and how much it would cost?
How important is the need for this, and what is the quality of recording that we are after?
Footages that has audio with mininal noise and running slides are visible. The slides are always hyperlinked with uploaded video, but it's much nicer have it in the running video.
Also, where does this need stem from? Who has asked for this?
Vinay and me had used our personal DSLR cameras and we even tried our cellphones for the recordings. My camera is dead now and Vinay doesn't have bandwidth to continue on a regular basis. The talks were/are made available at https://pydelhi.org/talks
Do we have a target audience in mind? Do we have statistics on how many people actually visit archives for past talks?
The target audience is all those who are not able to come the meetup and attend the talks live. It has the same target audience that recorded videos at PyCon have. Difference is we are doing 1 video per fortnight over a year, rather 20 in a couple of days. Provided the talks are getting recorded, the speakers tend to make an extra effort to present it nicely. The statistics are matter of our quality and commitment to the process. I believe a good quality talks will always find visitors.
Are we getting ahead of ourselves here in terms of mandating video recording?
Sort of yes and we have been enforcing it. [but not too tightly]. The process of talk selection can be seen at https://github.com/pydelhi/talks/issues
- I would submit that first we ask our speakers even in PyDelhi meetups for slides beforehand: No slides approved by the organising committee,no talk. Period. Put the slides up on something like slideshare.net, and only move to video after there is demonstrated interest there.
Here is list of presentations along with other info about talk delivered - https://github.com/pydelhi/talks/blob/gh-pages/README.md. It's not a complete list primarily because the speaker didn't care to provide the material or the video was not been able to processed or of very quality.
- Is a random guy having some experience with a VCR enough, or are we after more professional quality: I cannot answer this as I have never yet seen it fit to sit through a video tutorial. Given Internet bandwidth restrictions in India, I also do not see who in in a possible target audience would actually benefit from this.
There is no need to have an expert do this. Provided the right equipments are present, in our case a camera with an external mic & tripod. The footage taken can be very easily post-processed by anyone via a script and uploaded to our YouTube channel. We had/have plans for live-streaming as well, but bandwidth availability on-site varies a lot and not always possible.
IMHO, let's not jump into any kind of financial commitments (even given that these will be small) without understanding why we are doing this. And, should we agree that this is necessary, let's look for a sponsor for the equipment.
+1 Thanks Gora for all the valuable questions and I hope I was able to make the context a bit clear to everyone. Cheers, -- Saurabh Kumar https://saurabh-kumar.com