Re: [UG-ADMINS] To broadcast or not to broadcast

Here's Logan's response to my questions about the AustinTechVideos.com initiative. He gave me his permission to pass it along to the rest of the ug-admins list. 

-Ben


On Friday, August 2, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Logan Lindquist wrote:

> Hey Jonathan,
> 
> I am one of the organizers of Austin PHP and also the person who started the AustinTechVideos project. For the first two years it was a concerted effort by just me to get things off the ground. I was a photography major in college so that helped a bit. You are mostly going to be limited on budget. We started off with a $100 flip camera and about $400 in other misc gear I had laying around. Now I have well over $1400 invested in just the equipment. You could get a decent setup for about a grand.  
> 
> Good news is I have some people helping with the project these days. Bad news is I can't pay them so getting them to help is hit or miss. 
> 
> Ok, video hosting, lets see. When we started youtube sucked because you needed a "director" account or something. Since then they have lifted the restrictions making it easier to get a unlocked account. You need to verify your phone number is all it takes now. We use youtube. They are really the only host to use unless you want to pay $$$$$$ per month. Vimeo started limiting the original file size so we were forced to move off of them. A 5 GB video is like 15 minutes long for us.  
> 
> Re-encoding the video is a hassle and takes up a lot of time. I discovered with the help of the local community that I was able to upload the raw video from the camera. The codec our camera uses is AVCHD. It is pretty common format for digital video cameras. Youtube added support for this codec about a year ago. 
> 
> If you do get the videos going again, Austin would love to collaborate on videos with the other user groups. I think I have some other video related domains laying around or we can just use the austin site.  
> 
> I don't have time to answer all of Ben's questions in complete detail .. So let me know if you have any specific questions and I will be happy to help you out. 
> 
> Good luck, 
> 
> Logan Lindquist
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> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:11 PM, D Keith Casey Jr <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > 
> > PING
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [UG-ADMINS] To broadcast or not to broadcast
> > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:09:03 -0500
> > From: Ben Ramsey <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> > To: Jonathan Sundquist <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> > CC: Cal Evans <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>, PHP User Group Leaders <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> > 
> > I'd like to hear information about how the Austin group manages this. I
> > know about http://www.austintechvideos.com/, so it seems the whole tech
> > community there is involved in producing and posting videos of their
> > meetings/events. How does this work? Who coordinates it? Who does the video
> > capture/processing? Who hosts the videos?
> > 
> > -Ben
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Jonathan Sundquist <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>wrote:
> > 
> > > At MN PHP we have recorded in the past and then the place we host at, The
> > > Nerdery, has uploaded the videos after they were encoded to their vimeo
> > > page. However they have not done that in quite some time as their recording
> > > equipment went down and once it was repaired it sounded as though the
> > > person that used to upload their videos no longer worked there. So we
> > > pretty much lost the ability to publish videos of our meetings. I would
> > > love to be able to get back to doing that for people that are unable to
> > > make it to a meeting for what ever reason.  I think its also a great way to
> > > promote the user groups as well.
> > > 
> > > The videos can also be used when submitting to a conference as well so they
> > > can see how you present and possibly what you are presenting.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Cal Evans <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > Ok, we've kicked this one around in Nashville PHP (not recently) but I
> > > > don't think we'v talked about it here.
> > > >
> > > > Do you record your meetings? and/or Do you broadcast your meetings?
> > > >
> > > > If no? Have you ever considered it and why did you decide not to?
> > > >
> > > > If yes, how? Everything from the "Who handles it?" to the technical
> > > > details. Spill the beans, we want to know! :)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > > > =C=
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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