e, If we decide to go this route, then I will use my laptop - I lecture regularly in the room we're using for the plenaries - and the "ProfCast" application (highly recommended if you are using a Mac, by the way). I will "encourage" the presenters to give me their slides beforehand and I have an arrangement with the a/v folks in the building to give me a "line out" feed from the "house" audio so that the wireless lapel mic comes in to the laptop. The result is very pleasing. That, coupled with a few snaps of the speaker from the audience, would be much preferable to a long video and you get an "enhanced" quicktime version of the slides in which the audio is synced. The cost is zero, and the result is most pleasing. I'd be happy to show anyone who has a Mac laptop how to do this, as it is an excellent way to record your lectures. I did this, actually, in my talk at AoIR7 in Brisbane - and actually did the "podcast" while I was talking. ....r On 1-Jul-07, at 3:38 PM, elw@stderr.org wrote:
I think the screencast idea makes more sense. One possibility would be to use a product like Camtasia (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/ record.asp), which would enable individuals to record a screencast of their PPT/ Keynote presentation and accompanying audio. Individual presenters could download
screencasting is complicated by the need of presenters to use their own laptops - which may be macintosh, windows, linux, solaris, whatever - and the reluctance of presenters to let some aoir flack mess with their critical-to-ongoing-research hardware.
you can't just say, "oh just run camtasia", and be done.
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