Comments on: Blender Conference 2006 Announced

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:39:48 +0000

@Rui Campos

I hadn't thought of the Dual Core system. I don't know how the presentations will be done. If everybody brings his own laptop for the presentations like last year, if something like this is done, it should be fairly transparent no matter what pc is used to do the presentation.

By: Rui Campos

Rui Campos — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:06:59 +0000

@ David ; The Plextor one works nicely in Linux, but at the moment the only software that really has an interface to it is MythTV. Perhaps you can find some other nice software to record the session.

And, a Dual Core system can record the screen nice and clean, for linux you have Wink, that uses a bit of the CPU, but on a Dual Core this isn't really a problem.

This with a Decent Video Camera should work like a charm.

By: David

David — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:33:32 +0000

I haven't been able to test these myself (yet), but these are available in Belgium (and I think also in the rest of Europe):

ADS TECH DVD Xpress Videoacquisitie DX2 USB 2.0 (€ 70)
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- HW encoding of MPEG 1/2/4 and DivX. Not know if there are Linux/OSX drivers

I have posted a question to ADSTech if there is Linux or MacOS support. Given that their downloads all mention Windows, I would be astonished if it were, but it's best to ask first :-)

PLEXTOR Digital video converter ConvertX PX-TV402U USB 2.0 (€ 147)
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– HW encoding of MPEG 1/2/4 DivX. Linux drivers know to work.
– Reviews: (both positive)
http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/14/plextors-convertx-px-tv402u-isnt-exactly-a-personal-video/ (short)
http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/05/07/01/0353218.shtml (Linux related)

By: rcas

rcas — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:57:27 +0000

Could you provide a link David ? And pricing ?

By: David

David — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:16:51 +0000

As the problem seems to be the screen quality, do you think it would be a good idea to do a separate capture of the video feed that gets projected? I have seen some hardware DivX encoders that could do the job, and that don't cost that much. For distribution of tutorials, you have the perfect screen quality, and you can just add the voice-over. It should give much better video quality (directly from the computer) and it should render the file sizes smaller, as there will be less noize -> better compression.

By: Alabandit

Alabandit — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:15:39 +0000

i agree with stani, HD cams would be great but postporoduction will be a bit of an over kill.

Though for the ordiance unless you have some one running to the diferant speakers, a choir mic in the front or above the ordiances will be surficient.

By: Sago

Sago — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:45:15 +0000

Maybe I'll drop by, could be fun. Say hello to some fellow BlenderArtists. And perhaps I should make something to submit, could be fun. Ha.

By: Phreak Of Nature

Phreak Of Nature — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:28:54 +0000

I agree with most people but i also think that ton and othres at the blender foundation need to be better PROMOTING the conference because if we get enough attention then we could get somebody to sponser the video sesions, just like the big festivals does ,have a small five second video ad before the video starts …just my two cents

By: Dutchie

Dutchie — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:40:50 +0000

Bmud, I think you're a little confused. Legoland is in Denmark, not in the Netherlands ;)

By: konrad8ha

konrad8ha — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:56:40 +0000

Now that I am working on a real "Blender-Product" (TM), I'll absolutely do my best to attend the conference.