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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/1/12 5:42 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 19:35:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-11-01 20:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Hoping is good, making it happen is even better. Does anyone have the
>>> equipment and expertise to help with video recording?
>>
>> Funny thing. Most video clips from conferences I've seen are fairly
>> poor quality. I don't know if it's the recording or the compression
>> after it been uploaded. But these days many phones have pretty good
>> cameras, like 1080p.
>
> I have some expertise & some equipment; But I plan on getting more
> shortly anyways (and could run it too).
>
> Something to consider is encoding the videos and could ship them on
> dvd/blueray. Hmmm, with dvd it would have to be avi/mkv's while on
> blueray if the options allow could use the player rather than having a
> computer file format, then it's only a matter of time before I can have
> them all burned.
>
> On the other hand, if we have something like 1000 people wanting discs,
> it might be possible to have them made once we make the original (course
> the minimum may be 50,000 which wouldn't be an option at this time).
>
> But if we consider almost everyone has the internet and youtube is
> available and allows HD and long submissions for this type of stuff that
> quickly seems like a silly option.

If we're to film the conference, we'll make it available online for 
free. No disks, no DRM, no red tape - that's for sure.

The advantage of paying to be at the conference is, well, being there, 
and also the timeliness (we may upload the videos later, which is common 
practice).

Do you plan to be there? If we can count on you taking care of 
reasonable-quality recordings, please let me know.


Andrei