[amsat-bb] New Symposium Livestream Link

[Jim White]

Thanks for the effort Paul.

Jim

On 10/18/2019 10:25 AM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
> This is a very amateur setup. It’s my iPad on a tripod.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no way of wiring in direct audio from the podium 
> or moving a speaker.
>
> For future Symposia, we will put an adequate streaming solution into 
> the checklist documents.
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:07 John Brier via AMSAT-BB 
> <amsat-bb at amsat.org <mailto:amsat-bb at amsat.org>> wrote:
>
>     I could hear them.
>
>     Obviously the camera is using an internal mic and not connected to
>     the PA
>     system at all. I believe previous symposium streams used a phone
>     held in
>     the hand. At least it is stationary now!
>
>     Maybe next time audio can be fed into the camera directly, or at
>     the very
>     least it will be closer to a speaker.
>
>     For the ARISS contact we did a while back we set a laptop on a
>     chair and
>     used its built in webcam and I wired a Bluetooth speaker into the
>     mixing
>     board and stuck it next to the laptop's internal mic. It was ugly
>     but it
>     worked fine.
>
>     Perhaps someone can wire a Bluetooth speaker next to the
>     camera/phone for
>     the symposium.
>
>     At a documentary video workshop I did they said audio is the most
>     important
>     part about video. If you have crappy video you can at least call it
>     artistic but if you don't have audio you have nothing!
>
>     Since then I have always tried to have good audio in all my video.
>     Low/bad
>     audio is the first sign of amateur video because it's so easy to
>     forget as
>     you can't tell it is bad at the time, though you can tell if the
>     picture is
>     bad as soon as you look at the LCD or viewfinder.
>
>     73, John Brier KG4AKV
>
>
>     On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 11:44 Jim White via AMSAT-BB
>     <amsat-bb at amsat.org <mailto:amsat-bb at amsat.org>>
>     wrote:
>
>     > Thanks for the streaming.  I was on at the start. Unfortunately it's
>     > impossible to hear the speakers.
>     >
>     > Jim
>     >
>     > On 10/18/2019 9:12 AM, Paul Stoetzer via AMSAT-BB wrote:
>     > > ‪This morning’s session of the 2019 AMSAT Symposium is now live at
>     > > https://www.facebook.com/AMSATNA/videos/437822883756835?sfns=mo‬
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