Recording Setups?

[Simmon Li]

Hey folks,

I've had a request from a speaker to record our talk. Any tips on how to get this done? I have access to an A6000 and I think I could probably get it going.

Not currently interested in live streaming it, but would love to hear about options if any other organizers have done it before!

Thanks,

Simmon

[Alan Ridlehoover]

An iPhone on a tripod, with a ring light, and a Bluetooth lavaliere microphone, like this one: 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XXSK29P

I’ve used this setup for recording an interview. Worked great. 

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[Murray Steele]

Hi Simmon,

It’s far from ideal, but we’ve had decent mileage by using zoom to capture “free” recordings of the talks.  Usually we run a zoom call, have the speaker’s laptop join it, share screen to zoom and we record that to the cloud.  We can get some kind of speaker view from the presenters laptop camera; as long as they’re standing in front of their laptop for most of the talk it’s ok.  We have tried using a 2nd laptop with the camera pointed at the speaker on a wider angle if they’re moving around, again, with reasonable success.  We usually use the same 2nd laptop as the mic as a laptop mic does an ok job of capturing the speaker particuarly, if it’s pointed at them.  You can use video or audio software to clean up / boost the audio after the fact too.

As we tour around venues we have to deal with a mix of different camera + audio setups depending on where we are.  Some companioes have gone full zoom room that we can make use of, some companies have nothing, some have mics + PAs but no way to link our zoom recording laptops to it so we just put the 2nd laptop near the PA.

You could check out our most recently edited meeting videos for an example of the kind of thing this generates: https://lrug.org/meetings/2023/november/, and, if you’re interested, read our notes on how to cut the videos together on https://readme.lrug.org/organising/video-editing.

Keen to know if anyone else has tried this, or got better tips.  None of us are AV experts so we’re just muddling through.

Cheers,

Murray

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[Eric A]

On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 5:35:00 PM UTC-5 Murry wrote:

It’s far from ideal, but we’ve had decent mileage by using zoom to capture “free” recordings of the talks.  Usually we run a zoom call, have the speaker’s laptop join it, share screen to zoom and we record that to the cloud.

We do something similar for our local Linux user's group but with Jitsi.  It's free to use, open source (so you can even self-host if you want) and it has a live stream to YouTube feature. The other advantage to this is people who can't make it in person can possibly remote in (either watch the YouTube stream or connect directly to Jitsi). It's not "professional" but it gets the job done. For examples of the final product see the UCLUG's playlist on YouTube.

Eric