Sometimes, when we’re on the ball, we’ll meet and discuss ideas for the upcoming show as well as discuss technical production concerns. I’ve been working on a new integrated chat and video page. I tried a couple of 2-column CSS … Continue reading
As I mentioned before, for music and sound effects we just play them through USB-connected PC speakers and let the microphone pick it up. These are Sean’s fancy speakers with infrared remote and a subwoofer. I usually adjust the volume … Continue reading
When I found out Expression Encoder could put captions on live broadcasts, I got excited. Unfortunately it is not what I thought. It does not overlay text onto the video, but instead sends the caption in a separate caption stream, … Continue reading
My first show-related post, production notes for the 2011-12-16 show. First I want to talk about recent changes and last week’s show. We’re recently clamping one or two of the webcams to tripods, which gives us a lot of flexibility … Continue reading
So please allow myself (IT Know-It-All) to introduce myself (midnightFreddie) as our new blogger! Why, thank you, me! We are currently using Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 to produce and record the live video. This allows us to switch between multiple … Continue reading
I am going to blog about the technical production of the weekly live webcast DBAs@Midnight, but I will be posting as midnightFreddie, the nickname and Twitter handle I adopted when joining the show. The name is based on Freddy from iCarly. Freddy … Continue reading
