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--- Forwarded Message from "Steve & Laura Spinella" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Reply-To: "Steve & Laura Spinella" <[log in to unmask]>
>From: "Steve & Laura Spinella" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8247.1 (!) Video Camera to Net Solutions?
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:03:11 +0800
>Organization: Center for Counseling & Growth

Since mini-DV tapes generally transfer to hard disk in real time, there are 
many camcorders coming on market that record direct to mini-dvd disks, which 
can be read much faster onto hard drives.

Steve [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LLTI-Editor" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: #8247.1 (!) Video Camera to Net Solutions?


> --- Forwarded Message from Jim Duber <[log in to unmask]> ---
>
>>Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 00:47:48 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: Jim Duber <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: #8247 Video Camera to Net Solutions?
>>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>References: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Joseph,
>
> I've got quite a bit of experience with Flash Media Server development and
> just wanted to point out that a quick and easy solution for what you
> describe might be to just use the VTR mode (i.e., playback mode) of your
> Mini-DV video cameras instead of the recording mode. So, you can still
> shoot with your Mini-DV cameras and then when recording to your Flash
> interface, just put the camera in VTR mode, rewind the tape to where you
> want to begin, press "Record" on your Flash interface and "Play" on the
> camera and your recording will be grabbed on the server just as if it were
> live. You will probably want to optimize the recording settings on the FMS
> server side for this purpose. Here's a short article on that topic:
>
> <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_live.html>
>
> Also, if I recall correctly, there might be a problem with this method
> when grabbing audio and video from a Windows-based PC. (At least with
> Flash player 6 there was. Macs don't have this problem and it may have
> been fixed with the release of Flash players 7 and 8.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, LLTI-Editor wrote:
>
>> --- Forwarded Message from Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]> ---
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:24:33 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: LLTI-List <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Video Camera to Net Solutions?
>>
>>
>> Hello all.  I am about to spend a chunk of money and wanted to know how
>> you are getting digital video of student performances to the web.  We are
>> working on a Flash Media Server approach, but also want to be able to
>> capture video from a Mini-DV style video camera and get it on the web 
>> very
>> quickly.  One approach we like is to capture directly to QT 7, save it in
>> a watched-by-Sorenson-Squeeze-folder that compresses the files and sends
>> them to a webserver.  This seems a little complicated.  Getting to my
>> question- Do any of you have experience with video cams with harddrives?
>> Is there a large flash media solution?  We need to essentially digitally
>> replicate the reliability and ease of shooting video with a vhs cam and
>> then handing it to the student.  I am working on a basic 
>> workflow/hardware
>> plan here sans the security/networking nitty gritty.  Bob Majors could
>> write a book about this stuff.  Any experience-based advice appreciated.
>> Joseph
>>
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>> Joseph Kautz
>> Academic Technology Specialist - Stanford Language Center
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