Aw crud, I forgot tripods. GoPros don't work with standard tripods
without an adapter. So to have them work with the 2 full size tripods
we have, itcosts $6.99/piece to buy a4-pack of GoPro tripod adapters.
It's probably not going to make sense to rent more tripods as it's the
same or sometimes more expensive than owning, options I'm finding:
Table top option:
- $10 cheapy table-top tripod for gopro
http://a.co/i05gHWN
Full tripod option:
$15.75/camera
- $14 lightweight 50" tripod $14
http://a.co/gBSnW1T
- $1.75 1 of 4 tripod adapters in this kit
http://a.co/0H85uwt
So to update the previous cost estimate - assuming we want full tripods
everywhere and accounting for the 2 we have -
$70 - 5x tripods / $14/each
$14 - 8x gopro tripod adapters ($6.99 / 4pack)
$84 additional
New total: $705 (621+84) includes all shipping / insurance / etc
We probably want power strips / etc too but I have some I can bring from
the westford office I'm sure we'll figure that out.
~m
On 04/13/2017 09:47 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi,
On 04/12/2017 08:50 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Professional video support is very expensive, likely eating most of
> the additional budget we have allocated towards this year's Flock to
> record all the sessions that way. That's why the laptop and volunteer
> setup has been used in the past. We simply don't have budget to do it
> otherwise.
REQUIREMENTS
=============
First off - I don't know how many rooms we need concurrently (I believe
we have 7 reserved with the hotel) - but that is something we'd need to
know in order to price out options. I'll assume 7 (I believe we had 7 in
Krakow.)
EQUIPMENT
==========
Next - here is equipment I have available that I can loan to this effort
but may or may not be helpful:
- 1 Crown Sound Grabber Condenser Microphone (caveat, eats AA batteries)
/ Red Hat owned
- 4 Audio Technica ATR4650 Omni Condenser Computer Microphone (crappy
range, requires mic jack and most computers dont have one anymore) / Red
Hat owned
- 1 Canon full size basic tripod / Red Hat owned
- 1 basic full size tripod / personally owned
- 1 table tripod / personally owned
- 1 Canon DV recorder (requires DV tapes) / Red Hat owned
I think people are more likely to loan stuff that is less likely to get
broken or less expensive. E.g., I would be willing to record sessions
with my personal equipment (GoPro with ZoomH1 mic) but I am a little
worried about just loaning the setup to a room where I'm not present.
However, I'm cool loaning my tripods out (see above) and I have a Red
Hat one Denise gave me. So there, we have three tripods....
I have a set of 4 lapel mics we use for usability testing I can also
loan to the cause but I don't know how helpful they would be - they're
meant for in-front-of-the-computer recording and don't have great range.
This is the company we're likely going to be working with to do the
projectors / screens / etc. Note they rent other equipment too. They
rent mics and audio recorders. No video recorders, though. No camera
tripods either:
http://capeav.com
I'm thinking a low end Go-Pro might be the best option for recording:
- Ultra wide angle means speaker has to walk a lot farther to go off-camera
- Cheap (comparatively speaking)
- Caveat: the built in mics are notoriously horrible so we need external
mics for them. I have one of these and it works pretty good, they are
$20/piece -
http://a.co/f0DKldc
I've found at least a couple of places (
lensrentals.com,
borrowlenses.com,
oerentals.com) that charge between ~$30-50/7 days to
rent GoPros. So here's a little price quote for that:
$621 total (w / shipping)
- (rent) $32/7 days / 1 GoPro Hero4 Silver - $224
- (own) $14/purchase/ 7 ac adapters - $98 (rent/own same price)
- (rent) $22/7 days/5 32gb mem card pack * 2 - $44
- (own) $20 x 7 gopro mics - $140
- $60 optional damage insurance for rented equip
- $55 shipping
for 7 days for 7x cameras + 7x ac adapter (so we dont have to worry
about batteries dying) + 10x memory cards (with some to spare) + 7 mics.
We'd own 7 mics then (they're not just useful for gopro, might be useful
in later endeavors?) and 7 gopro ac adapters (I'd be willing to buy
personally and lend one to the cause, maybe others would too)
I own one of those mics and a gopro 4 (the black). In
non-conference-talk filming situations it's worked well. I could test
the setup ahead of time maybe at a random meeting in Westford to see how
well it might work before we invest in it. The thing that's nice about
the model above it is has the built-in screen for monitoring (not all
gopros do.)
MANPOWER
===========
In order to get volunteers that stick around / have some degree of
accountability, have we ever thought about tying a volunteer position
(e.g. monitoring X room for so many hours during the conference) to
funding? As far as I know, it's been speaking gig + blog to get funding.
It might be worth thinking about having more options? Maybe not even
requiring speaking, a staff level of funding?
Cheers,
~m
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