I second dvswitch, my friend at <a href="http://www.nextdayvideo.com">http://www.nextdayvideo.com</a> uses it to record presentation videos for events big and small and gets large numbers of videos published in a short amount of time. <a href="http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/">http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/</a> You can see more of what the end product looks like at <a href="http://carlfk.blip.tv/">http://carlfk.blip.tv/</a><div>
<br></div><div>Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Hans Fraiponts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fraiponts@gmail.com">fraiponts@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 14:07, webmind <<a href="mailto:webmind@puscii.nl">webmind@puscii.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2011-02-12 13:41, Hans Fraiponts wrote:<br>
>> Hi, for my local hackerspace I'd like to record talks.<br>
>> I have a few usb webcams, a microphone and a computer.<br>
>> I'd like to be able to switch between cams, set the audio to<br>
>> microphone and I'd like the output to be recorded to harddrive.<br>
>> Just like the professionals ;-)<br>
>> Does anyone know an open source toolchain that would allow me to do so?<br>
>><br>
>> If not how do you handle recordings in your space?<br>
><br>
> Last time I did recording I had 2 dvcams connected to each a machine<br>
> with firewire. I mixed the streams with dvswitch, a nice opensource tool<br>
> for doing basic live video mixing from DV streams. It can do DV over<br>
> network, playout from file or grab it from screens or webcams. Worked<br>
> quite well. For audio I used to build-in mics, but I've also used the<br>
> sennheisser wireless mic setups which do improve the sound, but a good<br>
> directional mic should work quite fine if the distance isn't so much,<br>
> for larger spaces you'd want a mic at the speaker, but the you probably<br>
> have a PA already and can just plug this into the cam or mix it in,<br>
> although I don't think dvswitch as an option for doing this later.<br>
<br>
</div>Thx! Will look into that.<br>
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