You need the bandwidth…
right, but it’s a bit like going to a cinema forum and ask customers to stream the latest film because you can’t go…
Since everyone in that room is gonna be with their laptop, and i’m guessing there is a 99% probability that the room has wifi, it really doesn’t seem far-fetched for one person (hopefully in the front row) to turn their laptop around, use the built-in camera and stream live to YouTube so the rest of us who can’t attend can still watch and learn.
So charge a remote admission fee? This isn’t hard or complicated… You guys put the videos up on youtube anyway a few days after the event…
This isn’t hard or complicated…
Famous last words 
Seriously, I’m sorry you can’t attend and I hear you. We’ll consider doing this as soon as we have some bandwidth, but it’s unlikely to be done this year.
Good - its disappointing that we’ve lost a few of the talks from last year. The decision to go to one talk or another is often based on “well I’ll at least be able to watch it later”…
lol the venue must have terrible WiFi… It’s pretty painless to use apps like Screenflow to capture video from a camera plugged into a laptop. Heck, even quicktime is FREE and comes with the laptops. Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 is like $60 and captures pretty amazing footage if the lighting doesn’t suck.
Here’s a clip starting at 4:07 showing the audio and video quality.
There’s really no excuse other than “we just don’t want to do this”
yes, we’re sorry about that and are getting a better video crew this year. Last year, an entire day of one track was lost as the video crew forgot to capture the slides.
I’m amazed by the fact that people think this is that simple. No, it’s not. You need cameramen, you need a producer, you need high quality cameras…
Otherwise, you get a crappy video, with lots of noise, fuzzy images…
um, you need one camera fixed on the podium and projector screen, and that’s it. They do this at my church gigs to broadcast the services online in 1080p HD. there’s no video team either, just a guy that sets up the camera and runs OBS to stream it.
And then, you see that the guy is getting regularly out of the frame.
Yes, you can do that for simple presentation when you don’t expect much of the quality.
Do we really care about seeing the guy at the podium talking? Or do we just want to see their slides and hear their voice?
So, just aim the camera at the projector screen and capture audio from the podium mic.
I do. And lots of people do. If you don’t, fine.
Hah nobody wants to see/hear a crappy muffled version from a phone recording ffs. You can’t wait a few weeks for the properly recorded one? What difference does it make…
iphone recordings are pretty good sounding!