What a terrible experience!
To watch a keynote online because I was unable to go sounded like a great way to see his talk. How disappointed I was to see this guy speak to a bunch of slides and photos but not be able to see those slide and photos. This despite the entire point of the talk being about the customer experience.
While the videos were shown they were too dark!
Hey Mike,
I agree with you and therefore have hopefully gone someway to sorting it out.
I talked about some of the issues I had with this on the previous post http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2007/08/20/as-the-dust-settles.aspx.
Here are the two main issues IMO and what I have done to address them.
1) The capture that we received from the production company for the two feeds are crappy quality and used old quicktime codec's as they say you are only as good as your source.
2) I didn't test the Picture in Picture player that I posted properly so if one of the streams was to buffer the other one would get out of sink which is why I put this single stream version up as an interim solution.
What I have done.
Create one video that combines the powerpoint and the camera together in a single video (I'm still locked to the crappy original video quality but by using Adobe Premier at least we can combine the feeds), interlay the video that was played during the keynote full frame at a higher quality than the event capture, wrap the whole thing up with silverlight streaming so you can jump forward using chapters to the part of the stream that you wish to watch to save downloading the whole file. Then make the videos downloadable from the techedlive site for people that don't have (want) to install the silverlight player.
How we will stop this happening in the future. Choose a different company to capture the video during presentations, and test extensively beforehand to make sure they can capture what we want at a quality that is acceptable for online publication, you have probably noticed that the end of Lou's speech is captured from a secondary video camera pointing at the projector screen inside the venue... NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Test our delivery vehicle for buffering and slower connections.
The page has been updated now with the combined stream... http://www.microsoft.com/nz/teched07/live/knv1.aspx
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