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Thank you, Detcon 1!
May. 26th, 2015 06:34 pmWe were very grateful to receive a grant from Detcon 1 (Detroit NASFiC) to cover a bit more than half the cost of a "proxy card" that allows the new camera* to simultaneously shoot a lower-resolution version (relatively speaking, given that the main copies are professional broadcast quality) MP4 simultaneously with the main higher-resolution MXF versions of the recordings. With that grant, Lisa told me to go ahead and tap her savings for the rest, rather than run a crowd-funding campaign for the remaining $300 it cost us out of pocket.
Lisa suggests that people who want to thank her in the future buy us dinner, rather than donate money directly. She was very uneasy with taking direct contributions. It made her feel like the people donating would "own" her stuff, and that makes it hard for her to concentrate and to have fun doing these projects for the good of Worldcon, Westercon, and fandom in general.
( In the Cards )
We'll be taking the camera to Spokane with us when we leave (late tomorrow afternoon, as we're taking two nights to make the drive) so that Lisa can (assuming we can get access) shoot footage in the actual room in which we're scheduled to hold the WSFS Business Meeting during Sasquan.
*Recap: The new camera, a professional-grade Panasonic P2 series camera, shoots in a format called MXF, and keeps the audio and video files separately. While there are plenty of MXF conversion programs out there, none of them except the very expensive Adobe Premier Pro can spot the separate A/V files and simultaneously convert and combine them, then produce an MP4 suitable for uploading to YouTube. Before you offer your opinion on this, please read all of the posts I've already made on this subject and make sure you're not just repeating something someone said back there. Hint: a simple search for "MXF conversion" will not give you the answer we're looking for. I know this sounds snarky, but otherwise well-meaning people are telling us lots of things we've already tried.
Lisa suggests that people who want to thank her in the future buy us dinner, rather than donate money directly. She was very uneasy with taking direct contributions. It made her feel like the people donating would "own" her stuff, and that makes it hard for her to concentrate and to have fun doing these projects for the good of Worldcon, Westercon, and fandom in general.
( In the Cards )
We'll be taking the camera to Spokane with us when we leave (late tomorrow afternoon, as we're taking two nights to make the drive) so that Lisa can (assuming we can get access) shoot footage in the actual room in which we're scheduled to hold the WSFS Business Meeting during Sasquan.
*Recap: The new camera, a professional-grade Panasonic P2 series camera, shoots in a format called MXF, and keeps the audio and video files separately. While there are plenty of MXF conversion programs out there, none of them except the very expensive Adobe Premier Pro can spot the separate A/V files and simultaneously convert and combine them, then produce an MP4 suitable for uploading to YouTube. Before you offer your opinion on this, please read all of the posts I've already made on this subject and make sure you're not just repeating something someone said back there. Hint: a simple search for "MXF conversion" will not give you the answer we're looking for. I know this sounds snarky, but otherwise well-meaning people are telling us lots of things we've already tried.
