Posted by Kaveh on 09/14/05 08:55

nobody special <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote:

> Scan converters cost as little as 99 dollars for the Averkey imicro,
> all the way up to 6,7,8 thousand bucks and more, depending on features
> and ho persnickety your quality needs are, and most all of them are
> platform-agnostic. You put this piece of gear in between the laptops
> and the input of the projector, just like it's a VGA cable. Nobody
> needs to add anything to their computer, no software, do drivers,
> nothing... mac, PC, Linux, don't matter... they just plug into this
> box, which passes the signals on thru to the projector, and off the
> side of the box you get composite, component, s-video, digital video...
> whatever level of output you are willing to pay for, real time,
> WYSIWYG. Your delay between laptops and the presentations is only the
> same amount of delay as if they were all lined up to hook into the
> projector one at a time., and usually they take afew minutes' break
> between speakers anyhow. You can feed any kind of recorder you want
> with this signal, run a separate audio-in from the Pa system to capture
> the speaker's audio as voice-over. later, you can edit this and mix in
> footage of the speakers taken with a camera on close-up, if you want to
> improve the look.

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Well, this is exactly what I am looking for. Now it comes down to the
different quality and specs of the units. Thanks for all this great
detail.

Again, at the risk of advertising my ignorance...

Suppose I make this recording onto a DVD, DV or whatever. So I have 2
hours' worth of material. Obviously I have to chop this up into say 1/2
hour chunks for each speaker, then combine on the computer with the
speaker audio, video, etc.

The big question I have is: if I synchronize the beginning of the chunk
with the audio, which has been recorded separately, will it still be in
synch by the end of the 1/2 hour? In the old analogue days you could not
count on this, but can we count on this if everything is digital?


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Kaveh

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