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Mark Schubin on “The Fandom of the Opera”

Mark Schubin discussed the intersection of TV technology and opera, and live broadcasting of the NYC Metropolitan Opera (Mark’s Emmy-winning day job), following the 2009 HPA Tech Retreat. By popular acclaim, he has posted his HPA presentation in PDF form (alternate link: http://data.memberclicks.com/site/hopa/2009_TR_Pres_Schubin_MetOpera.pdf), and a link to a SMPTE Toronto Section webcast of his very similar presentation last December.

The webcast is a WMV-format linked slideshow and video stream; it works fine in Windows. On Mac it doesn’t work at all in Safari 4 beta (at least on my PPC Mac; YMMV), while in Firefox the video opens up in a QuickTime Window (assuming you have the Flip4Mac WMV plugins), unlinked from the slideshow; best to download the HPA preso PDF and flip through it while Mark talks, or manually advance the slides on the website.

The webcast is an unedited meeting recording; Mark’s talk starts at the 21-minute mark. It’s worth the wait; Mark is an entertaining speaker, and the presentation is amusing, informative, and at times terrifying: you’ll never feel justified complaining about technical hurdles or short turnarounds on your live broadcasts ever again, after seeing what Mark & Co. go through on a weekly basis.

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All,

To view the Toronto Section Webcast of Marks Presentation do as follows;

1. You are best to use Internet Explorer on a standard Windows Computer.

2. On my windows computer the link above starts the presentation at the appropriate point.

3. If it does not start at the appropriate point you can always try.

a) Selecting the slide tab.
b) in the slide window under the stream window scroll to slide four and click on it. It might advance the stream to the starting point.

4. In case you can use a slider bar to get to the presentation the presentation starts at 28 min 33 seconds into the stream.

5. You can print the slide show out using the print tab

6. Clicking the image brings it up full screen.

Enjoy

....brad….

Posted by Brad Fortner  on  03/15  at  07:13 PM

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Thanks for the detailed info, Brad, and thanks for hosting the presentation webcast.

PVC’s readership isn’t typical of the wider world, but as a production/creative oriented website it’s interesting to note that the Mac/Windows balance in our weblogs (for March ‘09, so far) is 54.4% Mac, 36.3% Windows. Safari has 36.2% of the browser share; Firefox 34.5%; IE 17.3%. Thus I thought it best to go into some detail for the non-Windows, non-IE readers, as they are the majority ‘round these parts.

Posted by Adam Wilt  on  03/16  at  01:03 AM

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Adam,

Understood on the mix and its not surprising. The technology used to record these meetings has been designed to sync the slideshows to the speaker. It only requires a PC laptop and firewire camera to operate. We use it here in Toronto because it sets up quickly and its a no brainer in the SMPTE volunteer environment.

....brad….

Posted by Brad Fortner  on  03/16  at  06:18 AM

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