Tuesday, August 18, 2009

PSY 2009 videos now available online

On June, we held the 1st International Workshop on Practical Synthesis for Concurrent Systems (PSY 2009). In this workshop, we experimented with recording all the talks with a Vado HD (recommended by our gadget-guru Noam Rinetzky). The results are definitely far from a professional-level recording, but the cost of the entire setup was only a few hundred bucks.

The resulting videos are available here.

I think that the main lesson from these videos is to get a better tripod, preferably one with a bubble level.

The exact setup used for producing these videos:

Creative Vado HD 720p Camcorder with 8 GB and 2x Digital Zoom
Creative Labs Battery Charger for Vado and Vado HD Camcorders
Creative Labs Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery for Vado HD Camcorder
Digipower TP-S010 flexible and sturdy ultra compact Mini Tripod
Handbrake video transcoder (thanks to Yoad for the reference)
Quicktime Pro for editing the videos (yes, you will have to edit the videos)
Vimeo Plus for hosting the videos

Total cost: ~$300 including 1yr of plus membership on Vimeo