We recently (Aug 12th) ran the first in a series of Backyard Soiree's
held in Brisbane at 53 Rusden St. Although these are not dedicated
live coding nights it turned out that our inaugural event featured
four solo live coding performances. Callum Hedemann, Andrew Brown,
Andrew Sorensen and Thorin Kerr each performed a 20 minute set. We
recorded all the performances including both screen casts and video
for all except Thorins set (which is audio and video but was not
screencast). You can find full recordings and excerpts on the
Impromptu gallery page. The downloadable movies are the original
screencasts with picture-in-picture using the hand-held video footage
mixed in post-production.
http://impromptu.moso.com.au/gallery.html
For those that are interested, we captured the screencasts using a
commodity home theatre dvd/hdd recorder. We sent composite from the
laptops to the recorder and then sent composite out of the recorder
and onto the projector. Audio came from the same headphone
distribution box that the audience used (backyard soiree's are
headphone gigs). Amazingly it all worked remarkably well and I can
recommend this as a cheap approach for others wanting to record
performances without extra processing load on the laptop. Composite
obviously doesn't give a great picture but given the ease and price of
this setup it's an option worth considering. The only slight problem
was syncing the hand-held video footage to the screencasts in "post-
production". I wanted to do a picture-in-picture style thing with
bit's of hand-held camera footage mixed onto the screencast. In the
end I decided not to worry to much about the hand-held video sync,
primarily because I'm lazy, but also because it is really only there
to provide some context for the screencast.
Cheers,
Andrew.S
p.s. Us Aussie's would love it if someone could record the Belfast
live coding night and post it online somewhere. Good luck to all
those performing!!!
Received on Sun Aug 17 2008 - 08:08:31 BST