tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90219223414408313822024-03-13T09:19:17.893-07:00What's Tom Doing?Tom Bray's postings of the various interesting projects he works on at the University of Michigan. I started it to help my new colleagues at the Library better understand what I do.Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-87069234330462701552022-08-10T10:06:00.001-07:002022-08-10T10:06:45.478-07:00minidv capture ffmpeg <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Tom Bray <<a href="mailto:tbray@umich.edu" class="">tbray@umich.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">mindv ffmpeg capture preserve blog leolabs</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">March 5, 2022 at 5:45:09 PM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Tom Bray <<a href="mailto:tbray@umich.edu" class="">tbray@umich.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://leolabs.org/blog/capture-minidv-on-macos" class="">https://leolabs.org/blog/capture-minidv-on-macos</a><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Tom Bray</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Converging Technologies Consultant</font></div><div class=""><a href="http://rebrand.ly/Zoom5Tips" target="_blank" class="">rebrand.ly/Zoom5Tips</a></div><div class=""><i class="">Share this link!</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class="">Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-62095324708674913322021-03-23T15:43:00.004-07:002021-03-23T16:01:47.731-07:002021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival<p> Once more into the breach.....</p><p>This is our second year as a virtual festival. We had more time to plan this one - last year we had 10 days - but in some ways I think last year was easier.</p><p>I must give a shout out to all the Festival Staff - especially Angela! - who all worked really hard to make this happen. An amazing group to work with, and all of them are really a lot of fun. </p><p>Thanks, folks.</p><p>And also a big hand to the board of Directors who stood behind us again this year as we moved through uncharted waters. Without their support & expertise this Festival would be a very different animal. </p><p>Thanks, folks.</p><p>First, you have to understand that normally I touch every digital file and put a lot of effort into making the screening playback a nicely curated experience in the theaters. I pay attention to the timing between the films and the program slides, and take care to get the audio levels across a screening are within a reasonable range. Sometimes I have to add a fade in or fade out, but never without consulting the filmmaker. I see my job as putting the best possible version of your films onto the screen for our audiences - as well as dealing with all the performance and installation projects.</p><p>Last year was a lot like being in the theater: instead of playing back files from a computer to a *projector*, I was playing them back into another *computer* that was sending out the program to Vimeo who was hosting the stream. I still had all the files right in front of me so I could do all the curation I normally do for the Fest. If you haven't seen it, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/19NUARUf4aiadsCauG4TISswCU6Xa7iMjMPMYL5vDwQo/edit" target="_blank">here is my writeup after last year.</a></p><p>This is my workspace for this year - my 'living at work' desk...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iwcQK9LqdfE/YFpukajN3yI/AAAAAAABMrw/rhf4YNq8pjA6uPaSGabWPs7jBECwt4oGACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6579.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iwcQK9LqdfE/YFpukajN3yI/AAAAAAABMrw/rhf4YNq8pjA6uPaSGabWPs7jBECwt4oGACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_6579.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">This year was different. All the files were delivered into the cloud so I never touched most of them. We used both Cinesend and Eventive because we were told they would talk to each other and transfer files for us in the cloud. If you are a filmmaker reading this, that' why we asked you to send your films to Cinesend. That turned out to be wrong, so files were downloaded and uploaded manually. I didn't know about that until it was done, so I missed the opportunity to finesse the screenings the way I would usually have done.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">One other tech detail is the Zoom thing. Last year I had some control over the level and tonal qualities of the audio, which helped. It was a combination of being there in advance of airing the Q&A and being able to 'tweak' it as it passed through the laptop feeding Vimeo. This year it is a straight hookup from Zoom to Eventive so we have to depend on what Zoom can do, which is actually pretty good.for audi leveling.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">And we can't put up nice graphics between things as easily as we could last year. I did make a little bumper to lead into the Q&A, nicely outfitted with a bit of audio from Mark Murrell aka Ed Special.</span></div><p></p><p>And as you have noticed (if you are reading this), the Eventive platform adds its own charm to the viewing process (those three boxes are our pets!").</p><p>At least they finally fixed - <i>literally 2 hours before our first screening</i> - the glitch they had where the "Forensic Watermark" screen was showing up in between each and every file that played back. That would have been an awful viewing experience, so THANKS EVENTIVE ENGINEERS!</p><p>And I know that those of you used to just showing your pass at the theater are finding the process of having to individually sign up for each screening a bit repetitive. But that's how Eventive works. They are known for is their ticketing Kung Fu, and are getting better at the whole streaming thing now that pretty much every film festival in the USA is using their platform. but they still have a few things to figure out.</p><p>Anyway, enjoy this years AAFF. We all learned a lot about these online platforms, and we all think there are elements of the virtual we will keep when we get back to the theater.</p><p>But we just can't find a virtual replacement for the Michigan Theater's concession stand...</p>Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-84714142552943467482020-03-29T07:47:00.000-07:002020-04-19T12:50:03.178-07:00Streaming the 58th Ann Arbor Film FestivalGreetings.<br />
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Hope you find this interesting. Among the other things I do, I am the Tech Director for the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF). Since we could not do the Fest in person this year, we made the decision to live stream it all about 10 days before it started. It started on Tuesday March 24.</div>
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The process of figuring the tech out started on Saturday. the 14th. A lot of that was trying different ideas and seeing how they worked. We paid a lot of money to Vimeo to be able to do the live streaming and get strong support. I have since learned that you can do the same streaming using the Premium version, which is about $900 for one year. But you don't get the same level of support, and we needed it. We were writing the playbook, and you can benefit from what we learned with the expensive level of support. Check with Vimeo.</div>
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Now that I have actually built all the program show files, I have time to do stuff like this. This is just to give you an idea of what my life has been like these days, taking the AAFF live-streaming online.<br />
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These photos show my "office" and my "desk":</div>
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Looking at the photo below, the laptop on the left is what I used to generate the stream, using software that acts like a TV control room (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://livestream.com/studio/&source=gmail&ust=1585576283938000&usg=AFQjCNEo8bDeelBe63Tfvl33KuAjM0AfVA" href="https://livestream.com/studio/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Livestream Studio 6</a>). Everything comes into that gets mixed/chosen, and it outputs the live stream to the Vimeo site.</div>
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The laptop on the right is what I used to join each Q&A session so I can put it on the stream. It looks like a camera input to the streaming software.</div>
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The iMac on the right is playing back the video files that make up each program. The one on the left is our backup, and what I used to build the rest of the Fest once we started.<br />
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A computer plays back the files that make up a program, or collection of movies and interstitial bits like program listings, slide shows about upcoming screenings, etc.</div>
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Another computer joins the Zoom meetings for each Q&A session that happen immediately after each program. Participants include as many filmmakers as can join, a moderator that handles the questions - both prepared and live from the audience via a chat window on the Vimeo site - and someone from the festival staff that fields those live questions and puts them into the Zoom chat window for the moderator to read.</div>
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It turned out that the file I had for a 40 minute movie was corrupted, and stopped playback around 6 minutes in. So I had to scramble to get a link from a site from where I could stream it. I connected to that site on the backup iMac, went fullscreen with it, and then switched to that input on the laptop generating the stream. The whole emergency switchover took about a minute, and I was able t start the replacement playback at the same time the original had failed. Viewers had no idea what had happened - they just thought it was a normal glitch that happens in the live festival event.</div>
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This is a pic of what the Q&A looks like, along with a large monitor in the background that I use to monitor the live stream. You can also have a closer view of the software I used to generate the stream. If you look closely you can see the little tiles that represent all the possible inputs to the stream.</div>
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I have to be part of every Q&A Zoom meeting so I can bring it into the live stream, but I turn off my sound and image. You can see me listed as "Tom Bray Tech Director" in the middle of the top row. When you turn off your video in Zoom you just show up as your name like that.<br />
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Most of the work up to Saturday had been building the rest of the shows. We moved into our undisclosed location with just the first day ready to go, so since then I was building the rest of the Fest show files as we are streaming. Kind of like crossing a bridge while the construction crew is just ahead, still working to get to the other side...Also very much like being a filmmaker, producer, VJ, DJ, and Tech Sergeant Chen all at once.</div>
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Thursday Sept. 12, 2019 was the first penny Stamps lecture of the Fall term. Speaking were the founding members of the <a href="https://www.cyborgfoundation.com/">Cyborg Foundation</a>: Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson.<br />
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Chrisstina Hamilton contacted me in the last week of August to ask if I could help them arrange a way top present Neil remotely in a fully professional way. I worked with Andre Grewe of Stamps to put it all together.<br />
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I brought our DMC streaming kit to the mix which allowed me to use the Presentation laptop from the stage and the Video Conferencing laptop backstage as inputs to Wirecast. I was then able to switch between them, and even make a Picture-in-Picture output combining Neil and his presentation images. And the output of my computer was then sent to the video crew that was capturing the event and to the Michigan Theater projection system.<br />
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I also used our camera to feed a view of the stage back to Neil. it was getting audio from the house mix so the stave mics and audio from the presentations could be heard clearly in Switzerland.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moon and Adam during setup. You can't see it, but the VC camera is off to the left.</td></tr>
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The BlueJeans video conference was all done over the Michigan Theater's wifi network, and it all worked almost flawlessly. There was an occasional glitch in the VC image, but Neil's voice never dropped out. We were prepared to "throw an ethernet cable" over to Lane Hall if needed, but we were good.<br />
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For about the past decade, Moon and Neil have been putting sensors of various sorts into their bodies in order to become Cyborgs. For example, Moon seems to be very interested in earthquakes. Among other things, she had sensors surgically implanted into her feet that would vibrate any time there was an earthquake anywhere on the planet.<br />
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She also had an interesting story about how she and Neil had a prosthetic tooth put into a gap they each had in their mouth. They could send a click to each other by pressing on it with their teeth. This photo shows them on a table with their backs to each other communicating by morse code. And the teeth used Bluetooth to communicate: it was a Bluetooth tooth...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bluetooth tooth demo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installation of Moon's earthquake sensors. </td></tr>
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Neil has an antenna surgically attached to the back of his head. It curves up over his forehead. He is color blind and he uses this antenna to sense different colors and then produce a musical note. So when he hears a G he knows the color is yellow, etc.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Neil's antenna seen from the Wirecast screen.</td></tr>
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And it took some doing, but Neil actually has his UK passport photo showing him with his antenna.<br />
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Their talk started with a bass drum piece whose score was written by the number and intensity of earthquakes around the world from 1976 to 2019. Each year got 10 seconds.<br />
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Moon gave her presentation while Neil was watching via BJ.<br />
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Of course, he could not resist taking a few photos with his phone - but I was the only one that saw it since he was not yet "live".<br />
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Then she introduced Neil and she ran his presentation locally while he spoke from Switzerland.<br />
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The best part, though, was when their colleague Adam came out with *his* antenna, and he and Neil connected them across the Atlantic to share information. Adam first pointed his antenna to a variety of colored objects and then Neil would tell us what color they were. This was all the more impressive because Moon forgot to move the camera so Neil could see at which object Adam was pointing his antenna.<br />
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And the Grand Finale was when Adam went out into the audience and "read" the faces of some people. Neil then recorded what he was hearing from his antenna and played the notes back to us. A fine time was had by all.<br />
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That's it for now - and until next time, have a good time!Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-60384436632374537652019-07-12T09:08:00.000-07:002019-10-22T12:52:29.857-07:002019-07-18: Treetown Murals Projection downtown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Mary Thiefels and her husband Danijel Matanic are the partners of Treetown Murals. And this past July, they once again enlisted me and Marin Thoburn to assist them in starting a new mural. Martin & I had done this for them before when they painted the McKinley building mural on N. Main St.</div>
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McKinley photo here<br />
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We used a projector and a digital file of their artwork to project onto the wall where the mural would be. This is the finished mural:<br />
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Working at night, they then painted the outline of their artwork so they could fill it in during successive daylight hours. As Mary put it: when we were done, they had a giant page from a coloring book.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "coloring book" finished outline.</td></tr>
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This wall was a bigger challenge than the first time - literally and metaphorically. It was 10 stories tall, and we needed to get onto the roof of the bank across the parking lot.<br />
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Some views of and from the roof.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeri Hollister & Tom Bray on the roof.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Bray & Martin Thoburn on the roof.</td></tr>
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The projector setup was interesting. We had to do the projection in 3 setups, for the bottom, center, and top parts. The bottom required that the projector be turned upside down so the projected output would reach the bottom. The center and top parts were with the projector right side up.</div>
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We had wood barriers and clamps used at the front or the rear of the table, depending on how the projector was tilted.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wood placed at the front to raise it, and a barrier at the rear to keep it from slipping off the table.</td></tr>
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We had a laptop with the full color graphic and several layers we used to align the projection correctly each time.</div>
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-16867313410523835322019-05-28T05:15:00.001-07:002021-09-22T12:46:43.405-07:002019: The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin part 1In May 2019 I helped create and install a groundbreaking exhibit at the Uganda National Museum: “The Hidden Archive of Idi Amin: photographs from the UBC”. This exhibit is mostly photos, but it also has about 30 minutes of time-based material from digitized films and audio tapes.<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/o1q8_I5DJqE" target="">Here is a short video</a> we made at the museum that helps to explain this exhibit.<br />
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This trip and the exhibit that we installed was the culmination of over 2 years of work. It started with <a href="http://whatstomdoing.blogspot.com/2018/04/uganda-scanning-setup-2018.html" target="_blank">my first trip to Uganda</a> at the behest of Dr. Derek Peterson, a UM Professor of History that does his research in Uganda, to visit the UBC (Uganda Broadcasting Corporation) and discuss their options for digitizing their extensive U-Matic videotape library. That project may never happen for a bunch of reasons, but I remain hopeful.<br />
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On that trip, Derek and I discovered a large filing cabinet filled with thousands of 2¼ square B&W film negatives of Idi Amin’s official photographer(s). </div>
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On our return, we found a relatively small amount of funding for me to buy and set up a film digitizing system (laptop, scanner, archival supplies) and <a href="http://whatstomdoing.blogspot.com/2018/04/uganda-scanning-setup-2018.html">go back to Uganda for a week</a> to set it up and train 2 grad students from Makerere University, Jimmy Kikwata and Edmond Mulindawa, to do the work. The project was to be supervised on-site by Edgar Taylor, a former Ph.D. student of Derek’s who has deep knowledge of Ugandan history and politics. Over about the next about 8 months, they cataloged over 70,000 negatives and digitized over 25,000. Photo of the setup below.</div>
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Meanwhile, 6 reels of 16mm film were found by Jacob Noowe and Malachi Kabaale who work with us as our UBC colleagues. Edgar was returning to the USA in August 2018 and we got permission from UBC Managing Director Winston Agabe for Edgar to bring them to UM so we could have them restored and digitized at Colorlabs in Maryland. They arrived in Ann Arbor at the end of August 2018 and went to Colorlabs on Sept. 27th.</div>
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Then in April our colleague Richard Vokes from the University of Western Australia had arranged for a shipment to UM of about 60 reels of ¼” audio tape of radio speeches by Idi Amin. I supervised Mark Murrell - one of the few people other than me in Ann Arbor with significant experience with ¼” tape - in the digitizing, right here in the Duderstadt Center. It took about a month. All of them were baked first but only three were too far gone for playback.</div>
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We got the low-resolution film scans on December 27th, 2018, and the final high-resolution sections on May 9th. I was to leave for Uganda on May 12th, so I had to work quickly to assemble the video and audio files for the exhibit. Fortunately, Derek had put together a paper edit based on the timing of the low-resolution scans and audio files so it was mostly replacing low-res with high-res and tweaking the edit.</div>
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All these media resources became the source material for the exhibit that was installed on this trip.<br />
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My role leading up to the installation was to organize all the digitizing of the various media, edit together the media reel that is part of the show, and design the AV systems to be used for playback in the Uganda National Museum. Here is the floor plan of the exhibit, rotated so I could make it bigger.<br />
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And <a href="https://youtu.be/DQzP3um3p5U" target="_blank">here is a walkthrough</a> I made with my iPhone which gives you an idea of how the floor plan worked out in real space-time:<br />
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It was about 2 months before I left that I was asked to come to Uganda and supervise the AV install, as well as to capture the public events and some private interviews, etc. <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u0UNOVV_XnaM77J-djhayjlBL1aCEBXn" target="_blank">Here</a> is a link to my instructions for repacking the AV gear of the exhibit.</div>
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Doing something of this scale in Uganda is not without its interesting aspects. For example, the electricity at the museum was off more than it was on. For the opening day, we ran the LED lights we had installed along the timeline and the projector and sound system from a generator parked outside. Fortunately, we did not require much power at all. Much of the installation is actually more or less documented in my AV "How To" PDF, but there is more to tell about the setup and execution of all the events.<br />
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One of the challenges was just finding things we take for granted here at home. For example, these bins were what the hardware shopping looked like. It was not a storefront per se, but the interior of a store opening with multiple stalls of vendors selling the same kind of stuff. I did manage to find what I needed, but it was not Stadium Hardware.<br />
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OK, now I get to brag a little bit. When I first arrived and we sat down as a group to get organized, Derek said "So. Tom, you've become something of a legend at the UBC." Before I could follow up we had launched into far more practical issues. It was not until a few days later when, after a long day at the museum, we were having beers and dinner that I was able to follow up and ask "So, Derek, can you explain the UBC legend comment?'</div>
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And the Edgar piped up and said: "Actually, Tom, you're a verb."</div>
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Of course, I was fascinated: I had never even imagined this was something one could aspire to! Edgar explained that because of the way I worked during the digitizing room setup - basically conjuring something out of nothing again and again - it had transpired that when the group needed to do something but had no resources to work with, they would just "Tom it". That meant finding whatever was around and figuring out how to make it work to accomplish what was needed. In other words, I had become the Uganda MacGyver... <a href="https://whatstomdoing.blogspot.com/2018/04/uganda-scanning-setup-2018.html" target="_blank">Here is the blog entry that sort of set me up for this.</a></div>
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And we had a real live "Tom" moment during setup. A nice young woman was having a very hard time trying to get the black backdrop for the panels to hang anywhere near to straight. The critical issue was that she had no stiff rod or pole or something to which to attach the material. If it was on a stiff rod, she could then hang the rod.</div>
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I found 2 abandoned track light bars, which together were longer than the drape we were trying to hang. I lashed them together with some tie line I had brought along, ad the used the black conductor form some extra speaker wire to attach the drapes to that. And then we hung the whole thing. It was not perfect, but it was much better.</div>
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So why is this exhibit so remarkable? First, very little has changed in the Uganda National Museum since it was built by the British, so having a modern exhibit like this is unusual.<br />
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I've been told that over 70% of the population of Uganda was born after the era of Idi Amin, so this is the first time they have had access to first-hand artifacts of that era. It is the hope of the museum that this will start a dialogue between grandparents, parents, and children about that era and what happened.<br />
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And finally, even for me, seeing 120 large B&W photographic prints along with film and audio recordings from the '70s is a transportive experience. Most of the young people in Uganda have never seen an actual photograph, let alone so many in such a large format.<br />
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And it was the 1970s: it *looks* like the 1970s.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">And that’s why I was in Uganda from May 12-24 of 2019.</span></div>
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Once the exhibit was running and the opening panels were done, we went back to the UBC. In part to get organized for cataloging and digitizing the 35mm film reels, which were all that was left to do, and in part to look for additional reels of 35mm film.</div>
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-62575960174982952972019-03-14T12:49:00.000-07:002019-10-22T12:51:08.614-07:002019 Gerhard Kubik's Vienna Tape ArchiveFrom March 14-17, 2019 I was in Vienna with Lester Monts and Kelly Askew to set up a digitizing operation for the audio tape collection of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Kubik">Ethnomusicologist</a> <a href="https://www.arcomusical.com/gerhard-kubik/">Gerhard Kubik</a>. If these two links are not enough, just Google him.<br />
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Gerhard has been making field recordings for 50 years and has published over 300 articles and books and made over 25,000 recordings. A great many of these are kept in 2 apartments he has in Vienna: one is his home and the other is his "Culture Research Archive".<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The tapes are carefully boxed and labeled, and he has volumes of field notes about them. It is an amazingly organized collection. But it is kept in every possible place in both apartments...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">And here is what we saw!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Kelly, Lester, and Moya inventorying one of the shelves at home.</td></tr>
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I set up the new digitizing operation on a library table at the Archive apartment. We supplied a Focusrite A-D converter, a Windows laptop, and several external hard drives so the work could be backed up every day. It is also now in UM Google drive space, soon to be placed on a backed-up UM server.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Tom, Yohana, and Moya at the work table in the Archive.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: left;">You can see the UHER and NAGRA tape recorders that Gerhard has used int he filed. We were able to play back most of the recordings on the same machine used to capture them in the field.</span></div>
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Here is a link to the <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fArd8w9mlQiPWfFq9GC-vpOqhRm2F4_ilgseKDXTj8Q">workflow</a> we set up.</div>
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Here are some photos of the documentation filling the book shelves at the Archive.</div>
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-33353733951846080942019-01-24T08:16:00.001-08:002019-10-22T12:53:24.271-07:002019: Humanities Install for David Opdyke<br />
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First, some links to David's work and conversations & articles.<br />
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/look-101-seeing-art-in-an-instagram-world-david-opdyke-tickets-54409645715<br />
https://events.umich.edu/event/59598<br />
http://dav<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">idopdyke.com/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.artsillustrated.com/david-opdyke-artist-this-land/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">David does really interesting work. He mostly starts with old US postcards, and then creates a wall mural where he repaints many of them, or uses them as bits and pieces for animations. But he also uses multiple photographs to create made-up - but highly believable - futurescapes of industrial degradation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">About David Opdyke:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">David Opdyke is a draughtsman, sculptor, and animator known for his trenchant political send-ups of American culture. Born in Schenectady, NY in 1969, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting and sculpture. His work is informed by the massive industrial and corporate restructuring he witnessed growing up, namely the abandonment of the city center by manufacturing giants General Electric and ALCO. As GE shifted resources to neighboring Niskayuna, the disparities became hard for Opdyke to ignore. Massive, decaying factories, an empty interstate loop, and unemployment were downtown; new streets, expensive homes, sushi and shopping malls were in the suburbs.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For twenty years Opdyke worked as a scenic painter and architectural model-maker. Ranging from intricate miniature constructions to room-sized installations, his artwork explores globalization, consumerism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">About this show:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In keeping with artist David Opdyke’s previous work, this site specific installation, </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-top: 0px;">Paved with Good Intentions</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">, serves as a critique of U.S. culture and politics. In an era of fake news, and daily hyperbole, Opdyke literally changes the picture by hand drawing on hundreds of vintage postcards of well-known American landmarks and destinations. Satirical and slightly sinister, the work upends any preconceived notions we have of spacious skies, amber waves, or reaching the American Dream. Despite our best of intentions, we aren’t there yet. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">The Duderstadt Center provided the computer and I got it up and running for the 2 gallery screens. It is running a program David wrote using CSS for a web browser. I also set up the 2 screens with media players in the Osterman Common Room. thanks to Jeff Collins and Paul Stewart from the DC for their help.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Here are some photos of the setup. I <b>highly </b>encourage everyone to go see this show. It is on the first floor gallery at the Humanities Institute at the corner of Thayer and Washington, across from the MLB and North Quad.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">The opening is Friday Jan. 25. there is a panel discussion from 4-5 and the opening starts at 5 pm.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 2 screens running David's program in a web browser. The PC has not been hidden yet.</td></tr>
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<br /><a href="https://birth-of-spanish.rll.lsa.umich.edu/" target="_blank">Here is the web site that Ryan now uses and it includes all my 360 shots.</a><div><br /><div>The last 2 weeks of September 2018 found me in Spain - Seville, Madrid, Toledo, and El Escorial. I went there with Rob DeMilner of the LRC and Ryan Szpiech, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Associate Professor of Judaic Studies in LSA. We went to Spain to shoot a video for Ryan. This was a much ‘leaner’ version of the same kind of shoot we had done in Athens in May 2017.<br />
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The topic was Alfonso X, the King of Castille in the 13 century. Also known as Alfonso the Wise, he inherited a large and prosperous kingdom from his Dad. Since he did not have to fight any wars he was able to direct his significant resources to other work.<br />
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At the time, the Arabic world was the height of fashion and knowledge. Their works were being translated into Latin, which at the time was the language of scholars. But Alfonso thought they should also be translated into Spanish, in particular, Castilian Spanish, which was the dialect that was used in Alfonso's kingdom. Alfonso also hired many astronomers, chart makers, and other scholars to expand current knowledge and create new areas of learning.<br />
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This is why the language that we know today as simply Spanish came from Castilian Spanish. That Spanish became another language of scholars (and conquest) and was spread throughout the globe.<br />
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With just Rob and myself as the crew, I had familiar and expanded duties. I copied the data and charged the batteries every night, but also did most of the sound tech work and a fair amount of video shooting.<br />
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I used the rolling setup shown below to cart both cameras, 2 tripods, the GoPro Omni rig, and all the audio gear around on foot. You can see the tripods in the front, and the gray bag in back held most of the audio gear. The Omni is in front, in its bag, hanging from the handle. worked great and had the added bonus of providing us with a wheeled cart for the airports.<br />
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And I took a lot of 360 stills. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fzl1oJY9f-kuGbmx8NBZ00VnoF6kxj1C/view?usp=sharing">Here</a> is one of our 3 person US crew and our Spanish "fixer" at the Plaza Espana. It can be viewed with the <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=136NHdFoqwNq-bEdDwAZVcfL8v2Ir-Ozr">GoPro VR Player 360</a>. The link will let you download a Mac or Windows version of it.<br />
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I helped plan and set up an installation designed by the recent Witt Visiting Artist at Stamps, Zafos Xagoraris. It was a one-day-only event, during the first home game of the season. That would be on a Saturday.</div>
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His plan was to recreate, somewhat, the fell of early 60's free speech rallies on campus. He found a 1967 Thunderbird to set up out front of UMMA, and I worked with the UMMA staff and Chrisstina Hamilton from Stamps to arrange the tech.</div>
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The whole point of this was to have people inside the gallery stand in front of the green screen so I could mix the3m into the other camera that was shooting the car out front. They would be watching a monitor that showed them standing on the car, and their real voice would come out the speakers I put together.</div>
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Here is what the setup looked like out in front.</div>
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Here is what it looked like inside.</div>
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Here is the speaker stand I built. Please note the sandbag for stability and the safely covered speaker wire.</div>
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I got a large flat panel from UMMA and set it up just inside the window so passers-by could see the composited image. Zafos had not originally planned this, but without it the only person who would see the complete image would be the person talking inside.<br />
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We had to put up the black 'screen' in front of the window to block out the reflections from outside, so that the screen could actually be seen from outside.<br />
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Below is Ryan being composited onto the car, seen in the monitor pictured above.<br />
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<b><i>NEW UPDATE: WCBN is broadcasting at 1.6 KW as of July 20th! </i></b></h4>
We have been getting great reports about the improved coverage.<br />
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Results were very good with the reflected power so low it barely budged the SWR meter on the FM2000 (1:1.04 at 350 Watts). We are now awaiting the final license from the FCC to commence full power operation. This could take several more months."</div>
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The new transmitter and antenna for WCBN are finally installed on the UM's North Campus microwave tower. It only took....how many years?<br />
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The tower is located off Dean Rd., between Hubbard and Baxter, and between Green Rd. and Huron Parkway. Our new transmitter rack here, too. It holds the entire chain of electronics that make our FM transmission possible. It s in located in the small hut at the base of the microwave tower there.<br />
there is also another antenna on that tower, and it is because of that antenna that we need to locate our antenna array a low on the tower as it is. That height does not affect our transmission footprint, so don't worry!<br />
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The audio from the studio in the SAB first hits a signal processor that makes sure it is at good level and keeps it from over-modulating our transmitter.<br />
It then goes into the low power exciter that takes our audio signal and modulates a low power FM carrier at 88.3 MHz.<br />
This is about the same power as our current transmitter, and can be used as out transmitter in an emergency, or if we need to do maintenance or repair on the main transmitter. We are also going to keep our current transmitter system located at the top of the Weiser Building on central campus in case we need it to fill in when we have to take the whole new transmitter system off the air for any reason.<br />
Then it goes into the 3000 watt transmitter that actually feeds the new antenna array. While we are allowed to broadcast at up to 3000 watts, the optimal pattern to reach our allowed area ends u<u>p</u> having us transmit at 1600 watts.<br />
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We have 2 parts to the new antenna, and they are designed to be placed just so in order to shape our transmitter "footprint" to accommodate other radio stations around us. And then they are put into protective plastic covers to keep them safe from the elements. The covers have no effect on the RF transmission.</div>
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Here is what the antennas look like before they are enclosed.<br />
Half of one of the covers is in the background.<br />
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Here is a close-ish view of what they look like on the antenna tower, with the workers on the tower:<br />
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Below are 2 sets of before and after shots of the tower. from far away and closer Our new antennas are the lowest objects you see in the second set of photos. They are enclosed in weather proof covers and so look like big black objects.<br />
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-79738387602481011102018-05-08T15:11:00.000-07:002018-05-11T11:39:19.562-07:002018: CRLT China Event Tour of the DMCErping Zhu of CRLT, the Center for Reserach on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, brought a group of 8 (6 Chinese visitors and 2 UM students, just graduated) for a short tour of the Duderstadt Center. They are attending the CRLT program dealing with innovative pedagogy and so were very interested to learn about the very open access to our facilities.<br />
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At the end, after I showed them the Personal Studio and told them about all the Nursing students that go through there with their practice patient presentations, they wanted a group photo with me before they left. Here it is.<br />
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I thought it sounded interesting, so I asked Deb Mexicotte (Managing Director of ArtsEngine) if I could sit in a corner and watch. She replied: "That's definitely not an option for *this* workshop - but I think you would be a great addition, so just sign up!"<br />
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I did. Laurie Baefsky (Executive Director) later told Linda Kendall Knox that she should also attend, so we both went. And what a time we had!<br />
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If you have read my other blog entries, you will remember that I first <a href="http://whatstomdoing.blogspot.com/2017/10/ubc-uganda-diary-june-2017.html">visited the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) in Kampala, Uganda in June of 2017</a> with Dr. Derek Peterson to consult with them about their aging library of U-Matic videotapes. It was during this trip that we found the filing cabinet contining the film negatives.<br />
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In January 2018 I went back to the UBC.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I went to set up a scanning operation with the goal of scanning the (mostly medium format) film negatives taken by ID Amin’s official photographer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-converted-space">When we first found them in a metal filing cabinet during that 2017 visit, they</span> looked like this:</div>
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First I have to let you know who made this possible. At the UBC there was Managing Director Winston Agaba, Administrator Madame Elizabeth Bigirimana, Records Assistant Malachi Kabaale, and Librarian Jacob Noowe. The two Makerere graduate students that will be doing the work are Jimmy Kikwata and Edmund Mulinda. Dr. Edgar Taylor of the US is supervising the work locally as well as prioritizing the work based on his evaluation of each image's importance. Finally, Dr. Derek Peterson acquired the funding from the UM African Studies Center African Heritage & Humanities Initiative and is generally supervising the project from the USA.<br />
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Before traveling to Uganda, I had spec’ed out, purchased, tested, and labeled all the parts for this operation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These included a new MacBook Air, an Epson V800 flatbed scanner, 2 external hard drives (one for data, one for daily backup) and various archival cotton gloves and cleaning supplies. Derek was able to safely pack all this into his suitcases and took it to Kampala in January 2018 to await my arrival.<br />
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A quick aside: I researched various ways to do this scanning, including using a <a href="http://www.timlaytonfineart.com/blog/2015/5/wet-mount-scanning-vs-dry-mount-with-epson-v750-scanner">wet scanning process</a>. I decided that for this project that taking care to keep the scanner and film holders clean and<br />
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We were expecting to be given a small desk in the room in which we found the filing cabinet (photos below).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It would have been difficult to make it work, but a space is always at a premium in institutions like the UBC in a building like this we were ready to deal with it.</div>
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The problem was that it had not been used in many years, and apparently had not been cleaned much during that time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It needed some serious work:<br />
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While work started on that room, we set up the gear in a <b><span style="color: #e06666;">different</span></b> room in a <b><span style="color: #e06666;">different</span></b> building where a group of PCs recorded the UBC radio broadcasts all day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I</span>t was air conditioned to keep the machines happy, and that worked well for our needs. Hot & humid are the enemies of film.<br />
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Training started on Tuesday (using some film negatives I had brought from home) and would continue through Wednesday. We had to set up in our permanent space on Thursday - no matter what shape it was in - so we could move in the negative cabinet, sort it out and start staging the real workflow, and start doing this work for real: t<span class="Apple-converted-space">he Makerere students had to understand how to do this work before I left at the end of the day Friday.</span><br />
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All that was needed was a light, so that night Edgar took me to one of his favorite “has everything” stores and we found 2 small rechargeable LED lights.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Perfect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You can see both the the blocks and the light in place in the photo below. </div>
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Once the workflow was humming, I started documentation for the process so that we would be consistent, and for training future crews.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The current version is <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yKIXaYtso74ggVRToBDldQxVK_5x5LuC/view?usp=sharing">here</a>.</div>
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The next problem was the negative cabinet itself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The drawers are too short for the negative envelopes, so they were sort of crammed in. Every time a drawer had been opened, the envelopes had been slightly damaged.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And several of the drawers were somewhat off their tracks and would not open or close very easily. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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We moved the 35mm negatives from the bottom 2 drawers and put them into cardboard bank boxes, to be dealt with later.</div>
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This gave us some empty drawers we could now use to alleviate the crowding.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We took out the drawers one by one, cleaned the inside of the cabinet, cleaned each drawer, and reloaded them with fewer negatives.</div>
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But before we did that, I did several things.<br />
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First, I made cardboard ramps for the back of each row in the drawers so the envelopes could be put in at a slant. yet still be fully supported. This was to avoid curling or otherwise damaging the negatives.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My ramps at the rear, and cardboard dividers.</td></tr>
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Then I made and inserted cardboard row separators where they were needed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> There was at least one metal divider in each drawer but more dividers were needed to help protect the negatives. </span></div>
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Finally I unfolded some of the oversize file folders we had used to cover the desk work areas and taped them to the front edge of each drawer, like a hinge. This would prevent any more damage to the envelopes as drawers were opened or closed.</div>
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Once that was all in place, Edgar was able to go through and clean the various negative envelopes and choose which ones to start with - ones that were important in his opinion, or representative of a group.</div>
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Ultimately, all the negatives will be represented in the database, and most of them will be scanned. But it was decided to start with an iterative approach, with Edgar setting priorities.<br />
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The last problem was what to do about the photo prints that had been added to the collection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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I first tried to use an old scanner they had at the UBC but it was not producing good results.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I asked if there was a digital camera somewhere that we could use, and Jacob said he would bring in and use his personal camera. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Now all we needed was some kind of copy stand…..</div>
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Edgar & I figured we could use a metal shelf and some magnets to hold up the photos -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> i</span>f we could find a metal shelf and some magnets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jacob found and cleaned a small metal shelf from <i>somewhere</i> in the UBC <i>(Jacob is a miracle worker!)</i>, and I managed to find some small magnets in a bookstore.</div>
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I taped a still-folded box to the wall to support the shelf’s weight, then taped the shelf to the wall so it would not fall over. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> This way, all the weight was supported vertically and the tape just had to keep it from falling forward.</span></div>
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I found some decorative magnets at a bookstore and, once we removed the magnets from their decorative plastic covers, we had what we needed.<br />
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We had great natural light from the window, but the last thing that was needed was a way to diffuse any sunbeams that might slip in through openings in the vertical window blinds.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Again, what did we have that I could use? Cardboard, packing tape, and - paper towels.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After a bit of "cardboard carpentry" we had a lovely diffusion screen between the photo wall and the window.</div>
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Finally everything was done. Even the power strip was labeled and secured.<br />
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This last photo is a panoramic view of the new workspace with everyone hard at work!<br />
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One final tweak I made to the workflow was to institute a verbal notice between the Scan Loader and the Scan Operator. This was to minimize the downtime in case the scan operator was deep in the database and did not notice the scanner was ready. </div>
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With a project of this scale, where a single scan takes 3 minutes, all those seconds start to add up! We needed a good way to provide a clear "Ready!" signal. </div>
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So I told them what NASA does in the USA, when preparing to launch a rocket.<br />
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The Flight Director will go around the room one last time and ask for a "Go / No-Go" from each of his unit heads. And if things were good they would say "<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Go Flight!</span>"<br />
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So I asked Jimmy & Edmund to use that as a notification. They loved it, and in early April left me a voice message saying they were still using it. You can listen to it <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1diGH8SxxEM7xqTQ_P2HqtAPVpZfgIKNq">here</a>.<br />
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I have to say that this project really exercised my abilities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> We had no idea what resources we would find locally. We had </span>a starting place but the path forward was to be forged on site.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> We d</span>idn’t even know what sort of space we would have before I got there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I simply had to rely on my many years of experience - and it was really fun! </span><br />
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One challenge after another came up, and we managed to find a way to make it work. I have to thank my friends (it was great to see you again Jacob & Malachi!) and colleagues at the UBC for making it all happen so spectacularly well! And it continues to work under the gentle guidance of Edgar.<br />
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Reports back from the field say that great progress is being made, and I would like to be able to visit again and see for myself. No plans yet, but hope springs eternal...<br />
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-61366162835410301062017-07-22T09:47:00.000-07:002019-06-26T09:56:44.887-07:002017 Athens: "Paul In Athens", a TLTC projectThe first week of May 2017 I joined a group in Athens, Greece to shoot some video and 360 images for part of a TLTC (Teaching and Learning for the Third Century) grant. The UM gave out grants to some worthy faculty projects based on making transformative change in how they teach and how those projects can be of use to other faculty teaching different topics.<br />
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I have been working with Yaron Eliav on creating QTVR images of ancient objects in the Kelsey Museum of Archeology. This trip was to shoot a video about the Apostle Paul's visit to Athens early in his work. As part of this, I was to capture 360 images so that students could, through the web site, virtually visit some of the sites where we were shooting the video - sites visited by Paul during that trip. None of those are shown here, as they are part of the project. these are my 'tourist' photos.<br />
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It was fun. Our video team of Rob DeMilner, Paul Sutherland and myself worked very well together. We were assisted before and during the shoot by our Israeli producer Rachelli, our Greek fixer Maria, and our Greek driver Tricia. We also had a person doing makeup, and a couple of people with boats: one an ancient boat and one a modern boat. We shot video of the ancient boat from the modern one. We also had a drone operator that got us some very cool shots of the boat and other locations. Again, sorry - no drone footage for the blog. Still in process for the project.<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/C_PxAcnBlx8">The Final movie of "Paul in Athens" is here.</a><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/R3Cc97-v5kw">The "Making of" movie is here</a> (very fun to watch!)<br />
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Here is our production crew at lunch, at a fabulous little cafe where Maria took us.</h4>
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The Hotel Stanley:</h4>
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The view from one side of our hotel:</h4>
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And the view from the other:</h4>
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Ah, greek food:</h4>
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Some amazing graffitti in Athens:</h4>
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Including this one that had to be viewed from the right spot:</h4>
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And in the Old Market there was so much stuff!</h4>
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Shooting at the Acropolis Museum:</h4>
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Shooting at the Acropolis</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I KNEW they used LEGOs to build that stuff!</td></tr>
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At the Areopagis</h4>
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A production shot from the market scene</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Local actors did a fabulous job for us.</td></tr>
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The Prop Shop where we gathered stuff for the Market scene</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside view of how we supported the cart cover: ratchet straps!</td></tr>
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The Temple of Zeus</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was really there. I almost never have photos with me in them.</td></tr>
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Shooting at the highest point in Athens, Mount Lycabettus</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Partners in crime - Rob & Tom!</td></tr>
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Shooting the Boat</h4>
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Finally: how I managed to keep track of all the data. </h3>
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The setup in my hotel room where I emptied and backed up all the cards each night, charged batteries, and did some preliminary stitching of the 360 images. Note the extensive use of US electrical outlets, so I only needed on adapter (almost visible in the wall on the left).</div>
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-3163055539782256142017-07-22T09:33:00.003-07:002022-08-31T08:48:40.719-07:002017 Uganda: Saga of the DroboUPDATE - It works! After 3 hours of hard work, the drives came out at Room Temperature.<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/wyDE4v10oK8">Here is the assembly video.</a><br />
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So on my last full day - Friday June 9th - we drove from Kampala to Fort Portal in the West end of Uganda. This is the home of Mountains of the Moon University, the hosting institution for all the paper District archive work that Derek has been doing for several years. The university is named after the nearby Rwenzori Mountains which are also called the Mountains of the Moon. They top out at 16,762 ft. (5109 meters) which is the height of Africa's third tallest mountain. They actually found glaciers up there - in Africa!<br />
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We were there to install a new DROBO 5c 5-drive enclosure to host all the digitized files of the archive work. It will provide many TB of storage, allowing for future additions.<br />
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Unfortunately, once it was all set up and we were testing it, I discovered that the drives were extremely hot - so hot that I almost dropped the first one I popped out! I measured the temperature when we got back to the USA and the case for each drive was about 145 degrees F. You could actually have cooked an egg on it!<br />
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Disappointed, we brought it all back with us to figure out what was going on. After much time on the phone with Drobo and HGST (drives) I was told that it was all operating "within parameters" and no one was going to help. Drobo did say that if I wanted to ad a fan to the back of the enclosure that was fine with them.<br />
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Here are some shots of the process. Next step is to see if the USB fan I ordered will still provide enough cooling and be quieter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">One captive screw in place on the back of the Drobo unit. These stick out to accept the fan and<br />
still have enough thread showing to allow for securing the fan with with nuts & lock washers.</td></tr>
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In June of 2017, I went to Uganda to consult with the UBC about their 3/4" U-Matic videotape library, and to discuss possible ways forward to digitize and monetize the collection.<br />
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<span class="s1">My flight leaves at 6:13, so naturally I need to leave for the airport at 3:00 pm so as to not make my wife nervous. An enormous Denali SUV pulls around to the end of our driveway at 10 minutes to 3, which is 10 minutes early. It worked out since we had to stop at the ATM on North Campus so I would have enough USD to buy my Uganda VISA and still have some money left to exchange for local currency if needed to buy a SIM for Lester’s (very old) Chinese Samsung. Not sure if it will even work in Uganda. It worked in Ghana, so I am hopeful. Would not work in Athens, Greece last month.<br />
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<span class="s1">First leg from Detroit to Amsterdam, about 7.5 hours. Discovered this amazing secret room at DTW where you can go and check in and check bags and avoid the lines! I was told that by the woman at the Sky Medallion front desk who said their system was down and that I should just go through that door - that I had never noticed before. Apparently it is some kind of VIP check-in area. I was the only one there, and there was only one woman behind the counter. On my way out I asked if it was possible to use this place again, and she smiled and said “Well, keep it quiet and probably yes.” Now that I know I’m going to try it every time!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">2 hour and 20 minute layover at Schipol in Amsterdam, which was about the right amount of time. I was able to clean up in the bathroom, find my gate, and have a yogurt and granola breakfast. At least I felt I had <b>something</b> close to oatmeal. </span></div>
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Second leg from Amsterdam to Kigali, Rwanda was also about 7 hours. Sat in 15A next to a Bioengineering undergraduate major from Texas A&M who was on her way with a group of fellow Aggies to Rwanda to spend the first month taking classes (mostly language classes) and then some others about the bio-med machines they were there to install and/or repair, and then train the Rwandans to use. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">All of us that are continuing on to Entebbe airport in Uganda stay on the plane for the 1 hour layover here. Which is when I am now starting this diary. I said goodbye to my young Aggie friend with the admonition to “Go save lives and change the world!” </span></div>
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<i>(I need to get this autocorrect under control. It had that poor girl going out to save olives!)</i></div>
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<span class="s1">Last leg was a short one. Stayed in the same seat, and this time my companion was a woman from Rwanda named Connie who was on her way to Toronto for her youngest son’s High School graduation <i>(the flight to Amsterdam starts in Kigali).</i> They had lived in Toronto for some time and both her son and older daughter stayed there. Barely enough time to distribute cookies and we were landing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Took FOREVER to get my SIM card at the airport. I also changed $60 and got back $250,000 Uganda shillings (UGX). An exchange rate that far apart and it feels like you have Monopoly money. </span><br />
<span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">I was literally the last person to leave the airport from my flight, and by the time I finally got outside the person that had come to meet me had almost given up. They were thinking maybe I had missed the flight, since everyone else had come and gone. I was glad they had waited. The Hotel pays them for the ride service and they did not want to have made the trip and not get paid.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Hope to be able to upgrade the Samsung phone to be able to call the US tomorrow, but for now I called Jeri using WhatsApp on wifi. The Samsung will be quite useful locally in any case. Unpacking and off to bed now at 12:35 AM on Monday morning. I left on Saturday afternoon.</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><br />Arrived and spent the morning in the company of Malachi & Jacob, both UBC employees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They have the impossible task of trying to organize mountains of material - literally boxes piled on boxes, piled on shelves, filling every corner of every room that is in some way dedicated to the library.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">This is the land of Idi Amin, one of the most ruthless dictators to ever come to power. </span><br />
<span class="s1">T</span>hey are correct that there is likely some value to be had by the State from this archive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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This is bureaucracy at its best - or perhaps its worst. We visit room after room of badly stored U-Matic and other video tapes, the 'other' mostly being Betacam and various formats of DV.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They had been burning some things to DVD discs, as there is no in-house means of taking digital files and storing them on a central server.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> All of these assets are in an extremely vulnerable position.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">And the "best of the worst" was this:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>piles of films, rotting in various forms of rusting decay in metal cans stored - literally -in a disused lavatory in an unused building.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The yellow film can near the top labelled "Series Scooby-Doo" is the cartoon.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1">They have no hardware for playing anything but 1/4” audio tape and VHS videotape.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have not seen the alleged working VCR, but <b><i>have</i></b> seen 3 Studer A807 real to reel decks, only one of which is said to be in working order.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>True or not, the tape path, and the deck in general, are so dirty it would take considerable effort cleaning them to get them ready to test.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This AKAI was in one of the tape storage rooms. The windows had been left open for years.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-converted-space">They realize the gear is in bad shape, but there is no money for tools, supplies, or maintenance for anything but the equipment currently being used for their broadcasts. </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-converted-space">As they said in Casablanca: </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">Over lunch in the canteen, we discussed a possible new way to approach the powers that be with a plan that might allow the UBC to keep a constant chain of custody of the tapes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It seems that this has always been the sticking point: whoever would do this for free (French and German TV) want to keep copies of the digitized material for their use. The UBC does not want that to happen.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This has become the great struggle between Africa and the North: ”They come and take our heritage and leave us nothing!”.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is an understandable position after so many decades of actually being screwed.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">So my idea is to frame it differently.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> They</span> do seem to understand that the best/only way to get this stuff digitized is to put it in the hands of professionals that are capable of keeping the obsolete technology in best working order to get one optimal playback from each of the tapes that the UBC wants to digitize.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The fear is loss of control over what happens if it leaves their custody, and it is not an unjust concern.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">My idea is that instead of shipping tapes at great expense to somewhere out of their control to an agency with an interest in using the material, to instead send it in batches to a service bureau in the luggage of a UBC employee who will oversee the process and return with the analog materials and the digital files of those same tapes.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This does 2 things: 1) it maintains the chain of custody in the hands of the UBC and 2) it puts the work of digitizing into hands of a business whose continued existence pends on the trust of their clients.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They have no inherent interest in the material, only in getting a good recommendation from the client as to their integrity and quality of work.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Derek & I had Indian food at the hotel restaurant for dinner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I'm sure other things happened, but I did not make note of them.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Went to see the Engineering crew and the Presidential Press Unit (</span>PPU) people. The PPU is about to get funding for their own version of the same kind of archive project, but can't talk to our guys or share any ideas.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And of course sharing <b><i>resources</i></b> is out of the question.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What a world.</div>
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<span class="s1">Turns out the Maintenance Engineers have at least one fully functional Studer audio tape deck.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is good, because neither of the ones in the Library are working.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I then talked to the real IT guy in charge and, once I found the right questions to ask, got good information from him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">Apparently there are 2 independent networks here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Corporate network and the Media network.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And there is no connection allowed between them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is for security reasons and sort of makes sense.<br />
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No problem.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The chief IT guy said that as soon as the cable he needed had been requisitioned and delivered he could easily run the wire from the Media server room to the room where the Library folks would be working on the archive - 4 or 5 months tops. Just to get the wire.</div>
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<span class="s1">Derek & I met with the Asst. Managing Director who was very receptive to our plan moving forward.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We meet with the Managing Director tomorrow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His wife just delivered a baby boy and he has been out a lot.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Derek began sorting tapes with Raymond, the first intern, in the Room of Doomed UMatics. I worked with Jacob on the Database.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We added some fields and renamed others and began building the controlled vocabulary.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Had 3 interns that really dug in to the stack of red-dusty UMatic tapes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The result of having open windows after the AC units failed.<br />
The earth around Kampala is very red.</td></tr>
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I had them move a bunch of boxes and piles of tapes that were in the way all over the floor of that room out into the hallway/common area.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>People were amazed that some work was actually being done around the archives.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The interns labeled all the shelves in there with numbers according to the plan I laid out and began the task of sorting the tapes between those from an external source like the BBC and those with original UBC content. The lighting was so bad in some areas that they had to wear my headlamp.<br />
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<span class="s1">As Derek was at a meeting that went longer than anticipated, I met with the Managing Director accompanied only by Malachi,.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I laid out our understanding of their concerns and our idea for a new approach and how it seemed to dovetail into their existing facilities and capabilities. I expressed that the UM would be happy to partner with the UBC to seek funding from the NEH or similar organization.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">I emphasized that any funding organization would insist on allowing for research access and discussed several ways in which the material could be made available securely, such as only allowing outside access only to the catalog, to </span>only allowing internet access to degraded or watermarked versions of the actual video.</div>
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<span class="s1">Derek showed up as we were wrapping up. The MD was very happy and Derek reiterated the points that 1) the catalog work needed to proceed with all haste and that a laptop was needed to continue, and 2) we would send a short summary of our mutual understanding about moving forward quite soon and then follow up with a longer more detailed plan of what we were proposing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Both UBC employees and their interns thought this experience would help them moving forward in their careers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">They are being given a unique opportunity here: they are in at the very beginning of organizing and cataloging an archive of legacy material.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for most of them, or a rare opportunity at the very least.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Around 4:30 pm, when it was clear that we were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>not going to see Jacob again today and so could do no more work on the catalog, I left with Allan, an intern, as my tour guide,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We stopped at an ATM so I could pay for our boda-boda rides</span> and the entry fee for the Kaddaffi mosque, our destination.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">About half the height of the Washington Monument and only a stairway to the top.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was a long, but fun, climb.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I never looked up because I never wanted to know how much farther we had to go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">That night we ended up eating pizza at the hotel for dinner. I don’t feel too bad, as it was a treat for Allan and we had been eating at the UBC commissary every day for lunch. That is <b><u>real</u></b> Ugandan food.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Allan was a wonderful tour guide and we had great conversation over dinner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I</span> told him to make the most of this internship opportunity and also told him about UMAPS.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We’ll see if he ends up applying.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He want's become an academic and a teacher.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Leaving at 6:00 am tomorrow for Fort Portal, in the western part of Uganda, where Derek has been doing his paper district paper archives work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I will help them get the DROBO we brought set up and working and get a chance to see more of Uganda before I leave on Saturday.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mountains of the Moon are nearby and separate Uganda form the Congo.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1">Derek has been working with colleagues there to scan and archive collections of regional government documents.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The room where the documents are scanned (scanner is covered).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The archive room , both paper & digital.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our MMU colleagues and the DROBO to be installed on the computer in the background.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1">Spent the afternoon setting up the DROBO 5C on the brand new HP computer the has been purchased for the archive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Things went well, but took longer than expected due to the slow internet connection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The first thing the 5C does is connect to DROBO and update the firmware.</span></div>
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<span class="s2">However…. </span>At that point, while the Dashboard “Capacity” tab says I have the expected amount of about 14.5TB of space, when I go to Format the drive under the “Tools” tab it will only let me format it at 64TB.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Same thing happens if I try to format it under the Windows format option.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I even attached it to my Apple MacBook and found the same issue of Dashboard Capacity being correct, but only being able to format at 64TB.<br />
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But the strangest thing is that when I popped out one of the drives to see if it would rethink what was going on, it was so hot I almost dropped it! Thus begins....<br />
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So I waited until 7:00 PM Uganda time so it would be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>8:00 AM Los Angeles time and called Drobo support.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On hold for 20 minutes but then hung up, worried about running out of minutes on my phone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Called them again after dinner and spoke with a PERSON (!) in sales, explained my plight, gave them my case number and asked them to put it in front of a tech support person.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They promised, but I never got even an email, let alone a phone call.</div>
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Tried once again at 2:30 AM Uganda time after being woken up by an extraordinary chorus of dogs in the night.</div>
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This was an extraordinary canine chorus. It stared with one barking, then a few more, then about a dozen in a riot of barking at something.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then silence for a minute.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But then they started up again and went into more of a wailing chorus, actually harmonizing and sliding up and down the scale for over a minute.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was just getting my phone out to record it when they stopped.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was amazing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So that’s when I called Drobo again, on hold for 30 minutes, then went back to sleep.</div>
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I found out, once back in the US with access to an instant-read thermometer, that I could have literally fried an egg on those drives: they were running at 145˚ F. An egg fries at 144˚ F.<br />
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I called tech support for HGST, the drive manufacturer, and the guy who answered was also shocked at my reported temperature. He put me on hold and went back to talk to the real tech guys. When he returned he sheepishly told me "That's within spec" and so they would be doing nothing about it.</div>
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And when I finally got someone on the phone at DROBO, they too said nothing was wrong: the unit was operating within specifications. I agreed that this was technically true, but pointedly asked why they would design a drive enclosure whose normal operation kept the drives inside hot enough to fry an egg. They had no comment.</div>
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Two days after I cobbled together my solution and sent the DROBO back to Africa, DROBO emailed and send that my RMA exchange had been approved and to expect a replacement in a few days. Sheesh.....</div>
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OK, Back in Uganda now</span></h3>
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(<a href="http://whatstomdoing.blogspot.com/2017/07/uganda-ubc-3.html">see my blog about how I fixed the DROBO here</a>.)</div>
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Saturday June 10: Fort Portal, and then back home</h4>
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<span class="s1">After waiting on hold with Drobo for 1 hour 50 minutes this morning, I ran out of time on my Samsung phone. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Derek & I decided to bring the whole DROBO unit back and return it for something that has better cooling.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am very disappointed in the whole thing, having had such good luck wth DROBO in the past, to discover that it was behaving so baldy and being their newest unit.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">While waiting for Derek to return with the DROBO boxes, I saw a Sunbird and a Bulbul in the trees in from of my room.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Sunbird is a tiny bird, larger than a hummingbird, but has a long dipping curved bill and goes around to the long orange blossoms in the tree outside, dipping in for nectar.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The Bulbul is more thrush sized, blue, and was just passing through. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bulbul is the blue spot, middle right side.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1">Derek returns with the Drobo boxes, and we return to Kampala.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A typical termite mound. They are everywhere.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical road side view as you go from country to a village. <br />
There are always vendors along the road side.</td></tr>
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This video clip shows another road side view, including lots of the vans that make up the mass transit system. Most people depend on these vans, which hold up to 11 passengers, to get to and from work everyday. Some rides take hours.<br />
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<span class="s1">Just stopped in Wribare to fix a flat tire.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was quite the adventure.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Changing the tire.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1"><br />Januario knew where the jack and spare were located but, this being new vehicle for him, had never had to use them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Turns out the spare is lowered from beneath the carriage under the rear of the van.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">There is a square bolt top visible in the door seam and that is what cranks down the bar securing the frame holding the spare.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That bolt has to be turned - quite a lot, as it turned out - in order to get the clearance needed to separate the pieces holding up the spare.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">They did not figure out that the handle for cranking up the jack doubled as the wrench for cranking the bolt, so Juanario found a pair of pliers and kept turning the bolt 1/4 turn at a time for a bit, then having a couple of strong guys that had gathered (this was, after all, a big event) pull up on the horizontal retaining frame while he tried to get the vertical piece disconnected from it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This went back and forth, and then eventually they were banging on the top of the bolt as well as lifting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I kept thinking that they really need to keep turning that bolt, and even said so once, but no one responded so I kept quiet.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Then Abdulah, the former Chief Engineer for the district, came over and said the same thing and proceeded to do just that with the pliers, and finally it all came free and they began the work of changing the tire.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">But i</span>t just seemed to me that this was a really stupid system if it was not self-contained.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> It should not require that you have a pair of pliers on hand.</span><br />
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So while they were changing the tire, I took an extra piece of the parts that one would assembled to create the crank for raising the lift and tried to fit it onto that square bolt that they had been turning with the pliers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">I tried, but it did not quite fit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I felt the edges of the square bolt head, and found that all that banging had flattened them out so the head was wider than it was supposed to be. This made it impossible to fit the "wrench" onto it, the way it had been designed to do.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Taking out my trusty Leatherman, I filed down the edges until they were smooth, and voila! - it fit.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So putting the flat tire back in place of the spare only took about 30 seconds.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And now Januario knows how the system works.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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The trip to the airport was amazing. There is a new highway not yet open - but soon to be - between Kampala and Entebbe, where the airport is located. But if you know the way, and pay a small sum to the people 'guarding' the secret entry ways, you can get on it and use most of it. We were on and off various parts of it al the way to the airport...<br />
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That's it for this trip. Check out my <a href="http://whatstomdoing.blogspot.com/2018/04/uganda-scanning-setup-2018.html">2018 Uganda entry</a>.<br />
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Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-48041579667364463902017-03-03T16:59:00.000-08:002018-04-25T08:22:36.868-07:002017 Ann Arbor: Panono camera 360 photos - Argo Dam, my yard from the air!<br />
Argo Dam<br />
<a href="https://cloud.panono.com/p/WwQGkW0JOWrq">https://cloud.panono.com/p/WwQGkW0JOWrq</a><br />
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Our Yard<br />
<a href="https://cloud.panono.com/p/4lvr25lO15YV">https://cloud.panono.com/p/4lvr25lO15YV</a><br />
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These links may go away, as Panono is not in good shape. <br />
Below are links to the flat images.<br />
You can find a viewer like the <a href="http://www.kolor.com/gopro-vr-player/download/">GoPro VR Player</a> and view them with that.<br />
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<a href="https://umich.box.com/s/qb50uncuq8dox2r0sl8nn2tdogmo1yqz">New Exhibit Museum under Construction</a> (bonus!)<br />
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<a href="https://umich.box.com/s/jak3i7u3p5jz9ujyi04ie0qql7ci2s3i">Argo Dam</a><br />
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<a href="https://umich.box.com/s/iy47w18m5hhz78f96tn9fy27kqi5sps1">My House</a>Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-149419325586357102016-06-05T08:37:00.002-07:002023-10-26T15:16:24.607-07:001988, in a former lifeSo one of the things I used to do a lot was record and/or do live broadcast mixes at music events. I still love dong it but rarely get the opportunity any more.<div><br /></div><div>First, here's what I looked like when this happened; nice, eh?</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioxYyNPgU1AfOcavMVMWyuS24Bydxlr9m-_V1xTfsqarVnIJLTaKRmcTR9ogd9kY0Bx5nofN3yT-77tNGmQeE0VZ9bxt449GMwyUikrT9BsTpMxX_hQzOcHlPFVtaLysZRaIt1ZYWIjcrQxey6Sv5yvhfIYBl3rmSta-JabfZSFB68KYlRg4A1kNLxuLc0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="275" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioxYyNPgU1AfOcavMVMWyuS24Bydxlr9m-_V1xTfsqarVnIJLTaKRmcTR9ogd9kY0Bx5nofN3yT-77tNGmQeE0VZ9bxt449GMwyUikrT9BsTpMxX_hQzOcHlPFVtaLysZRaIt1ZYWIjcrQxey6Sv5yvhfIYBl3rmSta-JabfZSFB68KYlRg4A1kNLxuLc0" width="194" /></a><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/UORL15Lzql9LHsrLZ8haUkf3GVvWYoLNmMFhUPxgiUAULESHQZTHrc6sKGUvKukNCn34oQH14aoQak8=s688" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div><br />
The letter below (<i>not</i> an email! It is actually <i>signed</i>!) was sent to me after a particularly fascinating incident at the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival in 1988.<br />
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The author of the letter and the guy in charge of the broadcast on WEMU stopped in where we were mixing the music from the Pyramid stage at Hart Plaza. After a few pleasantries he asked "So are you using a lot of EQ or something in your mix?" I said "No, just listen to what is coming out of the speakers. Why do you ask?"<br />
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He said he had been listening to the broadcast on the monaural radio in the TV in his hotel room, and when the broadcast switched from the other stage to ours the sound was awful! He came scooting right over to our mixing room and started the conversation.<br />
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So once he heard what we were actually doing he said it really did sound great; superb, in fact. After a little bit more genial conversation I had eliminated any doubts from Jim's mind that it was me creating the problem. I knew that what we were doing was fine: I just wanted to get to the bottom of the issue.<br />
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So, being an engineer kind of guy, I started looking for what I thought was the likely culprit: one of the Left/Right lines from our room to the booth had been wired out of phase, effectively canceling most of the audio in our mix and leaving sounding very thin and awful - but ONLY when heard in mono, as it was on his hotel TV.<br />
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I followed the approximately 700' of wire all the way to the final broadcast feed mixer, where I discovered that indeed, at the last connector in the line going into the back of that mixer, the Right channel balanced line had been incorrectly wired and was therefore electrically canceling out most of our mix. And it had been that way for a day and a half. Apparently the Engineer in charge of the broadcast had not bothered to check the lines.<br />
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I gathered up a soldering iron, pliers and a tabletop clamp and quickly fixed the problem. Ten days later I got this letter in the mail. Ain't life grand?<br />
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</div>Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-44162409881059271092016-05-19T05:12:00.002-07:002018-04-26T05:27:39.260-07:002015 WCBN Tapes at the Bentley Historical LibraryIn the summer of 2015 I spent some time at the Bentley cataloguing the tape archive of WCBN. These tapes had been there for several years waiting for this to happen. The next step is to find money to hire a student to digitize them - hopefully this summer.<br />
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Here is the first photo of that work: a bunch of reels in a box. I'll add more photos and some video soon.<br />
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On Friday April 10 <a href="http://vodojumato.com/" target="_blank">Vodo Jumato</a> - VO-ratima Orawannukul, DO-nald Harrison, JU-stin Dykhouse, MA-rtin Thoburn and TO-m Bray - set up their giant projection monolith and painted the side of the office building at Main & Washington with appropriately foolish visuals.<br />
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I was prepared for inclement weather this year. I had tarps and a plan. Once I had a couple of people to help it only took about 5-10 minutes to completely secure it from the wind and rain. And once again we had Donald's guitar amp strapped to the lower plank for ballast.<br />
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In the above photos you can see the planks we used as a work surface and to support projectors.<br />
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I walked out into the crowd and got in front of someone and said "Look at the wall!". When they did they would see themselves as part of the projection. It was a big hit, even though it was not great video quality. The piece missing form the QTVR is the headlamp I attached so I could both aim the camera and light my subject.<br />
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The problem was that the "attract loop" would play fine, but the 3 buttons meant to trigger 3 different video clips were not triggering the clips: it just kept playing the attract loop. The buttons would light up while the button was pushed, but that was it.<br />
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Well, that sounded like a job for me! I've been doing a lot with <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5ATjeQtKHJAN2JjUm9Ja3dVSlE&usp=sharing" target="_blank">media players</a> recently, with or without triggered playback. And I figured that if I could not get it working, I could likely swap his box out for one of my AKMAN 1080HD media players until they decided what to do.<br />
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Here's what was on Matt's bench when I arrived:<br />
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You see the box on the right for containing everything, with the front panel that holds the video display and a speaker leaning up against it. The small TV was just used for troubleshooting.<br />
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Imagine my surprise to see that the media player was an <a href="http://www.akman.com/" target="_blank">AKMAN</a> product: the Flash A/V media player. We have a handful of their more current models of HD video players and I like this company's products.<br />
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This discontinued model plays MPEG2 files out as standard definition composite or s-video, and has both audio line outputs and speaker outputs. It has 3 sets of "Input" contacts that are connected to the external buttons. They were using one set with three inputs - it's that sliver of a green block connector with 4 wires coming out at the top of the unit. That toggle switch adhered to the top is for changing the audio output level. It connects to a couple of contacts on the back for VOL+ and VOL-. This setting is intended to be done once, and then left alone. This device resets to FULL LOUD at every restart, which is why one needs some sort of control like this.<br />
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This <a href="http://www.automationdirect.com/adc/Overview/Catalog/Programmable_Controllers/DirectLogic_Series_PLCs_%28Micro_to_Small,_Brick_-a-_Modular%29/DirectLogic_05_%28Micro_Brick_PLC%29" target="_blank">Direct Logic 05</a> controller senses button closures and then sends out appropriate control signals to the AKMAN player. A pressed button would light up and stay lit for the duration of the video clip triggered. This unit also prevented any other button pushes from registering during playback of a clip (except the attract loop). It's a pretty nice little box.<br />
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So it turned out that the main reason it had not been playing back any files for a while is because the relay controller wires were plugged into the wrong block. Took a while for us to get there, because that connector block had been clearly labeled to go into the *wrong* spot. Go figure. But we didn't get there right away. We did some investigating on whether the files on the card were set up properly, etc. We renamed some folders to match what was given in the manual for this device (found on the AKMAN web site) but still didn't have a fix.</div>
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I called my friend Jason Akman, son of the founder of the company, to ask if he knew anything about these units. He was surprised - in a good way - to hear that one of these old units was still out there and sort of working. He didn't have any ideas we had not thought of yet, so we did the last thing that might make a difference: go to a Windows machine and delete all the invisible files that a Mac writes on the storage card.</div>
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The crew is off to NYC, where they had thought they were going to get some time with the Rockefeller and Fulbright Foundations, but both unexpectedly declined this week. They are scrambling to find others that might help.<br />
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Photo of the newly renovated Library at UMTRI. Note the familiar looking cart on the back right of the photo. It is based on our unit in DL3 at the DMC. I consulted with UMTRI when they were starting this redesign. One thing you can't see is the Free Coffee maker behind me.Tom Brayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02705355538949118320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021922341440831382.post-5647777658641126152014-07-11T09:05:00.001-07:002014-07-11T09:05:12.258-07:002014 InfoComm Report<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">InfoComm 2014 Report - Tom Bray, DMC</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Las Vegas, NV - June 20, 2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.infocomm.org/cps/rde/xchg/infocomm/hs.xsl/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">InfoComm</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a trade show/conference for AV Professionals, Technology Managers and Manufacturers. They have speakers, offer classes, and have a show floor with lots of products, similar to NAB or SIGGraph. InfoComm 2014 had about 36,000 attendees, and the theme this year was “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AV is IT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”. I only had one day on the show floor, having come from the NMC conference Thursday night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/pages/default.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christie Digital</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was showing a lot in the high end. The </span><a href="http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/business/products/projectors/3-chip-dlp/pages/christie-d4k2560-3-chip-dlp-4k-projector.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4K projectors</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> looked great. More interesting was their tech demo of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘automated’ projection mapping</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(see video) which still requires lot of work but offers an interesting portability. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/business/products/projectors/1-chip-dlp/gs-series/pages/default.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GS projector series</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was Christie’s “lamp free” offering, with higher outputs (and higher prices) when compared to the Casio models. They were really touting them as ‘maintenance free for a really long time’ rather than talking about the image fidelity, as they are 1-chip DLPs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.agneovo.com/newsletter/en/news_060414.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">neovo</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was one of many Chinese companies now doing direct contact through shows like InfoComm, where previously Chinese manufacturers had not had such a presence. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><a href="http://smartkapp.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SMART Technologies “SMART kapp</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> SMART Technologies’ SMART Boards are ubiquitous, but the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SMART kapp</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">could be a game changer in white board collaboration. It really is easy to connect your IOS or Android device (Windows coming soon). This link goes to a</span><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/smart-kapp-revolutionary-replacement-for-dry-erase-board-launches-at-infocomm-2014-2014-06-18-8183150" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marketwatch</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">article with a much better explanation than the actual </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SMART kapp</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> site does. Right now the only model is small (42”) but large ones are coming. MSRP for this one is $900, and AVI/SPL is a reseller. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For some reason,</span><a href="http://www.fontel.com/yamaha/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yamaha</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is really getting deeper into the microphone/speaker/echo canceling business. 2 interesting options that are powered over USB are the</span><a href="http://www.fontel.com/yamaha/images/Yamaha-PJP-10UR.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PJP-10UR</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is about 4” tall and is intended for 1 or 2 users with a laptop, and aimed at traveling use. The</span><a href="http://www.fontel.com/yamaha/images/Yamaha-PJP-20UR.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PJP-20UR</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a triangle about 6” wide and looks like a good contender for conference rooms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.atomos.com/ninja-star/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Atomos Ninja Star</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a tiny recorder for aerial use was introduced at NAB this year. Small and light, it is designed for pairing with a camera and drone, as shown below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It records to the newer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C-Fast</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> flash media in 10 bit 4:2:2 Apple ProRes. Weighs 3.5 oz, and if you use their battery add another 1.5 oz, but it can be powered from most on-board drone batteries. Available mid-may 2014 for a retail price of $295. You can preorder them at B&H. </span></span></div>
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