What seminars would you like CV to run at Digital Media World in November?

[bcrabtree]

Rather late in the day - we are considering running some seminars at Digital Media World at Olympia in November (16th 18th).

Are there any specific topics people would like us to cover?

Personally, would I fancy is just having an entire Q&A session.

What I'd like to do is get together a panel of people - including some of you good folk, as well as Peter Wells (CV's deputy ed) and myself.

Ideally, there would also be some representatives from system builders (the obvious ones are DVC and Multimedia Direct) and also from the makers of capture cards; editing software; and camcorders.

Over to you people.

Bob Crabtree
(ed) Computer Video magazine

[tan]

I would like to see a seminar on copyright issues and a question and answer sesssion based on that. This is particularly important for holiday filming.

Also, a seminar on what to do if you have footage that may be of interest to news agencies, tv stations etc. Things like financial matters, copyright issues can be explained here.

Also, seminar devoted to amatuer film makers who have produced exceptional work for companies, organisations etc would be good just to draw on pratical experiences.

------------------

[Roger Maytum]

Good call Bob. Better late than never. Perhaps a session on compatibility? I realise companies making dedicated systems are the best route to avoid compatibility/conflict problems, but some of us have to build our video systems around what we already have. Perhaps something along the line of 'Pitfalls to avoid' or ways to ensure you get your system up-and-running quickly.'

------------------
Roger Maytum

[RayL]

Bob
I agree with your idea of a Q&A session, but as video editing is such a visual medium may I suggest that there is a computer on hand connected to two big screens, one for the computer picture and one for the video monitoring so that answers can be shown rather than just described in words.
Ray Liffen

[Aleck Rich Seddon]

I would like to be able to better understand the complex business of compression, decompression and recompression. What are all the different codecs for? How to translate from one to another? How best to maintain quality? also Related topic of pixels per inch dots per inch when scanning stills. How can I get a predictable resolution quality with all the variables of these and original size, cropping, output size etc.
Aleck

[mide]

I would like to see any seminar ran by computer video magazine presented on a cd-rom
and included in the next issue, get real it a computer video magazine that should lnclude add on's.

[drsolly]

If you want someone who's more at home
at the computer end of computer video than the video end, you might ask me if I'm
available. But the vendors won't like me being there :)

By the way, the best route to avoid compatibility problems, is to use more than one computer, which reduces the likelihood
of interactions between things, and then tie
the whole lot together with a network. That's
basically how I do it.

Suitable computers cost about £500, so if you're laying out a couple of grand for some whizzy card and software, the extra £500
might not seem so bad.

A question I'd like put - why don't the vendors of digital camcorders, document the
codes for doing stuff like DV-in, and changing between PAL and NTSC? The first vendor to offer those sort of docs for
their kit, gets a purchase from me the next day.


------------------

[Nigel Longman]

I'm confused - according to their web site, Workplace '99 is on in the grand hall Olympia from 16-18 November. I couldn't see anything about Digital Media World. Could someone please enlighten me?

Thanks.

Nigel

Ah! Found it! Its at WEMBLEY - not Olympia.

[This message has been edited by Nigel Longman (edited 10 September 1999).]