Announcing LectureMaker Video Studio

LectureMaker has already made a name for itself blending art,  online video, business communication, and technology, using its multi-camera hi-def portable broadcast service for streaming and on demand video capture of business events. Now LectureMaker has opened a new video studio located in Sunnyvale CA for its members.

“Sunnyvale has never had a place for its business community to learn, develop, produce, and publish lectures with so many features akin to the film and movie making industry“, said Ron Fredericks - LectureMaker’s business videographer and founder.

LectureMaker is the Bay Area’s video enhanced communications “dojo” for people involved in engineering, science, marketing, sales, business, and executive management. Its a place to create, edit, publish, and promote, your next vision to a global audience through video.

• Experiment with new online presentation techniques,
• Lower your travel costs while contributing to the the emerging green economy,
• Create, edit, publish, and promote, your next vision to a global audience through video.

Contact LectureMaker

Contact LectureMaker to learn how to use LectureMaker’s studio to create your next business or educational video  - Introductory classes and in-studio demos will be announced soon.

Would you like LectureMaker to create a video for your company or product? Request a quote for your next video project.

Top LectureMaker™ Studio Videos

Blue Cube Toastmasters Club Open House – improve your public speaking skills Produced by Ron Fredericks, Toastmasters Area Governor	Build Your Own 640 GB Memory Stick – a LectureMaker video studio demonstration by Ron Fredericks, Public Speaker	KnowledgePreschool Parent Testimonials Produced by Ron Fredericks, Filmmaker

Top LectureMaker™ Event Videos

Driving to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco by Ron Fredericks, LectureMaker	Android Introduction by Marko Gargenta, marakana Presented by Peter Lam, Mobile SIG Co-chair, Software Developers Forum
The Science of Predictive Analytics Hosted by the Bay Area R User Group	Marketing Is Broken, Influencers Can Fix It by Nick Hayes, Influencer50

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Watch this movie to:

• Learn about Toastmasters International,
• Demonstrate how Toastmasters’ self-help public speech and leadership training works, and
• Show potential future guests and experienced Toastmasters what makes Blue Cube unique as a club worth visiting/joining.

Blue Cube Toastmasters Club presents: the movie

Background Notes

LectureMaker hosts the Blue Cube Toastmasters Club in its conference room. LectureMaker owns a professional video studio down the hall from its conference room, so it was only a matter of time before the club members got together to make a club movie.

The movie includes:

• Short prepared speeches in a virtual environment, by our club president, Gopal Patil
• Spontaneous “in your face” testimonials from Blue Cube members and Toastmaster dignitaries including Birgit Starmanns, District 4′s Public Relations Officer for 2010-11
• Extract from “What’s On Your Resume” prepared speech by our Division C Governor, Elaine Lung,
• Extract from “A Talk Show Interview” with expert advice from our Blue Cube’s club coach, Dr. Pieter Kark,
• Suzanna, a Bay Area open air musician, holds the diverse video segments together with one of her songs performed live at the Sunnyvale Farmers Market.

For more information on Blue Cube Toastmasters Club: http://bluecube.freetoasthost.com/

For more information on other clubs and activities in Toastmasters’ District 4: http://www.d4tm.org/

For more information on Toastmasters International world wide: http://www.toastmasters.org/

Special thanks to our VP of public relations for designing the original story board used to make this movie (back in 2008)

Special thanks to Suzanna, a Bay Area open air musician, for letting me adapt my filmed performance of her at the Sunnyvale Farmer’s Market back in August of 2009 for this video.

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LectureMaker’s video studio captures audio with highest quality. Each audio source is recorded on separate tracks because audio is so important to a high quality video or podcast. I hope this overview helps my clients and prospects see just how serious I am in recording the very best audio for my live event video capture projects as well as my in-studio projects.

For hardware, I designed my audio capture platform around a PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 analog plus digital 16-track recording system that includes mic pre-amps, dynamic audio correction, and both analog and digital mixing. For software, I use Adobe Audition 3 (AA3) for multitrack capture, recording, and final post production mixes.

Here is a photo of LectureMaker’s studio setup:

Figure 1 – LectureMaker’s audio system managed by PreSonus StudioLive system

Setting up the hardware and software is not difficult once you see a sample of how its done. Here is an overview of what the setup looks like with respect to Adobe Audition 3′s Multitrack mode:

Figure 2 – Sample Multitrack Session input (from StudioLive) and Master Mixer output (back to StudioLive)

References

LectureMaker’s Video Studio

PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2

Adobe Audition Audio Capture, Edit, and Music Creation Software

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LectureMaker has donated several hours of video studio time to Blue Cube Toastmasters club in its ongoing support and hosting of the club meeting in LectureMaker’s conference room.

“Blue Cube Toastmasters Club – Let’s Make a Toastmaster Movie – event”

Discussion

If a picture tells a thousand words, imagine what video can do at 30 picture frames per second. In fact, we don’t have to imagine… online video published around events, news, and business has sky rocketed. See this report for more details.

Now Blue Cube club wants to make a movie. Sign up to become a Blue Cube Toastmaster and join in the fun during our open house event too.

Movie Story Board

	Story Board by Scene		Additional Notes

Event Registration

registration closed

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BP is trying to salvage the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil well, not plug it.  I believe it’s possible to stop the leak very quickly, if we, not BP, choose to kill the well.

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Over and over we have heard from BP that the long-term objective is to drill relief wells to reduce the pressure.  This is so they can go back in and start harvesting the fruits of their $600 million investment.

On April 20th the blowout occurred at 5,000 feet and the emergency relief valve, rated at 450 tons of pressure, failed.

Remember ‘Top Hat’?  In late May, a complex system of equipment was assembled on the floor of the Gulf with pipes from a surface ship to pump heavy mud down on the leaking wellhead. Pumping from the surface requires some of the most powerful pumps in the world.  They didn’t have enough mud.  Top Hat failed.  So has every other effort.

Most everyone in media, industry, government, and the scientific community has bought the BP point of view.  But there’s a much easier solution: kill the well. Drop something on the wellhead that weighs more than the 450-tons.  A large empty oil tanker ship might do.

References

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www.theoildrum.com

www.cosmicswan.com

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