Stuttgart HP Meeting 2024 (replacement Allschwil)

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

Regarding the videos from Stuttgart last weekend we made almost all the mistakes Eric had warned us about :-(

The first day we used my (mainly photo) camera Panasonic Lumix DMC GX-80. I did not know it at the time, but the camera can either charge it's battery or take photos/videos, not both at the same time. So even if I had it connected to the charger all the time, it kept running off the battery and I had to swap batteries every half hour or so. Luckily I had brought a spare battery and an extra charger. But this means, that there are seveal ca. 1 minute gaps in the recordings. And initially I had set in on autofocus because i wasn't aware that photo and video mode have different settings for that... So you will see a lot of annoying focus chasing in the first half of the video.

The next day, Martin joined us and brought his camcorder. Unfortunately, things really went wrong when we used that. It recorded the first minutes of my talk to the internal memory and then stopped. We had insterted the 256GB memory card that I bought the day before and Martin switched the camcorder to "external card". It seemed to keep recording without obvious signs of discomfort, but the memory card is completely empty. Nothing on it at all.

So this is the situation re. videos from Stuttgart:

1) I recorded part of Karls talk, but he aked not to be shown on the internet, so this will not be available, because I can't cut him out of the video completely without using valuable content. Maybe he can make a pdf or something from his slides?

2) I am about to finish a first cut of Christophe's talk on the DB48X. Apart from some gaps due to battery change everything is there. It had a horrible colour cast due to the red curtains of our venue, but I remembered that ca. 7 years ago I had paid for an online couse of DaVinci Resolve and my subscription is still valid. So I could re-learn how to do rudimentary colour grading... This talk is 2:30h long! Christophe wanted to record his slides in parallel whilst giving the talk, but for some reason this did not work, so for the time being, we only have what I took.

3) Like Karl, Pascal asked not to be shown on the internet with his talks from Friday and Saturday, so we did not even record them. But maybe he can give us his slides as pdf?

4) As already written, some minutes of my talk from Saturday should still be in the internal memory of Martin's camcorder. He will send it to me. The rest is lost, but Keynote on the Macintosh allows you to talk over the slides and make a film from that. I will do that in the near future, but you will miss all the antique calculators that I passed around during the talk...

5) Meindert's talk on his Tulip boards was delievered via Zoom (at least I think it was Zoom) and was hopefully recorded on his side, because otherwise we have nothing.

So for next time, whether at Allschwil or Stuttgart, we have some homework to do with regard to video recording!

Regards
Max