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holy 3d render batman - @danielroseart renders the fibrestudio

wow.

if your looking for an amazing 3d render artist @danielroseart just sorta blew my mind a little with his render of the office we currently have. it's even true to size. obviously this is a draft of the studio and a few things in that shot will change but the placement is pretty good (apart from the box needs to come forward and be bigger) and it's really great to have this level of quality rendering for use on the website for it.

some things to note..

- middle box stand will be bigger more towards end of the frame
- loving that glass fibre studio graphic with 'seethru' no colour
- lights will be attached to the frame at the front
- camera(s) will be above the door frame on a ledge
- mac pro to the left of the door
- possibly mount axis bonjour camera at back

need to thank dan for rapidly pulling together a logo - because we REALLY needed one.

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The Fibre Web Studio of LaceMarket House - Ben Walker

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further developments at the web streaming studio.

Just a few photos of progress this morning. beta version of the layout so far.

               
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The Web Streaming Studio in Progress

It takes 10 minutes to get from nottingham station to lace market house and very soon those requiring live hq webstreaming services and web clips for their personal or business website will be able to book time in the web studio. we are just making the place nice and we have some test sample video up soon as we progress.

One Minute to Fibre from Philip Campbell on Vimeo.

Find more testing going on over at http://bambuser.com/channel/philcampbell

 

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Wirecast & Intensity BlackMagic Working (audio insync!)

Wow. Finally got the hdmi input working and everything now seems to be working perfectly and in sync. the cpu usage is between 65% and 85% but you would probably be not doing anything else on the mac pro at the time anyway. Looks like the HD streaming is a reality. and wow, we are going to have a lot of fun with this! :)

This is actually full HD 16:9 Streaming and the frame rate is dropping a little.  I've dialled it down to the next best which is the 'flash high bandwidth 16:9' at 700k data rate and it looks uber sweet.  well chuffed.  thanks to telestream for the trial i'm sure we will be in touch over the coming weeks about a purchase! :)

More Testing over at http://bambuser.com/channel/philcampbell

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a web streaming studio has to start somewhere

it's true. you have to start somewhere.

i've been doing a lot of fresh start thinking recently regarding work, career and positioning of what i want to do and where for myself and the family. putting things into place based on the limited resources i currently have. optimising those resources and re-evaluating often. i've found it both frustrating and liberating at the same time.

Setting up a fixed location for recording 'thegravity' show again is one part of the motivation that keeps me going on a day to day basis and has been on my mind for quite some time, well since i stopped doing it last year. I've not been able to catch up with the audiogravity on a day to day basis recently. I have however been keeping the links in evernote for when i get a good chunk of time and when my nose is not blocked as it makes the audioboo sound rough. I'm sure all that is stress related.

Anyway, the web streaming studio in the lace market house is part of the overall plan to have a fixed location to be able to offer web video services including full HQ/HD streaming over a chunky 100mb internet connection - right now the fibre is dialled down per port per room to 20/15mb Up/Down but as we require more juice i'm sure we can get it. I'm taking over my green screen over hopefully tomorrow and my hdmi to hdmi cable so i can test a 1080i input streaming out on wirecast. i get the trial one month license tomorrow so that will be an excellent test. I'll probably give bambuser a good run again as well - i have a few clips and screencasts to get recorded tomorrow.

The room currently is very boomy. it's not a massive space but it is big enough for a web streaming studio and i already have a floorplan layout of how i want it to look. I'm thinking the layout will be very much like a 'drop in' appointment based setup where you can book blocks of time. I want to offer half-day, full-day sessions but also a lunchtime section for people wanting to drop in and do really quick web clips. Another side to the web streaming offering is maybe to do similar training sessions for utilising social media for distribution of content.

Once i have the test videos up from the test i'll bolt them onto this blog entry tomorrow. Working on the posterous theme for the streaming studio as well tomorrow, as well as a stack of screencast videos. Busy one then! :)

Gotta keep busy.

*btw* anyone that has a hookup in nottingham for egg boxes for sound proofing please hook me up - either that or some kind of a/v company in the nottingham area that has some of noise reduction material normally used in cars knocking about, maybe old stuff or just rolls of sound deading material knocking about drop me an email.

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lace market house hotdesking @ nottingham

i'm looking to put together a team of hotdeskers that want to drop in maybe once or twice a week into a ready to go web streaming studio to record web clips for their services, product or personal brand. i will offer greenscreen work and all being well after testing HD live streaming to a service like bitgravity as the fibre connection at lace market house can support such a stream.

                                       
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i'm working out the costs and the logistics of having an office so many days a week (we have spoken about a room with a prime view and of course a settee for those coffee moment weekly catchup chats 'thegravity' style) at lace market house. If your in the nottingham region, or can indeed travel easily into nottingham i'm sure we can give you a very competitive rate for web video work for your website. drop me a message if your interested in this exciting web streaming service.

 

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looking at offices/sets around lace market house

sorry for the rough looking pictures but the weather is not holding out in jolly old england today.  been looking around lace market house for different rooms and sizing today and which would be a fantastic set for 'thegravity' - we even found a room with the 'settee' we need but we would have to crowdsource a more 'hotdesking' people first before we could even entertain the costs for the office.  that said, i found out that it does include the use of the conference rooms for other things so maybe could be a good crossover for a sponsor that they get to see social media and media production and training in the same day.

i think that as a package for the day where we train onsite people how to create media and use the internet to distribute that media should be enough to cover the costs of the offices, our time and our ability to offer hotdesking in one or more of these offices.   The one overlooking nottingham has a fantastic view and would make a striking second camera shot/pan for the start or end of a show.  exciting possiblities.  just waiting for sponsors or an upturn in my working situation to put these things in place.   

Guess i need to crack on with those video tutorials to show my social media making skillz. ;)

                     
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hungry pumpkin @ lace market nottingham

           
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the weekly one day media masterplan

just had a really good morning over in nottingham at lace market house hotdesking with @pcmcreative. a few weeks back we discussed about the potential of utilizing space and fibre resources and today was the first step towards making thegravity and HD streaming from a location possible - today was initial testing. turns out my laptop doesn't have the horsepower required to make it stream with an acceptable framerate but the actual picture quality was fantastic.

with the fibre currently throttled back on a port by port basis and with the ability to 'jack it up' I have every faith that the feed is perfect for the show and general social media making and aggregration for me to take my ideas and concepts to the next level and explore live in depth.

looking forward to my weekly trip over, need to find another sponsor for wirecast license, office space if I travel over more regular and some per show sponsors for rental of meeting rooms and such like.

... also need to flight case my future media making portable machine for broadcasting. expect this to happen quickly now I'm on it! ;)

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from a train towards home

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hotdesking in nottingham at lace market house.

                         
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So i'm over this morning in nottingham at my first morning in the lace market house for hotdesking.  I'm here once a week to fully utilize this internet connection and do some live video streaming and do some social media advice and create content around nottingham.  i want to doing some geotagging of the surrounding area next time i'm over - i might actually come over on the friday and do some then for our mapping system that we are working on.  reminds me i need to touch base with @subwolf today at some point.   actually, i have tons of work to be done today! :)

Back Shortly! :)

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