Dear Tech Forum,
Carl asks about making video recordings of important meetings.
I live at Wind Crest (a 2,100 resident nonprofit that is part of the 20-community Erickson Senior Living group).
At Wind Crest, all important meetings are held live in a 225-seat auditorium on campus, and the meetings are live streamed to all resident apartments over a closed circuit TV channel on the Comcast Xfinity cable TV service.
In addition, all important meetings in the auditorium are video recorded (there’s a TV control room at the back of the auditorium, along with three wall-mounted Pan-and-Zoom TV cameras, plus stage lighting and microphones. Once recorded and edited, the videos are uploaded to Youtube where they are accessible (via internet links in the community’s website information portal called “My Erickson”).
But you don’t need an expensive setup to make video recordings of meetings. Meetings can be recorded on a camera as simple as an iPhone, and you can upload the video of an important meeting to Youtube where any resident can see it. Youtube is free, and it’s pretty easy to use.
For example, I’m a member of a resident political club at Wind Crest called the “Democratic Alliance”, and my volunteer job is to make a video recording of our monthly one-hour meetings, and then upload the video to Youtube. For example, here’s our home page on Youtube with various recordings of Alliance meetings that I recorded in video with an iPhone mounted on a tripod in the front row of the meeting room, and by using two wireless mics for the presenters).
-Barry Peters
Wind Crest
206-963-7701