In venues where IP cameras are already in place, this scenario ensures a stable quality of produced material with a minimum of technical support staff. The national OpenCourses initiative will equip a significant number of lecture halls with such IP cameras in a number of Greek universities. This solution allows remote management of the recording equipment for pre-scheduled recording times. Recording quality is standardized and shooting is in the fixed frame of the roof-installed camera, while audio is picked up either by a room or a wearable, wireless, speaker mic.
Lecture recording with in-class installed, fixed camera
Characteristics of IP camera recording
- Requirements for fixed installation of equipment. Only available in equipped lecture halls. Network connectivity is required.
- Recording scheduling, one-time or repeated.
- Automated start and end
- Network streaming of lecture to media server for recording or live distribution
- Fixed frame for camera covering speaker movements and possibly projected presentation slides
- Standard video and audio quality with remote management capability
Supported Procedures
- Scheduling for future recording in a specific lecture hall, as well as provisioning for metadata entry for the produced material
- Changing or cancelling of a scheduled session
- Automated start of IP camera and server recording
- Optional live streaming
- Video recording in Η264/ΑΑC (MPEG4)
- Audio level check through the locally installed sound mixer
- Video quality check through web-based camera management
- Remote IP camera management (depending on model)
Roles
- Sound check staff
- IP camera manager
- Streaming media server administrator