BG
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From: B.G. Granier <bgkajun_at_worldnet.att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- NANFA and the need to record history
> I have also suggested that there be made available any and all talks and
> video...and think it would be an asset to our organization if we could
> provide such to our membership, the AKA does the service!
>
> BG
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_charm.net>
> To: NANFA Mailing List <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- NANFA and the need to record history
>
>
> Travis "the historian" Haas suggested:
>
> >With the speaker's permission, would someone be willing to make an audio
> >(or video) recording of each talk and send it to me so that I may
> >transcribe it? Getting copies of the visual aids used would make the
> >document even better. Also, if a good enough quality video was made,
that
> >too could be archived and offered to members. In some cases, the talk
may
> >be pointless without the use of visual aids; in these the video form may
be
> >especially valuable.
>
> Fabulous suggestion, Travis.
>
> I have videotaped the speakers from the last 2 conventions. I have done so
> only
> so that I could more accurately recount what the speakers said for my AC
> summary
> articles.
>
> I've been asked by several people to make these tapes available, but I
> hesitate
> from doing so because they are of exceedingly poor quality. The audio is
> poor
> because the speakers are miked from the middle or rear of the room. And
the
> image quality flat out sucks. My camcorder is low-end; the lighting is
dim;
> projected slides and other visual aids are out-of-frame or too fuzzy to
> read;
> and if the speaker paces, he or she is often off-camera, which makes the
> sound
> quality even worse.
>
> My objective was never to make these tapes available to the membership at
> large;
> I was just recording them as reference for my AC summary articles.
>
> Suffice it to say, if someone with better equipment and the technical
> wherewithal to produce superior sound and picture would like to record the
> speakers in Ohio, that would be fabulous and could provide an additional
> member
> benefit.
>
> Also, Travis, if you would like to transcribe the speakers, I will gladly
> send
> you tapes of the last 2 conventions. Transcription, for me at least, is a
> slow
> and difficult process that makes writing the AC summary articles a major,
> time-consuming chore.
>
> I'm sure that with proper and accurate transcriptions, we could find many
> uses
> for them -- AC articles, website features, and just plain historial
> documentation of some excellent talks.
>
> Any volunteers out there to record the Hocking Hill talks?
>
> Chris Scharpf
>
>
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