Digital Media Committee Meeting 20150913

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Digital Media Committee Meeting 9/13/2015

Natasha Cooks is stepping down as Digital Media chair. Jay Johnson will be committee chair of Digital Media pending board approval.

Open house

• DM verbally engaged attendees, showed room, showed some projects
• Sony RX10 camera was not used, but displayed.

Moving forward

• First impression is important with new iteration of committee
• Short term goals:
  • Get initial courses on calendar
  • Get some introductory media

Existing footage

• Adrian shot tour video footage, located in the “adriancooks”. Directory.
• Darryl was getting footage during open house

Equipment

• New ‘Workhorse’ machine immediate priority
• Alex bought high speed SD card for video. Card is in Sony RX10 camera now.
• Camera with firmware update can do higher speed video.
• No deep freeze desired on pc at this time
• Do we have server available currently for network rendering?
  • Chuck to call Robert to see if we can have servers for this
  • Jay would like 5 servers for rendering.
• Chuck says Sony RX10 is not allowed to leave space under current rules
• Lights needed. Only lighting is currently 2 softboxes on loan from Ken Purcell.

Space

• Idea kicked around of overtaking conference room as control room. This would be a big request. No action at this time.
• Lighting for DM studio room:
  • Chuck can handle moving drop ceiling lights, adding switch, etc
  • Tom suggests florescent lighting diffusion from Costco to soften for editing purposes
• Chuck recommends getting small core of people together to cover events/make videos for the makerspace
• Should we reach out to PR?
  • YouTube is a marketing/PR opportunity
• Should we have YouTube manager?
• Jay suggests having other committees film their events and we provide editing services
  • Man power (volunteer) required for editing event vids

Classes

• Jay wants to put teaching priority on editing
• Mitch suggests filming existing DMS classes
• Class suggestions:
  • How to contribute to YouTube class
  • How to shoot video with your dslr
  • How to use camera class - Mitch has experience

Administrative

• Need more time to smooth out this transition
• Jay to work on transferring Google hangouts information for continuing meetings
• Hope to have our own presence under DallasMakerspace.org instead of wiki