For previous years of Narrascope, videos of the various presentations have eventually made their way online. As far as I can tell, that hasn’t happened for Narrascope 2024.
Is there a plan to put those up somewhere?
The stream/recording audio was pretty lousy – I vaguely gather that that was a combination of the conference committee trying to reduce costs and then the A/V company… not doing a great job with the equipment they had – Matt Griffin was trying to manipulate the recordings enough to be understandable but it was slow going. I think the last we heard from Matt was mid-December? And of course he’s co-chairing his year’s conference so I imagine that’s getting in the way too…
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Yes, Josh is exactly write with what he is saying there. This is still on me, and I’m still facing the issues he described. And I’m still the lead Conference Chair for the conference, so in a certain sense every hour I spend on videos takes away from hours making progress to move towards the new event.
I have been pretty disappointed with the quality I can extract from the sources, so haven’t shared them because I didn’t feel they served the excellent presenters well and might distract from the plans towards NarraScope 2025. Each version has felt amateurish, which is really not a good indication of the quality of NarraScope as an in-person experience. The great news is that for 2025, there is already a team of 3-4 volunteers forming to help us rethink AV and work towards not only better (even decent!) capture. Hell, I’ll bring my own 20k worth of AV gear and be the AV department to avoid this bs. Our new goal going forward will be the conference aim to start launching videos within 3weeks of the conference or earlier by doing capture and hand-off right.
But I have done a decent job rebuilding the audio which makes them useful despite the evidence of how “worked” they are, so I think I just have to grit my teeth and launch them, and archive the sources such that someone else with more time can try more cleanup work. I have kept promising to do this, and have kept having my heart broken by a few hours of experimental cleaning and layering techniques to try to take evidence of cleanup away.
But clearly people want to enjoy last years talks again, as do I, so I’m going to make this a focus this month if anything to take this off my plate and to feel less guilty being a bottleneck for this.
These will go up on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@IFTechFoundation
If anyone wants to collaborate in Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition with me to get this 24hrs of content cleaned and launched, I’m welcoming any help I can get at this point. So far, I have spent about 20hrs fruitlessly reworking the keynote, and went back to an early pass that just had improved audio for a new pass this week.
You can even use your own tools if you can show me evidence you can process to clean audio that way. Fill out a volunteer form here and make it clear what you want to do and your background doing this work. I mean, I can also train you how to do this, if you match my current tools so that I can literally share projects with you. I can’t train you to use other tools because I don’t have the time, but there are some great resources for new ways to leverage AI cleaning tools within all of the tools, including the open source and low cost ones, so you can maybe find your own efficient way to help out. It’s a great service if you can help us get the work of these great speakers up and shared!
But even if no one helps, I’ll get this going and do my best to serve our past speakers well.
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