

My luck ran out when I dropped my Streaming Media East 2018 hard drive on a hardwood floor and found, to my great disappointment, that it neither bounced back into my hand like a tennis ball, nor functioned again in any way after I reconnected it to either of my computers.

Of course, there are better, more reliable, and more redundant ways to store irreplaceable conference videos than a single, un-backed-up hard drive, from RAID to NAS to Cloud, but until this point my growing collection of low-cost, individual-conference hard drives had served me well.

Within a few weeks after Streaming Media East 2018, I had every clip captured on the show stored on a single 8TB Western Digital external hard drive. So pulling these videos together requires having all of the footage associated with the show available to draw from in the edit. This is where the B-roll, timelapses, and testimonials come in, although pretty much everything we capture at an event including the Mobeon videos from the conference program is fair game for these promos. My other key responsibility with these conferences is to produce snappy promo videos to promote the subsequent year’s event. Finally, over the months between the conferences, I edit and post Short Cuts highlights videos twice a week to. At this year’s Streaming Media East, I also shot the Content Delivery Summit conference on the Monday before the conference started.Īfter the show, I edit and post the interviews to and the full sessions to our Conference Video Portal. Meanwhile, I do booth interviews with key speakers and interviewer extraordinaire Tim Siglin, as well as capturing B-roll, timelapses, and testimonials throughout the show. As I’ve written about on this site before, a big part of my work with Streaming Media is producing and editing videos for Streaming Media East and West as well as other conferences for Streaming Media’s parent company, Information Today Inc.įor the keynotes and five main tracks at Streaming Media East and West, we work with Streaming Media columnist Mark Alamares and his able crew at Mobeon to capture the sessions and stream the keynotes and the track that runs in the keynote room.
