I have been asked a number of times about our deployment of EyeTV and the role it plays in teaching and learning. We have been using Elgato’s EyeTV (review) for recording our film and television programmes for about three years now and this service is further offered to around ninety teachers.
The use of TV in teaching isn’t anything new and many departments have amassed dozens of VHS tapes over the years.
Elgato have pretty covered most of our video needs with TV encoders (and EyeTV) for our TV capturing and editing needs. The Turbo.264 HD allows us to encode footage directly from AVCHD camcorders and virtually any other video format. Now the company tackles our analogue video needs in the form of “Video Capture”
I still consider myself a bit of a switcher from PC to Mac. I have been using my trusty Mac for a over four years now and it seems to play a growing role in all areas of life.
I have decided to list my five essential Mac hardware add-ons that I use on a very regular basis in a range of both personal and work settings. These devices not only make life easier they work so well they are worthy of a dedicated blog post.
I have been asked a few times, and most recently via twitter about how to get the most out of the Apple TV. With the dawn of Boxee many multimedia fans are looking at the Apple TV device in a whole new light. I am going to concentrate on how to get the most out of the Apple TV (but without the Boxee hack). Read our initial review of the Apple TV.
This year we invested in a number of Flip Ultra Video cameras to be used in the classroom environment. These reasonably low cost video cameras have revolutionised how we work with video in education.
A couple of years ago we were involved with a large scale video project that involved training teachers on how to use a camcorder (tape), how to import footage, how to edit footage and how to export it to a portable format that would work on the networked computers.
We love how the Elgato Turbo.264 HD works with our Panasonic HDC-SD100 (Review Link) we produced a video how-to. This video tutorial will show you how easy it is to quickly import and convert AVCHD camcorder footage using Elgato’s Turbo.264 HD hardware accelerator and software.
The intuitive interface makes simple edits to footage very simple and even has the ability to send footage directly to YouTube and YouTube HD.
When Elgato released the Turbo.264 we were instantly big fans. Firstly due to the speed boost in converting EyeTV programmes to TV format but also the fact the software allowed us to quickly convert video and upload it directly to YouTube.
Elgato Systems has released Turbo.264 version 1.3, a free update for its award-winning video encoder in USB stick format. The update includes many new features for YouTube users as well as owners of Apple devices such as video-enabled iPods, the iPhone, and Apple TV.
