Mark, most of the seminar Q&As tend to have low or uneven loudness and the intro/outro music has a much higher level of loudness. Apart from being jarring for the ears, often the questions are not audible. Hope SS team can fix it.
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Mark, most of the seminar Q&As tend to have low or uneven loudness and the intro/outro music has a much higher level of loudness. Apart from being jarring for the ears, often the questions are not audible. Hope SS team can fix it.
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We're on it, Giri. Sorry to disappoint you.
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Yes Rip, please spend thousands of dollars on audio equipment for multi-channel recording, hire or train a media specialist (or team), and give me immediate turn around on the seminar you held just days before, all for free. My one time purchase of SSBBT and PPST should cover those sessions, the cost of hosting this site, the forum, producing informational videos, updating the written materials, and creating new content for articles.Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe
Snark aside, Giri, it's easier in concept than in reality to get good a super slick media presentation and balance the user experience for those in attendance versus capturing media for video or audio playback, unless Rip brought or hired a media team to produce a multi camera and audio product. I work at a small graduate school and am partly responsible for the online and recorded class sessions. We have thousands of dollars of equipment and have been doing this for years, but we constantly run into issues with audio capture (failure of systems, including redundancies, lack of training by the operators, facility issues due to relocation of classes and lack of in place resources), instructors trying to balance in class experience while acknowledging that their teaching style has to adapt to the fact that this will also have to relate to posterity. That doesn't include the cost of my media specialist (and his equipment), who creates, produces and delivers media content (audio/video/still) for the marketing side of things.
I'm just happy to get free audio from the QA session for which those in attendance had to pay. (Man, I can't get the sentence to sound right.)
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slhuckstead, it seems like what Giri is proposing is just quieting the intro/outro music and using a compression filter on the audio to equalize the volumes a bit more. It's something that takes a few minutes and greatly increases the quality of the content. Rip doesn't have to be uploading these videos at all but there's a reason they are uploaded with nice intro/outro music and 1080P resolution. Therefore, someone on that side cares about quality at least a bit. It's a useful suggestion to equalize the audio in this case.
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Yeah, I came across very thin skinned there. I was spittin' mad at somebody else and had a general annoyance with everyone. I do apologize to Giri for the sarcasm at the beginning of my post. And yes, Coach Rippetoe does care about quality of the product, but I also understand the constrains of time and delivering a product in a timely manner (got to keep the Podcast fresh) so that we/us masses can get our fill.
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What about subtitles for the question being asked?
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What about if you just come to a seminar?
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It's just a well meaning suggestion, Sir, not a complaint. I could juggle the windows volume button and the video slider as I always do and get what's being said. Just saying that it can be improved. A good benchmark would be how Alan Thrall SSC presented the Barbell Medicine videos.
In fact, there's no need for high-end mastering etc. Could be as simple as passing the audio stream through the leveler in the open source Audacity. But still, someone got to do the job. Hence, it's a suggestion at the best.
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I would prefer that you have a non-binary sign-language interpreter (for those who are deaf and those who identify as deaf), but that's just me.
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