OnSight Media Blog

The 2008 Lyons Outdoor Games were held over the last weekend in May with stellar weather, fun events and good times for spectators and athletes.

We captured some of the sights and sounds and compiled an online video page created with Adobe Flash CS3. The videos showcase the action of the Creek Race, Dirt Jump, Ripstoke Bike Trials and Freestyle events.

The video was produced to promote the event and distribute content to a wider audience that could not physically attend the event.

click here to view the video content

Front Porch House Concerts hosted Steve Seskin for the third time in as many years on May 17th, 2008. The concert was recorded and can be viewed on the www.frontporchhouseconcerts.com website. A few videos and the entire audio from the concert can be downloaded though iTunes - click here.

To learn more about Steve Seskin feel free to visit his website at www.steveseskin.com

Listen to the show here:

The Colorado BioScience Association is putting on a series of 6 presentations around Colorado highlighting the work of Discovery Grant Program recipients. The first group presented on May 5th in Aurora, CO and included Dr. Douglas Graham, Dr. Karen Stevens, Dr. Kay Holmes, Dr. Leland Shapiro, Dr. Stephen Hunsucker and Dr. Steve Anderson.

OnSight Media is contracted to provide video services for each of these presentations, which will be used to broadcast to schools and individuals interested in this content. The May 5th video presentations can be found here:

May 5th, 2008 Discovery Grant Program

We created an interactive online video series showcasing the 2008 Douglass Elementary Jog-A-Thon. The event raises money for Douglass Elementary students literacy program.

The work flow consisted of filming the event and editing 4 video segments that included a highlight of the event sponsors, converting the final videos to Flash .flv format, and finally using Adobe Flash to create the television graphic and interactive buttons that launch each video. A DVD copy was also made to show to the students prior to the end of the school year.

Click here to view the finished project

On April 17th, 2008 author Richard Brenne assembled a panel to discuss the seriousness of climate change. The panel consisted of NCAR Social Scientist and IPCC Author Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao, CU Atmospheric Science Department Chair Dr. Brian Toon and NCAR Senior Scientist and IPCC Report Lead Author Dr. Kevin Trenberth.

We recorded the event, which consisted of a single camera and an audio patch into the room sound system. The video content was edited and published into segments that address a single question or topic. In total 16 segments were worth publishing and can be found at the following web address: http://video.onsight-media.com/cu_salon_series/climate_change.htm

The video content was also uploaded to Current TV to reach a relevant audience.

Listen to the panel here:

Here is a list of links to each topic:
NUCLEAR WINTER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF INDIA AND PAKISTAN GOT INTO A NUCLEAR WAR

STUDYING CLIMATE CHANGE: ANOTHER ICE AGE?

IPCC REPORTS

HAS CIVILIZATION BEEN A GOOD IDEA?

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE MOST VULNERABLE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

WATER VAPOR: THE MOST ABUNDANT GREENHOUSE GAS

COMMENTS ON GLOBAL DIMMING

COMMENTS ON CARBON BASED PARTICULATES

THE UNITED STATES IS THE BIGGEST LOSER IN GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

CLIMATE CHANGE AGGRAVATES EXISTING STRESSES

HOW THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT WORKS

CLIMATE CHANGE: A CONTRARIAN VIEWPOINT

FINAL COMMENTS

The Colorado BioScience Association held its annual member meeting on April 29th. OnSight Media was contracted to record the guest speaker - Duane J. Roth of CONNECT. The presentation was 1 hour long and included PowerPoint slides.

We took the PowerPoint presentation and added the slides into the final video segments. All video content was converted to Flash and incorporated into an interactive online piece showcasing the entire presentation broken into 5 parts.

In addition to the video an audio mp3 is available and can be listened to here:

We returned from the 7 stage Tour de Georgia having produced and delivered over 75 videos on VeloNews TV of behind the scenes action from the race. The project and trip were successful with highlights being the start off the coast of Tybee Island, the Team Time Trial at Road Atlanta, and of course the decisive stage up Brasstown Bald.

Here are a few videos from the week’s effort:

2008 Tour de Georgia: Perspectives on Rock Racing’s last minute addition to the Tour de Georgia

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 7 post race with Rock Racing’s Freddie Rodriguez

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 6 post race with Astana’s Levi Leipheimer

2008 Tour de Georgia: Catching up with Rock Racing’s Cesar Grajales

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 6 pre-race with Rock Racing’s Tyler Hamilton

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 5 - catching up with Astana GM Johan Bruyneel

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 4 with CSC’s Bobby Julich

2008 Tour de Georgia: Rider perspectives on race organizers decision to not allow TT bikes for the Team Time Trial

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 3 pre-race with High Road’s George Hincapie

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 3 pre-race with Slipstream / Chipotle rider Dave Zabriskie

2008 Tour de Georgia: Stage 1 pre-race with Astana rider Chris Horner.

Billy Jonas played at Front Porch House Concerts on April 12th, 2008. We captured the show and have published some video clips online. Randall Williams played a couple of songs in between sets. You can view one of Randall’s songs by clicking here.

Click here to view the videos of Billy Jonas at Front Porch House Concerts.

Listen to the show

We completed a 4-part series on gluing tubular tires to a rim for VeloNewsTV. Here are the individual links:

Part 1: Tools, preparation and removing the old tire.

Part 2: Cleaning the rim and stretching the tire.

Part 3: Prepping the tire and applying the glue.

Part 4: Mounting the tire to the rim.

On Thursday March 27th Kevin Cawley put together Boulder’s first Facebook Developer Garage. We joined forces with Kevin and provided a live video broadcast of the event. Here are the details of the broadcast:

We used a Panasonic DVX100A mounted on a tripod with an Audio Technica AT897 shotgun microphone. We connected the the camera to a Dell laptop via Firewire and used UStream’s free live video broadcasting service. We also ran audio out of the camera via RCA and connected to the laptop via the microphone jack. A little tweaking was necessary for clean audio, and we were provided with instant feedback via the UStream chat room once the audio was fixed. Initially we only had 3 online viewers for the live video broadcast, but as word got out via email, blogs and eventually Twitter, the viewer count climbed as high as 43 simultaneous viewers. The chat room remained a hot spot with most of the online viewers participating. The live stream was up for over 2 hours without a hitch.

Look for a future post with links to the archived video once we have finished editing / publishing.

UPDATE:  The videos are available.  Click the picture below to watch.