AAW 2016 sessions for demonstrators and clubs

[AlanZ]

There are two sessions at the upcoming AAW 2016 Symposium in Atlanta that will be of particular interest to those who demonstrate for clubs and events, and for those in clubs who are responsible for inviting demonstrators.

I am presenting a special interest night session on Thursday, and there is a panel discussion on Sunday morning.

I hope to see some of you there. Introduce yourselves!

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Special Interest Night

Rethinking Demonstrations - Using Live Video
Alan Zenreich
Thursday 7:00 p.m. Room 203B

Wouldn’t it be great if woodturning presenters could do their demonstrations from their own shops with their own tools, and have a live interactive audience participation in a faraway chapter location? No travel time and costs, no equipment packing, and availability of presenters from all over the world. Chapters could afford more and varied presentations for their members. Presenters (both experienced and new) could reach a wider audience. This session will cover

• How presenters can use the Internet, low-cost computers, webcams, audio, software, and free video feeds to present multicamera demonstrations.
• Typical chapter set-ups to make online demonstrations interactive, seeing and taking questions from the audience.
• Related topics, including rights to record and sending samples to the audience in advance, to pass around.
• Using the same equipment to record videos that show your work and educate fellow turners.

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Panel Discussion

So You Want to be a Demonstrator
Andy Cole, Beth Ireland, Derek Weidman
Sunday, 8:00 a.m. Rm 203E

A wood lathe is a powerful and dramatic shaping tool, making it perfect for exciting demonstrations. The key is pairing this machine with the right amount of information, entertainment, and inspiration to engage an audience as they watch, and then leave them with something they can take home to think about and hopefully try.

Demonstrating is fundamental to the woodturning field and is how we share what we do and teach each other collectively how to grow. There is value in being able to combine turning skills with a bit of public speaking, whether at your local chapter, all the way up to a national symposium. As woodturners, almost all of us have benefited from other makers showing us how they create, and this panel will help give some pointers and thoughtful discussion on how to give back and join the fellowship of demonstrators.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

See you at the video presentation. Now if I could get the club to finance better equipment.

 

[Douglas Ladendorf]

See you at the video presentation. Now if I could get the club to finance better equipment.

Gerald, my club, Bucks Woodturners, just did a silent auction of tools, wood and art - all donated by members (including honorary member Mark Sfirri) with proceeds going to some new video equipment. it was very effective with over $2300 in proceeds. You might try something like that to make incremental upgrades.

Doug

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Gerald, my club, Bucks Woodturners, just did a silent auction of tools, wood and art - all donated by members (including honorary member Mark Sfirri) with proceeds going to some new video equipment. it was very effective with over $2300 in proceeds. You might try something like that to make incremental upgrades.

Doug

Yes we have a raffle about once every quarter. Not as much income as you but for a 50 member club we get 500 to 600 a year that way. We just bought a new lathe but the video equipment will be on the next purchase list.

 

[Chuck Gies]

I thoroughly enjoyed your special interest night presentation and I have been searching trying to find out where you may have posted the resource listing from it. I know it was being recorded also so naturally I was unprepared to take notes on it. Now that all the symposium is over I am looking for all the details.
At North Coast we have a setup we just completed that could benefit from some of the hardware you displayed. However we need to make a lot of changes as the 15' USB limit puts our video hub really close to the lathe. We had three of our members view it and they were all impressed.
Is any more information available?

 

[AlanZ]

Chuck,

Thanks for the kind words about my session.
I have been waiting for some footage that Rick Baker shot on his boom camera, and I will incorporate it into the video I recorded. Hopefully I will have that in the next few days.

I have started putting together a resource list, and I will add the USB extension cables to the list and post it here ASAP.

Feel free to contact me via private message, and I would be happy to chat with you on the phone about any open questions.

 

[AlanZ]

Chuck,

Here is the first version of a resource list for the session.
I hope you and others find it helpful.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Chuck,

Here is the first version of a resource list for the session.
I hope you and others find it helpful.

Alan , Thanks for your work and the listing. I had forgotten about the NDI app. Does it require WiFi network (as stated on the web page) or will it work directly to a laptop with out going thru network?

 

[AlanZ]

Gerald, the NDICam app is intended to work wirelessly.

However for a wired connection, I have tested it on an iPad with Apple's new lightning to USB3 adapter going into an apple USB Network adapter, and plugging into my network with the iPad's wireless turned off. Note that this "wired" setup is only certified for iPads and does not work reliably on iPhones.

Generally, you need some sort of a router or hub to host a wireless network... all the devices, including the computers connect to the router wired or wirelessly.

The nice thing about iPhone 6 and newer is that they can connect wirelessly via 802.11ac to a router that supports that Gigabit protocol (effectively as fast as a wired connection).

That's what I used during my demo... both iphone were wirelessly connected to a TP-Link AC-1900 router under one of the tables.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Thanks Alan

 

[Chuck Gies]

Thank you Alan. It will take a few days to digest all of this. Our meetings are held a city owned center that has no internet connections so I need to research ways of getting a connection that would be dependable and not too pricey. Seeing that we would not be using it every month it would likely be at the clubs expense to implement it. The operation though would be helpful toward any changes in our current camera arrangements for live demos.