This is an old video about dialing in coffee on our espresso machines. You can find the DE1XL here.
Here is the episode we just filmed, covering Filter 2.1:
We tried a lot of new things with today's shooting:
installed a metal ceiling rack
moved from a 4 channel video mixer to an 8 channel one
down-facing camera installed, looks onto the cart table top
2nd camera on Paul
two mics hung from the ceiling, above our heads
two lights hung from the ceiling on the sides
video titling software showing the current recipe and grind settings, changing in real time
beans weighed ahead of time
sound dampening curtain hung in the corner
I waved my arms and torso less than previously, toning down the mania and staying in frame more
HDMI amplifying repeaters installed, so we could site the video editing desk from from the cameras using long HDMI cables, and put the cameras where we wanted them
Balanced XLR sound output used (special cable arrived) solving 50hz audio buzz problem
Consistent picture-in-picture showing the tablet screen during extraction
Actually read the live questions and got to answer them on-air
What we got wrong:
Niche was powered off (again!) at the start \
Main camera overheated and shut down several times, until Harris figured out how to override the shutdown-on-overheat behavior
Paul-camera tended to auto-focus to the background until Harris changed it to manual focus
Still to do:
figure out how to use audio compression, limiting, to tamp down on audio volume when we get too loud
flush text left, when right-aligning the grind settings
record the session with all cameras, to a hard disk, so we can improve the edit afterwards
a camera on the extraction itself, showing the bottom of the portafilter, shot liquid, cup and scale
a camera on me too
install air conditioning, so the camera doesn't overheat
install sound dampening material on the ceiling
install vertical wood slats sound dampening background that also looks nice, behind us
make the sound better when Paul and I face away from the camera
Here are pictures of the video studio as it was today.
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