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CameraTag: Simplified Webcam Video Recording

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Re: CameraTag: Simplified Webcam Video Recording

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Post by burpee »

Cool product! We've been working on this stuff (and a lot more) over at VideoView.com. Right now we're working on an entirely new video interview recording application which is kind of like a very extended version of this.

Our experience has been that one of the biggest challenges is actually in getting the average (non-technical) user to be guided through the webcam and audio setup process. There's nothing as frustrating to a user as thinking they've recorded a video, only to discover that the audio didn't work or the video went wrong.

How do you handle that with CameraTag?

Re: CameraTag: Simplified Webcam Video Recording

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Post by cdanzig »

burpee wrote: post #13

Cool product! We've been working on this stuff (and a lot more) over at VideoView.com. Right now we're working on an entirely new video interview recording application which is kind of like a very extended version of this. Our experience has been that one of the biggest challenges is actually in getting the average (non-technical) user to be guided through the webcam and audio setup process. There's nothing as frustr…

Hey,

We auto detect activity (change in frame-to-frame) in the the microphone and camera. It means the user has to spend 2 seconds waving to their camera before recording but it also means they don't have to mess with camera / mic settings.

-c

Re: CameraTag: Simplified Webcam Video Recording

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Post by cdanzig »

obaid wrote: post #17

Nice work. Can you talk about the technology stack behind this? I am very interested in knowing about that. Thanks

Hey Obaid,

Sorry for the delayed response. Don't know how I missed you question. Happy chat about the tech:

For now the recorder base is a flash app that has a JS API. We built a stock HTML interface that consumes that JS API but our users are free to replace or exclude that HTML if they so please. As soon as we can reliably record a WebRTC stream we will swap out the Flash :)

The server side is built in Rails running on AWS (Beanstalk) hosted on Passenger and NGINX. In addition to the web interface, There is a REST API for accessing info about your recordings. We can generate h.264s and png thumbnails of your recordings in any resolution and frame rate you want- our transcoding is handled by Zencoder and/or Amazon Elastic Transcoder (depending on requirements).

Hope that helps- did you have any specific questions?

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