Much better success capturing the 2 days over Zoom than previous years... or at least a streamlined process which is taking less Gord-hours to make watchable-as-possible videos.
(I'm skipping over Day1of2 AM sessions for now... some very interesting content there, and I'll be putting more focus into how to edit some of them.)
I finally bought "DaVinci Resolve Studio", and I finally started using OBS ("Open Broadcaster Software", free). Both are excellent tools.
The ORNL MSRW 2023 Playlist can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfir74hxWhMrDLmnznIrSt9wnKtopIxA
...and will be updated as I go. Currently there are 11 videos.
The Day1of2 PM videos I'd draw your attention to are...
Hunter Andrews: Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy LIBS for MSR Applications
https://youtu.be/kUxvYbR1DIs?si=FUuYcYDQx8R4-4mF
Alex Bataller: Online Monitor of Molten Salts using Fiber Coupled Plasma Discharge
https://youtu.be/LCDnfx2P0uU?si=u0RsCQYaH-JJo8kD
Molten Salts as Tritium Breeders in Fusion Reactors by Monica Humrickhouse
https://youtu.be/z8Ouhhl1cdM?si=iH4-zj0Dh_5xv_Oc
Capture and Editing
Using a 4K display, connect to the Zoom call full-screen. Use OBS to video-capture my entire screen. (Brute force.) While the podium footage looks like it is never sharper than 720p, the slides do appear at 1080P. So within a 4K split-screen Zoom display, that's all the visual detail ORNL ever shares, when they do eventually post (unlisted) videos to YouTube.
Experimenting with DaVinci Resolve Studio, I can Magic Mask out the wall (as seen in Hunter Andrew's talk) basically making a chroma-key where there was none. It can also track a speaker, as you see deployed in the other talks.
Premiere Pro (as part of Adobe Creative Cloud) can also do these things, but it requires 2 distinct programs to work together... After Effects and Premiere Pro. It can be made to work, but it is pretty janky. DaVinci Resolve bundles it all up into a single app, and seems to perform better on my MacBook Pro (M1) laptop than PPro did on my (more powerful) desktop.
Just as importantly, DaVinci Resolve Studio is a 1-time purchase. I'm still paying every single month for Adobe Creative Cloud. Premiere Pro is just crazy expensive. So I'm still "stuck" with it, until I get the next Thorium narrative out the door. But after that I hope to retire PPro and just use DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Flibe Energy video introducing Thorium Fuel Cycle
If you haven't yet watched it, is excellent.
Thorium Fuel Cycle Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Evoo8nq4