{"id":11,"date":"2014-02-03T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=11"},"modified":"2014-02-06T00:52:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:52:47","slug":"crestron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating the Crestron CaptureHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I came to this group, the only lecture capture appliance they had was a Crestron CaptureHD unit installed in our large (400+) auditorium. It had been there for about a year and was used to make some test recordings but not much else. An AV tech pacing back and forth, waving at the camera and tapping the microphone isn&#8217;t a real world use case scenario so I did some testing to see if it could be viable for larger scale use at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/files\/2014\/02\/capture-hd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56\" alt=\"capture-hd\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/files\/2014\/02\/capture-hd-300x75.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/files\/2014\/02\/capture-hd-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndedtechguy\/files\/2014\/02\/capture-hd.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used to it record one class for an entire semester. To distribute the files I had the CaptureHD box upload them to an FTP server. From there, I downloaded them to my laptop and then uploaded them to our Echo360 server (currently in pilot). It encoded the files and placed them in a course which I specified. Access to the files was provided via an LTI integration between our LMS (Sakai) and Echo360. It&#8217;s a manual process but not difficult. Not at all scalable though.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s a neat product and has some promise, it&#8217;s just not ready for prime time. Here were some of the limitations I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Couldn&#8217;t integrate with our Exchange or room reservation system (Not a deal breaker)<\/li>\n<li>It records to an SD card and then transfers the files to an FTP server but it has no support for SFTP. That didn&#8217;t make our infosec guys happy. This has recently been rectified but the firmware release that added SFTP had other issues.<\/li>\n<li>I had numerous issues with the device:\n<ul>\n<li>Occasional lockups on boot.<\/li>\n<li>Some firmware versions would not pull metadata from the Fusion server to which is communicates.<\/li>\n<li>Weird issues with recording not stopping at the correct time if it was a recurring recording.<\/li>\n<li>Difficulty in scheduling recordings on the Fusion server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It records both content sources (video and content) as one video stream, not 2. That means that if you record it in PIP mode, that&#8217;s the only way you can ever watch it. No resizing the windows or swapping them. Same thing with side by side or only one type of content.<\/li>\n<li>It can&#8217;t stream and record simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li>No content distribution mechanism. You get the files and they can compress them on their server into a multitude of formats, but then you have to figure out what to do with them and how to secure them. Not ideal for a low-touch process in higher-ed without a lot of custom development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you had no other options and didn&#8217;t care about delivering the files being a manual process, this would be fine.\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s worth the cost but it&#8217;s certainly viable.<\/p>\n<p>I love Crestron control systems and switching gear and\u00a0I&#8217;m DMCE certified so don&#8217;t take this as bashing their product. This is just one of those products that&#8217;s outside their core-competency and\u00a0therefore not likely to get the time and attention it needs to succeed. I bet they drop it within 2 years. That being said: I hope they prove me wrong!<\/p>\n<p>The next step was evaluating other options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I came to this group, the only lecture capture appliance they had was a Crestron CaptureHD unit installed in our large (400+) auditorium. It had been there for about a year and was used to make some test recordings but not much else. 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