Primary support from Lars Washburn: Chemistry Audio/Visual Equipment <chemav@cornell.edu>. No cell number available, but Lar's office number, which he receives in many locations within the building, is 5-2372.

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  • Primary support from Lars Washburn: Chemistry Audio/Visual Equipment <chemav@cornell.edu>. No cell number available, but Lar's office number, which he receives in many locations within the building, is 5-2372.
  • Chemistry IT provides some backup to Lars in his responsiblities for A/V support within Chemistry:

Notes from Chemistry IT

Compilations of some use-cases in which Chemistry IT has stepped in to assist.

Request: Chair's Office requests recording made of Prof. Geoff Coates accepting honor from the National Academy of Science (NAS)

Lars was not going to be available on Saturday to do the requested recording from live-stream, which would have been one potential solution. Chemistry IT thus asked to make this happen.Ticket:

  • INC000002222844 Chair's Office - recording NAS induction

Details: Chemistry IT instead made other arrangements, which did conflict with anyone's availability on that Saturday. Oliver contacted NAS and they were happy to send us not only a better quality video than what we could record in real-time via a web browser from their video stream on Saturday. They also properly edited it. In addition, Oliver secured the anticipated required intellectual property (IP) rights for our subsequent use. These were confirmed to be required especially since the stated intent was to post it to Cornell's eCommons for more persistent access, and securing IP is a precondition to posting items not from Cornell to that repository.

Info for FUTURE event, such as for spring 2019

NAS are happy to do provide this service again (video recording, editing, and IP statement) for the Cornell Chemistry Department. And now that it is set up it doesn't have to be Chemistry IT making this administrative (non-technical) request.

Prof. Hector "Tito" Abruna to receive same NAS honor in 2019, per May 2017 announcement:

Request: Attended support for day-long, Saturday Baker Symposium

Lars was not going to be available on Saturday to do the requested support. Chemistry IT thus asked to make this happen.Ticket:

  • INC000002232723

One question: Oliver could not figure out how to mute the in-podium mic while keeping the wireless mic active to the speakers. Doable?

Oliver's networking secured us an HDMI-capable projector from Weill Hall. One that had been pulled from a ceiling mount because it was "old". It was far newer than the one in 120 PSB, and it ended up being superb for the event. We had 5 laptop swaps during the event, and all went without a hitch. This followed failures during the previous week to get an acceptable quality image on at least one of Oliver's test laptops. That same laptop worked great with your projector.

Other details:

  • The faculty member organizing the event had a MacBook which worked well with the in-room projector. However he  was not happy with quality of line-drawings on some of his slides during our testing last week. The loaned projector provided a much better image, which he naturally appreciated. The direct HDMI input probably helped, although looked good in VGA, too. Anyway, after that test we decided we would only use the loaner projector for the day. And the in-room projector thus became our back-up.
  • We ended up mostly using HDMI, although we used VGA for one presenter's laptop.
  • All worked without surprises, the images were clear and bright, they filled the screen, all with proper alignment and key-stoning. And even the loaner projector's bulb was relative new with just a few hundred hours logged!
  • Chemistry IT's smaller, metal cart was placed in the third row and covered with a red table cloth. It seemed largely inconspicuous and it lost us just 3 seats, including the 2 in front of the projector itself.
  • Lars Washburn provide us excellent, wide vinyl tape to secure the two 25+ foot long and thick HDMI and VGA cables we happen to have on-hand. All without leaving any tape residue on the cables, floor, or furniture.
  • Organizers and speakers elected not to use the mic/ speaker system at all, even though it tested out OK.

Info for FUTURE events

Room's AV will not be upgraded until winter 2018/ 2019

This schedule is valid as of May 11, 2019, per Todd Pfeiffer <tap66>, Facilities Director, Weill Hall, Clark Hall & Physical Sciences Building. Related to:

  • INC000002222726
Another alternative for support is CIT

CIT staff know 120 PSB, the AV equipment there, and are A/V professionals.

https://it.cornell.edu/av-event

Note on coverage availability: CIT staff are asked if they want to work off-hours, such as on weekend days. Thus, the more advanced notice they get the more likely staff there will "volunteer" to get paid to work on a Saturday. I asked late (7 business day beforehand) and no one there wanted to support this event:

  • WO0000000024511
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