Any excuses offered for the problems??

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Hello and welcome to "10 Vegas Pro techniques for power editing" webinar. The presentation will begin shortly.
Thursday January 28, 2010 10:59
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Due to overwhelming response, we are experiencing technical difficulties. We should be up and running in a moment.
Thursday January 28, 2010 10:59
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Webinar will begin at 11:05 AM CST
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:00
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Our apologies. Still experiencing technical difficulties. We should be broadcasting shortly.
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:09
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[Comment From Kevin G Saunders Kevin G Saunders : ]
Thanks
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:12 Kevin G Saunders
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[Comment From mohit mohit : ]
is it on now ?
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:12 mohit
11:13

We are resolving issues with our servers currently. The broadcast has not yet started.
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:13
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Hang tight folks. We're almost there...
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:15
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[Comment From DM DM : ]
About how long is this scheduled to last, before Q&A?
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:16 DM
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Thanks for asking... We plan on having about thirty minutes of presentation content and then q&a once we go live.
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:17
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[Comment From Jim Lee Jim Lee : ]
How do you insert a clip or photo without moving the entire project?
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:18 Jim Lee
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[Comment From Frank Frank : ]
Will there be a download copy available after the presentation
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:18 Frank
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Yes, we will post the content available for download.
Thursday January 28, 2010 11:18

Well done Jim Lee for getting his question in early ;-)

at least they teased us for a few minutes
 

ten minutes ago they offered us hope.

Yes, very impresed. NOT!

Finally in and patiently waiting :-)

Finally got on to the site. Disappointed to see this comment:

Our sincerest apologies. Thank you to those of you who were able to get in. There were many more who did not. Therefore, we will be rescheduling and sending an email announcement shortly.

Thursday January 28, 2010 11:31

not working and not suprised
 

Must of been done by the same guys who made the Toyota accelerators.

wow, I just cant see adobe or apple making this mistake....

I know, this shouldnt reflect on the quality of their software, recently, but.....

So it's cancelled?
 

am I interpeting their last message correctly?

I'm IN and got a standby signal . .

Not sure that it's cancelled, Roy, just that not everyone was able to get on. At least that's what appears to have happened. It's actually not clear.

I posted a comment to the message window (and it confirmed sending) but it hasn't been posted in the list. I said how disappointed I was and asked if the presentation materials would be available today. I suspect they have been inundated with such messages and have switched the facility off.

I'm not going to gamble with it working next time (I lost 3 working hours today to get home to watch this) so I'll wait for the materials to be made available.

EDIT: Hmmm . . . on re-reading the apology message it does appear that they are apologising to EVERYONE, so maybe it was cancelled.

A Moist Firework . . . .

- g

As a working webcaster, I can tell you this stuff ain't easy. There's a whole bunch of things that need to work right on multiple servers of different types and a streaming content delivery network to pull off a large-scale live webcast. Then there's the origination and live encoding of content... it's complex, indeed!

Regarding the allure of live... I suspect Ian and Grazie won't be going far out of their way to see the next live SCS event. On the internet, people are used to getting the information they want *when* they want it. So, an on-demand archive of the webcast will be preferred by many viewers.

Having said all that, if I'd produced this webcast on behalf of a client, I'd be fired, I'd lose the client. That's why I test, test, test, and test again prior to any live webcast!

Word to the wise - you have one chance to impress your audience and build credibility and a following in a live webcast.

Please post the link to the archive for those of us who couldn't make it...