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Old 30-09-2011, 14:02   #38
Ken Moss
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Re: Full Council - 22nd September 2011

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Originally Posted by Gayle View Post
How on earth can it cost £40k to record 6 meetings a year and bung them online?

Allowing for an officers time to be at the meetings - say 4hrs a time - 24 hours.
Then adding a couple of days each time for editing and putting online - 8 hours x 12 - 76 hours.
So 100 hours officer time at £10 maximum = £1,000.

Buying a fairly decent camera and tripod - £1,000.

If it was to be put on the council's own website I suppose you could add something for extra bandwidth but you could stick them on youtube at no cost.

All in all, you could do it easily for under £3k, I reckon.
Proper webcasting requires just a little more than £1,000 equipment to do it properly and to be honest if we're going to do it at all then I want it to look as near to televised parliamentary debates as possible.

Sound would be the major hurdle as the room would have to be wired up properly and I don't envy anyone that job, particularly when it comes to editing.
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