At this year’s PASS Summit, we’re adding a series of sessions called Lightning Talks. In a normal one-hour time slot, you can sit and watch several presenters give rapid-fire, 5-minute micro-sessions on various topics.
My Lightning Talk is “Storage Area Networks Simplified” – I’m covering the two most important things you need to know about SANs in just five minutes. Here’s a video of my rehearsal at home. I’m playing with iMovie’s green screen effects, but I forgot to wear a shirt that didn’t have green in it, so it has some sparkly action in the video. Ah, well, that’s what you get with a rehearsal.
My rehearsals ended up being a little over four minutes long, so I had to cut it even tighter. In a live environment, people will be (hopefully) laughing at some slides, so I won’t be able to deliver it this quickly. I just turned in my final deck, and I sliced out a couple of slides.
I’m excited to see how these turn out! The Lightning Talks schedule is:
- Tuesday 3PM-4:15PM – Room 201 (144)
- Wednesday 1:30-2:45PM – Room 201 (144)
- Thursday 1:00-2:15PM – Room 201 (144)
You can view which presenters are in each time slot at the PASS Lightning Talks page.
Matt Velic October 29, 2010 | 10:41 am
If you don’t bring that sparkly shirt to the session, I’m going to be so disappointed…
Brent Ozar October 29, 2010 | 10:41 am
HA! I’ll probably be wearing the shirt, but the sparkles, not so much.
Ronald Dameron October 29, 2010 | 10:54 am
The sparkles give it a Star Trek beam out effect. Now, if you could really beam out at the end of the talk. That would be something.
Eric October 29, 2010 | 12:45 pm
Too bad my work blocks videos on Vimeo
Rob Boek October 29, 2010 | 9:28 pm
SAN Admins are LIARS!!!! Isn’t that the truth! : )
Great talk, love the slides!
David Mertl November 1, 2010 | 10:59 am
Glad I could provide an appropriate photo-metaphor for a bottleneck.
Brent Ozar November 1, 2010 | 11:08 am
David – and thank YOU for licensing the photo with Creative Commons! I try to encourage photographers to do that – you’d be amazed where your photo turns up.
Meir Dudai November 6, 2010 | 1:44 pm
Hi,
Thanks, great video.
How did you add your video on top of the ppt? Can this be done at home or did you use a studio equipment?
I am thinking of making a similar intro video for my Teched ppt.
Brent Ozar November 7, 2010 | 7:48 am
Meir – thanks, glad you liked it. I use Apple iMovie, which has built-in green screening (also known as chroma keying). If you’re using a Mac, it’s insanely easy – just drag & drop the two videos on top of each other in iMovie, and it’ll pop up a list of options about how to combine them. Choose green screen, and off you go – it detects the background and removes it.
Meir Dudai November 7, 2010 | 11:16 am
Thanks for the info!
I will look into it (don’t have a Mac myself, but got a few friends who do).