What to do with old Iris kit?

[Jobos]

We bought into Iris when it first came out and now the contract is about to end. We do not want to renew the contract owning to cost but Iris has said we can buy the kit for £400 or return it.

 

The Iris kit is the older type with 2 ipods, 1 tracking mount, mic and tripods. The school still want to video the odd lesson so is there anyway to make use of the old kit without subscribing to the costly Iris service? I was thinking of something simple as the school doesn't need cloud video editing in fact I'm sure all they used Iris for was to record the lesson and watch it a couple of time before deleting it.

[irfdude]

Just give it back and buy a decent video camera and tripod for £200 to record lessons. The ipods we used were a PITA to get footage off of. No one ever used the cloud editing.

[IrritableTech]

I wasn't party to the original contract here but I always assumed we'd bought the equipment outright? Not the case then?

 

An iPad mini and the swivl with it's microphone is a reasonable solution for recording a class. We've used the google drive app on some ipads here in the past set to auto backup the videos so there is little human intervention. The video can then be shared from there with who ever needs it.

[Sylv3r]

Our contract ended in March (3 year deal) and we were never asked to return the kit after we decided no longer to renew it. We have used it once since with the swivl and one iPOD and it seemed to record the lesson fine - the biggest selling point to the IRIS kit was the secure upload - but we probably went through spells of losing more videos then it saved - so staff haven't really missed it.

[Jobos]

Thanks guys. As I was leaving yesterday I was told it had been decided to buy the kit so looks like I'm stuck with it, still, looking on the bright side the rechargeable batteries will come in handy.