Church live video production

1. zeroday
   Member

   

   Hello all im new here, i like the emails i get with tips on how to shoot live video and the reviews are helpful.  Our church has recently approved for us to get better equipment to broadcast our services live over the internet.  All i use is a camera and my laptop. (lol)

   My question is can anyone recommend me a good setup for a live production? a video switcher and two good cameras.  We ahve a working budget of 10-12,000.  I am trying to stream online and record straight to dvd at the same time.  So far i have these in mind:

   http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HDR-FX7-High-Definition-Handycam-Camcorder/dp/B000IBDWNS/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_2 (camera)

   http://www.dvwarehouse.com/Datavideo-SE-800AV-KIT/SE-800AV,-TLM-404,-TLM-702,-RKM-4N7-holder,-RMC-140-p-34436.html&pltid=0c938c0a2ff87da468a309206b46c7ef (video switcher)

   what else would i need for this to work? thanks all :-)

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Cville
   Member

   

   I have a catalog from Kingdom they market to the church market the web site is Kingdom.com

   They have kits for doing video you may want to use as a point of reference for equipment to look at.  Some of the kits they have use remote controlled cameras.

   If you are going to broadcast over the internet you will need a license to do that .  It is somehting our church has looked at but are much further behind you.  You can check out a website copyrightsolver.com  They have some very good explanations about what is required as far as license requirement.  We have a performance license thru them that allows us to use some secular music as part of our worship as well as using recorded music for pre-service.

   Good luck sounds like a fun project.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. zeroday
   Member

   

   very interesting about the license thing. We are a spanish speaking church and our songs are in the free domain realm.  We do not do copyright songs. But i will look more into it. thanks a lot for that..i had not thought about that.

    

   I have a subscription to kingdom magazine, but their stuff is little oudated and expensive for the equipment they have.  it is a great magazine dont get me wrong but i am looking for something that does not include robotic cameras..they are too expensive.

    

   Thanks a million cville for ur help :-)

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. EarlC
   Moderator

   

   It might be as easy as a broadband connection in/accessible to the church, a basic two-camera switcher, your cameras and Multimedia Pros check out their options, or check out the options at mogulus. These have received some strong endorsement from video production users I've read about in other forums.

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. zeroday
   Member

   

   hey earlc thanks a lot for this links..i was gonna do it through ustreamtv...but those sites sound real good...thanks a million...doing a live production is not only about the equipment but also the online providers...thanks for bringing this up :-)

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. lakpathy
   Member

   

   Hi..

   We did a live streaming for 130 th battle of the blues. using one HD camera and another DV camera. but we didn't have enough money to rent a mixer. so. we connected both cameras using firewire and then we swiched cameras from upstream. that's not pro. but if you don't have any other choice go for it.

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. chuckengels
   Member

   

   Try http://visioncastmedia.com they have a lot of experience with live internet broadcast and DVD production.

   They work with a number of very large churches and are extremely helpful.

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   Posted 2 years ago #

8. sarahguajardo
   Member

   

   Our church is broadcasting live on the internet, we recently made some changes to our audio feed and we are running into problems with the audio not syncing up to the video feed. Are there any suggestions on how to fix this problem. The camera feed is directed into the laptop via firewire and the audio is also a direct feed into the laptop. We tried directing the audio into the camera but we loose sound quality hence why we directed into the laptop itself but now there is a lag between audio and video.

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. lmenningen
   Member

   

    Using a laptop is this way can be problematic and often it is best to have audio go directly to a camera and let it multiplex it with the video. If someone says you are losing "quality" it might be worthwhile to investigate what that means. First, since this to be an internet feed, keep in mind the level of "quality" end-users will have. Second, if the "quality" issue involves distortion in any way, the problem is probably a signal impedance or level mismatch between the audio origin (house mixer?) and the camera. Third, if the "quality" issue is noise then there are engineering or wiring issues to consider, but none of these should be insurmountable.

   Having audio and video on separate computer ports is what quite often causes latency issues that are very difficult to overcome.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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