Event A/V Wishlist

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I would highly suggest getting a mic just for ambient crowd audio. It makes the stream feel more alive when the GA or MC isn't talking.

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Goals

• Inexpensive

There is analogy that explains that you can't do this inexpensively and at a high quality, but I can't remember it for the life of me.

Originally Posted by MikLast

While im on the subject, find someone that did A/V for FIRSTWA. They are a great place to start. The DCMP last weekend shows how well they do, with two feeds for Full Field only and a Main stream that had the cool camera angles and such.

While I'm not one of the core members of PNW A/V anymore, I still know everything about their setup at DCMP.

Their setup for the two stream setup started out jank and then just got jankier later into the event. First, they used two cameras, which is just a bad idea because one is going to be off center. Afterwards, when one of the cameras died they switched to using just one camera into an SDI up down cross and then into their switchers.

The easiest way to do a dual stream, assuming you are using an HD-SDI camera, is to run your cable from the camera to the destinations and then use a T barrel to split the signal between the two destinations. This also assumes that your cable run isn't going to be greater than 100 meters, which is the maximum length HD-SDI signal can run before degradation.

If you wanted to do two streams with an HDMI camera you would just have to stay under the maximum length and use an active HDMI splitter to send it to two destinations. The downfall of HDMI is the length of the cables. An active extender can help, but just makes for a bulky mess.