Suggestions for backup plan for building to building broadcast?
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:03 am
We are having a really hard time getting the building to building broadcast working with the Meetinghouse Webcast Software OR the Meetinghouse Webcast communicator box. Either the cables are bad, or connections are bad, or something isn't working right (we had audio, but no video, then vice-versa, then someone tapped the communicator box and it worked for a minute then stopped... none of us have a video capture card that works (I have two, but I can't get either of them to work with Windows 7 since they are kind of old and USB based).
Anyhow, what is a good backup plan for this? I was thinking about using the PVC capabilities. Would that be really awkward though? To have a computer with a webcam set up on the first pew? I suppose we could use a laptop and have that sit down on the pew and put the webcam (with an integrated mic) on a tripod.
We could also look into setting it up farther back... I just worry that since most every webcam I find has no zoom capabilities that putting it too far back would make the person speaking too small when it is broadcast to the other buildings in the stake.
I don't want it to be distracting, but right now we're running out of ideas.
Question: if we do end up using PVC - does it have a "broadcast" mode instead of the default "online meeting" mode? (Since we'd be using it for a broadcast, I don't want the other buildings' computers' webcams to take up any screen space... I just want to have it locked, full screen on the stake center's view of the pulpit)
Thanks~!
Anyhow, what is a good backup plan for this? I was thinking about using the PVC capabilities. Would that be really awkward though? To have a computer with a webcam set up on the first pew? I suppose we could use a laptop and have that sit down on the pew and put the webcam (with an integrated mic) on a tripod.
We could also look into setting it up farther back... I just worry that since most every webcam I find has no zoom capabilities that putting it too far back would make the person speaking too small when it is broadcast to the other buildings in the stake.
I don't want it to be distracting, but right now we're running out of ideas.
Question: if we do end up using PVC - does it have a "broadcast" mode instead of the default "online meeting" mode? (Since we'd be using it for a broadcast, I don't want the other buildings' computers' webcams to take up any screen space... I just want to have it locked, full screen on the stake center's view of the pulpit)
Thanks~!