Where to set up A/V equipment?
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:51 am
In our stake center, the satellite cabinet is in the meetinghouse library towards the back of the building. There are no Ethernet RJ-45 connections anywhere near it. So I can't set up the VidiU there.
If the FM added an RJ-45 connection there, I would need a video signal converter to connect the composite video signal to the VidiU. It just seems wrong to use an HD camera and an HD encoder, but use composite video between them. Ugh.
My current plan is to set up the HD camera, the VidiU, a switch, and a laptop either in front of the front pews on the left side of the chapel, or behind the rear pews on the left side. From the switch, I plan to run an Ethernet cable to the nearest wired clerk's office (disabling the Wi-Fi).
With the Wi-Fi will be disabled, all videos must be downloaded before our conference.
We will likely use the FM's wireless microphones and audio mixer, and set them up on the Sacrament table as we usually do. The challenge is to capture audio from the podium, the wireless microphones, and the computer connected to the projector for playing slideshows and videos. I sincerely hope the mixer has two output jacks -- one for the meetinghouse sound system, and the other for the VidiU.
No matter how much I plan and prepare, I know that the visiting authorities will ask me to do something at the last minute that I did not anticipate. It happened to me last year when the presiding authority wanted to play a video on his iPad. I knew the video was coming, but I did not expect to have to capture audio from the iPad and pipe it into the sound system.
If the FM added an RJ-45 connection there, I would need a video signal converter to connect the composite video signal to the VidiU. It just seems wrong to use an HD camera and an HD encoder, but use composite video between them. Ugh.
My current plan is to set up the HD camera, the VidiU, a switch, and a laptop either in front of the front pews on the left side of the chapel, or behind the rear pews on the left side. From the switch, I plan to run an Ethernet cable to the nearest wired clerk's office (disabling the Wi-Fi).
With the Wi-Fi will be disabled, all videos must be downloaded before our conference.
We will likely use the FM's wireless microphones and audio mixer, and set them up on the Sacrament table as we usually do. The challenge is to capture audio from the podium, the wireless microphones, and the computer connected to the projector for playing slideshows and videos. I sincerely hope the mixer has two output jacks -- one for the meetinghouse sound system, and the other for the VidiU.
No matter how much I plan and prepare, I know that the visiting authorities will ask me to do something at the last minute that I did not anticipate. It happened to me last year when the presiding authority wanted to play a video on his iPad. I knew the video was coming, but I did not expect to have to capture audio from the iPad and pipe it into the sound system.