Friday, February 7, 2014

camera for recording/streaming church services?




Mikhail


Hi everyone, I hope you can help me. I'm looking for a camera that I could use to record/save to my pc/livestream church services. It will be about 70 ft away from the front of the church. I'm not looking for anything fancy, since this is the only camera we will have for now. And also I need something low budget. Thanks a lot
by low budget I meant, something way under $1000 closer to $500. if possible less. Isn't this Canon HV40 a cassette camera? Would it have a HD video?
MmmJ and L thank you for your inputs. I guess my main thing right now, is that what camera could I use to record and stream at the same time. like so what im recording, I could store like save to pc and stream it live at same time.



Answer
Mmmj is right.

To answer your follow-up question, chances are VERY high yu will not find anything that will stream high definition video through USB. Not at the consumer, prosumer or pro level. That means HDMI, component (RGB) or AV plugging into a "Tricaster" box or something similar.

Yes, the Canon HV40 is miniDV tape based. The DV in miniDV = Digital Video. The zeroes and ones stored on digital tape are just as digital as the zeros and ones stored on flash memory, hard disc drive or even DVD. The format is different. The Canon HV40 records in high quality, low compression, high definition (1080i), video onto the digital tape in HDV format. Just because it is tape does not make it somehow "less digital"... Digital tape should not be confused with analog video onto VHS-C or Hi8 or other analog formats storing analog video.

Please help..........! Church Video Recording?




T


We are trying to broadcast our church service in our nursery so the ladies in the back can still watch the services. We already have a screen in the front of the church that we put powerpoint things on.. I was thinking maybe we could hook a camcorder up to the computer and broadcast that way but we would need something to hook up to the front screen that would allow the others in the nursery to see what we see on our screen... Anything will be appreciated!!! thanks!


Answer
The simplest way is to just point the video camera at the screen - it sounds crude but it does work pretty well.

The alternative is to buy a "scan converter" and a video switcher. The "scan converter" converts the VGA output from your computer to video. You would then need to switch from the camera to the scan converter depending on what you wanted to show in the nursery.

Aver Media makes good cheap scan converters that will work great:

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=327861

(Remember to take the video tape out of the camcorder when you are using it as only a camera - otherwise your camcorder may keep shutting down)

God bless you!




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