Record / Stream / Archive live performances?
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Kelsevinal
Kelsevinal writes "I am involved in the theater scene where I live, and recently one of the theater owners made a solicitation for proposals to outfit the theater with a system for recording video/audio of the performances. The relevant part from that posting:
"This system must achieve the following goals:
- Capture all of the action of a performance as it occurs onstage with quality sound
- Allow for the cataloging and preservation of raw video
- Provide direct streaming to the internet
- Create dvds of raw video immediately following the performance
- Be easy to operate and physically secure"
This sort of thing is not jam, so I was curious how one would go about setting something like this up. I imagine the cameras & mics & computer interface would be the most expensive parts, the computer and storage space less so. Is there a (comparatively) "cheap" way to do this? What might the "money is no object" approach be, and how it would differ from the "cheap" way?
For reference, I estimate the stage is about 12ft. deep [front row to back of stage], the audience is about another 15 ft. deep [front row to back of the house], and from stage left to stage right is about 24ft. Above the audience is rafter room where cameras/mics could be ceiling-mounted from light rigging. In my head, I'm imagining a couple of shotgun mics mounted near the lighting, a couple of hanging stage mics, a camera dead center, and a camera to either side capturing "the wings", but I admittedly know nothing about this, so take that with a grain of salt! :-)
Help and thoughts appreciated!"
"This system must achieve the following goals:
- Capture all of the action of a performance as it occurs onstage with quality sound
- Allow for the cataloging and preservation of raw video
- Provide direct streaming to the internet
- Create dvds of raw video immediately following the performance
- Be easy to operate and physically secure"
This sort of thing is not jam, so I was curious how one would go about setting something like this up. I imagine the cameras & mics & computer interface would be the most expensive parts, the computer and storage space less so. Is there a (comparatively) "cheap" way to do this? What might the "money is no object" approach be, and how it would differ from the "cheap" way?
For reference, I estimate the stage is about 12ft. deep [front row to back of stage], the audience is about another 15 ft. deep [front row to back of the house], and from stage left to stage right is about 24ft. Above the audience is rafter room where cameras/mics could be ceiling-mounted from light rigging. In my head, I'm imagining a couple of shotgun mics mounted near the lighting, a couple of hanging stage mics, a camera dead center, and a camera to either side capturing "the wings", but I admittedly know nothing about this, so take that with a grain of salt!
Help and thoughts appreciated!"
