Comments on: SURFCiTY’s Video Setup

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:41:07 +0000

Hi ,
we are a new church on the Coast & having no end of trouble getting the Tri caster to work successfully . Power points are way too contrasty & colours inaccurate . Would you be interested in looking at our set up & possible improvement. (paid of course)

Regards Steve

By: Nicholas O'Sullivan

Nicholas O'Sullivan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:42:30 +0000

Hey I enjoyed your post Jim. I’ve just gotten my church to invest money into a Roland system. The Roland VR-5 Video mixer to be exact. I find it does 3 sources and cross fades as well as VGA. It’s a simple setup but gets the job done with the ability to record and stream directly to ustream or similar video service. Though, it is only 4:3 mixing it’s not too noticeable stretching to 16:9 for a video upload of an event to our website or video sharing sites. It really is great when churches invest in video.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:33:43 +0000

#1. Understand the calculation he gives will be determined for certain specs and may not be typical for your setup. Example: It determines the output of the flash media encoder and also what the ustream accepts as its incoming bit rate.

#2. The laptop could possibly serve as another type of projection screen/ reference monitor for the pastor…… Or, the pastor’s powerpoint is ran directly into the tricaster.

#3. The cat5 is a cheaper way of distributing A/V signals and/or controlling cameras. It’s basically and in between cable. Example: A balun is used to convert s-video to ethernet and then back again. This adds an extra 150 or so to the distance before quality loss.

Hope that answers some questions for you. I know it wasn’t my post but……

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:35:29 +0000

Fab stuff – thanks for the share but I have a couple of questions (which might be better in the forum but …).

1. The streams that you record – what sort of size are they against the time? SO a 30m sermon = xxMb

2. You say the pastor has a laptop with iVGA on and you take “the VGA feed off it” – didn’t quite follow what the benefit of this was for?

3. Finally – the CAT 5 setup. Is it dedicated to the A/V or do you share it with other general Church network stuff?

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:17:11 +0000

Great post. Just one question. Why no lyrics to the baby feed area (and foyer etc)? We don’t use live video in the services except for these areas, and for a long while we had no lyrics and this was a big point of failure for us.

By: Tim Golden

Tim Golden — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:29:50 +0000

Thanks for the in-depth post on your set up. I long for the day that we can bring this all together for our church. This post will help in the process… Though one thing, what video camera’s do you use? I am looking into budgeting for this equipment for next year and wanted a recommendation for a camera, maybe it’s better that we discuss camera options in the CTM Forum
http://forum.churchtechmatters.com/viewforum.php?f=17

Thanks again
Tim
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