Video Camera Recommendation
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I am looking for a video camera for work to record people at a focus group. (It's legal, don't worry!)
I'm looking for something that can stream the video to clients who aren't physically in our building for the focus group, and also record the video.
Any recommendations? Anyone out there doing anything like this?
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A smartphone and a live streaming site.
Treat yourself to an external microphone for better audio.
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I know where to go if someone has some money to spend. B&H Professional Photo Video Audio That's where I'd go if not using the cell phone + mic setup anyway (and would still probably get a mic from there.)
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Remember, you can spend £1000 on a camera and still have your live stream be poor.
Focus on the basics.
Most smartphones will give you a decent video image.
Upgrade the audio
Upgrade the lighting. -
@Breffni-Potter said:
A smartphone and a live streaming site.
Treat yourself to an external microphone for better audio.
I'd even go for a laptop with built in webcam + external mic.
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For software we like to use Adobe Connect. It streams it to the cloud to be recorded and shared after the fact. Unsure if it does live streaming.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
A smartphone and a live streaming site.
Treat yourself to an external microphone for better audio.
I'd prefer a standalone device., non smart-phone.
Either a camera or an actual video camera.
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@BRRABill said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
A smartphone and a live streaming site.
Treat yourself to an external microphone for better audio.
I'd prefer a standalone device., non smart-phone.
Either a camera or an actual video camera.
Outside of my expertise, I've had really good luck with high quality USB webcams + external mic's (yeti's)
If I see our A/V guys I'll see what they suggest
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This would be to record an entire room. Not sure that matters one way or the other.
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B&H is great for professions video... This isn't a professional video thing though.
You need a video confernce camera (or vide confernce camera system) I think we have some from ploycom not the best but not super expensive like the cisco ones either.
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For the use case, why not just a nicer than average web cam?
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@Jason said:
B&H is great for professions video... This isn't a professional video thing though.
You need a video confernce camera (or vide confernce camera system) I think we have some from ploycom not the best but not super expensive like the cisco ones either.
I will take a look at those.
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@scottalanmiller said:
For the use case, why not just a nicer than average web cam?
Certainly an option. I am open to and looking at anything.
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(Simpsons reference.)
Yes, sometimes the mirror will cough.
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@BRRABill said:
Yes, sometimes the mirror will cough.
I am not sure a single camera near the mirror will get the entire room unless you go with a wide angle.
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@JaredBusch said:
I am not sure a single camera near the mirror will get the entire room unless you go with a wide angle.
We've used webcams in there before to stream the video to another machine in our building. Generally if we tilt the table and put the camera behind it, it generally works.
But I agree 100% the camera on the mirror is not going to get the job done.
We CAN put the camera in the room, as well. The people know they are being recorded.
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I used to stream live company meetings via something like a Logitech C920 HD camera hooked up to a MacBook Pro and using YouTube Live. You can create a private stream with this and it's automatically recorded plus live collaboration features if people are in multiple locations.
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We only had a single stream and didn't care about the watermark so Wirecast free version was enough but check out Open Broadcaster Software for a FOSS alternative that has more features.
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@larsen161 said:
I used to stream live company meetings via something like a Logitech C920 HD camera hooked up to a ...
Logitech and even Microsoft web cams are surprisingly good for "normal" video needs.
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Going with a Logitech/Microsoft webcam option you could mount a few in that room to get direct view of each side.
Now that I'm saying this, you could even implement a CCTV system and create logins for remote viewing capabilities. The recording would be taken care of as well. Benefit would be a bit less setup each time you needed to get a live stream going but from systems I've used the recording only works in shorter file sizes so a single continuous file for the session may be an issue.
