Video Team: Camera Setup

I have a great camera and I love the fact that I get to use it every week for church and sometimes during the week. Ok, not enough on projects that would benefit me – but hey I have a greater purpose in mind.
Basically every Sunday we setup the camera in order to feed it and ProPresenter content through to the Creche area. Here are the Settings that we use:

Audio Input:

Balanced 3pin XLR from the sound desk into both input channels. As for levels I find it difficult to find the right level because there is a control on the sound desk that does not seem to provide a consistent level since there is a huge dynamic range between the volume of a speaker and the music. Also I have level settings to adjust on the laptop for the built in input – line in. I just make sure that there is no clipping and that the level does not get too low.

Audio Output:

I am really just passing the sound desk audio through to the laptop as Stereo RCA.

Video Output:

The Video component of the RCA is really a fail safe. Otherwise the the firewire output is used for the live video for ProPresenter.

Focus: 91/92 for a distance of about 35 meters
Iris: Defendant on the lighting but usually it is completely open during worship and about F4.0 with the stand illumination on the speaker.
Shutter: Default 1/50 unless I have to film the projector screen then it is 1/60
Zoom: Dynamic and try to keep as many congregation heads out of the shot.

Issues

Audio: Dynamic Range between the audio and speaker cause the volume to be either too high or too low until the operator can adjust it.

Video: Usually the lighting effects used during worship results in inadequate lighting for the camera and sometimes means I have to digitally enhance the image by increasing the image gain to 3db. I don’t go higher least I introduce too much noise into the picture.

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