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Doing a Zoom wedding. Need help with microphone

Started Aug 9, 2020 | Questions thread
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curiousmike1300
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Doing a Zoom wedding. Need help with microphone

We will be doing a Zoom wedding at our home.

The plan is to have an iPhone X broadcast the wedding, and have a Panasonic G85 record the event.

Doing a test last night, the internal microphones on both the iPhone and the G85 didn't seem strong enough.

My initial thought was to go with an external microphone and hang it from the top of the structure the wedding is happening at. I would "drop it" above the officiant and couple getting married. I started looking at microphones, and I simply have no idea. Omnidirectional vs directional. I'm trying to get 3 peoples voices at once. And then there is the question of trying to have 1 microphone service audio to 2 devices. And how close does this single mic need to be "dropped" for it to work? I don't want it obviously dangling in front of the people.

The other thought is just put a better microphone physically on the G85 and iPhone. The pluses to that is I would solve the two devices issue, but i'm not sure that would help either.

Suggestions?

The image below shows the couple + officiant in pink.  The cameras are at both sides in dark blue.

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