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Help me spend some money

Started 6 months ago | Discussions thread
Andrew S10 Senior Member • Posts: 1,839
Re: Help me spend some money
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Do your classes and student presentations entail PowerPoint presentations?

If so, is the display an LCD TV or projector screen?

If it's a TV screen, try adding a light for the presenter, that might be enough the make your camcorder's CAF lock-on.

How do you want the final recordings to appear, e.g. picture in picture PowerPoint presentation and camera feed thumbnail?

You could run the camcorder's HDMI output and student's laptop HDMI output into a computer with a couple HDMI to USB capture cards, and record with OBS; or just run the camera & computer into a Blackmagic ATEM and capture to a USB flash-drive or SSD.

Ideally, you'd put the microphone close to the subject, maybe a hypercardioid gooseneck microphone on a podium (requires a microphone amp with phantom power).

I don't think that 175,000yen is enough for the hardware that you need, let alone infrastructure upgrades like fiber optic HDMI or HDMI HDBaseT extender over CAT6 cable.

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