- This Sunday was the first time I was able
to get my PTZ Optics camera up and running
to capture our worship gathering,
and I wanted to create this quick video
to show you guys the results.
If we haven't met yet, my name is Jake Gosselin.
I'm on churchfront.com, an online resource
for innovative and creative church leaders.
And I am a worship leader at a small church plant
here in Colorado.
So we set up and tear down every single Sunday
at the high school we meet at.
Recently I've been exploring how we can go
about capturing high quality video and audio
of our worship gathering so that,
first we just want to be able to record it locally,
but eventually we want to be able
to stream our Sunday morning worship.
I'm really grateful for PTZ Optics
for sending me one of their cameras.
Last week I forgot the power cable for it
so that's why I tried it today, this Sunday;
it's currently Sunday evening right now
as I'm recording this video.
So this whole setup is very simple.
I have the PTZ Optics camera sitting on a tripod.
It's right next to our sound booth.
And the tripod I have gets fairly high.
Then I have a MacBook Pro that's running Ecamm Live.
It's a really easy-to-use software.
It's Mac only.
If you're using PC I'd recommend vMix.
And the camera plugs into the MacBook Pro
via a USB cable.
And then we are able to route audio
from our Midas M32 to our MacBook Pro.
And there's a couple of ways you can go about doing this.
This week I actually did a full multi-track recording
into Logic Pro X.
Most weeks however, I won't do this.
This week, this Sunday, I was in a hurry.
I couldn't find our little audio interface
because I'd rather make it easier for us
to just send a separate mix from our sound console
into an audio face and then into Ecamm Live
so that everything's just automatically
all synced up together.
So this week I recorded multi-track audio on Logic
and then I did a bit of mixing and post,
and then I just synced the audio with the video.
And this camera was great even with just manual operation.
It comes with a remote and you can program presets
for different positions
and different places you want the camera to be pointing to.
So one of my volunteers programmed some positions
while we were setting up, while we were rehearsing.
So during the service he was able
to press those preset numbers
and call up the right setting on the camera.
We let the camera and the multi-track recording roll
throughout the whole service.
And again, this was just our first time
actually using the camera on a Sunday.
So I want to go ahead and just show you guys
what the final result looked like.
♪ He's roaring with power ♪
♪ And fighting our battles ♪
♪ Every knee will bow before Him ♪
♪ Our God is the Lamb ♪
♪ The Lamb that will slay ♪
♪ For the sins of the world ♪
♪ Who can stop the Lord Almighty ♪
♪ Who can stop the Lord Almighty. No one ♪
♪ Oh who can stop the Lord Almighty ♪
There's a few things we learned with this setup.
First I need to make sure I actually bring
my audio interface with me.
I used the cheap little Behringer U-Phoria UM2 interface.
It's $30 on Amazon.
And I totally forgot that
'cause I'd rather not have
to multi-track record every week.
I feel like that just requires a lot of work.
Because ultimately I want the end product to be the video
coming from the camera automatically synced
with the audio,
and of course that's going to be a whole lot easier
when we are streaming hopefully in the near future.
So audio interface is really important,
but the multi-track recording
if we ever have more time to do more editing and post,
or if we ever have a reason to have to do that,
having the multi-track capability comes in handy.
The second thing we learned is
to use manual exposure on this camera.
It tended to blowout a lot of the highlights.
Again, that might just be the
way our lighting is balanced onstage.
So here's what it looked like when we had it in auto-mode.
You can just tell our skin is just like washed out
and way too white.
And then here's what it looked like in manual mode.
We were able to reduce the brightness
and it just looks way better.
I'm really happy with this image quality.
With one PTZ camera it makes the setup super simple.
One of the kind of awkward parts of this setup is that
if you ever want to change camera positions,
you can't simply just change to a different angle.
The person viewing the videos is going
to see the camera actually move and zoom in.
And when you call up the presets it does it relatively fast,
way faster than if someone was just manually doing it.
But it's kind of jarring as a viewer to watch it like this.
So, it's not a bad way to get started.
I mean that's the way we're going to do it.
We're not really in a rush to get
a multi-cam operation going.
But again, it's a little bit jarring
and ideally two cameras would be great
so then you can maybe have even just one camera
that acted as kind of a safe wide shot.
And then you just cut to that wide shot
while that other camera can focus in
or zoom in or pull out or go to a different band member.
So that's all I have is a quick update
on this camera setup that we've been trying out.
And I'm really excited too,
to integrate the PTZ Optics camera
with Ableton Live.
I know I've been talking about this for a while,
I'm going to do it.
I just wanted to test out the simple operation
of the camera before trying to automate it
with Ableton.
Make sure you check out my other video
that's way more thorough about how to get this system
setup at your church.
I'll be sure to link a card up here somewhere for you.
And you can download the worship ministry toolkit linked
below this video.
In that toolkit I have all the gear,
all the links to the gear
and all the pricing for the gear
that we use at our church.
So if you are wanting to have a setup similar to ours,
you'll know exactly what to get.
So click that link below
to request the worship ministry toolkit.
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