Thanks everyone for responding to my question. You gave me some very helpful
and insightful advice! The flip cam was a great idea as a second camcorder
option. Didn't even think about it. And sound, yes, will have to sort that out,
if the client decides to actually go for the workshop filming.
My method has been to run a recorder off the board, but also mainly to
have a Zoom H2 set on 2 chan surround somewhere fairly central.
Then one can run it through the levelator to balance out loud and
quiet. The it's just a question of mixing, or cutting between one and
the other in post.
j
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My method has been to run a recorder off the board, but also mainly to
have a Zoom H2 set on 2 chan surround somewhere fairly central.
Then one can run it through the levelator to balance out loud and
quiet. The it's just a question of mixing, or cutting between one and
the other in post.
We
Another complication with 'workshops' is that they are often held in much
smaller rooms-- such as in a college. This may be a plus of course, but once
you have the participants packed in, along with any furniture -- which may
include tables -- your ability to rove will be constrained and
Thanks David and Richard. And yes, it involves audience engagement. It's more
like a workshop type, but the leader of these workshops would like to get the
edited meat of the whole thing. So that's why I thought that only one camera
is not going to be enough. And yes, one angle could be an
I recently got a flipHD and, while it's not much cop in the low light
music things that are my usual stock in hand, it works well in a
seminar setting. I bought a monkeypod and ball head which enables me
to be quite flexible with placement. It gives a nice clean 720p
See here
I've been involved in a bit of conference coverage primarily using audio
recording and workshops are the most difficult challenge of any of the setups.
So it's not just capturing the video. If there is a lot of audience
participation -- as in a true workshop -- then you have to capture the
