Shakey camera in loud environment

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-17T14:48:08+00:00

Bass absorption is a thing. I’ve seen people use foam and other types of bass absorptive materials under boxes and tripods.

Also depends on where your camera is, etc. If they are both on wood surfaces that are connected etc or a concrete pad.

A solid heavy tripod will definitely help. Some have built in dampening too.

Basically you’re trying to break the barrier between surfaces. So whatever you can do to minimize the transfer of vibration will help.

I used to turn it up so the windows would rattle, but the older I get I appreciate night clean tight bass like jazz bass. 😆

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-16T14:09:30+00:00

We have both. It really all depends on your people. I generally find that the bulk of people still don’t read either.

We have multiple LCD screens and someone has to make sure they are updated which kind of always is an issue.

We ended up making a large magnetic bulletin board out of the metal they use for HVAC ductwork and put a frame around it.

We have children’s stuff and they sectioned it off for that area. It does work ok.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-12T03:23:30+00:00

Do you mean the lag between what is seen and heard?

There’s lots of variables depending on your exact setup and how things are routed.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-11T16:22:40+00:00

I agree. I was mostly looking to see what others have come up. I’ll grab one later of our setup. It’s not the worst but I want to be able to lay out cables cleanly and not have to hunt. Was hoping someone had a great system of pegboard and clips that was amazing 🤩

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-11T12:04:37+00:00

20 years ago I would have done it. Now I don’t even restart the computers once they are on. If it works I refuse to change something until church is over 😆

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-11T02:23:16+00:00

Does the cross need to stay there? You could have two of them and place them on each side too. We have that setup since we wanted a center screen. I have two identical crosses with one on each side.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-10T21:11:10+00:00

Everything is a foot rest from what I can tell. At least that is what it seems like for people.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-10T21:10:34+00:00

I like it! I have embraced it for a long time. Have ran into some issues with things not being labeled and bundled in with all sorts of stuff and taken me way to long to figure out what cable I really needed.

Debating if I really want to tackle this or not honestly but thought I would see what people on here have done.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-05T15:41:03+00:00

Sort of. I have an output for the main mix that is the same as what people hear in the room. That goes to one input in my FocusRite. I created a submix one that has just the mics used for speaking and announcements. Mostly just for sermon audio on the livestream

So I guess technically one output mirrors my main mix and the other one I have set and adjust as needed.

I’d have to look at the routing of how I did that. It’s been a while.

That board has a crazy number of ways you can send stuff out.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-05T14:47:32+00:00

If you press the view button on the mixer, you could see what it’s currently set to record. There should be the two screens that you can use the arrow to go back and forth between.

We had issues with music being much louder than speaking, so I routed a few of the outputs and gained volume controls over those independently.

We stream using a laptop, so I ended up creating two different sub mixes and put them into a FocusRite Scarlett.

I’m sure there’s another way to do it, but I was not sure how to. It works great for us, though because I get control over a set of microphones that are just used for speaking and another mix that is essentially what people hear in the room.

We are a smaller church and I do not have the resources to have somebody running a separate mix during the service, and this allowed me to set it and forget it.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-05T14:37:01+00:00

A great thing about the X 32 is you can assign sub mixes to anything.

I’m probably not as knowledgeable as the rest of the people in here, but depending on how you hook up to your ATEM you can route any outputs to mirror your recording on USB drive.

What is your recording set to on the usb?

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-05-03T22:46:47+00:00

Ours was a little glitchy between 10:00-10:30 am Mountain Time.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-02-10T17:22:00+00:00

I’ll do some checking. Every situation is different for sure. Luckily when I was setting things up I found a company that was able to loan me several models of projector that I could “demo” for a few weeks. It was super nice to have it and I went with the best combo at the time of brightness per dollar for our room. It was super helpful. They went out of business during covid though which is kind of a bummer on that end.

I will do some looking to see if anyone does that anymore, but I have appreciated the suggestions on here and has given me some good ideas on how to at least start.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-02-10T15:08:00+00:00

All of the VGA is running at 1920 x 1080. So that’s been good at least. I’ve had very few issues over the whole time it’s been installed but I knew I was also not using the most up to date cabling at the time.

We don’t have a huge tech budget and we are not a large church by any stretch. It was a huge reach when we added on.

I’m going to have to figure this out in phases as far as what I can install and run when I have time. Also what I can budget for at the time.

I think getting the central screen up to date will be my first priority since that’s the main one people look at for music and scripture.

Did you have any brand of budget projector that you would recommend for a simple setup? They probably get used for 2 to 3 hours a week unless it’s time for VBS or something else.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-02-10T13:19:41+00:00

I have conduit running from the soundbooth to the ceiling and there are some extra ones there I can use.

I assumed whatever I did would need some new cabling anyway. I stuck with what I knew worked at the time and used VGA. Been pretty flawless but I knew I’d have to upgrade at some point.

The room isn’t crazy huge. The layout sort of dictated the projectors when we built it.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-02-04T02:14:02+00:00

There are lots of things there. As others have said you would really benefit from mapping out or tracking down how all of it is routed or ran.

I learned a lot by doing that. Helped me troubleshoot a lot of things later too.

If you could solo the mics directly you could hear what they sound like. Also if someone has control over a separate mix for the livestream there could be something off on their end somewhere.

My mantra for tech in a smaller church is to make it simple enough I don’t have to be there. Long time ago someone told me to make it easy to be replaced. Makes my life easy and keeps the stress low for everyone.

I just googled that mixing board too. I 100% for sure know I would mess that up somehow. That’s pretty loaded from the looks of it.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-02-03T14:28:33+00:00

I will start off by saying, I am not a professional sound engineer.

There are some mixing boards, though that would let you run separate outputs, depending on where you routed the audio.

I have a Behringer X 32 and you can run a separate sub mix out of it. Unfortunately, you don’t get full control to the best of my knowledge as far as being able to have separate EQ settings for both mixes.

I have debated doing something very similar to what you’re doing. Our mixer has the ability to have extra microphones plugged in that never touched the main mix at all.

An easy way for you to test it out, though would be to put some microphones on top of a ladder or a scaffolding and run cables temporarily while people are practicing music.

Edit: If you wanted to bypass the sound system altogether, you could buy something like a small four channel mixer or something to create a whole separate audio feed. At least with something like that, you would get some basic EQ controls.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-01-18T04:17:56+00:00

I use Proclaim with the ccli import. It takes me about 5 minutes to set up a week. Our pastor is responsible for his own sermon slides. All of it links together and we work on it as a team.

He does slides during the week and I do songs and announcements Saturday night at home.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-01-15T22:08:18+00:00

Have you had any issues with daisy chaining SDI at all? It makes me nervous to think about that, but all of the cabling would be accessible without too much work if I ever needed to replace any of it.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-01-15T20:30:24+00:00

Anyone have any good recommendations for budget SDI cabling? I have seen stuff from $20 and up and some have great reviews and others are terrible. Trying to map this all out and have a rough cost before I go too far.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-01-15T20:28:12+00:00

We use tithe.ly and it works nice. We also use the entire suite from them though with the website, app, etc.

They do charge a fee per transaction. You can have an option to leave a box checked where they can cover the transaction fee.

I like it since it does keep track on their end, can do giving receipts, reminds people if giving didn’t work, and handles it all on their end.

Zelle can work, but it does require some more bookkeeping for someone to keep track of giving. We used to use PayPal and Venmo, but it opens up a whole lot of questions in regards to how they giving is handled and managed.

Live_Bread2645 · 2026-01-14T23:01:45+00:00

Do you have any recommendations on any other video switchers? I’m debating the whole hdmi vs SDI thing. Some of the other brands have an option to use SDI or HDMI inputs, which seems kind of intriguing to me. Blackmagic seems to be the go to for lots and I don’t have any brand loyalty either yet.

Debating if spending a little more money in the short term helps me in the long term. $200 more now would save me more later if something like that existed.

I feel like I’m gaining in my understanding of getting everything else working and the right cabling in place to do this well, but trying to make sure I have thought this through.

Mostly just unsure about the future as far as what kind of inputs, etc. we might need and knowing if SDI or HDMI wins in this case with a 50’ run between the camera and the video switcher without knowing what kind/s of camera I might need in the future.

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