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best way to film a presentation incl. powerpoint projector
Hi All,
I am soon going to be doing my first piece of corporate work, filming a series of 45min presentations infront of a big screen powerpoint. I was just wondering if anybody had any advice on this and if you’d done something similar before how you did it.
I have asked the company doing the audio and lighting if I can connect a camera direct to their desk which they’re okay with so audio should be fine from there (with two shotgun mics one at front one at back for backup).
I was thinking of having one tight shot on the speaker, head and shoulders and one relatively wide shot from head to to. As long as I keep the speaker central I figured I can put both the speaker and the powerpoint on screen simultaneously with a 70/30 split in favour of the powerpoint. From the video I’d just be cutting out footage either side of the speaker. Then when that look gets a bit boring I can cut to full screen powerpoint or a mixture of full screen wide and tight shots.
The only thing I havent decided on yet is whether to take my third camera for audience reaction shots.
If anyone has any experience/advice I’d be greatly appreciative!
David
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9 Replies
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Shoot the Powerpoint only for timing reference. Get a copy of the PP, export as Jpegs and use those in Premiere. Edit a mix of only talking head, only PP slides and PP slides with a small PIP of the talking head.
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thanks for that. Yes I should of mentioned I planned on getting the powerpoint and exporting jpegs as I would do for a wedding best man speech using a projector.
I like the picture in picture talking head thats a nice idea.
It seems then that the second camera would really be quite wasted, but hopefully the wide and tight angle would make it a bit more entertaining to view.If anyone else has any ideas that’d be great. Do I need any kind of limiter/attenuator for the audio coming from the desk into the camera or will the desk be able to control the levels individually for the camera feed?
Thanks again
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Be carefull with sound from a sound installation. If your camera has a line input it is OK (but check the level and quality with a headphone). You cannot connect a line output to your microphone input.
If you have a microphone input only, you have three options:
1.Use an external microphon to record the sound coming from the loudspeakers.
2.Use an wireless microphon on the speaker
3.Ask the sound company to record the sound of the presentation
on a CD or DVD.Good luck
Phocas Kroon
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right… that is kind of a disaster to be honest. I was really hoping to just plug the output from the desk into the mic input on my Sony HDR-FX1. Is this definately not going to work? I thought as long as I kepy an ear on the volume and made sure it wasnt peaking then it’d be ok.
The reason I wanted to use audio from the desk is to save putting another mic on the speaker, plus I dont have 2 wireless mics and some presentations will have 2 speakers.
Im going to need as much info on recording from a sound desk through the FX1’s mic input as soon as possible!
Thanks for the heads up
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You can get an in-line attenuator. For specifics, the sound tech should be able to tell you– unless the site services are supplied by the hotel, in which case you may be on your own.
There is also the possibility of getting a feed from the PowerPoint machine instead of using a 2nd cam. Then you do a live switch instead of an edit later. Pros and cons to each.
-jeff
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ah yes, i’d never considered getting a feed from the projector.
I’m a lot more experienced with converting to jpegs and putting them into video, its just the audio side of things im worried about.
I bought a Beachtek DXA-4s box today to arrive the day before the shoot. Also spoke to the AV company and they are more than happy to let me have a feed. (I was also worried I’d turn up and they wouldnt let me/wouldn’t have the output!) -
Single camera med shot on presenter and a screen capture software on the laptop that is presenting, (with audio, for ref)..
I then edit in multi cam. this gives me a clean camera shot of the presenter, and a clean presentation to cut back and forth or PIP if I want… The screen capture gives you exactly what the presenter presented versus trying to figure out what slides he skipped or barley mentioned, or stayed on forever.Just a thought, Good Luck!
Thanks in advance!
Brian Walker -
Hi all,
well its time to edit this project now and as you all said I wish I’d had a direct feed to the projector at the time! Would have saved me hours.
I’m now just after some advice on how people fit a 4:3 powerpoint slide with a 16:9 talking head (possible to crop some of either side out as speaker is stationary) onto a finished 16:9 screen.
I’m having a nightmare and can’t decide how to lay out the two different shots on a 16:9 or convert the whole thing to 4:3.
Any advice on what you have done in the past would be fantastic.
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Screen capture is definitely the way to go. Recently edited a 4 hour presentation using JPEGs instead of live feed and although it looks great it to FOREVER.
Re 16:9 vs 4:3, depending on the number and complexity of slides why not just change the slide format to 16:9? Seems easier in the long run than working with two different formats.
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