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Advice on setting up a video studio
This probably isn’t the right section to post this question but I didn’t see a category that best fit.
I’m creating a new video studio for my company and was wondering if anyone knew of some good online resources I can use to select the equipment.
We already have the lighting, video cameras, telepromters, stands, mics, green screens and live streaming capabilities.
I just would like to know the following:
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What’s a good mixing board and monitors for our editing room?02.
What’s a good compression tool to use for the post production?03.
I’m not sure what a raid set up is, can someone suggest advice?04.
We’d like to have a large flat screen monitor in the editing room, can someone suggest a good one? And what type of connection would we need to connect to the computer.05.
We have two cameras, is there a way we can record with both of them at the same time without going to each and hitting record? Ideally, I would like to control this from the editing room – is that possible?Thanks in advance!
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Hi David,
Overall of course, none of these questions are distantly related to Premiere Pro…
Question 1:
“mixing board and monitors”…in the industry this language would cause most of us in North America to think you mean an “audio mixing console” and “monitor” speakers, which would be best asked about in the Cow’s “Audio Professionals” forum.I suspect however, you mean a “video switcher” (“vision mixer” for many across the pond) and video display “monitors”. This covers a lot of area and is a question that is impossible to answer without some idea of the equipment you’ve already purchased.
Question 2:
Compression Tool…the Cow’s “Compression Techniques forum would be a great place to ask this.Question 3:
“What is a RAID?” The Cow’s “ARRAYS and RAID Set-up” forum might get you further with that.Question 4:
“What sort of flat panel display?”…this one is also pretty broad and depends on a host of factors with your existing system.Question 5:
“Roll two cameras from the control room…” Again, without some sort of actual information about what cameras you’re using, what format you’re recording, what software you may be doing post production on, what frame size and format you are distributing and/or archiving…any answer would be an arbitrary and uninformed one.When you are setting up a facility like this, you can’t simply buy each item individually without some sort of a plan as not every thing connects to, or is compatible with every other, or even a variety of other thing(s).
I recently had a performance venue that decided they didn’t want to pay me to help them plan their in-house HD system, but after they received the gear, they realized they were over their heads and they called me in to configure the system and I ended up saving them well over 10,000 USD the first day I showed up, even with heavy restocking fees for returning the gear they were convinced they needed, but actually they didn’t…
The restocking fees alone would have covered my time tweice over to help them come up with a well-engineered plan in advance, but as it was, the system was still a compromise in many ways because it wasn’t designed by someone who understood how it all needed to work as a “system”. They paid me later to have to “adapt” what they had to create a functioning facility.
These seem like areas that probably aren’t central to your current expertise. I’d recommend you secure the services of someone who can advise you and has optimizing your system as their primary goal. Otherwise you’ll be sifting through sales pitches disguised as objective technical information in many cases.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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