Recommendation of HD seamless video switcher with PIP?

[Maurice Jansen]

well

have a look at the side of TV-One these guy’s
they make scaler’s in different pricetag’s. of coarse the barco (actualy folsom) gear will give you good result’s but it’s like doing daily shopping with a ferrari.

i guess making your post process more efficient will do the job much better. the start of post production start’s in pre 😉 maybe tapping the Powerpoint/keynote on site sync with the camera recording on site will be a good guidetrack in the post production.
as the resolution of a guidetrack is not a issue thing’s can be cheap.
record the presentation with the voice of the person speaking on a low quality device. and get the powerpoint/keynot’s from the person’s speaking. do some logging on site. as you have to find the highlight’s of the presentation logging the slide numbers can be a great help.
as your deeper whish is to put sponsor message’s on the composition too you have to post it any way. doing this realtime on site will push your budget big time

greet

[Matt Penner]

Thanks Maurice,

I’ll check out TV-One. Any particular model?

How do I sync the camera footage with the computer footage? Also, the computer footage is not simply PowerPoint slides. There is also live demonstrations of code, so we really do need quality screen capture, not just slides after the fact.

If I can do PIP over a background I can create a base template background that shows our sponsors. That would allow me to do everything without post, but I do understand this may significantly increase budget.

Thanks!

[Maurice Jansen]

well about the syncing for post. use the audio track of the man/woman speaking on both recording device’s as the Computer content don’t has to be completly frame acurate. in post syncing both track’s can be done with looking at the audio waveform. if you are using high quality recording use timecode and genlock your gear then the stuff is frame acurate. (although this has a big influence on your budget) one of the problem’s of the most cheaper scaler’s that can make 2PIP’s is that they don’t have a broadcasttype of output most of the time’s they make a DVI or RGBHV output on vesa standard’s which can only be recorded with the use of a extra Scanconvertor pushing budget even more. of coarse i don’t know your budget but i know the budget’s in the AVpresentation market’s and i know the pricing of scaler’s at rental company’s. still i think that getting your postproduction more efficient is saving you more money then investing in a scaler solution.

greet
maurice