[Jussi Peimola]

Hello,

I have been working on a budget in our christian teaching and singing reordings. First I bought the cheapest descent mixer Datavideo SE-500 wich is digital mixer with analog in:s, the problem for the vga-things is that you have to convert vga-signal to rgb before the mixer and svideo to vga after the mixer. That way the quality suffers a bit, but If you are working to get it properly to screen it does not matter. Quality is good enough. If you should broadcast or edit the result then I’m not sure if you need to invest more money but for the budget I would buy few converters and basic mixer and work with that. There is only four inputs but should you need more and need to save money buy a four way video-swich for the rest of connections. When this swich is your fourth connection you can put those not so important lines trough the switch and preview them from your quad preview before “broadcasting”. luxury from se-500 mixer is quad preview so not as many screens are required.

I have this setup and I also have to convert computers etc. to screen. I have some kind of connection sheet drawed somewhere but it’s easy to do with this kind of setup. At least much more cheaper than those BIG mixers that cost a lot.