[Sam Hones]

May I ask you what program you use on the laptop. I have both a Magwell (not batched as such but does the same job (XI100D UVC USB3.0 1080P 60FPS HDMI Video Capture Dongle)) and a Startech ( (USB 3.0 Video Capture Device – HDMI / DVI / VGA / Component HD Video Recorder – 1080p 60fps). They run on a Asus based desktop machine so I had to get a compatible Startech USB3 card else it won’t work, but it has input options of: composite VGA, HDMI s-video. I use it to capture output from someone’s laptops powerpoint presentation shown on projector. iSPY will see it and lets you attach a sound channel coming from elsewhere. Fine for viewing – recording in iSPY is problematic as only 10FPS

[Sam Hones]

Have a look for
Mini SD-SDI HD-SDI 3G-SDI to HDMI Video Audio Converter Adapter 1080P DC 5V-12V
get one HDMI to SDI and another for SDI to HDMI. Yes, you’d run a BNC cable between but it works well and over great distance. You have just one cable as opposed to two Cat5/6 and at £20 per adapter is quite a bit cheaper. I got the idea from church setups and then tried it myself.

[Sam Hones]

Hi, I realise that the original message was written nearly a year ago.
In our church we are using:
dv camcorder (Canon DV-650i)(to be replaced with HD)
Firewire for pc based zoom control,
recording software: Debut
recorded camera output composite (tried s-video had snow)
capture unit: Hauppage 1900 USB 2
sound to “microphone in” on PC from sound desk (separate mix to FOH, LS9 32 mixer. for independant control look at Air fader)
How it runs:
camcorder (no tape in machine, stops it turning off)output (composite) to 4 position CCTV switcher (local price abt £40)ideally 3 cameras connected to allow 15sec rotational switching to see different aspects.
Presentation software output to vga splitter, one output to projector, another to VGA2composite converter and output from there to position 4 on switcher. switcher output connects to PC hauppage for recording, spur goes to Sony VX410 dvd/vcr recorder to record straight to +dvd disk.
The switcher has 4 toggle switches. 1-3 is turned to cycling, 4 is in off position and when projected image wants to be included in recording is flicked to home (this interrupts the cycled flow till returned to off)
if camcorder needs to be recognised as webcam, use DVdriver.

BTW an older camcorder vcr analog type is still usable, maybe for shots of congregation.
if you use DV camera as above you can use for recording: DV, composite, s-video all at the same time (not necessarily to the same unit (PC, dvd recorder, stream to web PC)
hope that’s of some use to someone