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Posted by nobody special on 05/28/06 01:40
For the mic issue, you might consider mounting two PZM boundary mics in
the room and feeding those to a mixer near your free hand.
For cheap switching between 2 cameras into a deck, you already got
pretty good suggestions as to what to get or avoid. You could also
just buy a vertical interval router type box, there are several that
would work for you in the 3-400 dollar range. You would feed this
switched input to a stand alone deck.
I have a DVCpro camcorder that has a video input on the back so you can
use the camera as a deck, but there is no way you could switch feeds in
it the way you were asking. It's either a camea or a deck taking in
external video, never both.
Another way you could go though is to use a mac laptop and a usb
cheapie camera for the wide shot and your Dv camera as a firewire
input, add Channel Storm's Livechannel software and the laptop becomes
a cheaper version of the video toaster, able to switchsources, add
graphic supers , etc. plus it records the switched mix to the hard
drive and can even simultaneously pointcast it tot he internet as a
live stream. not bad for $999 software. Free demo to download and
try. The catch is, i don't think it can switch two DV streams live
even if the laptop has 2 firewire ports. But it should be able toe
switch from a USB conferencing type cam and the Dv camcorder ok.
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