AlexDonkle
Active Member
So working on a new high school theater (new construction project, we can run any conduits needed) and just kicking around ideas before sending them off to the school. Looking at options for sending a video/audio stream back to the dressing rooms and green room and seeing what they think.
For high-end, I'm looking at a PTZ HD camera (likely Vaddio or Sony stuff) which could remote the camera control unit from the camera itself over Cat6 (and control with the Crestron or AMX system at the rack as well), then just take the output of the camera through a DA in the rack and just pull HDMI cables direct to some small, cheap wall-mounted dressing room TVs/monitors (they're all adjacent to the rack room so HDMI distance shouldn't be an issue). Other options I'm bringing up are routing the camera through the CATV system, or over IP if they want to distribute the signal further.
Trying to find cheaper options as well if those ideas end up being too expensive. Anyone have a simple pro-grade, static cameras that can be easily transmitted back to the AV rack over Cat cable?
Or any other suggestions to look into for distributing video in a theater?
Thanks,
For high-end, I'm looking at a PTZ HD camera (likely Vaddio or Sony stuff) which could remote the camera control unit from the camera itself over Cat6 (and control with the Crestron or AMX system at the rack as well), then just take the output of the camera through a DA in the rack and just pull HDMI cables direct to some small, cheap wall-mounted dressing room TVs/monitors (they're all adjacent to the rack room so HDMI distance shouldn't be an issue). Other options I'm bringing up are routing the camera through the CATV system, or over IP if they want to distribute the signal further.
Trying to find cheaper options as well if those ideas end up being too expensive. Anyone have a simple pro-grade, static cameras that can be easily transmitted back to the AV rack over Cat cable?
Or any other suggestions to look into for distributing video in a theater?
Thanks,