Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
We're doing (our third) Chorus department talkback, where the chorus sings, and an outside expert watches and listens and then comments on how things are going, in my college mainstage theatre this month.
In the interim since the last one, our college Zoom account was allowed to lapse, and it's being discussed to do this with Teams instead.
The rig, last time, was:
VIDEO: Canon XA10 camera -> HDMI-SDI Converter (this is a prebuilt camera rig) -> SDI-HDMI converter -> HDMI Balun -> Building Cat 5 -> ATEM Mini Pro ISO -> USB to Mac Mini as a webcam
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AUDIO: Building audio (wireless and wired mics to LS9/32) -> Presonus firewire interface -> MacMini and the opposite, back to our mains and front-fills; levels controlled by hand to avoid feedback, though Zoom's "Pro Audio" switch helped a lot.
I have an intuituion that Zoom will make this much easier to manage (since I can't be there, having another conflicting musical-run booking) than Teams will, especially since Teams/Mac is almost certainly a redheaded stepchild, knowing Microsoft.
Does anyone have any *recent* experience trying to use Teams in this sort of environment, though? The teacher in question suggests "it's gotten lots of upgrades" recently...
In the interim since the last one, our college Zoom account was allowed to lapse, and it's being discussed to do this with Teams instead.
The rig, last time, was:
VIDEO: Canon XA10 camera -> HDMI-SDI Converter (this is a prebuilt camera rig) -> SDI-HDMI converter -> HDMI Balun -> Building Cat 5 -> ATEM Mini Pro ISO -> USB to Mac Mini as a webcam
.
.
AUDIO: Building audio (wireless and wired mics to LS9/32) -> Presonus firewire interface -> MacMini and the opposite, back to our mains and front-fills; levels controlled by hand to avoid feedback, though Zoom's "Pro Audio" switch helped a lot.
I have an intuituion that Zoom will make this much easier to manage (since I can't be there, having another conflicting musical-run booking) than Teams will, especially since Teams/Mac is almost certainly a redheaded stepchild, knowing Microsoft.
Does anyone have any *recent* experience trying to use Teams in this sort of environment, though? The teacher in question suggests "it's gotten lots of upgrades" recently...