Stake Conference Streaming

[lajackson]

The remote general authority is the only reason we used Zoom. We set it up nearly the same way, but had both a monitor aimed at the stand for the presidency and a large TV aimed at the chapel for the other participants. Those who prayed and spoke provided a nice small congretation for each speaker to see and were not asked to sit on the stand.

On Saturday the presiding authority conducted a full-up discussion with stake leaders via a Zoom meeting. On Sunday we sent the Spanish speakers (about 100) to the Zoom link and the rest of the members (about 1000) to the Church webcast system fed by a Zoom webinar.

The hardest part was getting the meetinghouse sound into the Zoom meeting and the Zoom meeting back into the chapel sound so that the stake president and the general authority could chat with each other in real time.

[russellhltn]

On Sunday we sent the Spanish speakers (about 100) to the Zoom link and the rest of the members (about 1000) to the Church webcast system fed by a Zoom webinar.

Since Zoom supports translation, that would be a reason to use it for a single pulpit-only stake conference.

[Mikerowaved]

If you have a remote participant, you'll have to use Zoom to produce the conference.

Not necessarily. Checkout OBS Ninja. Playing around with it, I'm really impressed.

[russellhltn]

Not necessarily. Checkout OBS Ninja. Playing around with it, I'm really impressed.

I'm sure there are alternatives, but given the limited toolset most STSs would know about, it's the only one.

Looks interesting, but it appears to be a private effort. I'm not sure if it will survive promotion here.

[Wattsuk]

The remote general authority is the only reason we used Zoom. We set it up nearly the same way, but had both a monitor aimed at the stand for the presidency and a large TV aimed at the chapel for the other participants. Those who prayed and spoke provided a nice small congretation for each speaker to see and were not asked to sit on the stand.

On Saturday the presiding authority conducted a full-up discussion with stake leaders via a Zoom meeting. On Sunday we sent the Spanish speakers (about 100) to the Zoom link and the rest of the members (about 1000) to the Church webcast system fed by a Zoom webinar.

The hardest part was getting the meetinghouse sound into the Zoom meeting and the Zoom meeting back into the chapel sound so that the stake president and the general authority could chat with each other in real time.

Yes, we had some fun with the sound. We did also have TVs facing both ways for a small congregation exactly as you describe. Those praying and their families etc.

Feeding the sound out of the church PA into the laptop line in directly created a delay between the video and audio feeds.

We then routed the chapel PA into the mevo cam audio input, set the mevo up in webcam mode to the laptop which resolved the synchronisation issue.

We then fed the audio output from the laptop into the aux / line in to the chapel PA to bring everything full circle and get audio both ways.

When the laptop was charging it produced some hum/interference which wasn’t audible in the chapel but was to those at home so needed to add a suppression filter between the laptop audio out and the chapel audio aux in.

Worked a treat.

[kelsontl]

During our most recent Stake Conference, we broadcasted to 2 other ward buildings. There were about 1,000 people in the Stake Center where I was broadcasting to YouTube, and it was transmitted to the other 2 buildings. The wireless microphone was making clicking sounds and every 2-3 seconds it went quiet for 1/2 second. I think it was because I was using a KIMAFUN bluetooth wireless microphone (it cost $50 on Amazon) that was 50 feet from the pulpit. With a room full of people using their smartphones, I wonder if that was why my microphone was having problems.
I have 6 months to figure out how to make this work before our next Stake Conference. Does anyone have a recommendation to improve the sound?

[russellhltn]

I have 6 months to figure out how to make this work before our next Stake Conference. Does anyone have a recommendation to improve the sound?

There are a number of posts about how to tap into the sound system. I'd look at doing that. However, most of the time, the feed is near the podium, so you'll have to run a line. Wireless always adds some risk of problems. Especially if you're running in the 2.4GHz band where Bluetooth and WiFi are.

[Mikerowaved]

There are a number of posts about how to tap into the sound system. I'd look at doing that. However, most of the time, the feed is near the podium, so you'll have to run a line. Wireless always adds some risk of problems. Especially if you're running in the 2.4GHz band where Bluetooth and WiFi are.

I'll second what russellhltn posted. Tapping into the chapel sound system and hard-wiring it back to your webcast PC will net you much better results than trying to capture it wirelessly.

[jnpetersen]

Yeah, I know this is even later than the last few posts, but you could always put in a FIR asking for a record out line be run to your broadcast area if you are using a mixer that you need to bring it in to. We utilize NDI capable cameras so we feed the audio into the camera so that audio sync is correct.