Streaming - Meeting

[MatthewL]

I can feel something coming my way already but away from work I'm involved in a number of things, 1 of them will have a AGM once a year and there seems to be a desire to stream it to allow others who cannot travel watch say via Teams. Any recommendations for camera, speaker and microphone setup? Room will have 20-30 people in typical conferance room size, just want to know what options there are and if equipment is available to loan? Next year it will be in the Suffolk area just pre empting the question, its not something I'm involved day to day so not my specialism.

[Oaktech]

I use a Nikon SLR and a shoe mounted rode mic for most streaming meetings - I borrow a Samyang Wide angle lens off a mate for some meetings.

 

Alternatively a £20 wide angle go-pro knockoff with webcam mode and a £12 PZM USB conference mic will do nicely.

[MatthewL]

Never thought about using my SLR.

 

Any recommendations for mic's actual products for the job?

[Oaktech]

So, I've got a Rode Stereo VideoMicro on my own SLR which I use when I need to stream meetings I'm attending, or I know the stream needs to be particularly high quality. They aren't cheap at a shade under £200 currently. It does also have it's limitations - its not great at picking up more than about 5m away, so I also have a cheap conference mic like this one - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bigking-Microphone-Conference-Portable-Recording-default/dp/B08D7C383Z that sits in the middle of the table and plugs into the slr to cover a wider area.

 

I have a background in AV engineering, so I have also gone the whole hog for several very important trust meetings with a rented setup from my former employer - 3x matched pair condenser mic arrangement suspended from the ceiling tiles to cover the whole room plugged into an Allen & Heath Zed 16 USB mixer, then 6 4k cameras on HDMI via 2x elgato camlink pro controlled by an elgato streamdeck XL & OBS Studio to move between the multiple meeting video sources, participant video, documents and presentations.

 

How far down the rabbit hole do you need to go.

[MatthewL]

Thanks for that, £200 is way over budget, the cheap mic recommended is more in budget, might have to get one and have a play and test it out and see how it works out. It's for an event once or twice a year but anything has to be better than 1 laptop.