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Re: cheap alternatives for church video
Prax,
As an old church video director and producer I HATE those remote control cameras. Even if you get ones with a decent pic the movement is not very subtle. It looks really bad unless you make sure you don't cut to a camera until you have already started your pan or tilt.
You would be much better off with good ole human beans operating cameras on a tripod but I understand that sometimes that is not possible and even then that only works if you have good fluid head tripods that pan and tilt smoothly and the price of them usually freaks out churches.
For my Wedding / Event Videography business my Sacthlter tripod and head cost $1600 and that at the bottom end of decent tripods. I also have a $600 Bogen / Manfrotto 503HDV head on a 475B tripod that is good and the absolute lowest end I would go for professional video work.
For a really good pic you need a camera with 3 CCD's or 3 CMOS chips. However there are some good consumer cameras from Canon and Sony that are single chip and do well enough for standard definition church videos.
The remote cameras are an entirely different story. Be careful because many of them are for security purposes or other monitoring situations and are not meant to have the quality you need for videos.
As far as switching,etc goes Newtek has a portable all in one solution called "Tricaster" you might check out. If that does not fit your budget as long as you are not going high def you can find some decent switchers that will handle 3 or 4 cameras for under two grand and possibly around $500.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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