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Our church has been experimenting with DVD recordings for about a year now.
What we are doing at this point is we have three cameras.
One at left rear, one at right rear, and one up in the A/V room. (think of it as the center balcony area)
All three are manually operated.
The two in the sanctuary at the back we have built camera booths so that the camera is about 10 to 12 ft high. They are both regular camcorders with good zoom mounted on tripods attached to the booth. All three run directly off of the 120V wall plug, (no batteries, no tapes/disks) and are directly wired to a control board in the AV room.
The third, center cam in the AV room is just on a tripod, but wired just like the other two.
they all go to a four screen monitor station, (the fourth screen being what is shown on the sanctuary projectors and computer)
There are two other screens, one master (whats being actually recorded *NOW) and one secondary. (whats "next")
We of course can fade from any of the four views or super impose scriptures or song words over the camera picture.
The camera station also has its own dedicated sound board that feeds from the main sanctuary sound board. That way we can control all microphones, instruments, drum booth, Cd's etc as they are being recorded.
This is working pretty well. The main drawback being that you will never get true professional quality video from standard camcorders and mid grade tripods. But it is FAR FAR better than the lone guy in the middle isle with a tripod cam!!
Our biggest expense I believe wold be in the pro grade cams and mounting systems, but there is talk of going with that next, or at least having the two side cams controlled remotely with electronic mounts suspended from the lower level ceiling.
One thing we chose to do, was keep all the cams in the rear. As we feel that cameras can be a big distraction, especially to someone who is wanting to break out, and worship in freedom and doesn't want to feel like they are dancing for candid camera. Plus new people praying at the altar feel inhibited to really let go when there is a cam recording their every facial expression.
Not to mention the few nuts that just love to be on video, and will do anything to strut their stuff right in front of the camera.
But please, keep us informed of what you do, and what works and doesn't work!
Hopefully some of this helps.
BTW..... all the cams and tripods were donated, as well as two of the monitors, and the sound board was an old one we used to have for the main sound system. So the church has very little out of pocket cost for all of that. we probably don't have more than 400 bucks in the whole deal.
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