Hi all,
Thanks for your help.
I have a bit of an interesting recording situation and I'm trying to figure out the most effective way to manage it.
Basically we want to record a tutorial where a teacher shows how to do things on a smartphone. The format we envision is a picture-in-picture style, with the talking head on the left side of the screen and the phone on the right.
To accomplish this we will need a video camera focused on the teachers head and a video camera focused on the smartphone. We need to actually see the finger moving things on the screen so trying to capture some sort of video-out from the phone is not an option.
One element we are trying to accomplish is to make this a simplified setup (if possible) so if I am not around the local staff can more or less press a couple of buttons and start recording. I would eventually be in charge of putting the final product together. If that's not feasible than I would be on-site the whole time (2nd best option).
What seems easiest would be to simply have the two camcorders setup and in position. Press "record" on both and just leave them running for as long as it takes to finish the tutorial (i.e. not stopping for edits or corrections, etc.) so I would have two long videos which I could bring into Adobe Premiere, and as long as I synch the start points, they would be in synch for the entire storyboard. As long as I cut both streams as I mix I would be able to edit it fairly easily.
Another option we discussed would be to run the hdmi out from both camcorders into a video mixer, generate the picture-in-picture from there on the fly, and run a single hdmi out to a laptop that captures the resultant live stream. This would potentially give the videographer (assuming I am not there) a more realistic view of what the final product would look like as they would have sort of a "live" monitor.
The second option is more complicated obviously, so runs against the simplified approach (and would require two more components, the video mixer and laptop). However, assuming I am on site, maybe this would potentially be a preferred approach?
Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom
Thanks for your help.
I have a bit of an interesting recording situation and I'm trying to figure out the most effective way to manage it.
Basically we want to record a tutorial where a teacher shows how to do things on a smartphone. The format we envision is a picture-in-picture style, with the talking head on the left side of the screen and the phone on the right.
To accomplish this we will need a video camera focused on the teachers head and a video camera focused on the smartphone. We need to actually see the finger moving things on the screen so trying to capture some sort of video-out from the phone is not an option.
One element we are trying to accomplish is to make this a simplified setup (if possible) so if I am not around the local staff can more or less press a couple of buttons and start recording. I would eventually be in charge of putting the final product together. If that's not feasible than I would be on-site the whole time (2nd best option).
What seems easiest would be to simply have the two camcorders setup and in position. Press "record" on both and just leave them running for as long as it takes to finish the tutorial (i.e. not stopping for edits or corrections, etc.) so I would have two long videos which I could bring into Adobe Premiere, and as long as I synch the start points, they would be in synch for the entire storyboard. As long as I cut both streams as I mix I would be able to edit it fairly easily.
Another option we discussed would be to run the hdmi out from both camcorders into a video mixer, generate the picture-in-picture from there on the fly, and run a single hdmi out to a laptop that captures the resultant live stream. This would potentially give the videographer (assuming I am not there) a more realistic view of what the final product would look like as they would have sort of a "live" monitor.
The second option is more complicated obviously, so runs against the simplified approach (and would require two more components, the video mixer and laptop). However, assuming I am on site, maybe this would potentially be a preferred approach?
Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom