happy4ya
join:2004-10-31
West Babylon, NY
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| reply to Kiwi
Re: Looking for info on video conferencing/webinars The company I work for builds all different products for the medical market. Between the 7 or 8 divisions there are hundreds of products. Right now we do trainings in our NY location where our distributors send their service techs in and we provide classroom type and hands on training on our equipment. In our corporate building in Canada, they have a showroom and every few months they have distributors salespeople fly in from all over the world and they do sales presentations, Q&A sessions and tech support all together.
We are moving to a larger building this week in NY and we will be duplicating the showroom they have in Canada down here. We are also building a larger training facility in our new building. My boss wants to eliminate a lot of the traveling and hold online sales conferences where there will be a speaker doing the presentation but not sitting at a desk.....probably walking around the showroom and going over different products. That's why I was thinking a wireless clip on mic and wondering if there was something better than a webcam for this. I was thinking more along the lines of a video camera on a rolling tripod but with a wireless mic (sorta like shooting a movie but on a much cheaper scale).
Also, either myself or my boss would be doing online trainings for the service people who cannot make it to our facility in person....the camera would be out in the training area so I could show someone how to disassemble and change out parts on an air compressor or other components.
I'm not sure what the price range would even start at for this type of setup so we don't really have a budget yet but I'm thinking since the hosting of the online meetings will probably be through an online provider like the one I listed in my first post and there is not much cost there, I will need the following items to get started:
•Good camera
•Good microphone
•A computer to connect hardware to and run the online seminars
•A few cable drops in different locations of the building to connect the camera/mic to
•A few monitors so we could see the people on the other end if they have webcams too and want to join in.
I am the only one in my building who knows computers, A/V and a lot of electronics well so I will be the one either designing the system or working with someone to design it. I will also be using the system to do tech support and training sessions with customers I deal with every day. Sorry for the long post but I hope this gives everyone a better idea of we are looking to do. |
KiwiPremium
join:2003-05-26
USA/MidWest
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Given your situation it would be wise to get a consultant in, I don't actually work with what you are describing, but do as an end user, two 50" LCD's hooked to various and sundry contact points between two separate points locally and Nationally there are also setups to "phone" into. Now this is where a webcam actually comes in and I'm sure that unit alone is a few hundred and sits on one of the two TV's and a flat microphone sits mid room. A dedicated broadband connection is available.
Then a laptop is used to hook for PowerPoint presentations and that I am involved with, unfortunately 
I'm sure somebody around here has experience, though. Perhaps the AV forum? »Audio/Video Chat
Or/ perhaps Virtual Private Networking »Virtual Private Networking
Cheers |
