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Re: Looking for info on video conferencing/webinars One big thing that everyone forgot to mention, is lighting. An XL1, DVX-xxx, or any of the prosumer miniDV cameras are great quality, but will look like crap under office lighting. Everything will be somewhat washed out, grainy, and you won't be able to get good clarity when doing closeups on the equipment you're demonstrating.
All the prosumer cameras will give you "live" video and audio over firewire, but you'll have to tinker with them a bit and make sure the one you pick can be configured to not shut itself down when there's no tape in it.
The Sennheiser G1 stuff might be available cheap. I'd imagine that you could get a good used prosumer DV camera and a good used wireless setup for under $3K - you want to buy used stuff from a reputable place that deals in used gear and has an in-house repair shop (I like G&G in Secaucus).
On top of that you'll want to add a few cheap softbox lights and a decent tripod (optionally add a dolly if you have to move the camera around).
Personally, I'd hire a video guy to set this up and train someone. You also have to consider whether there's in-house talent to actually run all this stuff during a presentation...
I'd be tempted to go with a two camera setup, one for the speaker, one for closeups. A cheap way to handle source switching with two cameras would be to do that in the analog realm, there are fairly affordable analog video switchers available - I doubt most of the conferencing software is able to cleanly switch between two inputs.
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