Church live — Pro (three cameras, SDI)

Bring your own

• your PA mixer and the microphones already on it for worship leads, and a lead from its output to the switcher's XLR or RCA input
• SDI (BNC) cable runs
• rack
• displays for program and multiview
• a PoE+ switch for the two PTZ cameras
• wall or balcony brackets for the two PTZ cameras
• a USB-C drive for the recording
• a tablet for the OBSBOT Start app

Why this kit

At three cameras the deciding constraint is cable length, which is why this tier runs on SDI: HDMI is unreliable past about 15 m and BNC is not. The Tail 2 and the XA65 both have a 3G-SDI output, so each feeds its BNC run with no converter. The Tail 2 has a 5x optical lens, so it works from a side wall or the balcony front rather than the far back. The long shot comes from the XA65 at the rear, locked on the pulpit, because its 20x zoom reaches where the Tail 2 does not. One operator runs the table and the tracking does the rest, so the kit needs no camera crew and the intercom stays an add-on. The Television Studio HD8 ISO takes those feeds natively, streams the programme and records each input to a drive as a service archive. The clip-ons go through your PA mixer, so the hall and the stream share one mix, and worship leads stay on the microphones already on that mixer. The clip-ons run on 2.4 GHz, which shares the air with Wi-Fi and phones, and a full sanctuary will not get near the rated range. Keep the receiver in clear sight of the pulpit, on a balanced XLR lead back to the mixer, and test it with the hall full. If the pulpit cannot see the receiver from anywhere usable, this is not the right mic: use the rack UHF add-on, priced on a quote.