Temple live — Pro (three cameras, SDI, festival hall)

Bring your own

• the temple's existing PA mixer, amplifier, room DSP and the microphones on it for bhajan leads and announcements (quoted through the Pro Desk if needed), and a lead from the mixer to the switcher's XLR or RCA input
• the BNC cable pull, conduit and pillar or ceiling mounts
• a rack, a PoE+ switch and a UPS on the control table
• displays for the multiview and the confidence feed
• stands or truss for the stage light
• a USB-C drive for the recording
• a tablet for the OBSBOT Start app

Why this kit

At three cameras across a hall the deciding constraint is cable length, and that is what moves this tier to SDI: HDMI is unreliable past about 15 m and BNC is not, and the Tail 2 has a 3G-SDI output, so each head drives its BNC run directly with no converter to fail on a festival night. The Television Studio HD8 ISO takes those feeds natively and records every input to a drive, which is how a temple ends up with an archive of every utsav rather than only a YouTube VOD. It also streams the programme itself over Ethernet, so the stream does not depend on a computer staying awake for eighteen hours. The clip-ons go through the PA mixer, so the hall and the stream share one mix, and bhajan 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 every phone in the crowd, and stone walls and a full hall will keep it well short of the rated range. Put the receiver in clear sight of the priest, on a balanced XLR lead back to the mixer, and test it on a crowded day before you rely on it. If the sanctum cannot see the receiver, use the rack UHF add-on, priced on a quote. This tier is sized for a mandapam or festival hall where each camera sits within about 15 m of what it frames and one operator runs the table. An open festival ground, with the sanctum, stage and control table far apart, needs longer zooms and beltpack intercom, and goes on a quote.