Well, I want to set up a video-connection - basically I want to place a camera in Room A and a screen in Room B.
In my studio I have no direct view into my recording room, this is not a problem but I thought it could be more fun to have a video connection. I do not have any clue about video but I have seen countless studios were they used some kind of a video connection.
For what kind of gear should I go? Just a cheap HD-video-cam from the discounter put on a stand and connected via Cable to a small TV screen?! Is this possible? In my case it would be nice if the connection could be wireless… I do not know if this is possible. There are a lot of network-cams available in the security sector which can be accessed via a browser… But some kind of a good video-quality could not hurt, I fear that those wireles-lan solutions will result in very small and very bad video qualy which might be ok in the security sector…
we got 4 cameras around the studio, 3 connected with USB (using powered extension usb cord, and/or usb to cat5 adapters), one connected with FW. all going to one computer (not the audio computer) and controlled and monitored with VidBlaster.
Do you have any latency? I would fear to have a lag between sound and video (bad when recording drums, it confuses)
How long can you make those powered extension usb lines?
For just one cam it could be a good idea to just use a good security cam connected on a small LCD TV. As it seems this should work fine. But your solution is able to handle more than one cams. In my case I could use one of the zillion outdated and not used PCs which I have here…
We do not use the sound from the Cam, the sound is routed form the console. For us it is mostly for Web streaming a session or remote session through the web/skype. So no Latency issues.
You need to get powered usb extension cords, we use 3 of them in line for a total of 50 ft, no problem. longer with cat5 convert.
Web Cam HD is less than $50.
So, for a quick solution I ordered one HD webcam (around 50 bucks) with 2 of these powered cords - I will hook everything up on a unused dualcore Netbook.
Maybe I will go for something more dedicated later, wall-mounted screen and better cam and stuff…
I hope that the stock-stoftware will give me some kind of a full-screen real-time video.