Filming Church Service Help!

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Mechanicsville Baptist

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We recently started recording our church services and I would like to know what we can do to connect our video camera to our sound board so that we can get better audio when posting our videos. We have a 32 channel Behringer Board, that is digital similar to the picture attached. Our video camera is a Canon VIXIA HF R800 Camcorder. Please send any suggestions you may have.
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markw

Audioholic Overlord
Trust me, if you want decent audio you're gonna need a bit more than the microphone in that camera.

You need to invest in a few decent microphones feeding into the mixer and the mixer's output fed into the video recorder. At least a wearable mic on the speaker, preferably wireless.

This might be your cheapest (not necessarily the best) option but it'll get yo theough the night. Note that it totally bypassed that sound board.

https://www.amazon.com/External-Microphone-Accessory-R500-R600-R700-R800-Camcorder/dp/B00UXNZ1BM/ref=sr_1_9?gclid=CjwKCAjwxrzoBRBBEiwAbtX1nx72U7eR6Jz2PAIo-kcjsdvbHKsDpgH8t96e0ueIU3GkL2JjbOHOYBoCiiQQAvD_BwE&hvadid=182619157589&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9027906&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t2&hvqmt=b&hvrand=14007853564248372354&hvtargid=aud-647846986281:kwd-288360228182&hydadcr=18503_9834403&keywords=canon+vixia+hf+r800+accessories&qid=1561334103&s=gateway&sr=8-9
 
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WaynePflughaupt

WaynePflughaupt

Audioholic Samurai
You can try one of the Berri’s aux output jacks to the camera’s mic input, but I expect the latter expecting a really low signal.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
 
BMXTRIX

BMXTRIX

Audioholic Warlord
So, you will want to take a mic output from the audio mixer into the camera.

From this page: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/camcorders/consumer/vixia/vixia-hf-r800

It has a 3.5mm microphone input jack which can be used for getting mixed audio into the camera. It likely has the ability to turn off the microphone on the camera and just use the 3.5mm input for sound.

This will be a huge impact on the audio quality of your recordings from the camera as long as the room itself is properly mic'ed up and the mixing board operator knows what they are doing.

Testing should be performed to ensure that audio output levels are not over driving the input on the camera and that everything is working properly, but this is a fairly straightforward setup overall it looks like.

Please keep in mind, you are pairing what may be a $2,000 mixing board, plus all the microphones you are using, with a $200 video camera. It's a pretty lousy plan of attack to demand the camera to have a lot of bells and whistles associated with it. Many DSLR cameras have much, MUCH, higher quality audio inputs on it with very good lenses available that are a better way to go for quality results. But, I'm not sure what this is for, where you are using it, or what the final purpose is intended for.
 
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