Re: Live internet show

Hi -
this is what you need.

1) money to build this studio
2) an engineer to put this together for you.

This is not a "throw a firewire cable into my MAC, and make a live TV show.

Lets just take one of your issues - communications between your director, the cameramen, your talent, and the phone lines -

you need a professional communications system - like an RTS or Clear Com system. The minimum configuration is going to be a 2 channel system. 2 channels for the base station, one channel for the com boxes that go to the cameramen and director. The second channel will be used for IFB (interrupted foldback). You take your telephone interface box (from JK Audio - gee which one ?) - and you send the phone signal into the PROGRAM AUDIO INPUT of your Clear Com or RTS base station. This gets assigned to channel 2, which feed IFB beltpacks, which go to the ears of the talent. This way, the director can use the base station to talk to the talent, or switch the phone feed to the talent, so they can answer questions from the callers. All of this will cost more than your MAC, drives and a capture card.

But wait - there's more - if you want to feed the audio from the talent back to the phone lines, so the callers can hear the answer to the questions, in addition to their internet audio, you need a full duplex hybrid from JK Audio (or others) so you can take an aux send from your mixer, and feed it back into the JK Audio phone interface, so the callers can hear what the talent has to say on their telephone ?

Confused ? Surprised it's this complicated?
You are not getting answers to how to build a complete television facility on a simple thread on an internet forum. You need a contractor. And you need money to build this.

An HD switcher that can handle multiple cameras, tape roll ins, key graphics, and have a live graphics generator (only 20 items left - order now before they are gone !) - will cost you A LOT OF MONEY.
And take a lot of configuration and wiring.

Everyone gets so spoiled from how cheap it is to build an editing system, or graphics system today. But building a live production facility that is FULLY FUNCTIONAL is a lot more involved than someone saying "hey, get a tricaster - that's all you need to have a fully functional TV studio". This is just bulls#$%.

bob Zelin