Bilingual Webcast
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:46 pm
My stake has a fairly large Spanish speaking population and in the past, we've had translators both at stake conference and the receiving site an hour away. I'm brainstorming on a way to webcast both English and Spanish because the receiving site is roughly 1/3 Spanish speaking and I'd like them to be able to set up projectors in the chapel and cultural hall with English and Spanish feeds in either room. This would let us use the best translators in the stake on-site instead of splitting them between 2 locations.
My first thought is that since the stream is stereo, I can send English on the left channel and Spanish on the right. I would feed the English stream from the chapel sound system and the Spanish stream from the one of translator devices's wireless receiver units. Then on the receiving end I would need to configure a 2nd location (Spanish) for that building on the portal. One laptop will drive the chapel connected to the original receiving location on the portal with a headphone jack to stereo rca plugs cable. The left rca plug goes to a crab box which will plug into the chapel sound system. The cultural hall's laptop will connect to the (Spanish) location on the portal and the right rca jack this time will connect to the crab box and then to the cultural hall sound system.
Easy enough in theory, I plan to test it in depth later this week. One major problem I forsee is that if allowing homebound members to connect to the stream is approved, they will have to know how to pan hard left or right on their audio devices or we'll have to send someone to their homes who can help them.
The first option should work with either the VidiU device or with Wirecast. Since we have Wirecast, I'm wondering how I might do this better and easier for those receiving through the software (and it may potentially open up the option of more than 2 languages for others). I found a suggestion on a Wirecast forum that a powerful enough computer could have multiple instances of the program open with different streams set up in each. So I could run 2 instances of Wirecast, one using English and one Spanish. They would both use our single camera. It could be a bit of a juggle if multiple cameras and or media are used. Then I would need to create 2 simultaneous events on the portal and output each instance of Wirecast to the right event and have members who watch from home (and my connecting sites) choose the appropriate language feed from the portal.
I don't know if this is possible, but I'll try it out as a pair of simultaneous test events and see what happens before I try contacting the GSC with my questions. Theoretically, if the computer has the guts to do the job, it should work, but I also wonder if this is an appropriate use of the church's resources. I will post again as soon as I've tested both possibilities. Suggestions and comments are welcome and with any luck this may help others (if all goes well) who might have more than one common language in their stake.
Joe Hunt Silver City, NM
My first thought is that since the stream is stereo, I can send English on the left channel and Spanish on the right. I would feed the English stream from the chapel sound system and the Spanish stream from the one of translator devices's wireless receiver units. Then on the receiving end I would need to configure a 2nd location (Spanish) for that building on the portal. One laptop will drive the chapel connected to the original receiving location on the portal with a headphone jack to stereo rca plugs cable. The left rca plug goes to a crab box which will plug into the chapel sound system. The cultural hall's laptop will connect to the (Spanish) location on the portal and the right rca jack this time will connect to the crab box and then to the cultural hall sound system.
Easy enough in theory, I plan to test it in depth later this week. One major problem I forsee is that if allowing homebound members to connect to the stream is approved, they will have to know how to pan hard left or right on their audio devices or we'll have to send someone to their homes who can help them.
The first option should work with either the VidiU device or with Wirecast. Since we have Wirecast, I'm wondering how I might do this better and easier for those receiving through the software (and it may potentially open up the option of more than 2 languages for others). I found a suggestion on a Wirecast forum that a powerful enough computer could have multiple instances of the program open with different streams set up in each. So I could run 2 instances of Wirecast, one using English and one Spanish. They would both use our single camera. It could be a bit of a juggle if multiple cameras and or media are used. Then I would need to create 2 simultaneous events on the portal and output each instance of Wirecast to the right event and have members who watch from home (and my connecting sites) choose the appropriate language feed from the portal.
I don't know if this is possible, but I'll try it out as a pair of simultaneous test events and see what happens before I try contacting the GSC with my questions. Theoretically, if the computer has the guts to do the job, it should work, but I also wonder if this is an appropriate use of the church's resources. I will post again as soon as I've tested both possibilities. Suggestions and comments are welcome and with any luck this may help others (if all goes well) who might have more than one common language in their stake.
Joe Hunt Silver City, NM