RL500 Camera controls

[BodineJW]

Had great success with our RL500 Cameras, we now have three joystick controlled cameras on Lan control using PTZController Software.

How did you get the 3 cameras? I assume FM only paid for the one. All the sites I've visited don't seem to sell the cameras directly.

[wcovey]

My question also. Do we have to purchase directly from Clear Touch? How much do they cost, we would like to purchase one for our Stake before end of Dec.

[RyanGard1977]

If you want to buy one, check with Poll Sound in Salt Lake to see if they offer them. That is who most of us church and church contractors use to get equipment from.

https://www.pollsound.com/

[lymanite]

After much trial and error we were able to get the RL500 IP Camera streaming both audio and video into a Zoom meeting. I screenshotted and documented every step.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c3O ... drive_link

[lpuster]

Re: Guide to setup a ClearTouch RL500 IP Camera for use with Zoom (An outstanding article!)

We set up our Stake Center before the RL500 was available. We used a different solution to combine audio with video for Zoom.

1. We ran an audio feed from the PA system to a 4-input audio mixer instead of the camera.
2. The mixer feeds the microphone input of our webcasting computer through a fixed attenuator (the computer did not have a line level audio input.)
3. The Virtual Camera in OBS provides the video input to Zoom and the microphone input provides the audio to Zoom.
4. We also have two choir mics which feed the mixer.

This setup allows the webcast operator to adjust audio levels and also optionally add the choir mics when appropriate.

A more complete setup would allow for:
1. Remote presenter - A remote person gives a talk or prayer. This is easily done in Zoom, but the audio needs to go the the PA system and the video needs to be projected on a screen in the local chapel. (We actually had to this once.)

2. Local presenter using PowerPoint - Without webcasting, the presenter's computer would just feed a projector for video and the audio to the PA through a crab box. With webcasting the computer's video needs to feed the projector and also OBS so it appears in the Virtual Camera. If not done correctly there may be lip-sync problems. A simpler, but sub-optimal, solution is to point the camera at the screen where the video is projected.

We also found it useful to place a hand mic connected to the PA system on the floor under the piano to make the piano audible to Zoom viewers.
Since our system is also used to webcast sacrament meetings, we found a picture of a deacon passing the sacrament on the Church's website and display that on Zoom while the sacrament is being passed and the audio is muted.