AVE Services were called to help live stream a wedding at Sandford Springs Hotel and golf course, Kingsclere near Newbury. Our customer got in touch with a few days before the wedding date, due to covid the couple had previously rearranged the wedding 4 times as venues have had to close their doors with limited staff or government restrictions.
This meant we had to be quick in responding, arranging, sorting through equipment, and building the custom webpage which hosts the live video and VOD (Video On Demand).
After researching the venue and finding which room we were going to be using, we planned where we can setup the camera equipment and vision mixing kit to keep out of the way and not in the room – this allows us to be hidden whilst also allowing the wedding to have a full capacity of guests in the room (30, at the time of this wedding).
We were able to use the buildings barn like architecture to hide wireless microphones along the wooden beams to pick up the audience, bride, groom, and registrar – we also hid one inside the flowers which was placed next to the registrar behind an acrylic protection screen/divider.
For this wedding we supplied 2 BlackMagic Cinema Cameras, recording full 4K – We used a 50mm and a 12mm lens, with a crop factor of 2x this brings the 12mm to 24mm and reduces the normal fish eye effect while keeping the shot wide enough to capture the audience, bride and groom.
Our network setup consisted of 3x 4G networks and the venues Wifi – although our speeds showed on each 4G sim we were able to push 30mbps on upload, we always prefer a bonded connection to limit any potential video loss or network issues in the area. This allows us to provide a more stable connection.
The connection was handled by our LiveU streaming encoder running the Reliable Transport protocol (LRT) mode.
Once the wedding was finished, and the live stream completed – we switched over to VOD mode to allow anyone that missed the broadcast to watch at any time.
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