Sound and AV technician

Sound and AV at Sikh Sewaks Australia

The Challenge

Sikh Sewaks Australia, an organization dear to my heart, desperately needed an easy, simple way to record high-quality video of their speakers at campsites such at Kyneton and Campaspe Downs.

The videos needed to be quick to record, yet contain multiple camera angles. Additionally, it was a requirement that they be backed up in real-time using the 3-2-1 Backup rule, where 3 copies of data must exist on 2 mediums, with at least 1 being offsite.

The biggest constraint placed on us was budget- being a volunteer, non-profit organisation, costs should be as low as possible.

The Solution

Using the mixers already available, I used OBS Studio to manage incoming audio, downmix it into stereo, and combine it with a phone for wide angle and a camera for zoom shots. Videos were backed up in real time to a custom home server I built running ZimaOS, which was later upgraded to Proxmox for ease of backups and reliability.