I was doing a live OB last week and provided all the camera and sound kit to feed a sat truck, following on from another thread this is to show that using prosumer kit that a lot of you may have can get you very good results if used in the right ways.
The job was to present live and recorded inserts from a pub via the sat feed and involved two presenters and one camera my HPX301(371)feeding SD pictures and sound to the sat truck.
The sound rig was mainly un-manned so I had two G2 lav radio mics on the presenters and a third stick radio mic for interviews, these were fed to a behringer 1002B mixer which then fed back via cables to ch1+2 on the camera, ch3+4 had sound fx fed from the camera mic as a back-up and all the audio and video was then fed to the sat truck via SDI on a single coax. Monitoring was via sony MDR700Dj headphones.
This also meant that due to the chaos of being in a pub full of punters that I could listen to the audio through the camera earpiece or on headphones and the radio mics were set up so that the levels pretty much looked after themselves, all we had to do was remember to fade out one of them if only one presenter was in vision or if the interview mic was not being used. The panasonic also has a switch to make the audio meters fill the bottom of the viewfinder and I could keep an eye on the levels and tweak them using the level control on the front of the camera if required. I did have the camera set to auto gain and with the limiters on just in case but they are so good these days that they can be a real help in this sort of situation so long as you don't try to push things too much at the front end of the gain circuits.
Lighting was from two arri 650 fresnel's bounced off the ceiling to cover as much of the pub as possible and whilst all of the three hours of coverage was shot hand held I also had the libec H50/T57 tripod to one side so I could rest my shoulder between inserts.