AC90: advice on settings for shooting conference

[jamedia.uk]

Hi,

I have an interesting problem that I assume many of you have solved before.... I have been doing video at conferences. Power point slides via a computer projector on to a screen in a room with audience and a speaker. I video from the back of the hall. So far so good.

The problem last week was it was not a projector and screen but a 50 inch LED TV screen.... these are of course are back lit by florescent tubes. You are in effect shooting directly into the main light source in the room. This means if the exposure is set for the screen it is readable but the room is very dark. If the room is correct the screen is an over exposed white square (most slides at a conference have a white background and text on them)

Any suggestions?

I can make some compensations in FCPX when editing but I could do with a better setting in the camera.

 

[tengo]

One minor improvement could be to switch to Scene 6 (High Dynamic Range). Then I guess you would be able to capture a bit more of the shadows. Also maybe try overexposing so that you get more of the room and just enough of the LED TV screen (for reading).

 

[tengo]

Forgot to add that you should also enable the DRS (Dynamic Range Stretcher) feature of the camera.

 

[Liam Hall]

Put up a spot light and aim it at the speaker...

 

[jimith]

Get a second camera. Shoot one on the screen and the second on the room or speaker.

 

[mrveronn]

I've shot a presentation with the speaker properly exposed and the slides 'washed out'...and then I got a copy of the slides, and overlaid images of the slides and voila. However not really feasible if the slides have animation/embedded video/etc...but in this case the slides were static so it worked well...