GH3 Stream GH3? Need Help

[Ianscreations]

I just received a request from a wedding couple that would like me to stream their ceremony to their family members who cannot attend.
Does anyone know of a practical way to do this with the GH3? Or does anyone know of a third party vendor that is able to provide this? Is the GH3 even capable of this? I'd be curious to hear from anyone who has tried or successfully achieved this!

 

[mcbob]

http://store.livestream.com/products/livestream-broadcaster

I haven't really used this aside from hooking a camera to one to send a stream of an interview to a remote director. Not the cheapest, but you may be able to roll that into the wedding budget. Of course there are cheaper, less elegant solutions involving laptops and cables and firewire and all that happy horsecrap.

3rd party in Cville, The AV Company does a good amount of live streaming

 

[TheDingo]

Panasonic HC-X920 Camcorder : $915 at B&H Photo

Live Channel Video Streaming

The built-in Wi-Fi function enables real time broadcasting of important events via Ustream. This lets you deliver live images to people with Internet access around the world. There is also a function to send e-mail to notify the start of broadcasting to preregistered e-mail addresses.

 

[e-steve]

Seems like it may be a waste of a GH3 to use as a streaming camera, since you'd want to use that for your primary camera?

It's all going to depend on the bandwidth you have at the location - if you can get a 4g hotspot with enough upstream bandwidth you may be able to use that. You'd just need a laptop that you can connect either a firewire camcorder to, or even a high quality webcam, and then you could stream the ceremony via Google Hangout.

It really does depend on the budget for this piece as well as the quality level needed. In order to get audio to the web stream you may need two receivers on the same UHF channel and pump one into your camera and another into the laptop... Google Hangouts tend to be an easy way to stream live (free), whereas other options will cost you money for bandwith. I've had good luck with Dacast in terms of cost, but it's not compatible with iOS devices.

Keep in mind also the latency of Google Hangouts and Youtube Live Events is 50+ seconds so everything will be on delay.