[Non-Porsche] - Advice from video-makers

[Tit]

Hi All,

Not sure where in the forum to put this, so I'll try here.  This is a non-porsche question, but knowing there's a few people around here who have experience with video production, I thought I'd ask...

My father is getting married in three weeks. We have relatives in Europe who can't attend the wedding, so I was asked if there was a way to stream the wedding online.   He was thinking of Skype or similar...

I've previously seen this attempted, low-rent, just using Skype.  The quality of the video was atrocious and must have been entirely frustrating for the audience overseas.

So, my thoughts:

• Place a decent camera on a tripod (we have a few Canon options at our disposal), with a 'live' connection to a laptop somewhere.
• Place a decent mic somewhere near where the vows are to be taken, with a 'live' connection to the same laptop.
• Stream the audio/video using some kind of online service (need to confirm where we are getting our internet connection from)
• I'm not keen on spending two much for this one-time only transmission
• Thinking of Youtube Live / Google hangouts:
  • https://www.youtube.com/my_live_events
  • https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083786

So, my questions to the crowd are:

• Do you have any suggestions to get maximum quality out of this 'compromised' method?
• Any suggestions of equipment?
• Do you have any suggestions of online streaming services, that multiple viewers can view?
• Does anyone have experience with sort of thing?

Thanks!

[P-Kay]

I am unable to answer any of our specific questions, so apologies, however I may have a solution? Have you considered the live function feature of FB? One device and multiple people can view....