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Producing The Webinars

I had a lot of questions about how we produced last week’s webinar on IEMs. It took a bit of testing and several different bits and pieces of software. The tricky part was getting both audio and video routed to LiveStream in a way that didn’t cause weird internal processing delay echoes. I was able [...]

Automating Sermon Recording

It’s happened to me far too many times. The band finishes up, the pastor gets up to preach, and in the middle of the transition, I forget to hit “Play” on the CD recorder to actually start recording. Or I’ll hit “Play & Record” thinking it’s going start recording, forgetting that you have to hit [...]

Flying Without A Net: Running ProPresenter 4 Live

This year, in the midst of putting together the most ambitious theatrical production we’ve ever undertaken, I decided we needed one more challenge. We have been running Keynote as our primary presentation platform for some time now (since long before I arrived) and I love Keynote–but not for this application. I have been planning a [...]

Google Wave

The other day I was completely sucked into a preview of  Google Wave. I heard about it on Twitter, went to the site with the full intention of watching the first 20 minutes or so then going on with my day. An hour and 20 minutes later, I was staring at my screen, shaking my [...]

Keynote Master Slides

One of my favorite things about Keynote it that Master Slides actually work. I’ve spent hundreds of hours in PowerPoint only to be forever frustrated with their master slides. Sometimes they worked like I expected, sometimes they didn’t work at all. When I got my first copy of Keynote a few years ago, it was [...]

Run Windows On Your Mac–For Free!

If you’ve read this blog for more than a week, you’re probably aware that I’m a pretty hard-core Mac user. In fact, I’ve been using them longer than some of you have been alive (23 years, and counting!). As much as I love my MacBook Pro (and my MacPro) and the latest version of the [...]

Some Useful Tools

As a certified Mac geek, I enjoy collecting new applications. I just checked and I have well over 150 applications on my MacBook Pro. A quick scan through the Applications folder tells me I should probably clean a few out. There have been a few bright lights over the last few months, though, and I [...]

Be Still…

Those of use who proudly claim the moniker “Geek” are a rare breed. We’re different from most people around us. Almost every geek I know surely has input as a key strength (if you’re not familiar with StrengthsFinder 2.0, check it out). We’re constantly listening to music or podcasts; watching TV or movies; reading or [...]

A Few More ProPresenter Tricks

Fresh on the heels of my last post, I thought of a few more tips that might be helpful. Actually, Dave Smith over at Creative Church Media reminded me of one, which promoted me to think of a second (giving credit where credit is due…).
ProPresenter is designed to be a “point and shoot” interface. Click [...]

ProPresenter Time-Savers

I’m really kind of lazy. Actually, that’s not true. I have a serious work ethic. Though people at work make fun of me for rarely showing up before 9 (to me 9:20 is still “9″), I rarely leave before 6, and it’s not uncommon to find me at my desk at home doing system design [...]