It’s webinar time again and Jason, Dave and I are joined by Bob Nahrstadt of Next Creative Media to discuss some of the best practices for system design. We cover developing a process for system design and upgrades; asking the right questions and hiring the right consultant. There is a ton of good information here, [...]
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Thriving in an Inter-Generational Setting Pt. 2
Last Friday, I started digging into the challenges that come with trying to have inter-generational communities sharing the same space and equipment. The first step is to look at technology needs through the lens of the other group as well as your own. Today, I’ll illustrate with some concrete examples of what that looks like.
Here’s [...]
A Few Thoughts On System Design
I’ve done a lot of system design in my career. In college, I was tasked with coming up with some pretty elaborate systems for pulling together large multi-image festivals. Afterward, I designed temporary systems for very elaborate corporate sales meetings. When I started my company, I did all my own edit suite design and install, [...]
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 [...]
Being in Two (or More) Places at Once
The other day, I had to do a funeral. Now, I generally don’t like funerals; first because they’re typically emotionally hard, and second because they’re technically challenging. Typically, funerals are planned by people who have no idea how technology works and they are always last-minute. Last week’s funeral was all of that, and more.
Because it [...]
Why Input Sheets?
Phil raised a good question based on my last post about the Input Sheet Template; to wit, Why even do an input sheet? I can think of several reasons, actually.
Makes it Easy to Pre-Build Show Files
If you have a digital console, it’s quite nice to be able to set up the console ahead of time [...]
When Things Go Horribly Wrong
Anyone that follows me on Twitter probably knows we had some drama on Sunday. In case you missed it, here’s the skinny. Everything was fine on Saturday. In fact, we put up some new drum mics and kept commenting on how great they sounded. Sunday morning, I came in, flipped on the system and started [...]
Presenting Upgrade Projects
I had lunch with my boss (Pastor of Weekends) and Sr. Pastor this week. The purpose of the lunch was two-fold. First, I wanted to inform him of my findings as I’ve spent the last few months looking over our systems. Second, I wanted to get his feedback on which updates need to take priority [...]
Worship Arts Gathering
Last night we hosted a gathering of all our worship artists. We invited band members, vocalists, photographers, tech people, set designers; just about anyone who is involved with the worship arts at Coast Hills. As this was my first one, I don’t have anything to compare it to–however, I’d rate it a resounding success. Brining [...]
ProPresenter 4 Is Coming!
I haven’t been writing much about ProPresenter lately. Mainly because I haven’t been using it that much since my transition to Coast Hills. Right now, we use Keynote exclusively for our presentation needs (at least in the main room). That’s about to change, however. Recently, Renewed Vision announced Version 4, and have already revealed a [...]
