Can we acknowledge the elephant in the room? Being a Tech Director is hard. A lot is expected of us; knowing all things about all manner of technology, pastoring our volunteers, supporting that woman in children’s ministry who can’t figure out how the DVD player works, the list goes on. To make things more challenging, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘churches’
Quicker h.264 Rendering
I’ve said it before; when it comes to rendering, there’s no substitute for horsepower. Typically that means upgrading to a bigger computer with more processor cores running at a higher speed (and more RAM–you can never have too much RAM). The downside of that approach is that it gets expensive really fast. For example, the [...]
Technology Lumping
Somewhere out there you might have noticed that sound, lighting and video are different (with apologies to The Masked Engineer). In the professional world, audio guys hold little regard for “squints.” The lighting guys don’t really care if there’s enough light for the video, and the video guys, well they don’t like anyone. A slight [...]
The New MacBook Pro Lineup
A few weeks ago at WWDC, everyone got excited about the new iPhone 3G S. And while it’s something to be excited about, I was more interested in the tweaks to the MacBook Pro lineup (personally, I’m holding out for the iPhone on the Verizon network, announce that, and I’m stoked). As almost always happens [...]
Rechargeable Battery Update
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about rechargeable batteries. Mainly because there was no new news with the Ansmann brand we had been using, and I wanted to try out the new ones for a while before giving an update. Thankfully, the wait was worth it, and this is good news. When Upper Room [...]
The Mix or the Room?
Let’s be honest, we all know a lot of pastors (worship, senior and otherwise) are not happy with the sound in their worship rooms every weekend. Sometimes, the guy behind the board is to blame. Perhaps they’ve not been trained, or they just don’t understand music or don’t know how to put a good mix [...]
Sustainability–How Do We Achieve It?
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about sustainability. If you missed the previous 2 posts, you can read them here and here. The first post is about what sustainability is not. The second talks about reasons we don’t tend to live sustainable lives. Today, I want to explore how to live sustainably. Now [...]
Cutting the Cord
I have a love/hate relationship with cords. I love making cords, I love designing cable assemblies and I love the sense of satisfaction I get when I successfully wire up a rack and everything works. On the other hand, cords area nuisance. They seem genetically predisposed to tangle themselves and others together, they wrap around [...]
Sustainability–The Reasons We Blow It
Last week we looked at what sustainability was not. This week I want to explore some of the lies we tell ourselves as we work at an unsustainable pace. But first, let’s consider the phrase, “sustainable pace.” When I talk about a sustainable pace I mean this; Working at a pace that enables you to [...]
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