AUMC AV Blog

Yes, I know that I haven't posted much recently, but I am on Christmas vacation, so I have a good excuse.

But I did want to post about our Christmas Eve services. We had it at Argyle High School because our current sanctuary isn't big enough (and because or new building isn't ready yet... still...). Both services went amazing!

Shh, don't tell anyone, but I had some tears in my eyes at Silent Night (my favorite Christmas song).

Pictures!

Before service:


During the second service:




More photos: Gallery

Matthew

The projector for the new church will be set to display at 1024X576 (widescreen), so I set up a preset for exporting videos at that resolution. Now, when I make a video (or download a video) and I want it to be the right resolution, I just run it through this preset. And of course I want the best quality video possible, so I turned every setting to "Best" in every possible way, I turned de-interlacing on, I turned on every possible thing to make it the best quality video...

Exporting a 2 minute video takes 8 hours.

Yes, I will make a preset that isn't set to "Best" in every possible way for those times when I don't have overnight to render a video...

Matthew

I have uploaded the latest photos to the photo album above. I have also posted them for easy viewing here: link

Matthew

For those that read this, I will give an update. We have been working hard at finalizing everything in the sound booth. Lots of finishing touches are getting made. For example, today we labeled everything... the sound board, the switcher, cables, the racks... lots of little sticky paper was coming out of that label maker.

Outside of that there isn't much to report. We are having problems with our aspect ratio with the projector and switcher. But that is all.

Matthew

Due to a job that had me working until 6 AM (plus an hour drive home), I wasn't able to get to the new church site this morning, but Thursday and Friday are clear for me, I hope to get lots of work done then!

Matthew

I just wanted to throw out a quick update. Due to Thanksgiving, not much progress has been made in the past week. However, there are a few things that have happened.

As you can see from my last post, the large front screen has been hung and the projector has been aligned to it. I haven't seen it in action, so I am looking forward to that.

Also, the new computer for the booth has been ordered (on Black Friday for extra savings). It should be in in a few days, and I look forward to playing with that new toy... err, umm, that new pice of equipment. Ya.

Overall, things are coming together. The computer is the last large pice of equipment that we will have to install, so from here on out it is the small things we have to worry about.

Right now, lots of thoughts are going through my head; about how I am excited that this process is drawing to a close; about how I am looking forward to our first Sunday; about how I am looking forward to leading a team of volunteers. So far, my involvement in the new building has been helping James install things and making decisions about where equipment will go. Soon, though, I will be busy training volunteers, testing the system, practicing with the band, and soon running services in our new building. I can't wait to praise God in our new sanctuary.

Matthew