January 15th, 2008
3 Weeks To Go
Posted by Church Video Ideas under Church Media, Church video, Churches, Conferences, Continuing Education, Events and Seminars, Intros and Announcements, Media ministry, Products, Random ThoughtsSupposedly, we have 2 Sundays left in our current worship center and will have our first service in our new worship center on Sunday, Feb. 3rd - that’s the plan. It could be the 10th, but we’re going full-steam ahead towards the 3rd. It’s getting pretty exciting walking through there these days. The video portion is pretty-much done. They began working on lighting today. Next week (for one entire week) they will tune the room. It’s madness and fun all at the same time. Your prayers would be appreciated.
FOLLOW UP:
I got some good emails and feedback on yesterday’s blog post. Apparently, I have some people that work for Microsoft and Apple that read my blog. The wars may not be over. Phil Cooke made a compelling argument for the wars ending, but the word on the street is that Microsoft and the porn industry might be going with HD DVD. Unfortunately, the porn industry pretty-much runs and determines the future of video - believe it or not. Regardless, I think we’ll be getting a Blu-Ray disc player.
CONTINUING ED:
Yesterday, I mentioned that Phil and I will be speaking at NRB and NAB. I forgot to mention that SermonSpice is sponsoring my classes at NRB and eleven72 and ProPresenter are sponsoring my classes at NAB.
Here’s my 2 cents: if you are in driving distance of Nashville, join me at NRB - they really are trying to make it more relevant for churches (that’s the reason I’m going to be there). If you can only choose one tech conference this year, try to shoot for NAB in Vegas. I’ve already heard of several friends going and am looking forward to hanging out with them there. I try to hang out in groups of people when I’m in Vegas. 
EXTRA:
If you are local to Dallas and can’t make it to NAB, I’ll be teaching the same 2 classes at the ECHO Conference in Dallas this summer.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:38 am
When do we get to see pics of the new facility? I’m sure it’s awesome!
January 15th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Is there (or will there be) a place to view the speaker’s presentations or speaker notes for the presentations, for those of us that can’t attend?
January 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
looks like you didn’t close the bold tag in your blog
Everything below “To Cents:” is in bold.
Just thought I could help you out
January 15th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Thanks, Bryan. Can you tell I was in a hurry when I wrote it?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Not a Problem. Congratulations with the new sanctuary. We are going to be getting into our new sanctuary the second week of February. I was excited until I was told earlier today that our new techie Media Room equipment budget has been cut from $35,000 to $0.
Our pastors and elders have a weekend retreat starting Thursday and I basically have until Thursday at 12pm to put together a list of reasons why the equipment is necessary.
We currently are operating an E-machine that was supposed to be “temporary for one year” for two and a half years. We use Easy worship with this machine and as I explain to the leadership, the dual display graphics card cost more than e-machine.
I have been asked to provide a list of “Temporary Items” to replace what we had budgeted. We are making the switch from PC to Mac (one word Vista) and now I am at a loss.
If you had a minimal budget, an awesome room, what would you put in it?
The following are items that we currently do and items that I have been requested to provide: Lyrics with ProPresenter3 (or EasyWorship if we stick with PC), Pre-service Promos, In-service announcement aids, in-service graphics and videos, Video Production to DVD, digital audio of sermons, and my favorite “whatever else we can think of later”.
Oh, by the way… if that wasn’t all, it is to be operated for the first six weeks by me (hopefully I can get volunteers by then).
Any advice would be grateful.
Bryan