Media Update

Hey Team,
Just wanted to give you all an update on the progress of things.  We have hired a professional lighting and media consultant and working with him to currently design our new lighting layout of the new building.  His name is James Timmins and I met with him last night to discuss the layout.  The drawings look awesome!  Hope to have it completed this week so we can give it to Glendon our architect.  James will also be helping us and overseeing the installation of the media equipment.  Things like the screens, the projectors, and lights.  Of course we'll still need help across the board, particularly the booth.  I am thinking about scheduling a semi-work day coming up so we can prepare our current equipment for the move ( i.e. labeling, etc.).  We also have an a great many new lights to play with (think colors and techno).  So we'll need to figure it all out!  In case you weren't aware, we are slated now to start our first service in October.  That means we will probably start installing everything 2nd week of September, if not sooner.  I'll let you know!

In other news, I've added some automatic maintenance tools for the overhead and encoder PC's in the booth.  For the overhead, the desktop will be automatically cleaned up every week after services.  For the encoder PC, all the windows videos, DVD videos and podcasts will be archived as well.  Also for those of you that serve 2nd service to help start the DVD Encoder, it will start automatically at 11:50am.  We still need to monitor it.  Another thing for 2nd is at about 11:45am we should upload the video to Google.  That way we can complete it by the time service ends.  I really get into the technical stuff so let me know if you want to discuss more.

I did have the monthly calendar schedule online but I needed a better way to post the info.  I started a blog that I'll use to post up emails and anouncements to everybody, so general information.  The calendar will be posted there, but you'll also get the emails (like this one).  Check it out:  http://www.calvaryaustinmedia.org

We had someone new volunteer to make a video from our picnic & baptism.  Hopefully we'll be seeing more of Joseph.  Here it is, check it out....
http://www.calvaryaustin.org/video_gallery/

Please get with me on any of these things of course.  Any questions or concerns I am hoping you feel welcome at any time.

See yall at the House of God,
Randall