April Media Schedule

Hello everybody,

Attached is the schedule for April.  Please let me know if you need to make some changes.  Notice that the person in parathesis () are overseeing (i.e. directors), so please follow their lead accordingly for that service.

 

Thank you for your service.

 

Randall

512-689-8062

http://CalvaryAustinMedia.org

 

 

Font Issue - Resolved

I figured out the font issue and resolved it.  I downloaded a font creator:

http://www.high-logic.com/download.html

 

For blogging purposes:

I just edited the name of the font to the same name that it tries to find, because the one that Allen uses on his mac has different name, so it doesn't associate automatically.  The name of the Mac font is

 

Myriad Pro Bold

 

But the name of our PC font is

 

MyriadPro

 

So I just corrected it to Myriad Pro Bold.

 

It worked!

easters

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Darren Brock
Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:43 AM
Subject: easters


Good morning
You guys did a wonderful job this last weekend
it was a HUGE success, especially in reference to our staffing.
we have had so many new volunteers - its a huge great thing!!
thanks for being on top of things in order to make it run so smoothly
- please forward my thanks and appreciation to those that served with
us this weekend helping to make it such an incredible time

I believe we saw 1100+adults this weekend
there were approximately 100+ new believer packets that went out!!

our prayer is now that many of these would return and begin that
journey with us coming to know the walk and the meaning of belonging
it would be so great if many of these new believers or even the
recommiters would begin to call Calvary their home church

it would be so great if in the next 5 years, 10 years some of our
leaders in the church are from this easter when they came and were
touched and changed.
we can pray for that!!

Joe - everyone did such a good job in the auditorium, the seating and
handling a larger crowd that normal especially 2nd service sunday.
Marls - i loved seeing everyone in their location so eager to serve,
you did a good job placing everyone
R&M - the whole media presentation, lights, camera action  was done
really well, helped so many to first be impressed with our set up but
i think it set a great mood for the word...

please please please pass along the thanks for this weekends help!!

have a great day!

Darren

Media Fellowship

Hey all,

Thought it would be a good idea for us to have a time to hang out.  It will be a great opportunity for the new folks to get to know everybody too.  So on April 6th, let's meet for Sunday lunch after 2nd service, not this weekend but the next, the Sunday after the First Wednesday.  Most Life Groups take a break so that might help. 

 

Place: Let's make it easy, Wendy's on Wells Branch, just accross from the HEB at 1825.  There might be something for everybody, and with a large crowd you could even bring something of your own to eat.  Or just stop on by for a few to say hi.

 

Time: 1:30pm

 

Date: April 6th --- And let's make it a monthly thing, so the Sunday after the First Wednesday services...I'll try to put it on the Calendar as well.  Feel free to offer ideas for future gatherings.

 

I'll be working on the calendar for April next week so let me know this week if you know of any schedule changes to provide me.

 

Also, check out this blog I wrote on the servant role descriptions in media ministry, see if you can figure out which one you are :D

 

http://calvaryaustinmedia.blogspot.com/2008/03/media-production-ministry-role.html

 

In Christ,

Randall

512-689-8062

Great Easter - Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who severed last weekend.  Everything went great!

Media Production Ministry Role Descriptions

CGI Overhead Technician

Project worship lyrics and power point slides with a variety of esthetic backgrounds by using "Easy Worship" software:

http://easyworship.com/home.php

Create power point slides, project children's ministry numbers, and coordinate transitions with videographer during the service.

Arrive early to turn every thing on and setup worship schedule and powerpoint presentations, projectors, testing video audio with the sound team and ensuring everything else is working properly. 

Close down after service accordingly

Service Frequency: 2-3 times a month

Times of Service: Any Weekend Service

 

Lighting Technician

Use of stage lighting, colored and moving lighting, as well as house lights at various transitions throughout the services.

o Ensure all needed stage lights are working properly

o Reset overloads (by pushing a button) or replacing a bulb

o In Special Events, it may require redirecting the lighting fixtures

Service Frequency: 2-3 times a month

Times of Service: Any Weekend Service

 

Videographer

Positioning and projecting video of the worship band, speaker, and overhead presentation via switch board and robotically controlled cameras

Encoding the service using Encoder and FTP

Arrive early to turn every thing on and setup making sure everything is working properly

Setup camera positions and white balance accordingly

Making sure the TV's in the New Parents and Nursing Moms rooms are operating properly

Service Frequency: 2-3 times a month

Times of Service: Any Weekend Service

 

CGI Overhad Lyrical Editor (pre-production)

Arrives during worship practice times to edits the lyrics in Easy Worship to arrange the lyrics in a fromal manner that can be easliy followed during the live performance.  Works with the worship team to clarify song lyrics and timing.

Service Frequency: 2-3 time a month

Times of service: Thursday evenings and two hours before weekend services.

 

Media Director

Oversees and directs media in a given service, ensuring all aspects of media run smoothly.  Coordinates with each person running the various media roles as well as the sound engineer and producer (i.e. pastor).

This person needs to be very familiar with all aspects of media and be able to cover in case someone becomes unavailable to serve. 

This person also has miscellaneous duties such as editing the podcast for the internet (post-production, running DVD media, and ensure all other responsibilities in media are covered.

 

 

Glossery of Roles in Production

http://saturn.vfx.com/loup/glossary.html

Ministry Role Descriptions

A brief description of the ministry roles in media at Calvary Austin:

http://media.calvaryaustin.org/guidelines/Multi-MediaMinistryDescriptions.doc

PPT procedure

Hey guys,
The primary place where we get the powerpoints for announcements and
sermon messages is through email, Outlook Express. However, if it
doesn't come through email, we can also check the share driver server.
Here's the directory and see attached for a picture of the shortcut
on the Easy Worship PC machine.

\\192.168.2.9\new_share\PPTs Service

Thanks,
Randall

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Secretary
Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:22 PM

All -

Twice now the PPT emails didn't make it out of my mailbox due to size
(my apologies). I'd like to try the following to avoid this from
happening again. I will put all of the PPTs on the share - they can
be found as follows:

New Share / PPTs Service / Ann PPTs & Msg PPTs / select the current
date from there

I'll send out an email each week advising that the new ppts have been
posted. Please let me know if someone doesn't have access to the
share or if anyone has any questions.

thanks so much!

Dean Miller
Calvary Austin Secretary

Re: March Media Calendar

Yessss, another calendar update. I've modifed the Easter schedule a
little. Folks that are in parthesis are overseeing that service
(Milan, JoAnn, etc.).

Remember the breakout tab! And you can always check the calendar
online at any computer at http://CalvaryAustinMedia.org

See yall soon,
Randall

Media Blog - Video Slide Show

Hey all,
I'm trying to get back to documenting things we do in the media
ministry, so for future reference any one of us can look back to.
Along with the ministry schedule, much of the documentation will go on
our ministry blog at http://calvaryaustinmedia.blogspot.com.

Or just
calvaryaustinmedia.org.

This week we have the Van Pelts doing an interview after their mission
trip in Africa. Doug gave me a whole bunch of pictures. I had a
delima for our 1st Wednesday (one small piece of out of the big pie
that's called 1st Wednesday), where I need to create a slide show
video with over 200 pictures. We've done this before, but it's been
so long since that I forgot how we did it. But I think the difficulty
this time was to render something that large and long without manually
inserting one pictures at a time. So he's what I did.

Import pictures into Google's Picasa (free software).
- Highlight all the pictures, and on the menu Create -> Movie
- Determine size and length of clip (For this week I chose 320 at 5
seconds each)
- Video Compression - Use Indeo Video, 85% compression, Key Frame
Every 15 frames, Configure Quick Compress
- Click OK and it will render the video.

It takes some time and the reason I wanted to write all this stuff
down is because it took about 6 tries to get the best compression
quality without the file corrupting. Yes, video can corrupt if too
big and bulky.

To create the DVD's, we use Sony DVD Arhitect ($50).
- Menu mode, insert rendered video and break out into chapters (Three
because we have three screens above the stage where these will
go.....so they can start at different places)
- Make sure the end action on the video is Loop.
- Trim as needed (beginning needed to be trimmed since Picasa puts an
intro on it, which I don't think is able to change)
- Burn to DVD

Now for what we'll have on the big screens while the Van Pelts are
being interviewed by Allen is simply using Picasa AGAIN as a screen
saver for the pictures on the Easy Worship Computer. This helps us
avoid rendering a movie, although we could use the one we made above,
it just something different.

I really like the Movie Picasa makes because it moves thru the
pictures. Check it out tomorrow!

Randall

March Media Calendar

Hi again,
Here's an update on March. I've included a second sheet where it
gives each one of you guys a break out of what days you are scheduled
to serve. The sheet is called BreakOut. (Yes Excel is actually my
day job).

And for those of you who didn't get the email, check out this tip on
lighting and graphical timing......

I wanted to provide some examples of the importance of timing in our
media. This includes the lyrics, lighting, and graphics (even the
stuff behind the lyrics). Here's a music video which gives a good
example of the lighting and graphical timing which is in sync with the
music. Please pay close attention to the lighting during different
parts of the music (verse, chorus) and how the graphics behind the
band changes according to the music.

http://thefixation.com/music/v/AmIWryNo-MewLive1.html

Please consider coming to practice on Thursdays at 6:30p or just
getting to church early before the service (4:30p on Saturday, 8:30a
on Sunday).

By the way if the music sounds familiar, it's because it was used in
the Intro to Life Group video! (Yes the band is one of my favorites)

Lamps / Bulb Replacement

Hey guys, this is a list of replacement bulbs and lamps we will need
on going as they wear out. This mail will be published to
calvaryaustinmedia.blogspot.com, our ministry blog which contains much
of the information so we can go back to it in the future.

QSPOT 250 Lamp

Lamps for ETC Black Source 4 Ellipsoidal 19
http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.689066/it.A/id.4539/.f

Projector Lamps (VLT-XL30LP) for Mitsubishi XL30 projectors
http://www.projectorquest.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_64&products_id=1111

Lamps for Sanyo Pro Xtrax PLC-XU51

PAR64 Bulbs

March Media Calendar

Hi all,
I've updated the calendar for March and now included a space for
training for our new volunteers. Help me please welcome:

Gavin
James
Fritzie
Dave
Steve
Mark

Welcome you guys. Please see attached for times I've schedule you to
shadow and train. After a training period, things can althernate on a
biweekly basis. It's just that we don't have a lot time before
Easter. Feel free to update and send back the times you can be at the
service. Please also let me know specifics on perhaps what you would
be most interested in, since it may not necessarily things during a
service.

Feel free to contact me to further discuss. Sorry if it seems
complicated, but I can't remember this many folks joining the team at
one time. God bless you!

In Christ,
Randall
512-689-8062