If your wondering what I’m talking about, just spend a little time scrolling through the stage design photos over at Church Stage Design Ideas.

So I thought I would through a poll in and see how often do you change your stage designs.

So I compiled a few links of articles about choosing the right microphone for your video. Obviously budget plays a huge part in the microphone you choose, but don’t over look the option of rentals from places like Vistek or Zacuto or if you’re lucky enough to have a community arts group that rents equipment like I do at Ed Media. These options can help you find the right microphone for your project without the rick of buying the wrong thing.

Links:

VideoMaker - http://www.videomaker.com/article/15351/

Ken Stone - http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/right_mic_brockett.html (includes sample audio)

Vimeo Video School - http://vimeo.com/videoschool/archive/sound

Links:

Sony TV - http://goo.gl/gvFUF

Enermax Keyboard - http://goo.gl/MjzrJ

Targus Remote - http://goo.gl/u5jkX

via Bayside Community Church //Small Group Testimonial on Vimeo.

The story of Chris and his “testing” of propresenter is a classic tale of trying to stretch your church budget. Often we need to prove how great a solution is in a real Sunday experience before we can get leadership to sign off on large purchases. But to his folly Propresenter made sure he knew his “testing” was wrong.

Laura’s story is an example of every tech persons bigest fear; handing off technology to “regular” people. We often catch ourselves double and triple checking our tech gear because we know mistakes happen, but it’s the scariest when we give that tech to the speaker and hope they know what to do with it. The humour is even further compounded in the story with all the ways the team tried to get the speakers attention. We can all assume that the speaker is probably thinking in the back of his mind “What is with this tech team? Will someone please turn up my microphone!”

So after hours of deliberation, and even consulting with my Wife, the decision of funniest technical WOOPS! goes to Laura. Congratulations! Can’t wait to see you and your teammates at this years Reconnect Tech Conference.

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Here we go again! Back from the christmas break with a video walk-through of the hot topic How to setup Wowza on EC2 for church live streaming.

Yes the video is 50+ mins long, but I walk you through all the basic steps of getting up and running with Wowza on EC2 plus a basic stats module add-on.

Some additional Wowza resources.

Ian Beyer’s blog - http://blog.ianbeyer.com/

Wowza Support Center for EC2 - http://www.wowza.com/forums/content.php?203

Amazon EC2 Pricing - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Setup Longtail JWplayer for use with Wowza on EC2 - http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/blog/17376/live-streaming-using-wowza-ec2

Setup EC2 KeyPair and EC2 Command line Tools - http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/01/26/starting-amazon-ec2-with-mac-os-x/

Tell me your worst technical “woops” that happened in your church and you get a chance to win two free registration to the conference for you and one of your volunteers, and because you’re an early bird registration you also get a chance at winning the iPad too.

How does it work?
Use the comments section below to share your story and on February 12, 2012 I’ll pick the top story.
You’re allowed to change the names of those involved to not humiliate the guilty parties, but I do need your real contact information in order to contact you and submit your registration.
That’s all there is to it.
For more information on the conference go to TheReconnect.ca

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