Productions
Hey everyone, We would love to help everyone with your questions about production that we do at BigStuf Camp, Catalyst Conference, and National Youth Worker Convention. So there is no question too small. We also have some used gear available. Some items include Eiki projectors, Edirol dv7 play back machines, Dalite screens, Edirol switchers. So if you are need of some great gear at awesome prices contact us!
posted by Ducati748 at 3:17 PM
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Do you have to have a mac to make it happen, or are there alternatives for those of us stuck in the pc world?
Yes you must have a mac to live on earth and make it into heaven. Just Kidding. Yes you can do most of the things we do with a windows machine. The mac does have some better programs that makes things easier but it is possible without one. What area of production are you asking about? Video, lights, audio?
hi. i have a question about the video screen. i know that you guys use at least two if not up to 6 projectors to project one image. what do you guys use for that? is that what a spyder does? also, is it pretty hard to align those projectors so that it's a seemless image?
we are wanting to make a screen of 20' x 12' (widescreen) and were thinking of two projectors. what screen do you recommend? we probably will have to do front projection instead of rear because we don't have much throw in the back. do you think 5,000-7,000 lumens on each projector will be enough?
thanks!!!
That is a good question ksc. There are couple of ways to achieve what you are asking. The way it was done at the Catalyst Conference for the middle screen were 3 projectors from the rear. So the middle screen is in 3 sections. The HD graphics were played from a g5 mac directly to the folsom encore which routed the correct piece of the graphic to each projector. The nice thing about the encore is edge blending which makes the aligning of the projectors much easier.
The other way to do it is send one projector a upscaled image and set the projector to shoot in a 16:9 ratio. The image sent to the projector needs to be in 16:9 and the graphics need to be upscaled to the right ratio. No need for a encore but need for a nice switcher or upscaler. (1024x768)
It is hard for me to tell you how many ansi lumens you need since I do not know much about the room. Rear projection is suggested because it allows you to control the lighting so the screens will not be washed out. The ones at catalyst were 10k each double stacked (6 projectors total). That equals around 15 to 20k per section. The size of screen at catalyst was 18x60.
I hope this helped. Feel free to ask more questions.
just found the blog - great stuff. i'm the pastor of a church plant in houston, and would be interested in talking about the projectors if they are still available. please send me an email: bill(at)kaleohouston(dot)com
thanks!
I'm mainly talking about video. I would really like to get some movement on my backgrounds during worship, and have a more flexible presentation system than powerpoint. Most of the links from the other bigstuf site lead to mac and quicktime backgrounds, and it seems ovious powerpoint's not the way to go for those things.
Yes most of our stuff is mac but there are great applications for the pc. Powerpoint unfortunately is not one of them. Powerpoint is good for speaker notes but not good for worship time. Quicktime (.mov) can be converted to .avi which is best for the PC. So do not be scared away from the moving backgrounds that are .mov. I think for the pc world a great application is Media Shout. It can do what powerpoint can do and much more. It can put words on the screens, moving backgrounds, videos, built in song list, built in bible (many versions), and much more. Media Shout is what Youth Specialties used for the words and preshow Ads. For the moving backgrounds BigStuf used 3 Edirol Dv7s. The Edirol sounds little too much for you so we can figure out a good solution for you. If you want to call us or email me jamie@bigstuf.com and i will be happy to guide you in the right direction.
What company do you hire/rent from for all the lighting. I am a lighting tech for my youth group in St.Louis and we are coming to your camp soon. So i was looking at some pics and it loks really cool. I was just wondering if it you did it yourself or hired people?
We do rent the lighting equipment from DP Audio. The interns and staff set up and run all the equipment during the summer.
the presentations during the message times were incredible last year (05). can you tell me how you created and presented them?
I am proud bc my wife created them. They rocked! We used Keynote, Photoshop, and Motion to create the presentations. Keynote was the key part of the presentation. The presentations took around 30 hours to create.
can you post the presentations so we can view them again and try (although not coming close) to replicate? you inspire us! lol. thanks!
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