trey taylor

goin’ multi-site

// June 18th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // church, creative, multi-site, technology, video

For the last year we’ve been feeling that multi-site was the direction God was taking us. I had the opportunity to go check out LifeChurch.tv and see how they roll… which is a sight to be seen if you’ve never been out there.  Go. Thats all I’ve got to say. Anyway, all you guys in the blogosphere that I read have taught me tons on the subject as well, and I’m sure we’ve got a long way to go, especially when it comes to fine tuning ‘our way’ of doing multi-site. Everybody is doing it so differently, and its working for you guys where you are. So right now, we are in the phase are studying, researching, praying, and trying to figure out what ‘our way’ looks like. 

Over the last 2 days, I’ve been meeting with the guys from Fowler Design Group about wiping our existing video system and taking us to HD from lens to screen, as well as designing the delivery system for each of our future campuses. Which is our first step in the journey of going to a second site. On top of that, we are in the process of extending our existing building to accomodate more room for youth and kids, as well as a second venue on site, which will technically be our first venture into multi-site. 

So, to step back and look at this, we are doing a lot all at once. A full video overhaul, including lighting, in the main worship space, and then full production (audio, video, & lighting) in the new youth room, the new kids room, and the second on-site venue, all while making plans for our first off-site campus launch some time early to mid 2009. 

So my last 2 days have been working through this, dreaming a little about what is possible. And of course filling my head with more acronyms than I thought existed in the entire world. Can you think of another industry with more acronyms than the video/production industry?

So needless to say my head is hurting right now just thinking about it all. But at the same time, its really exciting. I love technology, especially when its used to advance the kingdom. 

I’ll be posting a lot more details in the future. We are still in the infant stages of this, but as we build this system and our plan for multi-site I’ll be posting as much info as I can.

treytaylor.net on the iPhone

// June 11th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // apple, technology

I’m a little late on this…

but if you’ve got an iPhone or iPod touch, you can now check out my blog and see it reformatted to fit your phone.

The best part is, its really easy! So easy I could do it. If you want to make iPhone users happy and if you use wordpress, install this little plugin and wala… its magically delicious. 

our new toy

// June 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // technology, video

Really, this thing is not a toy, its one bad machine that I can’t wait to crank up.

We’ve been working with Fowler Inc. on doing our video overhaul. These guys will be taking us to HD and its gonna be so flippin’ sweet. You’ll be hearing more about that in the next few weeks. But the new toy I’m talking about is sorta like the first phase of that overhaul. With One Prayer starting this week, we pushed to go ahead and get one large piece of the system early, the center projector. And man is it a doozy. For all you A/V geeks out there, its a Panasonic PT-DW10000U. It’s a 3-chip HD DLP with 10,000 ansi lumens and a 5000:1 contrast ratio.

This guy is a huge investment, but there’s no doubt that its gonna majorly improve the quality of the media in our services and better speak the language of our culture. It’s gonna be amazing.

planning center updated

// May 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // church, creative, technology

For you guys out there that may not have found Planning Center Online yet, you need to. Its been one of the most useful tools we’ve ever used around here. 

If you do use it, and for my guys, they have released some pretty cool updates. You can see the complete list of them here.

But the coolest new feature, the one I’m most excited about is their new iPhone interface. So all of you guys with iPhones can now access our schedules and services flows right from your phone. Unfortunately you can’t edit from the iPhone yet but I’m sure thats coming soon. I know I’m gonna be using this bad boy a lot!

microsoft’s dirty little secret

// May 7th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // apple, random foolishness, technology

Looky Looky what Microsoft uses for presentation. I wonder if they’re running ProPresenter.

wanted: motion fx help

// April 22nd, 2008 // 7 Comments » // creative, technology, video

We wrapped up The Blueprint series about 2 months ago, it was on building a healthy home. I wanted to show you guys the bumper that I whipped up in After Effects for the series. I’ve only recently started dabbling with AE as time allows (coz man it can suck up yo time). I shot the footage with the Z1U and tweaked the image in AE to match the series graphic that our design guru had put together. The video is very simple, the trickiest thing on this one was the 3D text, which for you motion genius’ I’m sure thats nothing. I would love some feedback. I was inspired by inWorship to post this, he had some great comments on a similar post so I just couldn’t pass it up. I’m looking for all the help I can get.

Ok, so give it to me straight… I’d love some tips and criticism. 

I recently had another post with an AE project, take a look at it also and let me know what you think about that one too.