We will be launching our new Forest Hill Ballantyne Campus in a matter of days. Planning has been in process for around 8 months and I am very excited about the launch. The unique campus features a dual purpose gymnasium with a permanent stage and a state of the art Meyer surround sound system. Video control room with 3 HD projectors + screens. More details soon to come!
Control Room LIVE….Many Thanks!
It is my sincere privilege to share with each of you what I have been working on for the past 8 months. We have been in the process of building a new video control room to house our HD infrastructure. With over 1,000 man hours, 25,000 ft. (about 5 miles) of Belden video cable and most importantly an incredible team of designers, engineers, installers, volunteers and church staff we have been LIVE in our new control room now for around 2 and a half months.
From conception to inception this room is a product of 4 years of planning, vision, leadership decisions and a senior pastor who truly believes in reaching the world for Christ utilizing technology to its full potential without distracting or moving away from the central message….Jesus Saves.
So from me personally, my deepest thanks to several people for making this project come into fruition:
Paul Henderson, Armando Fullwood, Justin Hames and Alan Conor with Design 20/20 (http://www.design2020.com)
Mike Grier, Rob Kallqvist and Jerry Harrison with W.H Platts (http://www.whplatts.com)
Bryan Snow, Nick Dusenbury, Max Baumgartner, Jonathan Scott, Dan Panebianco, Toben Snow, Carl Etzel, Bradd Johnson, Ryan Carson, Zach Zale, Mark Hudak, Bobby Lindsay, Stephen Apple, Dan Anderson and David Chadwick.
Lastly, I want to thank my beautiful bride, Ashley. Without her love and patience I could have never managed this project. Getting used to 100+ hour work weeks is not an easy thing with 2 younglings running around the house, so beloved, thank you for your love and sticking it out with me through this process!
This project could have never happened without countless hours of prayer, vision casting and a long range plan for the future of Forest Hill and its extension campus’. I am deeply honored to be apart of the process and such an incredible team of amazingly talented/devoted people. As David says, “may I decrease so that He may increase, to him always and only all the glory)
Here are some before and after pictures of the final project. Enjoy.
Control Room Project 2010
My dream of 4 years has finally become a reality! You have to understand the history of Forest Hill and how our production team came to fruition to know how much of a milestone this truly is for our ministry.
4 years ago production barely existed in our weekend environment. It really consisted of one front of house engineer, a few robotic cameras controlled by one operator and a lighting volunteer. Over the past 4 years we have evolved from that into a full scale weekend production environment consisting of over 40 incredibly talented volunteers of which it takes 12 per weekend to pull off a regular service.
We are so blessed to be apart of an incredible ministry and church that has resources. Whenever there is a need, God provides. The control room has always been a dream of mine because several decisions were made in the past to purchase high end broadcast production equipment but no real infrastructure to house it.
We have been in the design phase of the control room since the summer and we are finally making headway on the project. All equipment has been ordered and cable runs are starting to happen this week. We have recently hired a Technical Director (Stephen Apple) and a Production Intern (Dan Panebianco) to help us during the week as well as the weekend. Stephen and I both moved into our new offices a few weeks ago and we are getting the new production area ready for occupancy.
At this point, as cable gets pulled (a full HD-SDI 720p System), we are doing all electrical work and gathering all equipment together. I am finally at a point where I can actually start taking pictures and documenting the process. The next few weeks are going to be very busy and exciting. We have to run all new cable throughout the whole church as we are basically starting over from scratch on our video infrastructure. We are reusing our current equipment and only adding necessary components to make a fully functional system.
Live streaming is currently on the table as a goal for sending the message from our South Park campus to the new Morrison Ballantyne Campus. This will be 2 simultaneous feeds sending over IP in a Flash Codec. We are also exploring the possibility of live web streaming for our foresthill.org website.
Stay tuned for one of the most exciting projects in Forest Hill Production History.
For His Glory…
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