I just finished organizing all of R2's "digital assets" on a new external hard drive. By digital assets I mean all the images, videos, music, etc we've either created, assembled or bought to enhance the R2 worship experience. These things may end up being shown on the screens, printed as signs or worship guides or even end up as t-shirts (shameless plug time: visit the R2Online Merch Table ). No doubt there are churches out there with servers full of this kind of stuff, but since we're just getting started our assets take up a measly 22.4 GB. It'll be interesting one day in the future to look back and remember our humble beginnings.
Along those same lines, here's a rundown of the equipment we use to make the Sunday Worship Experiences happen:
To run the screens and the cafe monitor (21", running on the same feed as the main screens), edit video and a few other things we're using a MacBook 3.1 with 2.2 Core Duo Processor and 2GB of RAM. The software we use is ProPresenter 3 to run screens and sound, Photoshop Elements 4 to create images, iMovie and Final Cut Express to create images, and a little help from Live Type. I'm sure there's better applications out there, but right now with our budget and skill set, we're making due with these.
Most of our content is assembled/created on my personal Dell desktop running Windows XP with a 3.sGHZ Core Duo processor with 4 GB RAM. On it I'm running Photoshop Elements 5 (in which I create slide shows with the Organizer function). Again, I'm sure one day not too far down the road I'll look back and laugh at how unsophisticated and cheesy all the things I'm doing now are, but for the time being, I'm going to enjoy learning on the fly.
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