We’ve been dreaming for quite a while about how to bring our Lakeside Auditorium system into the world of HD. But with all things good, time, money, and creativity are required! In looking at our options compared with long-term budget forecasting, we came up with a great in-between solution. Our Main Auditorium is equipped with […]
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FAQ: What Graphics Software Do You Prefer?
In 2010 we switched our entire campus over from a CG system called Harris Inscriber to Renewed Vision’s ProPresenter and we haven’t looked back since. We are keeping up to date with Renewed Vision’s updates to ProPresenter and have been using them since the days of ProPresenter 4. A lot has changed in the software since then! In […]
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Communicating With Your End Users
A main element of the Systems Team at Willow’s job is to maintain gear in our venues and train users when needed. Since we operate as Engineers on Call (EOC) during services and events, much of our feedback on how users interact with our systems comes in the form of helpdesk tickets or calls to […]
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TV Install Best Practices
Many of our conference rooms and classrooms around Willow have aging 4:3 SD projectors and wall plates fitted with VGA inputs from times gone by. We’ve been swapping out these projectors and VGA infrastructures with wall-mounted TV’s that are fitted with HDMI infrastructure. Each time we install another TV, something pops up that helps us […]
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FAQ: Production Headsets
We often get asked what comm headsets our production team uses for our events and services. Ask no more! Sensaphonics makes an earpiece called the TC1000. It runs about $600 (not including cost for in-ear molds and visit to an audiologist) and is an ear saver. Why do we use this? Great question! When over the […]
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Let’s do something amazing, together.
These are my notes from a talk I gave at our annual production volunteer celebration. We have an amazing team and I am honored to get to be the one to encourage them. A couple of years ago I thought it would be great to make contact with the original TD for Willow Creek. After […]
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Be Flexible
I was going back through my notes on some of the production staff meetings we’ve had over the years, and came across the very first value we talked about: be flexible. In that era, I had been having quite a few conversations with our creative arts team and our pastors about the production team being […]
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Rigging Made Easy: Crimping Tools and Swages by Glenn Davis
The way I see it the stage world just looks better when you have more options toward supporting or flying scenery. At Willow Creek Church, suspending scenery is very common. At times, we may create over 100- 32’x 1/16” cable drops to suspend a certain weekend look that weighs a few thousand pounds. Even though […]
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Rigging Made Easy: Cable and Glider by Glenn Davis
I’ve been hearing a lot lately from individuals who are working hard at scenic creativity that are disappointed there is very little information toward tips on rigging and rigging hardware. Almost every scenic project requires the suspension of some sort of scenic element that echoes back scary and dangerous. Which leads me to the question […]
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what is the perfect volume? part 2
In part one of this post, I talked about making sure you know what you are trying to do in your services and how volume fits into that. This is a leadership question, more than a dB question. As a church, what is your goal for the service? How loud it gets will be a […]
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