On today’s Tech, No Babel: Director Tips for Camera Ops Having been spent time in both the director’s chair and in the camera operator seat, I thought I’d share some of the tips I’ve picked up so that camera ops can be as helpful as possible to their directors: 1….
1. First and foremost, I want to mention my pastor. So much of what I share with you (especially in the Eternity Changers series) came from stuff I’ve learned either directly or indirectly from him. You’re likely to hear more and more about him in the future, so follow…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches, Making an Audio Podcast: Your church might not be podcasting yet, but we’ll talking about the basics today. For any audio podcast, you need three things: 1. The audio file 2. The delivery mechanism (RSS feed) 3. The media hosting Links mentioned: Subscribe for…
Ahead of Apple’s announcement tomorrow, I wanted to publish a post talking about something that people seem to have forgotten. The Pebble, Galaxy gear, Sony Smartwatch 2, and other watch-style wrist computers have all been announced already. The reaction has been an almost universal “Meh..” Sure there are people that…
On today’s Tech, No Babel — Shotguns, Handhelds, and Lavs…oh my! What are the differences between these mics? When should you use each? What should you buy? We’ll talk about it all on today’s show. Subscribe for free: RSS feed iTunes one-click subscription and don’t forget to rate the show…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches — Landing Pages: Today we’ll explore how churches can redeem one of the post potent weapons in the aresenal of the internet marketer. Hint: it doesn’t involve 200,000 words of sales copy and an annoying autoplaying video. Links mentioned: My latest landing page: 5…
As the summer ends, I’ve crossed another one of my goals off the “to do” list for this year. Let’s see how close I am on the others: [table id=1 /] So what did I do? A couple of weeks slowed down my momentum. The week before last I was…
Here are the latest questions: EW Church A/V Technology on g+ Our church has just purchased an HD Camcorder. We are having a centennial weekend soon and are anticipating a larger than normal group. The pastor wants to set up a video projector and screen in a hall across the…
On today’s Tech, No Babel: Still Image Formats. When you’re working with stills, there are tons of formats. Today we look at TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and GIF to see when you would use each (and how to pronounce GIF). Links mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_graphics_file_formats Subscribe for free: RSS feed iTunes one-click subscription…
I’d love people to take a look at my latest landing page and make sure it works. When you go through the process, you’ll get my latest freebie “5 TOOLS FOR USING VIDEO IN YOUR CHURCH (including one you probably already have)”. Go to this page and take a look….