12Stone Church Installs FUJINON HD Lenses

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12Stone Church now bases video production at its four Atlanta campuses on FUJINON lenses

Blue Hat DesignAs one of the fastest growing churches in America, 12Stone Church recently opened a new Atlanta metro campus called Sugarloaf, which is equipped with a state-of-the-art HD video and audio production facility complete with Grass Valley LDX80 Premiere cameras and FUJINON HD lenses from the Optical Devices Division of FUJIFILM North America Corporation. The lens package includes: two FUJINON XA22X7 Studio Series box lenses on pedestal-mounted cameras, and two FUJINON ZA12X4.5 ENG lenses for handheld applications.

At these four locations, 12Stone—a Wesleyan evangelical Christian Church—offers 20 worship services weekly to over 30,000 attendees. The new 1,000-seat Sugarloaf worship center joins three other regional locations, including the Central campus (in Lawrenceville, GA) with its 2,600 seat-worship center, the Hamilton Mill campus with an 800-seat worship center and Flowery Branch with 500 seats. 12Stone also webcasts select services at its website.

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Industry Veteran Forms New Consulting Group

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Longtime industry veteran Rich Hajdu has launched Sand Run Consultants. Hajdu has held management, positions with CBN (WANX-TV), Tektronix/Grass Valley, Chyron, Harris (Imagine Communications), Utah Scientific and Beck TV. A …

Who Won the GoPro Hero 3+ from our Survey?

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GoProWinnerThe results from our reader survey are in, and we have a winner!

Donald Johnson, from the First Baptist Church in Beckley, WV, is the lucky recipient of a GoPro Hero 3+ with a telescopic handheld monopod tripod.  Johnson, who works in Audio, Video and Worship Presentation at First Baptist, was excited to learn he had won, saying,   “Thanks to you and TFWM for this survey and prize. I can’t wait to use this with our worship team and others on the weekend!”

Over the next several months, there will be more surveys and more opportunities to win great prizes for your church.  Make sure to visit our site regularly and follow us on twitter so you don’t miss out!

Congratulations Don!  We know First Baptist will put the GoPro to great use.


How to Use Satellite to Link Remote Locations

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Why multisite campuses need a LIVE video via satellite solution

by Karen Johnson

LCBCsatYour ministry has responded to the call to have a greater impact on the local community by becoming a church with multiple locations. However, effectively connecting these campuses through teaching and worship is a big challenge.

Ministry leaders must evaluate many options to determine how best to deliver their teaching pastor’s message to the other sites. Choices include DVD’s or hard-discs transported by car, land-based data connections, or satellite.

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Florida Baptist Church Converts (A/D) with Symetrix

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Trinity_Baptist_ChurchThe sound system at Trinity Baptist Church in Ocala, Florida is quite sophisticated for a sanctuary that seats approximately 800 congregants. It delivers left-center-right imaging to nearly every seat from multiple loudspeaker positions, including six time-delayed left-center-right zones that cover the areas farthest from the pulpit. This system was installed by Pro Sound & Video in 2004 and although the loudspeakers and amplifiers have held up well, the original DSP processing system that performed the complex routing and filtering did not. Florida-based Pro Sound & Video, Inc. replaced the original processing system with two Symetrix Radius 12×8 Dante™ network audio DSPs and augmented their sixteen combined outputs with two SymNet xOut 12 audio output expansion boxes. All of the units network seamlessly via Dante and replace all of the old analog processing, with plenty of processing power to spare for improvements.

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