Lights, Camera – Barna?

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TFWM Multimedia Editor Terry Wilhite reports on major news for multimedia in ministry and offers his perspective. George Barna, who for more than 20 years has been the ministry community’s …

Unconventional Video

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Video is everywhere: in our homes on our TV’s and computers, in the corporate boardroom, on street-side “jumbotron” screens from Times Square to the Las Vegas strip, on the Broadway …

Planning for the Multimedia Church

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The quest for spirituality in today’s society is accentuated by the remarkable capabilities of today’s multimedia systems. In addition to following traditional approaches to spiritual enlightenment, churches, both traditional and …

Creating Visual Style

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It begins with the laying of an egg. Exceptional visual expressions always enter the world as vulnerable fledglings. And like the hatching of an egg, great concepts require nurturing and …

Power Protection for A/V Equipment

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The audio/video equipment used today is far more sophisticated than a decade ago, providing churches better performance, although often at considerable cost. In the “old days,” how many churches had …

Mastering Media Compression

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Back in the late 1900’s (1980’s to be more precise) as video technology became available to the masses the ability to shoot, edit and “premiere” (display and/or distribute) “in-house” video …

Screening Imperfections

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Church audio/video design offers many challenges in today’s not-so-perfect world of light and hard surfaces of Houses of Worship. We all love the very high cathedral ceilings and the wonderfully …