Here are some examples of how church production crews have leveraged this technology to simplify production operations:Ĭondense the Control Room into a Single Panel: This is especially useful when you have multiple pieces of equipment driving content for different destinations. Not to mention, DashBoard is freely downloadable from the Ross Video website.
DashBoard is an open, programmable, and third party-friendly technology that allows users to create an integrated control interface tailored to production tasks, rather than equipment. One example of these control systems is Ross Video’s DashBoard network control software, which was developed partly in consultation with church production focus groups that were brought to Ross Video’s R&D campus to discuss the challenges they face, particularly with volunteer operation staff. We need to stop letting equipment get in the way of volunteer success and leverage control technology to ensure they can operate with excellence. With the development of wide-interfacing, programmable control systems in recent years, we can start to look at all the component equipment of a production solution as an “under-the-hood” engine for achieving our production goals, while creating a control overlay that is agnostic to the products underneath.Ĭhurches can’t do what they do without their volunteer workforce. Instead of abiding by the traditional equipment-centric model of operator training, church staff should be thinking about ways to tailor equipment to their operators-namely, in the church world-volunteers. And let’s face it, we aren’t working with equipment that is necessarily intuitive to a layperson with no prior production experience.
Next thing you know, you’re going through the training process with a new volunteer all over again. Finally, after weeks of training, you may forge a Most Valuable Volunteer (MVV) who is a rock-solid operator in any position you put them in, only to have them leave for other obligations. Schedule these events on weekends when support can be limited and the pressure continues to rise. Producing live events in front of an audience or congregation week-after-week is a high-risk operation in any setting, but add to that a small production team with mixed skill sets ranging from industry experts to eager, willing volunteers, and the stakes become even higher. Put Your Production Goals & Volunteer Success at The Forefront Church production crews shouldn’t limit themselves to this equipment-centric mode of thinking, because each church faces a very unique set of challenges that aren’t adequately addressed by this workflow. Many churches are working off an equipment-centric blueprint that has been formulated over the years by the big-broadcast old guard of live production, a model centered around molding operator staff or volunteers to specific pieces of equipment. So, if virtually any product will do the job, what criteria really matter when building out your project? One criterion is how the products come together as a whole integrated solution. But can they do the job you need them to do? The answer is generally yes, you just need to learn the specific nuances of the product.
In today’s live production industry almost any manufacturer can provide you with a good product-be it a production switcher, graphics system, server, or anything else-different products will have different specifications, interfaces and unique features.
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