Church Media Technology, Macs, Faith, and Me

Oct

Yamaha Digital Consoles

Posted by Rick Published in Technical Production, audio

At Sugar Creek Baptist Church we just opened a new Family Center. In this new building we have about four rooms with media support and the two larger rooms have Yamaha digital consoles. I was very excited about have features such as offline editing, on board effects, and networking. I have been very [...]

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Sep

Is there such a thing as right place, right time?

Posted by Rick Published in Random Thoughts, Volunteers

Today I got a call from one of the volunteers in the tech ministry. I love hearing from the team and I really like it when I can be of service to them. Most of the time it works the other way with them serving the tech ministry. In case you don’t [...]

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Aug

Gutiar Priase

Posted by Rick Published in Apple, OS X, Random Thoughts

My friend and co-worker Brandon who for some reason likes killing baby seals (strange) posted about a new game coming out in a few weeks called Guitar Praise. Here is a link to Brandon’s post. While I think this is a great idea and I have no problem with christians picking up [...]

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Aug

ProPreseter and a Free Motion Background

Posted by Rick Published in Apple, OS X, Sundays, Technical Production, video

Are you a Leopard user? You just got a free motion background for Pro-Presenter. We were sitting in production meeting last week and I had my laptop up and running. About midway into the meeting my laptop kicked in the screen saver and Stephen loved it and thought it would be a [...]

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Aug

Why do I like Safari so much?

Posted by Rick Published in OS X, Random Thoughts

To be honest I don’t have a clue. Safari is fast, easy to use and well integrated into OS X. Is it because I’m an Apple fan boy that it continue to use it? When I first switched to a Mac I was a die hard FireFox user and it was not until Safari 3.1 [...]

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Jul

No Fishbowl

Posted by Rick Published in Uncategorized

No Fishbowl

Originally uploaded by idatasys

Decided to see what it is like in the room with the drum shield down.
The results will not be in until Sunday, but the drums sounded much
more natural. This is the first time that I have liked the cymbals.

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Jul

Un-timely Necessary Projects

Posted by Rick Published in Repairs, Technical Production, video

We all know that stuff breaks at the most inopportune times. Currently, I’m flying solo in the production department and my favorite video switcher decides to go on the fritz. I don’t know if you guys are like me or not, but I just can’t leave well enough alone. Just not smart enough to follow [...]

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Jul

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Posted by Rick Published in Uncategorized

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Originally uploaded by idatasys

In the High End demo room
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Rick Russell

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Jul

Stange Thing

Posted by Rick Published in Random Thoughts

I was driving through Austin yesterday and there appears to be a sign on top of the stop lights that face up. To thin to be a solar panel. Are they for airplanes to see what road they can land on? Just found it interesting. If anyone has any insight let me know.

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Jul