Day two at the Extron Institute in Raleigh brought more overwhelming but highly beneficial information. Today's topics included multi-image processing, AV Resource management, and commissioning hybrid video systems. The day finished with a feedback session that allowed the class participants the time to share concerns and wishes directly with Extron senior engineers and product managers. This gave

Today was the first of a two-day class in Raleigh, NC that I am participating in. Extron electronics invited me (as well as about 40 other consultants) here to attend this training to inform us of their newest product offerings as well as new trends and changes in the world of AV design and integration.Trying to absorb the information given today for 8 hours was akin to the proverbial "drinking

On September 23 Adobe announced the debut of Elements 8.  Tim and I posted a pre-release review that highlighted the new features that Adobe incorporated into the “hobbyist” level Premiere/Photoshop combo.  You can find that article here. I’ve had some time to work with the Organizer and Premiere on my PC and to see how well the new features worked.  Tim will follow up with a hands-on

ADOBE ELEMENTS 8Adobe today announced the availability of its Adobe Elements 8 packages, both Photoshop Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8. Windows versions are available for both Elements, while Mac users will have to settle for the Photoshop Element only.Adobe says the products fit in the "hobbyist" area of Adobe's mass-market push, the opposite end of a continuum that includes Photoshop

We've posted a photo gallery of the Oak Ridge Baptist Church project here. Now you can see how the install is being used in everyday service.

On Friday, Paul was asked by the youth pastor of ORBC to help set up a temporary overflow system for this Sunday. They’re expecting possibly up to 400 people in attendance at the 10:30 AM service, and they wanted to be prepared to send people to the fellowship hall to watch the service on a closed-circuit system if necessary. The church purchased a 3500 lumen Dell DLP projector, so we set that

Today we finalized all of our installation. We installed a shelf for three amplifiers in the nursing room of the infant nursery. We installed an extra duplex outlet up on the wall where the amps could plug in. We also placed one of our two Network Sound wall plates here. The audio runs from the DSP in the sound booth to a wall plate in the sound booth. From there, the Network Sound plate converts

Last October, ORBC began recording all of their Sunday AM and PM services as well as any special events that they had. Paul was asked to recommend what equipment to purchase. They needed something that could be operated with minimum personnel and lowest intrusion. The first purpose was to record all of the services to DVD. The main reason for this was for distribution to church members who couldn’t

Tim and I were able to attend the opening service at Oak Ridge Baptist this morning. Things went smoothly enough for a first service. Everyone was trying to get used to the new facility and find out where all the rooms were that they needed. It was a good crowd with about 300 in attendance. The auditorium is designed to seat about that number. The service went smoothly with a few minor AV glitches.

The youth room required a ceiling-mounted projector, a pair of wall-mounted speakers, amplifier, volume control, and VGA and 1/8” audio input. The youth pastor already had a Benq projector that was sufficient for the job, so we mounted that with a Telehook pole mount. This versatile mount allows for multiple adjustments including tilt and roll. This allowed us to mount it on the cathedral

Things are happening very quickly around the property now. The landscape is nearing getting finishing touches. The auditorium furniture is all installed. The last of the trim work and painting is being done. The last of our speakers were installed this week, and we had some help from a retired electrician from the church with all of the soldering. We’ll now concentrate on finishing up the

Over the last two weeks we made some minor modifications to our design and equipment list to reduce the number of power points the church would need. We originally incorporated some Extron compact amplifiers for each room’s speakers, but we reduced the number of amps in order to not need so many plugs throughout the building. We designed the placement of the amps strategically for easiest access

In February of this year, we were asked by Oak Ridge Baptist Church of Oak Ridge, TN to provide design, supply, and installation services for some of the audio-visual equipment in their new facility currently in construction. After coordinating with the construction project manager and electricians, we developed a cost-effective, innovative design that will cooperate with the system being installed

Written by Tim Siglin & Paul SchmutzlerApril 9, 2009Approximately a year and a half after Adobe released its Creative Suite 3 (CS3), the new Creative Suite 4 (CS4) is now available to the public in the same suites: Design Premium, Production Premium, Web Premium, and the all-in-one Master Collection.With CS3, Adobe took its video product line several notches above the norm in quality, allowing it to

Each spring Oak Ridge Baptist Church hosts a week of special outreach meetings. In years past, they’ve used the DVD format as a substitute for paper flyers or brochures as an invitation. Braintrust Digital was asked to shoot and edit a personal invitation to the viewer from Senior Pastor Tom Craig. This is the resulting video that was incorporated into the final DVD along with directions to

The Galkin DVD is now complete. The team gave final approval of all five videos, and we’ll be sending the final master off for duplication very soon. Below, you can view the introductory video that is the main video on the DVD. This video will be used to introduce church congregations to the team so they can be familiarized with the team members, their background, and the goals and focus of

Our shoot on March 28 went very well. It threatened to rain all day, but we only had to stop once for about five minutes while a brief shower passed over. The overcast sky gave us even lighting, and we utilized some silver-coated foam core for a bounce light. We got started almost two hours later than scheduled because we forgot to factor in a one hour time zone change since the team was coming

Today we're in total logistics mode. We're settling all of our shooting locations, making phone calls for permissions, checking and prepping equipment, and going over everyone's outlines. Will and Aaron have sent their outlines over, and we're going to give them a little touch-up work to make sure the ideas will be communicated clearly and effectively on camera.

Charles (Chuck) Shoopman wanted to launch the Tennessee SBIR Proposal Assistance Center, he talked to a variety of partners. Chuck got the SBIR Assistance Center off the ground in January 2006, in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the NNSA Y-12 Facility, Technology 2020, the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley, the East Tennessee Economic Council, and Integrated Manufacturing

The whole team has watched the DVD several times and given us feedback. They found a few tweaks to make that will make the whole program smoother. The major development is that they have decided that they want to re-shoot all of their monologues. After eight months of continuing to develop and refine their message, they believe that they can communicate everything much better. So we've gone from