| Well, To answer some of your questions, Yes we are a completely portable church, and we have been known to take services to an outside venue on occasion, so I'd love for our camera/Imag setup to be completely portable as well. We seat about 200-250 each Sunday, and the staff of our church is all about vision and excellence in ministry. We base our service on the idea that if we're going to make a media ministry happen, that it should be a well thought out and excellent flowing process that makes a visitor leave feeling like the message was received, not thinking about how the lights were flashing during the video interlude, or there was a 30 second delay between when the lights came up and the band started.
Our end goal would definitely be a full broadcast type recording, with a 3 camera system, streaming live to the internet and recording simultaneously for later DVD production, but we're definitely planning to start small and work our way there. I'm not 100% that Song Show Plus is the software that I want to continue using, but I'm afraid my experience is too limited on Ministry media choices to make an educated decision. I have looked at the Newtek Tricast system, and I think that it seems like an awesome fit for what we need, but I'm thinking we're better just getting the IMAG setup to work with 1 camera to start off. And if a seamless switcher allows us to transition nicely between the lyrics from our praise band to showing live video, it sounds like that would be awesome at least to start out.
Thanks again for all your input, every bit of knowledge is helpful.
-Mike   |