Production Room decorating

[videoguru]

Good Evening all,
We are finally making the upgrade to HD and with that comes the transformation of sunday school rooms into a Production room. We have planned for some space for a couch and mini-fridge and want to take out the fluorescent lighting painting the Ceiling black and add dimmed lighting to help give it the mood we media tech enjoy. Is there a way some of you guys could post some photos of what your rooms look like to help give us some cool ideas.

Thanks
videoguru

[Esoteric]

You guys are really nice. We were lucky to get a dozen donuts.

[tdangelo]

[tdangelo]

[petereit]

Nice! I like the half-hats on the lights. Great idea!

[tdangelo]

Thanks Mark. Control Room “C” typically handles up to five (or so) camera shoots. Video shading, engineering, tape and audio mix are in a separate room from Control Room “C.” My favorite thing about Control Room “C” is that the outboard multiviewers are on 60” LCD’s that are hung vertically (portrait). This is much more space efficient than hanging multiple screens horizontally (landscape). Your multiviewer needs to support this though. I also like that PVW, PGM and the camera repeat monitors are non-multiviewer screens.

Control Room “D” typically handles one-to-three camera shoots. Video shading, engineering, tape and audio mix are all in the Control Room. My favorite thing about Control Room “D” the NewTek Tricast 850 Extreme. It’s a very cool box for small-crew type productions.

[petereit]

Ooh, I hadn't thought of mounting the multiviews portrait. We were thinking of upgrading to an Atem2 with 16 SDI inputs. It has two multiviewer outputs and I was thinking that we didn't have enough room on our monitor wall for two 60" LCDs (since the one we have now is landscape.)

I'll have to look into that. Thanks!!

[collinong]

wow! can i ask what size church this is for? it's a production geek's dream!

[tdangelo]

Collinong,

The church I attend is Calvary Chapel Old Bridge in Old Bridge New Jersey. They run about 3,000 or so people on a weekend, one campus (room seats about 950), no video venues although they do I-mag, live webcast and VOD. CCOB has a very nice control room with multiple Sony production switchers but the photos I posted are from my day job at Chelsea Television Studios (All Mobile Video).

The photos posted are of Chelsea Television Studios two smallest control rooms. I thought they best represented examples of what a church control room could be. We have other control rooms which are larger but would be less applicable I think.

The key is no matter what size your room is or how many toys you have to play with to use what is at your disposal to its fullest. I believe we tech arts people please God when we use our gifts for his pleasure.

My other comment is that we need to be careful not to get into the mind set that there are secular control rooms and Christian or church control rooms. They are just control rooms. There is no, nor should their ever be, a difference between the two. CTS Control "D" is a small control room with a Tricaster set-up for one to three camera shoots. CTS Control "C" usually does three to five camera shoots. That's a range that is very much within the tech capacity of many churches doing video. CTS, like any business does not want to spend a dollar more than they have to to make their clients happy. On the other hand the studio MUST be functional. I can tell you for sure that NOTHING was installed in either control room based on the engineers wanting to play with new toys.

My hope was that by posting the photos someone might be inspired to take an idea and implement it in their own control room.

[collinong]

thanks for sharing that, tom.

[bpalermini]

Here's our little control room. Key to me is keeping it neat and clean. No one wants the last operators trash to work around. For our video we have one operator who runs three remote cameras plus switches them, in addition there is one manned camera.

[tdangelo]

Thanks for sharing Bob. Great examples of a room that is ergonomically set-up. I appreciate the fact that they installed some nice consoles for the tech team and gave you some extra AC cooling. Very clean set-up!