simple video staging
for years i’ve been blown away by creative and engaging video staging setups. if you are new to the idea of “video staging”, think of it simply as adding screens (or any type of video display) to a stage/platform, going beyond the typical setup of one/two screens for displaying lyrics and iMAG/backgrounds. you can get extremely creative with video staging; it serves as a great backdrop as well as a great way to bring the visual element more into the experience that the worship team is facilitating.
i recently got to work with the amazing teams at LifeWay & Technical Innovation on Beth Moore’s Living Proof Live conference in San Antonio. usually on an “end stage” setup, we have a large center screen framed by trussing. this time, we decided to take it up a notch and produce a 3-screen setup.
we accomplished this by simply adding two extra projectors & screens, plus a nifty little device by Matrox called the TripleHead2Go. i simply used my MacBook Pro (running ProVideoPlayer)….set my resolution to 3072 x 768 … and outputted to the TripleHead2Go … which split out directly to the 3 projectors. some content i custom created for this resolution…but most of my loops were either set at 800×600 or 1280×720 …so i had to live with a widened image… but honestly it still looked great to a sea of 10,000 women!
for another great blog entry on the TripleHead2Go, click here!
have you ever used a TripleHead2Go or done any kind of video staging?
I’m trying not to visualize… a sea of 10,000 women! =) Whew!
Are you controlling the plasmas at the front, too? What ran those?
the plasmas are driven by a separate MacBook Pro running ProPresenter & Keynote. We use Pro for all lyrics on the outer screens with iMAG (and some VJ content)…Keynote for the announcements & also for Beth’s message points.
The 3-screens were completely isolated from any other feed and were directly linked into my MBP/PVP & TripleHead2Go. The plasmas stayed on lyrics and iMAG most of the time.
the rush of estrogen from 10k women is a force not to be reckoned with. trust me.
Nice to see the sites finally up and running!
Last year at the A/G Tenessee District Youth Convention, I did the same thing with MediaShout and a TH2G. We used three pieces of a stretchable material to create 3 screens across the back of the stage, each having its own unique shape. I ran each screen through its own Edirol switcher. The computer with the TH2G went to each of the three switchers to be spread across all three screens. Then I ran a lyric machine to the center screen to be keyed over video. A also ran a split signal of an additional MediaShout computer running videos to the left and right screens. I used midi to link the two side switchers together so when I controlled one, the other changed as well. We also had a three camera setup, so I ran an iso feed from each camera to each of the three switchers so I could mix in each of the three shots all at once.
I set up my hd cam in the back of the room with a wide shot so I could record the setup. I post a clip of it in another comment.
The blog’s looking great!!
Here’s the link to the video I wrote about above.
TYC07 Media w/ TripleHead2Go
http://vimeo.com/1659412
This setup is really awesome. I remember you telling me about it, but to see it in pictures looks great!
Looks nice. Way to dress up for the ladies.
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