HOUSES OF WORSHIP 40 Production
CAPTURE AND VISION London’s Routsong Church is using broadcast quality tools for its transmission, including four Sony HDC 1500 and Canon HJ22 cameras and a For-A vision mixer
ALTHOUGH NUMEROUS CHURCHES HAVE TAKEN UP OUR SOLUTION, OTHER ORGANISATIONS HAVE BENEFITED, TOO. IT IS ESPECIALLY HELPFUL FOR CORPORATEMEETINGS AND FOR SCHOOLS
Jones explains that the system is a complete turnkey streaming solution designed for multi-site venues. Living As One’s complete package includes multi-site encoders for real-time video capture, LAN and cloud distribution for scalable delivery, multi-site decoders for live/DVR playback, and, of course, support (with full weekend availability for churches). The system’s multi-site encoders and decoders ensure zero content loss across the entire transmission path, even in the case of a complete Internet failure. During playback, all content comes from a local solid-state hard drive, which can buffer live video in advance. This allows remote playback sites to see exactly what has been encoded without blackouts, buffering, or jitter. Jones says that the system is Linux based. “That means everything is locked down – all the operators have to do is switch on the power button and the system boots up. We are paranoid about reliability, so the system is designed to be simple, dependable and easy to manage.” Once the first installation was completed
at the home church, news of the development spread rapidly.
upgrade was completed in August, providing four-channel audio. In addition to a stereo mix of the broadcast, a feed is provided of the musical director and musical cues from the host site, allowing the worship musicians at the receiving sites to play music in time with the video. Finally, in October, additional decoder units were installed at new church locations in Birmingham and Liverpool. Taylor concludes: “This phase of our investment is now completed and will provide for our needs for some time to come. As a system, Living As One meets our requirements perfectly. It has restored trust in our ability to link across our church locations, after a previous history of embarrassing failed links. Living As One provides an easy-to-use solution that our volunteer teams love.”
“Suddenly, everyone wanted it. Now you could have the same reliability as dedicated connections or satellite, but at the price of the public Internet. Although numerous churches have taken up our solution, other organisations have benefited, too. It is especially helpful for corporate meetings and for schools,” says Jones. PROGRAMME COMPLETED “Last January saw us receive two encoders and three decoders to test in some of our church locations,” adds Hillsong’s Taylor. “As a result, we made the decision to roll out the system to all our churches. By April, we’d completed the first phase of the install.” The second phase of the Hillsong
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