A while back I was asked to put together a budget for some new video equipment for our church. Four years ago we upgraded our system in the auditorium, adding a projector and a screen. We have slowly went from doing some pretty ancient slideshows with powerpoint and ugly backgrounds to doing video editing pretty regularly with a G3 Mac and a home video camera. We now would like to get into a little better video editing and we want to help everyone to see better in the auditorium, so we are purchasing a new camera, computer, and some new projectors and screens in order to have one on each side of the room.
| The new video camera that we are getting is a Canon GL-2 Mini DV camcorder. It has a lot more freatures than a normal home video camcorder, and yet it doesn’t cost as much as a proffessional camera that we cannot afford. |  |
The other problem that we have had is the computer. We bought a Mac, G3 laptop which improved our video capability, but it had its limits. It is slow and has a small hard drive so we ran out of space and had several problems with it. That computer is moving to the youth room and the new computer will be for the sanctuary.
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This is our new Powermac G5 with Dual 2 GHz processors, Dual 250 MB Serial ATA 7200 rpm Hard Drives, 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM (Upgradable to 8 Gigs), an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card, with a Superdrive, and Final Cut Express pre-installed. |
We will be ordering the screens and projectors pretty soon so that we can put them up after Christmas. I am pretty excited about it. Have any of you used Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express??? I would like to know how easy Final Cut Pro is to use and if that is something we should go to. If you’ve used it before, let me know!
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Oohh, a G5.
Sounds similar to mine minus the 250 GB hard disk (I went with the standard) and minus the 1 gig of ram (I’m waiting for a sale at Crucial).
I looked into Final Cut Express, but couldn’t get it through TerraSoft. Maybe someday…
God has blessed us so much with this stuff I hope we can use it to see many people come to Christ.
Ooohhh, I just started working with out Church’s AV team. That would sure be some fun to work with…
Also cool that the youth group can start playing with the G3
Sweet … congratulations! To be honest, Final Cut Express is almost as full-featured as Final Cut Pro. There are two major differences between the two. First, Express is designed to work only with DV footage (Pro works with a wide variety of film media). Second, Final Cut Pro also includes Soundtrack, LiveType, Compressor, Cinema Tools and Pro Kit (a suite of advanced applications). You might eventually find some of these advanced features to be helpful in your church, but for now I’d recommend just getting familiar with the features and interface of Express first.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks Lance. I am hoping next week I will have some time to begin familiarizing myself with it. Merry Christmas to you too!
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