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California's High Desert Church is a multi-site house of worship with four campuses that serve a total congregation of over 8,000 people. Looking for a switcher that enabled them to live stream sermons from the main campus to other sites, High Desert turned to For-A. The church recently purchased the company's HVS-2000 video switcher to handle the growing congregation's video production needs.
High Desert Church's pastors speak live every weekend at their Victorville campus auditorium, and the HVS-2000 allows for a live IMAG cut at Victorville while also broadcasting to the house of worship's other sites. The HVS-2000 offers plenty of inputs and outputs for the church's needs, and its 12 AUX outputs give operators more control over what's being broadcast.
"In some scenarios I don’t need a fully featured MELite, and in that case, I can simply throw a Flex-a-key on an AUX output to place keyers in areas of the switchers where I need them."
Sam Pendergrass
Production Director
High Desert Church's production staff capitalizes on the HVS-2000's unique capabilities. “With the HVS-2000, I can use the MELite feature to transform a traditional AUX bus into a fully function M/E with cuts, mixes, wipes and keys. I love having this flexibility,” says Sam Pendergrass, Production Director, High Desert Church. “In some scenarios I don't need a fully featured MELite, and in that case, I can simply throw a Flex-a-key on an AUX output to place keyers in areas of the switchers where I need them. We have multi-image display walls, and it's also very nice that the switcher can parse an image to different outputs. The ability to switch back and forth seamlessly without external processors is very convenient.”
High Desert Church.
High Desert Church has a team of volunteers that operates the switcher for all services. While they appreciate the flexibility and creative control that the switcher affords them, they also heavily rely on macros to maintain a consistent experience for the congregation between different sermons and operators.
Pendergrass explains, “The HVS-2000 is more than capable of handling our church's video production needs, and we really like that it also leaves room for future expansion. For -A has been so helpful through every stage of our journey, and the entire purchase and configuration process was all very smooth. We're very satisfied with our new switcher.”
