In addition to providing video for North Coast Church's video venues, the production staff and volunteers also create video and audio recordings of their services for several different uses.
"We use the video and audio recordings for retirement facilities where the elderly can't make it out to a campus — so we bring church to them," states Pastor of Communications Dennis Choy. "Since we are near a large military base, we also send message series overseas to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who gather other soldiers together and run sermon-based bible studies using the video teaching and our small group follow-up questions. The DVD allows you to gather others around a TV to share in the experience of what you are watching."
For the video recordings, a Panasonic AW-HE50s HD pan/tilt camera feeds into a Broadcast Pix Granite switcher via fiber. The switcher then feeds several recording devices: An AJA Ki Pro records an Apple ProRes 422 QuickTime stream; a Pioneer LX1 DVD recorder produces a DVD for immediate duplication, and a Mac Pro running Final Cut Pro records for editing.
"The process is simple and clean," comments Choy, "and allows us to get a DVD copy burned on the fly and duplicated within 30 minutes of the service ending. After the weekend we master down the best message from the weekend and post it to our sermon site (www.searchablesermons.com), Vimeo, and our iPhone sermon app."
For audio, it's even simpler. "We use several devices for recording audio," describes Choy. "One is a standalone CD recorder mainly because of the quick turnaround to duplicate several hundred CDs to be available for sale within minutes after service is over. We also record to an MP3 recorder so the file can be emailed to our volunteer web developer who posts it to the web for online listening. Again, the process is very simple and clean for immediate duplication and distribution."
