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Truman Wheeler May 6, 2021
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As anyone who has produced a weekly broadcast will tell you, live productions can be hard work. At Christ Community Chapel (CCC), worship leaders host an online church service for their remote congregation that at once encourages, comforts, and displays world-class production value. These online worship services include live sermons, pre-recorded music performances, multi-channel switching from 8 high-quality SDI sources, and many more complex video streaming workflow elements.
Caption: Christ Community Chapel provides a high-quality live broadcast of each church service for their remote congregation.
With a heavy workload like theirs, CCC's production team was struggling to keep everything organized. In their workflow, each camera recorded to either internal memory cards or an external recording deck, while audio was recorded separately by the service's live audio mixers. After the worship service concluded, audio and video files were exchanged between the two teams using Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage and external SSDs.
With their disconnected church tech, one team always waited on the other to complete their work before they started the next stage of production. Michael Seng, video director at CCC, put it best: It was very convoluted.
Caption: Michael Seng, video director at Christ Community Chapel.
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Christ Community Chapel needed a live broadcast solution that saved their production team time and introduced a more collaborative workflow so they could cut multiple versions of their worship service faster week after week. After analyzing several workflow solutions and professional video servers to see what would meet their church live streaming and media storage needs, CCC chose the SNS EVO 16 Bay video editing server and Bluefish444 IngeSTore Server 3G.
From religious institutions with massive audiences to small churches with a devout and dedicated congregation, EVO is the high-performance shared storage solution for houses of worship and creative production studios around the world. With EVO, Seng's video editing team collaborates on projects without the risk of overwriting project files or cluttering their file structure with dozens of duplicate versions.
CCC uses two IngeSTore Servers along with EVO for multicam acquisition and live edit. Using IngeSTore, 8 SDI feeds are captured live and encoded as either Sony XDCAM or ProRes files, depending on the requirements of each project. As they are encoding, IngeSTore transfers these files directly to EVO over a 10GbE network connection. Seng's team then begins piecing together over 20 camera angles in a single Premiere Pro timeline, along with graphics and other media overlays on their EVO. Each camera feed is saved for post-production, so the entire process is fast, simple, and stress-free.
Caption: Christ Community Chapel uses two IngeSTore Servers and a 16 Bay EVO video editing server for their church A/V setup.
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CCC's production team saves time importing media, syncing audio, and managing files with their new IngeSTore-to-EVO edit while record workflow. What was once a laborious multi-step process has been completely streamlined, giving Seng's team members access to their footage while it is still recording.
We have multiple editors pulling in footage while the live stream is going on, said Seng. These growing files-audio and video files that are still being filmed-are quickly accessible on EVO shared storage, letting editors collaborate on productions before the online services are over. Live-editing saves my video team a couple hours every week. That may not sound like a lot, but in our world, that can be huge.
