I just completed the first video with substantial color correction and grading using Apple Color today. It was quite a nice process. In four quadrant image below you can see each of the clips from these interviews. In clips A and B you can see clips that had the exposure properly set prior to the shoot. I didn't adjust the …
Schweitzer Web Update Launched
Earlier this week we launched the updated Schweitzer web site. There are some substantial design updates and major infrastructure changes – switching to the Web Empowered Church platform, which is powered by Typo3. We still have some content to migrate, so this is basically a soft launch (the only announcement is on this blog). We hit some technical snags that …
WEC: Installation & HTTP Compression
Installation of the Web Empowered Church platform was smooth and easy. I was a php software developer prior to entering ministry, so there were no difficulties with the installation. The symlinked install approach even made the upgrade to the 4.1 version of Typo3 very easy. The docs from WEC make the process simple enough that anybody with basic linux web …
Creative Idea Generation
I love Creating Passionate Users and Kathy has a great post that I'm going to have to try the next time we do do a large scale creative idea generating session. It's a Product Design Dinner Party. We generally attack these sessions with a group of people from various fields and with various levels of experience in a round-table set …
Schweitzer Web 2007 – Web Empowered Church
We're very close to launching the new design for the Schweitzer web site. This update is more substantial than a design refresh, it is a complete overhaul. One of my first goals when I came on staff was to migrate away from using static pages for the web site. Last year we implemented a Joomla system that …
Anecdotes
Seth Godin had a great post last weekend about how what we do today is tomorrow's anecdote for somebody. I think this really holds true in ministry settings. Think about the last time you had either an exceptional or a very bad experience with customer service in a store or restaurant. These experiences stick with us and are oftentimes the …
MMI: Bench Warmers: How Churches are Sidelining Their Young MVPs
MMI: Bench Warmers: How Churches are Sidelining Their Young MVPs This is an interesting situation. Something I've become more interested in as I've renewed my candidacy process and filled in coordinating the young adult ministry. It's also something that I don't see very commonly at Schweitzer. We've got a lot of young adults active in a variety of areas of …
Relevant Network
I recently subscribed to the Relevant Network as part of my expanded role at Schweitzer. Until January I had been mainly a participant in the young adult ministry, now I'm serving as the staff coordinator. Our goal is to move the ministry to be mostly led by a volunteer team. It's something I think will work very well, but the …
The Blogging Church
When I ordered The Blogging Church from Amazon I screwed something up and it shipped normal ground rather than with the two day shipping for my Amazon Prime account (which is a great thing), so it just showed up yesterday. The timing was actually really good though. My illness has made me worthless for anything but sleeping, reading, and watching …
ProPresenter Font Choice
Like I said in my previous post I’m tickled to death with ProPresenter for our worship presentation software. There are a couple of features I’d love to see added and I’ll write that up in a future post, but so far the quality of the text and background display has been great. The one problem we’re having is probably …
Christmas Eve @ Schweitzer & Merry Christmas
I hope everybody has a Merry Christmas today. Sarah and I are headed to the farm outside Purdy. Yesterday was a phenomenal day at Schweitzer, but it’s left me very tired. We had five worship services – one yesterday morning, and then four Christmas Eve services. The message last night was about the gift of Christ. My favorite part of …
First Sermon @ Schweitzer
Saturday night I got the opportunity to preach my first sermon at Schweitzer. I’ve spoken during worship at a couple of churches in the past, but I don’t know if I would ever have called it preaching. It was a good experience and other than a few technical difficulties I think that it went fairly well. The message will be …