I went and got myself an iPhone last night. I got to the AT&T store around the corner from my house at about 4:30, chatted with some people I know who were in the front of the line. They'd been there over 24 hours. At about 4:45 some more people started to show up so I thought I'd get in …
7 iPhone Concerns
So all of the hype of the iPhone captured me from day one. I'd have given Apple $600 back in January just because of the reality distortion field. Today I'm in a bit of a quandary. The iPhone gets released at 6pm tonight and I'm not sure if I want to buy one or not. I loved my Newton …
FCP Studio 2: Color
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 …
Adobe Community Summit 2007
I've spent this week in San Jose at the Adobe offices for the annual community summit. This is a great event that Adobe puts on for user group managers and community experts. The event serves two purposes for me. It energizes me creatively to see what everybody else is doing and learn what is on the horizon for Adobe software. …
Google Apps
We're in the process of a major internet infrastructure shift at Schweitzer. By the end of June we should have migrated our connectivity from a T1 (part of which is used for voice lines) and a 100mb fiber connection. The resulting shift has a several of important implications. The first is that our day-to-day usage will be incredibly fast – …
Perian & ProPresenter
Perian is a great tool for playing various media types within Quicktime natively, including FLV. For some reason I'd never bothered to try it with ProPresenter. Turns out that you can natively play an FLV file quite well in ProPresenter. It obviously has the same quality as the FLV, but if you need to use videos published for the web …
Contribute Blog Editing
Contribute may be responsible for increased blogging. Not sure how I’ll feel having it open regularly, but the native editing is VERY slick. This post is really just a test of the functionality. I’ll try posting some pictures at some point too. So far, it’s impressive though. I may get Contribute licenses for everybody in the church that is going …
CS3 Goodness
After a week of having serial numbers for our CS3 licenses the media finally showed up yesterday. It's been a long week as I stripped my Powerbook of all the products that would be replaced by CS3 when I got the serials, assuming the media wouldn't be far behind. I'm glad it's the only computer that got the uninstall. For …
NAB Thoughts
I'm sitting in the Vegas airport waiting for my flight back to Springfield and pondering everything I've seen at NAB this past week. Here are my brief thoughts – some may get expanded entries later. Technologies for Worship Conference – This conference was one of the main reasons I went to NAB this year. I've never been to an official …
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 …
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 …