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Effective Church Media Management, The Right Tools for the Job
This past week was rough. Trust me.
It was rough enough that I decided to encourage you by drafting out a Guest Post here so that you can learn how not to manage media creation and distribution for Church services and other events.
I am sure that you can relate to this:
I had already been spending some time filming and collecting what was needed for a few video elements. These were required for a once off Volunteer event called Together. We were using pretty much the same graphics and title pack from the NPCC event of the same name.
But wouldn’t you know – it took too long to render and never compressed (until I switched to the Apple ProRes422 Codec and turned off frame controls in Apple Compressor) – sorry for the foray into the technical; but hey this is media right?
As it turned out I had to drive to the planning and practice, the day before, and back again to pick up the file when the compression finished. Showed the draft, got recommendations, made the amendments, exported, compressed.
Next day I tell my wife to give them the file. It was the wrong file – I copied the export file from Final Cut Pro – doh. So after work I rushed in to give them the correct file and then rushed out to help bath my son, disrupting the run through.
I sound like such an amateur… But here’s what I learned:
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