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Arizona Church Relies on Echolab Overture System to Support
Live, Interactive Worship Services at Two Sites
July 8, 2009
Source: Echolab
Echolab announced that Calvary Community
Church in Phoenix has deployed an Echolab Overture2 production
system to support live, interactive worship services between
two facilities eight miles apart.
The Overture switcher has been installed in the production
control room of the recently completed Northwest Campus located
in a renovated movie theatre in Glendale, Ariz. The 25-year-old
church's main facility is located in north Phoenix.
"Echolab is doing an outstanding job of meeting the needs
of churches and other houses of worship that rely on sophisticated
broadcast and audiovisual technology to spread their message,"
said Bob Ginger of Intent Digital, who served as technology
architect for the Calvary Community project. "The Overture
production system is easy to operate and elegant to look at.
Its control panel layout is clean, organized, and easy to
understand, besides being compact enough to fit into console
desktops. Finally, in its standard configuration, the Overture
is loaded with an incredible number of useful features that
make it a very cost-effective option."
Along with Intent Digital, Calvary Community Church's team
designed a technology infrastructure by which the church's
pastors can preach from either or both buildings, enabling
participants to join fully in the worship experience, regardless
of where they happen to be sitting.
The system relies on four 270 Mega-bit HDTV fiber circuits
to create full-bandwidth, zero-latency, two-way connectivity
between the two facilities, with full broadcast control rooms
located at each. Three large projection screens are used in
the sanctuaries at the Phoenix and Northwest campuses to display
video images from the other worship site.
Installed at the Northwest Campus, the Echolab Overture2 includes
two M/E banks and 28 inputs to handle multiple switched video
feeds for video projectors, broadcast to the main campus,
Internet, and other venues throughout the building. A 64x64
SDI and 16x16 NTSC video router supports video distribution
and drives an Avitech 32-channel multiviewer used for control
room monitoring. Multiple video sources including Hitachi
Z4000W and HV-D5W cameras, a Harris TitleOne™ character
generator, Fast Forward Video and 360 Systems DDRs, multiple
computers, DVD players, and iPods®, as well as two feeds
from the main campus, also appear on the switchers.
"Like Calvary Community Church, many houses of worship
see the value of our Overture production systems because they
are compact, affordable, and offer powerful yet sophisticated
features," said Chris McLendon, senior application engineer
for Echolab. "With ease of use in mind, we designed Overture
to be intuitive and flexible. Through user-definable keys,
user-selectable displays, and the ability to trigger complex
effects with the push of a button, houses of worship can simplify
their operations, train staff quickly and efficiently, and
drastically reduce downtime."
Supported by Intent Digital, Calvary Community Church is currently
working on a design plan that includes a second Overture switcher
to be located at the Church's Phoenix campus.
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