PHOENIX — Calvary Community Church in Phoenix is using 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 church’s main facility is located in north Phoenix. Bob Ginger of Intent Digital, who served as technology architect for the Calvary Community project, called the Overture production system “easy to operate,” “elegant to look at,” and “cost-effective,” given its range of features.
The church’s own team also worked with Intent Digital to design a technology infrastructure by which the church’s pastors can preach from either or both buildings, enabling churchgoers to experience services at either location.
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 64×64 SDI and 16×16 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.
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