You could make the argument that video content is just as important as a sermon or a worship set. At the very least, a reliable graphic array can make or break the weekend experience for newcomers or even long-time church members (anyone who’s had an LED display go completely dark mid-service knows this), and as video displays become more diverse and complex while also working in concert with projected IMAG feeds, churches need streamlined controls for collecting and managing worship service video content. Enter Pixera.
In today’s video, Church Production teamed up with Pixera and sent one of their media servers to Robb McTavish at BRAVE Church in Englewood, Colorado to see how what Pixera could do for their FOH media. Robb was immediately impressed with Pixera’s flexibility and ease-of-use, “When you're working with the server, you can get in so deep that you lose track of time. The flexibility and the creativity in Pixera's design process goes back to the fact that it's a 3D environment where it gives you really good visual representation for what you're going to see in your environment. You can get a good representation of what you're going to see on your LED wall before it gets there.”
Pixera offers a variety of solutions to churches, from simple software-based solutions that can fit into an already existing computer, to their proprietary media servers that can push all the way up to 8K video, and this flexibility goes beyond software and hardware to the UI that operators utilize week to week. Robb explains, “One of the great benefits of Pixera is not only the complexity of what it has to offer on the design process, but once you get your screen set up, it allows you then to save that in a way that the following weekend, if you follow a similar format that you can easily just drag your content. For example, if you run an animated loop motion background, you can drag that right onto your timeline to replace your existing clip and everything else will stay in place. So we might come in on a Sunday morning and worship's decided to move the first song to the second song and the second song into the last song, the last song to the first song. Now you're like, okay, I got to go make some changes to my lighting console, and now I also have a media server that's going to be triggered off of that. And in some cases they don't align with each other. But with Pixera, doing it on individual timelines, it was simply just moving that timeline in a different order.”
This isn’t the first time we’ve had the opportunity to work with Pixera, and they just keep delivering for Church Production and our partners. If you’d like to really deep dive all that Pixera has to offer take a few minutes with Marcel Patillo and Robb McTavish to learn just exactly how Pixera made a world of difference for Brave Church, and then head over and read all about Pixera’s media solutions at their website.
