OPEN up the Dropbox folder. Inside the folder titled Sermon Video you will see a file named with the correct date and the file extension .ISO      2011.11.27.iso (example)

Copy and Paste the .ISO file onto the Desktop or hold down the OPTION key and drag the file to the Desktop. The file should not disappear from the Dropbox folder.

Open up Disk Utility by clicking on the magnifying glass at the top right corner of the desktop and typing in “Disk Utility.” Then click on the application to Open.

Drag the .ISO file from your desktop to the bottom left pane inside Disk Utility.

Select the .ISO file inside Disk Utility and click Burn at the top of the window

Make sure you have a blank DVD inserted, and then click  the Burn button

Disk Utility will begin to write the .ISO file on to the DVD. It will tell you when it has successfully finished burning.

Test the DVD’s video and Audio before service begins!

With this influx of needed video content, we decided to take an old storage room and turn it into our very own studio. Even though we’ve only had it finished for a couple days now, we’ve actually already produced a few projects in the space even while it was in the making.

Below are some pictures I took of us putting this room together …somewhat successfully I might add! There’s still quite a bit that we plan to add over time, but so far we’ve been able to furnish the room with a couple chairs from Ikea, 3- 500w LED studio lights, a tripod, and well….a Keurig coffee machine, but you already knew that.

This person will work on state of the art audio, video and lighting gear while having personal projects to get done during your intership. We need all applications to be returned by April 15th, 2010. Email me if you have any questions at zac.novak@hudsonchapel.org

Last week, we launched our new look and feel for HCC Productions. We brought the whole team together, ate some pizza, and discussed some key issues that we deal with on a weekly basis. Here are a few if you missed it:

1. Be On Time – No matter where you are serving on Sunday morning, you need to be on time and ready to go. If you need coffee, come early and get some. No matter what, you need to be alert and prepared for rehearsals even if your call time is 6am.
2. Be Prepared – We have access to a great website called Planning Center Online or PCO. On PCO, you can view all the services that you are scheduled to serve. You can listen to the music, look at the order of songs and even print it and make notes. If you are an audio engineer or running ProPresenter for our worship services, PCO is your best friend. You need to be listening to the music in advance so you know what they should sound like and how the song flows.
3. Purpose and Motto – We talk about why we are here serving and what the purpose is of HCC Productions. You can find all that on our About Page.
4. Handbook – One thing we handed out were our HCC Productions handbooks. These books describe every position and the expectations for those positions at all campuses. You can download it here as a book or individually.

Over all, it was a great meeting. We also gave out all need HCC Productions shirts. If you did not get one or if you’re new, see me and we’ll get you one!

We hope these meetings and resources are useful. If you have any questions at all, please ask call/email me or ask your campus producer.

Here are a couple videos from the evening:

This was a text animation I did to explain the first “set” – It’s all about me. It’s really the first of it’s kind that I’ve done, so it’s pretty simplistic. If you haven’t searched youtube for Kinetic Typography yet, you should! There’s some great stuff out there!

Here’s a clip from the very end of the night, on the last song. As I went to a wide shot to show all the lighting going crazy, our Audio Director Jason Brown, pushed the gain and I’m pretty sure the house got up to AT LEAST 110 dB. The low end was so loud at one point, our mounted wide shot camera was shaking like crazy.

This blog post will be 60% for awesomeness, and 40% for having something else on here besides me destroying “Franken-Donkey”

As our blog states, right on the top of the page- “If we go unmentioned, then we have done our job.“

We all know it’s our job to remain unseen and in the shadows, hidden from society and recognition. When our presence becomes obvious though… it forces what I call,

The Pity Shout Out. Do you know what I’m speaking of? It’s when the next slide doesn’t come up…and in the awkward pause, the speaker thanks the tech crew for their expertise and assures the audience that they truly are, trying their best. Or better yet, as feedback screams in the house causing near panic…. the vocalist then says something to the effect of “Alright everybody, give it up for our audio guys up there, come on!” and leads the mass into clapping, hoping to drown out anymore wailing high pitches. You really have to feel bad for the audio guys though…or really anyone who is in the Front of House booth…. As people look back to determine why things are going so horribly, whether it be the volume, or the wrong slide, or even the temperature of the room, it’s definitely that guys fault.

Of course, really we can’t blame them for this, we would probably do the same thing in their shoes. This though, is why we must be the elite, the A-Team, the best of the best… who in fact are… trying their best.

Here’s a little clip from a concert we had here not too long ago with FFH. This is certainly not example of the ordinary Media Shout Out, but we sure found it pretty hilarious. Stealth was probably not something we were maintaining very well that night, but it ended in a light-hearted bonding moment between one of our camera guys, and the singer in FFH… This is probably a good time to warn performers… once you have made “the shout out,” stealth is then thrown out the window entirely, for the Unmentioned… have now been mentioned, and there is NO turning back.

If you had not already heard, we had a concert at HCC this weekend starring Big Daddy Weave. If you haven’t heard of him, I know the name is a little funky… but the band is great and the guys are hilarious.

We set up a camera to record a time-lapse of the entire set up, show, and tear down.

Below is a clip that is completely un-cut, un edited, right off the recorder. I would have put some music under it but it’s 1:30 in the morning right now and I’m in need of sleep. The clip is ONLY 2 MINUTES LONG! That’s over 12 hours of content packed into two minutes (10am-12am), so take a couple minutes of your day and watch this cool clip!

Hint: If you’re watching closely, you can see Zac making a face at the camera, you can also see a point in the “pre-show” where Power Point froze on a slide. The set up and tear down are probably the best parts to watch!!!

For any faithful followers at this time, I’ll give you a little sneak peek at some of our graphics for the new Easter series starting this Sunday. The first week is Easter Through the Eyes of Barabbas, Joe Coffey will also speak on Easter through the eyes of Pilot, Judas, and Peter. It’s going to be awesome I’m sure!

You can click these to view in full-

Props to Jonathan Claytor for providing this awesome content. The last lower third there was my original idea, but after talking things through we kind of got away from that….. Actually we never even talked about it…. I don’t know, I thought it tied in with Easter pretty well, don’t you? :p

P.S. the lamb you see in the center of the full graphic ties in with the “sacrifice” associated with Barabbas. During the week of Pilot there will be a Roman-esk helmet, for Peter a rooster, and for Judas, maybe silver(?) Feel free to give some input…

Welcome back to the HCC Productions blog, I hope to be posting videos and other news here from week-to-week, so make sure to check back every now and then!

Probably most of you know all about the Christmas concerts held every year here at Hudson Community Chapel. A lot of hard work from a lot of wonderful people always proves to make a very impressive and exciting product. We had a lot of fun this year especially, and I wanted to give a quick look at some of the things that went on behind the scenes. I’ve got everything in here from the very first meetings we had to discuss the production, to the construction, to the night of the concert. I didn’t do a lot of editing with this, it’s pretty straight forward, but I hope you still get some laughs!

After much consideration, Zac has given me access to using the blog. The idea being that hopefully I can contribute stories, videos, and thoughts, about all the stuff going on here throughout the week…and believe me, when most of your life is spent from behind a video camera, one tends to capture some interesting things! Well little does Zac know…my plans for blog domination are now underway, and under my rule- shock. awe. and pure hilarity.- will be our sustentation.

To kick things off, I have a little bit of everything mixed in for you. In case you haven’t heard about this week’s events in the fish tank, I have a little clip for ya!