I’ve been playing music since I got my first guitar at age five. I dabbled around for a while, but began to get serious about my playing during my teen years. Ever since then I feel like I hardly ever put it down. After playing for a while I got the urge, as every musician [...]

Looking to visually kick your lyric display up a notch? If you’ve been to a huge conference (ex: Catalyst) or concert, you’ve probably seen the amazing “sensory-overload” motion graphics that also serve as lyric displays. With After Effects and about half a latte, you too can create those super-cool “mograph” lyrics to accompany your live [...]

Rendering. A frame-by-frame conversion of media to it’s final form. A reason to tie up your computer’s processor. And, if you edit video, the perfect excuse for why you look like you aren’t working. Apple’s Compressor program, a part of Final Cut Studio, is a well-rounded solution for producing multiple file-formats from a single piece [...]

I had no idea that this type of product actually existed. I suppose the next question is whether or not it’s worth the price tag? Playback Drive is a hard drive that comes pre-loaded with a bunch of animations, media, loops, and more: 75 High Definition Video Loops 75 Standard Definition Video Loops 50 TripleWide [...]

Collide Magazine did a feature on North Point Community Church that I thought was good enough to make mention here on ChurchCreate. You’re not going to want to miss this good read if you’re interested in learning how North Point does not only it’s Creative Arts, Media in Worship, and Service Programming. In fact, there’s [...]

We’ve all been to concerts where the speakers were stacked from floor to ceiling. The band was rocking, we were screaming the songs we knew so well at the top of our lungs, and the venue was pushing 110 dB at the back doors. Doesn’t happen at church though, right? It would be great if [...]

Someone passed me this the other day and I thought it looked great: Chris Tomlin’s Frequency Worship Center. Essentially it’s a monthly paid service where you can get premium content, tools, and resources to help plan your worship sets and more. With the talent that’s behind this service it looks to be a guaranteed valuable [...]

I am an audiophile, but probably not as hardcore as a number of the readers here. There was a time, though, when I did try to do a lot of “mixing” of elements and even considered opening up a flash-based web store selling some musical tracks and loops. Luckily for me (and the rest of [...]