The only thing missing was John Madden and a Telestrator
Last Wednesday night we had a skateboard demonstration during announcements. A skateboarder jumped over a very trusting volunteer down on ground floor. But before the service started, our pastor asked if we could do an instant replay right after the stunt. A spinning hourglass appeared over my head for about 3 seconds (I'm running at 3.2ghz overclocked)... Yes, yes we can... and, we can slow-mo it. We iso'ed camera 2 (handheld) that was shooting from the stage down on the action. The deck we used to ISO was a Panasonic AJ-SD930 (deck A) which has a jog shuttle on it. Deck A was routed to our Playback 1 channel on the switcher. 5 seconds after the jump, our pastor (Pastor Bob) said, "For those of you that might have missed that, I think we have an instant replay." As soon as the guy made the jump, I stopped it, jogged it back, then rocked the shuttle forward to play it at about 1/2 speed. After the slow-mo jump, I back it up and played even slower at about 1/4 speed. Beautiful. No digital breakup, no tears. Question: has any church, anywhere, done an instant replay, and on top of that a slow-motion replay? Maybe another first for Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale!
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You have all the fun down there. I appreciate how you respond to challenges as opportunities and look to come up with creative solutions.
FYI - The sony DSR-DR1000A DVCam hard disk recorder offers slo-mo instant replay...It can also record for 12 hours at SD DVCam quality and provides for simultaneous record and delayed playout, making it useful as a cheap video server.
That's a good idea... we could record IMAG clean feed so if the pastor gets sick or has to leave town before the last service, we could run the tape, er, uh... hard disk. That way we don't waist an ISO deck just to record a throw-away backup.
This is going to sound really weird and borderline stalker-ish, but you wouldn't happen to have attended Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia?
Sorry Amy, I did not attend high school in Georgia.
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