Sterchi Hills ministry embraces new technologies with Avolites
The Sterchi Hills Church is aiming to enhance its spiritual mission with immersive worship experiences, delivered by Avolites and its Synergy package. The growing ministry in Knoxville has continually upgraded its AV infrastructure since splitting off from Second Baptist Church in neighbouring Clinton, in 2019.
With a belief in embracing new technologies to create an engaging worship environment, the church’s leadership team turned to Andre Huff, a veteran lighting designer with touring experience, also the architect of Second Baptist Church’s lighting system.
The Sterchi Hills team had a vision for converting its stage area’s back wall, 55ft wide and 20ft high, into a large video surface. Huff recommended an Avolites solution, having had previous experience with its Ai media server and consoles on his last tour. He felt it would be best for controlling video outputs and lighting easily in the church facility.
“The Avolites server with Synergy and Avolites consoles were the perfect fit for this installation project,” said Huff, who is also the founder and owner of Limelite Design Service. “Using a proper media server gives the church media department the video computing power they needed to implement the technology they use in a seamless manner between lighting and video.”
After deciding against LED video wall technology due to installation and operating costs for a space of that size, the team settled on projection. The church evaluated several projection layout and resolution options, ultimately choosing to hang five 13,000-lumen laser projectors in portrait mode. This allowed the team to use HD projectors at 1920 x 1200 resolution to blend the wall and achieve an overall 4K image by pixel count.
This system configuration closely complements the Ai server’s ability to control the mapping of the five projectors and create a blend over the entire wall. Huff found the server’s auto blend feature streamlined the blending of each projector by pulling colour information from the video to use for back-lighting and video sync.
The Sterchi Hills team is running its new system across three independent networks: a sACN lighting network distributed to all lighting positions and the floor, a Titan Network carrying Synergy between the server and the console, and an NDI network with plug-in locations to transport NDI streams from NDI sources into the server.
The Sterchi Hills is also using Avolites Tiger Touch II consoles, Blackmagic Design URSA cameras and ATEM switcher, Mega Lite MB1 and Spotbot 300 lighting fixtures and Blizzard Flurry Z fixtures.
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