{"id":247,"date":"2014-03-06T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T10:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithsearch.org\/blogs\/rw\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:39:17","slug":"2013-benefit-dinner-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/ministry\/2013-benefit-dinner-video\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Benefit Dinner Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2013<\/a>

2013 Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction<\/p><\/div>\n

After nearly a year of schedule juggling and mid-stream retooling, I finally finished editing the video from the 2013 Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The annual event was held on 27 April 2013, at Grace Church in Eden Prairie, MN.\u00a0Video from the program portion of the event has been posted on our Web site<\/a>. This year’s gathering featured the return of international award-winning illusionist Adrian Van Vactor<\/strong> (Web site<\/a>), and was hosted by emcee Dr. Irv Woolf<\/strong>, director of the National Coalition for Purity (Web site<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In my role as communications director<\/strong>, I have the opportunity to use my diverse experience (from journalism, television, photography, project management, system administration, etc.) to make projects like this possible. The challenge of being a small ministry necessitates invention and creativity to accomplish the important work of ministry with a minimum (or even no) budget. There is always more than enough to do, while seemingly never enough time to accomplish it.<\/p>\n

This project was no exception. We captured the event on three different cameras (two locked down, one following action) each with a different lens, a different aspect ratio, a different resolution, and a different color temperature; we recorded much of the audio on a yet another device, which had to be manually syncronized during editing. And speaking of editing…<\/p>\n

After a fitful false start, I was pulled away from editing to attend to other more-urgent tasks. When I began, I had been using Adobe Premiere Pro<\/strong>, part of the Creative Suite, version 5 (CS5<\/strong>). When I returned to editing, I had upgraded to the new version, CS6<\/strong>; most of what I had done needed to be redone. Once again, there were other demands to take me away from editing. In the intervening time, Apple<\/strong> upgraded the Macintosh<\/strong> operating system to version 10.9, “Mavericks<\/strong>.” When I again returned to editing, I discovered that some critical features of CS6 did not function–at all–in Mavericks. Using CS6,\u00a0I would not be able to create a DVD for delivery to donors who had been promised a copy.<\/p>\n

This necessitated retooling completely, to FinalCut Pro X<\/strong> (FCPX) Apple’s high-end editing program, which is widely used for feature films. The workflow is significantly different from Premiere, which I had used for years. As I become more familiar with FCPX, I am convinced it will prove to be a vast improvement; after a difficult learning period, I was able to complete the editing, even more efficiently than I had been using Premiere.<\/p>\n

Such are the foibles of keeping up with constantly changing communications technology. It’s a good thing the message we entrust to these media tools, by contrast, never changes. Hebrews 13:8<\/strong> says, “Jesus Christ\u00a0is\u00a0the same yesterday and today and forever.”<\/em>\u00a0However we package and deliver it, we are determined to proclaim timeless truth, with the apostle Paul, “For I determined to\u00a0know<\/strong>\u00a0nothing<\/strong>\u00a0among you\u00a0except<\/strong>\u00a0Jesus<\/strong>\u00a0Christ<\/strong>, and Him crucified<\/em>” (1 Corinthians 2:2<\/strong>). Such we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After nearly a year of schedule juggling and mid-stream retooling, I finally finished editing the video from the 2013 Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction. The annual event was held on 27 April 2013, at Grace Church in Eden Prairie, MN.\u00a0Video … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}