Everyone involved in the production team at City Church are volunteers, yet at City Church's Bowen Hills auditorium the team executes two 'shows' per Sunday to a congregation of up to 2000 people.
"I am a non-professional lighting guy", said Scott Bernoth one of the Church's longest serving lighting volunteers. "So the ease of use that is provided by the visual interface, coupled with the timeline approach familiar to anyone with experience in video or audio editing, made Vista the standout choice when we purchased production equipment for our new auditorium in 2006."
"We have a basic rig that is supplemented for special events," explained Scott. "After only a few weeks testing we found the beta version so reliable that we switched to using Vista 2 Byron to control all our services even though it was still in the beta period. I like the ability the window themes give you to customise the interface, and I have found the drop-down default timing bar in the fixture chooser saves heaps of time because I don't have to switch to the timeline view as much as I did previously."
Free to existing users, Jands Vista 2 Byron builds on the visual approach with key features including zero-configuration, automatic networking, and tracking backup that synchronises a second console or PC. A second-generation timeline provides visual split fade times, a per-step timing structure for instantly setting fade and delay times for some or all the events in a step and new filters that make it easier to see what's going on with big rigs.
(Jim Evans)
