The services held at the Jacksonville-based Church's newly constructed worship arena are often broadcast internationally via web stream. They are renowned for being an energetic, immersive next generation praise and worship experience that infuses diverse genres and styles.
Celebration Church's lead lighting designer and AVL technician, Trey Smith, specified the Jands Vista L5.
"The Jands Vista L5 is so user-friendly and easy to grasp that it's a hit not only with us tech guys, but also with the church's volunteers, who often operate the lighting and media during shows," says Trey. "The L5's Timeline feature was a key factor in us specifying it, making it easy to control media via timecode, and to make changes on the fly."
In the Arena alone, around 700 fixtures are controlled by the Vista L5. For the entire building, there are 2,200 fixtures, including 93 Chroma-Q Inspire LED house lights. Only 140 of these 2,200 are not LED, and all the fixtures are controlled by the L5 via Pathway's Pathport Connectivity system, which we use to link together the lighting throughout our building.
"Currently, our L5 is connected via Ethernet and Fiber to our Pathport nodes onstage and in the catwalk - two nodes for onstage, and two for catwalk that run all of the house lighting and wall lights around the seating," says Trey. "We also have Pathport throughout the rest of the building, to control lobby lighting, kids' lighting, nursery hallways, and the Loft Café.
"Everything is on one large network, but data is managed using VLANS so that lighting data doesn't cross into the Arena. However, we have made it possible for the L5 to control the rest of the building if the situation calls for it."
(Jim Evans)
