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Learn how to get the best from our audio-visual setup if you're preaching or leading worship.

Are you preaching at Long Furlong?

We use the EasyWorship software package to display the words of songs, communion/confessions, plus PowerPoint for talks.

It can also play WMV format video files, but doesn't like MP4 or Quicktime.

If you want to use Powerpoint, here are a few simple tips that will ensure your presentation runs smoothly.

1. Our projector runs at 1024x768 pixel resolution (4x3 aspect ratio, or old TV shape if that helps.) Don't import pictures that are bigger than that, as it will not look better but will slow your presentation down
2. Keep each slide separate, rather than using the 'build' feature in PowerPoint. The EasyWorship operator has a preview of each slide, so it is much easier to follow a sermon script and ensure the correct slide appears at the correct time
3. Keep the contrast of your slides high (i.e. don't use subtle colours or photos); our services take place in a well-lit hall, and while the projector is good at high-contrast images it cannot display subtleties
4. Save your PowerPoint slides with 'embedded fonts'. This guarantees that the text on your slides will display as you intended.

If you want to play a video file, save it as a 640x480 .WMV file and bring it to us on a USB drive.

Please arrive as early as possible if you want to use PowerPoint or video - this gives the operator time to test that everything works, and to try to fix things if they don't. Thank you!

Musicians:
download the latest Current Music Rota in Adobe PDF format.

Sunday Setup of sound system
Musicians are asked to
- arrive by 0845hrs on a Sunday morning to help set up the sound equipment, and
- stay to help with putting away afterwards!

Key tasks, in order:
1. Remove jackets, bags etc from the music space to give yourself room to set up
2. Move dining tables out of the storage alcove so you can get to the music store cupboard
3. Lay multicore & mains leads - cover cables running across the alcove entrance with the brown mat
4. Piano & stand, power supply & foot pedal
5. Mics & music stands
6. Foldback cables and headphones
7. Plug in instrument /mic / foldback cables
8. Chairs - now you can put your bags back ...

The photo below shows a typical cables and foldback layout for a pianist plus five other musicians, including a bass player.

Long Furlong now uses a headphones-based foldback solution to avoid excess volume, and to improve the ability of musicians to hear each other. Musicians are welcome to use the provided headphones, but if you would like better quality you are encouraged to bring your own in-ear or compact headphones with a 3.5mm plug, on a regular basis - pack them into your musical instrument case so they don't get forgotten.

The image below show the all-in-one stagebox, DI boxes and headphones amplifiers. Each separate headphones channel gets a shared master band mix provided from the sound desk, then each channel has the ability to add "more me" without affecting anyone else.

For more details, use the one-page setup guide that you will find in the yellow cables box in the music storage cabinet, behind the green curtain.

Questions? Email Geoff Palmer, cclfwebmaster