Riverstone Church, Yardley, PA
Center Stage worked with Riverstone Church on renovations to its main sanctuary and the Woodside AV room. We worked with the architect to specify and install Chroma-Q Inspire fixtures for room lighting and Chroma-Q Color One and Color Force LED fixtures in the main sanctuary. We were able to incorporate their existing legos and color-mixing LED fixtures in the main sanctuary. For control of the lighting, we installed Leprecon APC panels in both rooms for them to have consistency and familiarity in control.
In addition to the lighting and control, Riverstone presented us with a unique challenge. The Woodside Room is used by various youth programs and presenters to show videos, do presentations, hold meetings, and an overflow area for special services. The AV system needed to handle all of those things, but it needed to be simple enough that an inexperienced operator could come in and run things on their own! In addition, the church had created a 9′ x 32′ wall that was to serve as the projection surface for this room. They requested a three-projector system that would function alone in the center of the wall for general usage, and the other two would combine for a large format projection image. And finally, they wanted a system where they could use the projection system to put up static images in place of wall decorations.
Their budget did not allow for complicated switching or combining mechanisms. In the end, the solution was a Middle Atlantic podium with a combination of Extron and Kramer components to handle the AV control and inputs, leaving them room to bring a video feed from the sanctuary for special events. We combined the two projectors with video wall components to marry the images together into one. The static images were created with an ImageCue media server (that allows the church to update its images when desired), and these images were selected using the same APC panel as was used to control the room lighting. Simplified for all users!
