Originally published by Church Production: https://www.churchproduction.com/sponsored/audinate/how-dante-av-and-aja-4k-converters-solve-av-challenges-at-ch/

Has your church experimented with a few network video protocols and found them unstable? Issues like compressed video, failure to stay in sync and latency were plaguing Johnny Ragin, the technical director at Stone Creek Church in Milton, Georgia. He was also reluctant to add on to their analog system.

“We have a lot of existing analog infrastructure for our video system, so a bunch of SDI cables, but not a lot of digital infrastructure, so that makes it hard to kind of expand and build on our existing video system without running a bunch of additional cabling and having it be really expensive and really time consuming to create,” Ragin explains.

As part of a Church Production Road Test User Experience, Dante set Ragin and his team up with Dante AV and a selection of Dante AV Ultra enabled products.

“Dante AV comes in and allows us to run video over our existing network infrastructure, which goes throughout the whole building. If we want video in a different environment, as long as there’s a network port there, we can have it with Dante AV,” Ragin explains. “It worked really, really great. We were pretty much able to add onto our existing Dante

infrastructure, connect our new inputs to it, enable Dante AV within the device manager, and we were good to go for this road test.”

They also tried out a few Dante AV Ultra enabled products from Bolin technology – their 20 series, Dante AV Ultra Transceiver, and their PTZ camera, the D412.

“I was really, really impressed at the gear they’re putting out. The D412 is a PTZ camera that has incredibly robust specs. It can shoot in full 4K. It’s got a 12 X Zoom, and it’s incredibly easy to use. And the PTZ functions can all be controlled over IP, so it’s really easy to get in and operate the camera either over an IP interface or through dedicated PTZ controller,” Ragin says.

To learn more details about Reagan’s experience with Dante AV and see the team at Stone Creek Church in action, watch the video below.