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Spyder Enhances Worship Services at Granger Community Church with Multimedia Video Display
Phoenix – May 4, 2006 – Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana has acquired a pair
of Vista Systems Spyders to enhance its multimedia video display for its congregation of 6,000.
The two Spyders, which have a total of 10 inputs and six outputs, are used in conjunction with
three big screens in the church’s auditorium. The center screen, measuring 43x18 feet, is driven
by four Christie 8K lumen DLP projectors. Two 16:9 side screens, each 24x13.5 feet, are driven
by two Christie 7.5K DLP projectors.
The Spyders send images to all of the screens, treating them as one huge pixel space. While the
side screens are primarily used for IMAG display, powerful, prerecorded dramatic images and
vignettes may also be showcased. Moving backgrounds may cover all the screens with images
running from one screen to another or hymn lyrics supered over the backgrounds.
Spyder sources include the IMAG feed, a new Grass Valley Turbo DDR, ProPresent and
ProVideo Mac-based worship software, and multiple DVD players. A Leitch Panacea router
feeds the Spyders’ SDI inputs.
“We picked Spyder because we really liked the software interface for our multimedia video display: It was very operatorfriendly,”
says Granger Community Church’s technical engineer Mike Sill, a veteran of 23 years
in broadcast engineering. “The timelines, buttons and layering were very intuitive for our
programmers.”
After just three months of use, the Spyders’ capacity to further enhance the church’s worship
services is still being discovered. “We’re still at the point where we’re trying things,” notes Sill.
Vista Systems’ switchers have become the industry standard for live multiple-destination video
and data mixed signal switching. For more information on Vista Systems, visit their Web site at
www.vistasystems.net.