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A Korean church in Glendale was renovating its sanctuary and replacing its AV at the same time. Not only the screen: sound, lighting and a four-camera livestream, fitted around the renovation schedule.
At a glance
- Client
- A Korean church in Glendale
- On site
- From 29 May 2024, two weeks
- LED
- Gloshine Blade P2.5 (BD2.5), 640 × 480 mm cabinets
- Size
- 12 × 6 cabinets: 7.68 × 2.88 m (25.2 × 9.4 ft), 72 cabinets
- Resolution
- 3072 × 1152
- Processor
- NovaStar MX30
- Structure
- Custom aluminum frame, legs through the stage to the concrete slab
- Sound
- 4 × RCF HDL 6-A active line array modules, two stacked each side
- Lighting
- 8 front lights
- Cameras
- 4 × 4K PTZ, Roland V-160HD switcher, livestream to YouTube
- Our scope
- LED wall and frame, sound, lighting, cameras and livestream
In May and June 2024 PixelPro Productions fitted out the sanctuary of a Korean church in Glendale during its renovation: a Gloshine P2.5 LED wall of 72 cabinets (12 × 6, about 25 × 9.4 ft) on a custom aluminum frame, driven by a NovaStar MX30; four RCF HDL 6-A active line array modules; eight front lights; and four 4K PTZ cameras through a Roland V-160HD switcher for the church’s YouTube livestream. Everything went in over two weeks on site from 29 May 2024, timed against the renovation contractor’s schedule. It is the one church project so far where PixelPro supplied every system in the room.
The brief
The church was renovating its sanctuary, new finishes and a new stage, and wanted all of its AV replaced at the same time, including a livestream for the members who watch from home.
Most of our church work is the LED wall alone. Here every system had to go in together, inside someone else’s renovation.
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Challenge 01
A door under the screen
Below the stage wall is the door to the baptistery, and the church needed it to stay in use. So the LED wall could not start at the floor.
The wall behind was part gypsum board, part timber, not built to carry an LED wall, and out of flat by about half an inch either way. So nothing hangs on it. We built a custom aluminum frame whose legs pass through openings cut in the stage and anchor to the concrete slab underneath with expansion bolts. The frame carries the weight and sets the flatness; the wall carries nothing.
The screen starts 1.5 m up, and the door beneath it still opens.
Challenge 02
No lift could get in
The sanctuary’s access ruled out a scissor lift, and the ceiling is high. The wall went up from heavy-duty scaffolding instead, which is slower and demands more care at height than a lift would. It was planned into the schedule from the start.
Challenge 03
On the renovation contractor’s clock
The church was being redecorated around us. Install the equipment too early and the decorators risk damaging it; too late and we risk damaging finishes that are already in. Timing each system’s arrival against the renovation schedule was the real management job on this project.
This is where holding a General B contractor license helps in practice: we read a renovation scope and program the way a builder does, so the conversations with the contractor were short.
No rework, on either side.
Challenge 04
Four cameras, set up the way the church actually uses them
Where each camera goes, what each one is for and which model suits each position all came from sitting down with the church’s own team to learn how they run a service. Once installed, each camera was given presets for the church’s real scenes, so an operator moves between them with one button.
Challenge 05
A long, narrow, stepped room
The sanctuary is deep and narrow, with tiered seating. So we chose line arrays, which throw evenly down the length of the room rather than filling the front rows and fading at the back.
The result
- Handed over in June 2024: every system in the room from one contractor.
Questions churches ask
Can an LED wall go above a door?
Yes. The wall does not have to start at the floor. At a Korean church in Glendale the baptistery door is below the stage wall, so the 72-cabinet LED wall sits with its lower edge 1.5 m up on its own aluminum frame, and the door still opens beneath it.
Can you install an LED wall where a scissor lift cannot get in?
Yes, from scaffolding. At a church in Glendale the access ruled out a lift and the ceiling was high, so the wall went up from heavy-duty scaffolding. It is slower and needs more care at height, and it is planned into the schedule from the start.
How does an AV installation fit into a church renovation?
By timing each system against the renovation schedule: too early and the equipment is at risk from the decorators, too late and the new finishes are at risk from the installers. At a church in Glendale we coordinated with the renovation contractor throughout, and nothing was installed twice.
What does a church livestream need?
Cameras placed for the way the service is actually run, a switcher, and presets a volunteer can operate. At a Korean church in Glendale we installed four 4K PTZ cameras through a Roland V-160HD switcher to YouTube, with presets for the church’s real scenes so shots change with one button.
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