{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Church Production Podcast","title":"How AV Over IP is Changing Church Media: A Conversation with Cottonwood Creek Church's Will Chapman","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2600,"description":"20 years ago, Will Chapman says the Lord asked him to start the media ministry at Cottonwood Creek Church in Allen, Texas. He did so with an intern and five committed volunteers. Over two decades, he grew that ministry exponentially and has moved on to the title of online minister there – but this new role is more like an executive producer or station manager, getting the church’s content out to different broadcasting outlets. Cottonwood Creek was the 2025 site of Church Production’s Capture Conference, the video production, streaming, and digital communications summit for churches. Chapman is a speaker at many such events and says the hot-button topic now is AV over IP. “Something that people need to realize, and I talk about this in the conferences and the workshops and things that I do regarding AV over IP technologies, and I recently talked about this at the SALT conference and some people looked at me differently when I said this, is that I believe every church technical leader needs to know about it, but it's not for every single location or every single church,” Chapman explains. “And the reason that I say that is that there are some specific things about the intersection of an AVL and the IP or internet protocol or things over ethernet or fiber that you have to understand if you're going to get into it. And so, one is to just let people know that there's still always going to be copper around and you're going to be able to have that some way somehow. But if you are looking at things and problems and needing some solutions that an IP-type protocol can help, it's important to really know the basics of network structure and how to be able to set up that network before you even put any kind of AVL on it.” So where do you start? Something that surprised Chapman when talking to friends who are integrators and dealers working on large installs like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, they suggest that anyone new to AV over IP start with Dante and get level one...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xI68oPcd-uRFvnACev8WbCJhdPNqEe1zfk_VzcXVzEM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzY0OTUvMTU3OTEy/MzA2Ni1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}