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Ok so let me start by saying, I’ve read through a lot of the posts of people asking about painting their stage. And, it seems like the overwhelming majority is people saying go with Rosco Tough Prime Black. I totally see the value in it; however, we are a house of worship on which our stage has very low traffic, like VERY LOW!

My question is , is there a better cheaper option that would be just as good for a very low traffic environment?

The stage is wooden, sealed, and varnished. It’s been beat up over 20+ years without being maintained. It reflects light like crazy and we’ve wanted to “neutralize” and have it be a “blank slate” that is more versatile. This is the reason we’ve chosen to paint it black. Additionally, we have an “apron” that is concrete steps that we plan to paint black as well, they have been previously painted black which I think is either latex or oil but not sure.

A couple questions:

1. With everything being said, what is the best option at a big box store? One that will not bring the price tag that Rosco does? A paint that will allow me to touch up things without having to paint the whole floor again and will not “flash” or show up as random patches? Also, will not rip up when gaff tape is pulled up. And, is not overly shiny and doesn’t feel like a black hole?

2. What prep do you think is necessary? Scuffing? Sanding? Priming? Taping?

3. What materials? Mainly what nap size and roller type?

Supposed to start this project soon and need to buy supplies and not regret the decision to paint it black.

Thanks for your insight!

So, we import sermon slides from a PPT and that’s ok. It works for us. Our senior pastor and other speakers are familiar with PPT so they can build their slides easily. We are not set up to prioritize slides and creation in PP just because of resources.

However, I want to create lower thirds for the stream on occasion for Bible verses, etc. What’s the best way to create these lower thirds for example if a slide has a long verse on it but the lower third would need to be 4 or 5 slides?

I’m not sure the best way to make this work. Thoughts ?

I have a Midas M32, last night everything was working perfectly. I run Spotify for background music through USB into the board. This morning I came in and started playing music and am getting extremely garbled, digitized music, with hardly no volume. I can crank it and barely hear something through the noise.

It’s weird …. Any thoughts ?

I have a 2013 Hyundai Sonata and for as long as I have had this car the brake lights have been an issue. They are forever an issue and I cant find whats wrong. I have replaced the wiring harness and it works for a while. Replace the bulb and it works for a while. Then after a while when it does stop working, I wiggle and jiggle tail light bulbs, wiring, sockets, everything and wedge wires and it works.... then stops.

I know I am not the only one with these issues because I have seen other Hyundai Sonatas of the same year and body style having the same issue. This has to be a bigger than me issue, so what is the fix?

Any suggestions?

I am using macros to control camera movements and ATEM switching; however, I noticed that when I put a macro on say the first slide of V1 of a song, it will always show up on V1, even though I only technically want the macro to occur on the singular V1 instance, not every time V1 is used.

Any suggestions?

The title says it all. I have a macro that runs several things during our preroll, one of them is playing songs from a playlist. However, when I have the slides loop back to the beginning it fires a new song from the playlist each time. Is there a way around this because on lighter weeks, we end up only hearing like 30-45 seconds of a song before it abruptly switches to a new song in the playlist. Its driving me crazy!