From ethomas at onkuepro.com Tue Dec 11 05:44:49 2007 From: ethomas at onkuepro.com (Ed Thomas) Date: Tue Dec 11 05:44:56 2007 Subject: [Midiliteusersgroup] Home Christmas Trees! Message-ID: What a joyous time it is to be expressing our love of this season!! For some of you, the performance time is over - you have laid the bricks and your ministry is ready to reap in the seeds that have been sewen from this Christmas season! For the rest of you, there's still a week or so left in your ministry-driven "productions" (remember, it's more than a show!!!). I hope God has truly blessed your programs and that MidiLite has been able to compliment your message that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah (only the best gift ever!) and the reason we celebrate this time of year. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ed Thomas and I've work with Jon and MidiLite since 1996 (my apologies for not being able to attend this year's conference). I've had the honor of serving as lighting director for both the Living Christmas Tree (now the Virginia Christmas Spectacular) at Thomas Road Baptist Church and the Living Cross at Hyland Heights Baptist Church, both in the Lynchburg, VA area. Furthermore, I have used MidiLite's DMX products (such as the LanBox) in my lighting designs at multiple venues since their introduction in the late 1990s. Now I'm happy to say that for the second year, I have brought the MidiLite experience to my own home. After upgrading from a 1x1x6 to a 1x3x6 matrix this year, Jon has asked me to share my tree with all of my fellow MidiLite users. My home Christmas tree is 6.5 feet tall, is decorated with over 75 silver balls, and is lit by 1500 lights that came directly from the old TRBC tree (before the move to Liberty Mountain!). I have a 1x3x6 matrix, which means that my tree is divided into three "rows" which are approx 23" in height (I've had to fudge some of it). Below you will find a link to my personal website which includes videos that I took last weekend of my tree. I apologize for the darkness and low quality of the video, but my camera is old. May God truly bless your ministries, you, and your homes this Christmas season! You can access my videos via either of the following links: http://www.thechristmastree.org http://www.edthomas.cc/christmas -- Ed Thomas ethomas@onkuepro.com OnKue Productions http://www.onkuepro.com From jon at midilite.com Thu Dec 13 09:45:55 2007 From: jon at midilite.com (Jon Daggett) Date: Thu Dec 13 09:46:23 2007 Subject: [Midiliteusersgroup] Thomas Road Baptist Church - Virginia Christmas Spectacular Message-ID: Hello MidiLite Users, I will make available DVDs of the Thomas Road "Virginia Christmas Spectacular" to any of our MidiLite churches who would like one. Just drop me an e-mail to jon@midilite.com if you would like one. Also, several people have requested a "Wide Shot" video (where you can see the trees the whole time, not the edited/produced video). I did that this year, so also let me know if you would like a DVD of that as well. The wide shot was done in widescreen, so let me know if you prefer a widescreen or letterbox copy. (if you are watching on a Plasma/LCD TV or a computer or on an older TV which is 4x3 aspect ratio) I will try to get these sent out in the next couple of days, so let me know if you would like one and what address to send it to. God bless and Merry Christmas, Jon Jon Daggett Castle Studios Productions MidiLite Systems