As ministers and church staff, everything we work on during the week seems to be pointed to and focused at our Sunday Morning service. Sunday School teachers, Worship leaders, the Band, the Youth Pastor and definitely the Lead Pastor are all preparing lessons, music and sermons all for the 4-5 hour window between 8 am […]
Live streaming is a powerful tool. Churches and ministries have a tremendous opportunity to use live streaming to not only broadcast their services LIVE, but also interact with and reach people on a regular basis. There are Four Modes of live streaming: Selfie Mode Indie Mode Desktop Mode Broadcast Mode Each mode has it’s own […]
We’re not sure if we should start live streaming our services. We don’t know how many people will use it. It may not be ‘worth it’… I’ve heard this more times than I really can believe. Many small and medium sized churches, understandably, aren’t sure if putting ministry resources, money and staff or volunteers, […]
Churches around the world are starting to realize that live streaming can and should be an important part of their ministry. For many churches however, it may seem like a HUGE task to undertake. There’s so many bits and pieces to consider. Which camera to buy? Use our phones or even buy a camera? […]
Our church has been live streaming for several years, but to my surprise, we were putting out some horrible quality. With the staff’s permission, I took matters in to my own hands and upgraded our stream to Desktop Mode with the help of my laptop and a couple of cameras. Here’s a quick […]
Live streaming for churches keeps getting better and easier. Newtek showed off the new Tricaster TC1 at NAB 2017 – this is looking to be one of my favourite solutions! The new TC1 brings 4k 60p live streaming at a very affordable price. The TC1 has 4 hard inputs (physical camera) and multitude NDI or […]
Where has this company been all my life?!?! I’m only partly serious. I’ve known, peripherally about Boxcast for a little while, but never given them much thought. Honestly, for streaming, I thought it was TOO simple to be of any real use. Well… I was WRONG! I love live streaming! I’ve been live streaming […]
I’m here at NAB this week working with Livestream and they’ve just announced some GREAT improvements to the awesome MEVO streaming camera. The more I play with this the more I’m loving it. We’ve had one at our church since it came out, and now, the functionality is EVEN more awesome! Here’s a few […]
Live Streaming! Everyone’s getting excited about it. It’s everywhere. If you’re looking to start live streaming your church services, but aren’t sure where to start, I suggest you spend $0 and download a free copy of Open Broadcaster Software [OBS]. OBS gives you the ability to live switch between multiple camera sources and scenes. […]
NewTek, the makers of the tremendous TriCaster line of broadcast and streaming systems, has a wonderful little broadcast studio that can almost fit in your pocket — the TriCaster Mini. I’ve been using Tricasters for over 10 years and produced hundreds of hours or live streaming content using most of them. The Mini ranks right […]