If you’re doing any type of videos like announcements, talking heads, marketing, or promotions, you need a script. But it is difficult to memorize said script every week. So you need to have a way to read the script while you record. In today’s pro-tip, I’m showing you the best teleprompter software you can use […]
Instagram Stories is here to stay. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, you need a way to get the perfect photo or video size to make your media just right…or it looks bad. In today’s protip, we’re showing you an easy to use app that helps you clean up your media, crop to […]
Have you ever started a new church media project but got stuck not knowing how you were going to do it? (If not, please tell me your superhuman secret…) In today’s protip, I’m going to show you how you can start a SWIPE file to start collecting a library of design inspiration and make your […]
UPDATE: As of September 2019, CamScanner has been vulnerable to a number of malicious attacks through their in-app advertising. This will hopefully be completely resolved in the future, but after two incidents in the same year, we’re a little weary. Maybe try checking out Adobe Scan in the meantime… ——- You’ve got physical […]
Email is your most powerful tool for communicating with your church throughout the week. But how do you collect emails to grow your church email list? In today’s pro-tip, I’m showing you a free and easy tool to collect email addresses on your church website. Introducing Hello Bar To Grow Your Church Email List Hello […]
Reliable, free, and quality music tracks are hard to come by. Whether you’re doing a sermon clip, a testimony, promo clip, or your own church podcast, audio is a necessary ingredient. And most of the time that doesn’t come cheap. But in today’s pro-tip, I’m sharing with you one of my go-to resources for free […]
As media creators, we have multiple people and multiple events to collect media for at various points. It can be overwhelming! But imagine you could have a single place for your staff and volunteers to dump their photos PLUS an easy interface for your non-techy workers to help you edit and organize your images… In […]
Your Pastor sends you a PDF of notes from a meeting…or you want to keep all your PDF sheet music in one place….or you need to store your PDF Bible study lesson plans… Whatever position you hold in ministry, you’ll eventually come to point where you’re chasing down documents for ministry in a dozen locations… Today […]
You spent all day working on the perfect blog post. You publish and share it across all your channels. Then when you ask your congregation and check the analytics…you see that no one’s read your post. Well in today’s pro-tip, I’m going to show you the secret to creating amazing pastor blog headline so more […]
Great church websites are defined by strategy, not design. This means that you need to have your church website strategy figured out before you build. Discover my top 2 church website strategies to convert web visitors to church visitors… Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming, “what if?” What if I had saved more money? What […]
It bakes, it grills, it sautees, and it slow-cooks! It’s the amazing…wait, I’m not selling a revolutionary cooking appliance. But what I do have is a fantastic software that combines many tools in your “audio kitchen” into one, breakthrough audio processing software. No more loading up multiple plugins, figuring out all the little buttons and […]
What if your Pastor walked up to you and asked you to grab their last 20 sermons and convert them over to audio? Or if the Children’s Pastor asked you to convert some old Bible study videos for church leadership training? Most people would say, “Well, there goes my Tuesday!” Well, not anymore Jack! Here’s […]
MPEG Streamclip for Mac and Windows…what is that? Imagine you’ve asked your volunteers for footage of church events, and when you finally get something…you can’t edit it. It’s like your video editor doesn’t realize you have a video file. Or worse, you combine multiple videos and the final product looks like a middle-school AV project. […]
The 2 biggest times people are coming to your church are Christmas and Easter, which makes Easter service preparation one of the most important aspects of the beginning of your year. Since you’ll be receiving many people that haven’t been to your church in months or a year, you need to put your best foot […]
Are you using YouTube for church or ministry? Sermons? Bible Studies? Events? Imagine if after watching one of your videos, you could automatically guide the viewer to watch another video of yours – maybe the next one in your series, or a playlist of videos on the same topic… That’s the magic of End Screens […]
Every year it’s the same story with your church volunteer ministry. We need to do another training, so we need to find a time when our volunteers can meet, a place to meet, and try to herd everyone together. But it doesn’t end there… We still have volunteers that can’t make the meeting, so we […]
Copyright. Yeah. That wonderfully secure, pesky little symbol and assumption that both protects us and is the bain of our creative existence. Copyright. It’s a love/hate relationship. As church creatives, we have no interest in selling the stuff we’re making do we? No, not really, not unless we’re helping the pastor with his book or […]
The video camera connected to your computer – yeah, the webcam – is one of your most power tools. Using it properly can make a huge difference for people watching your videos. Do you use Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, Periscope or Facebook Live yet. These are powerful communication tools. We’re living in a time when we can […]
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 […]
Audacity is awesome! Audio editing can seem a bit daunting when you’ve never done it. I remember when I got started how it all seemed so foreign. If you’ve never edited an audio file before, I recommend that you try getting your feet wet using the free audio editor that millions of other folks […]