We are simply going LIVE on Sunday morning and whatever happens happens.... we are new to all of this because of COVID-19. We are a traditional "older" church and this world event has forced us into the 21st century. I am a younger pastor 32, but I am not tech savvy and this has been a struggle for me. Thank you for posting these videos and the help you are giving to help spread the gospel in the most clear platform available.
We're pre-recording everything...music, communion prayers, sermon, etc. I then edit in Premeire Pro and upload the final on our website and Facebook. The response has been great.
We are currently actually live with a 2 minute delay for our 9:15am service - on Facebook, our app and website. For the 10:45 service, we push out our 9:15 recording. With Living As One - our stream provider they have a Sim Live function where you can push out the last video streamed - at anytime. Quite handy.
We're a small church (+/- 50 people each week) so keeping it _really simple_. True live-stream to youtube, using OBS on a laptop with external camera and line-in from a small analogue mixer (2 mics for presenters, and mp3 player for music). Also using another laptop to see the live chat and incorporate responses as we go (e.g. reading suggested scriptures etc). Thus far we've just used pre-recorded music; may move on to some live music (probably just guitar, backing track + 2 vocals) in the next couple of weeks, but we'll see how we go on that one. Learning more about OBS as we go along, which is helping increase the production quality. Got some reasonable 3-point studio lighting this week to help make the video a whole heap better. Pre-recorded service was never really on the cards for us - the interactivity is part of what makes us "us", so the ability to have the feedback from the dispersed congregation was an important factor. Using OBS we could send out a window capture of the song lyrics and, potentially, use "green screen" tech to have guitarist sit in front of the corner of the screen, recreating more of our in-person experience. It's been fun learning this tech - not something I'd ever even considered less than 3 weeks ago. :)
I'd love to see your set up. This is the first time our church has live-streamed. I think we will continue after the quarantine and would like to see what others are doing.
Hey @@JackGilbertJr Check out our church's channel - ua-cam.com/channels/ApMO2IJ6FgvYLKnQ2CO2kw.html I had a few tech issues this morning (that a reboot would have fixed, but a bit tricky once you're into the livestream), so excuse the obvious production errors on today's broadcast. It'll give you a fairly good idea but if you have any particular questions about what's going on behind the camera (and there is only one webcam), do feel free to contact me via the church's wsite.
We did simulated live stream, pre-recorded then pushed live through WireCast the first 2 weeks. Switched to simulated through FB & UA-cam Premieres now. Much smoother process with less stress for us! Thanks for your videos!
Jake, thanks as always for sharing your experience! We’re totally in lockdown in many places so we are using a pre-record and Facebook Premiere so everyone is on hand engaging in comments. We’re a campus of 60 people in Cape Town, SA with 20 other locations worldwide so we get preach content from our central location alongside notices and testimony from around the world. Each location records their own notices and we stitch it all together then premiere it in each location separately. We’ve spent most of our effort in creating an online experience. Everything is shared with a link shortener url and we even have a welcome team ready to chat and use Facebook Page Messenger to have 1:1 chats with guests. Love seeing what everyone is coming up with in this season. Nothing can stop the Gospel.
We're doing a kind of both. We're a relative small german church (250-300 people). We have an old good tradition, that everyone in the service, who want to recite something, like a poem, song, testemony, he or she will have room in the service. In the Corona time, this is a little bit tricky, but we have a solution! The people can record themself at home, send it to us, then we will playback it in the service, and also we have live music and live preaching. This works really good.
We were live streaming the first 2 Sundays of this crisis. But went to Simulated Live, recording on Saturday mornings, as of last Sunday. We are streaming to our Facebook, UA-cam, and web site using Boxcast. They make it extremely easy to do Simulated Live.
Jake, your channel has proven so helpful for so many churches in our area, probably more than you ever know. Just wanted to drop a word of encouragement for the work you’re doing. Thank you so very much.
We record our services, devotions and talk shows during the week. We use 3 cameras, a Blackmagic design switcher, ATEM control software and record audio seperately using Audacity because the embedded audio on the SSD/Hyperdeck shuttle usually has a buzzing sound or is delayed. We edit using Premier Pro, then premier our services on both our UA-cam and Facebook platforms. UA-cam allows one to premier videos only in 15min intervals, so in order to have our service premier at exactly the same time on both Facebook and UA-cam we have a countdown of 15 minutes before actually service time where we include worship and promotional material in the countdown period. Previous to this we hired out an Intensity Shuttle so we could have LIVE services during the Lockdown but our Internet\(LTE) failed us. But I'm excited to say that we installed fibre this week at speeds of 50Mbps Up/Down so running a simulated LIVE services shouldn't be a hassle. We used OBS but will look definitley at E-cam and Restream for multistreaming. Thank you for this video, great content.
We started with live stream, but moved to Premier to eliminate bandwidth issues/human error, etc. We actually still use Ecamm Live to bring in remote participates (via the Skype interface) and easily mix it with our graphical content (e.g. sermon visuals, Bible passages, etc.). We may try simulated live stream again for the reasons you mention in the video. I love your idea of filming in different locations. Thanks for the great video!
Our church (Kempsville Christian Church, Virginia Beach) has been recording the services on Wednesdays in our building in as close to the same format as a normal Sunday morning service as possible with our worship team (slightly limited) and Pastor recording in separate sessions to minimize the number of people in total required at any one time. Then we would post the videos as Facebook and UA-cam Premiere videos along with live streaming the pre-recorded service through Vimeo. We were originally feeding the Vimeo stream to Facebook live but started running into issues reported by users of frequent drop outs on the Facebook and Vimeo streams. We switched to Premiere videos since we assumed that the FB and Vimeo Servers were probably being crushed by the number of churches currently running live events at the same time. Once we switched to Premiere videos we stopped receiving the frequent reports of the streams dropping out. Overall we have a fairly good sized church but we are still relatively new to live streaming and have just been figuring everything out as we go. We have realized through this that we also desperately need an upgrade to our equipment and workflow for the actual live streaming of services. Currently we have just two cameras running into a Roland V-1HD along with a feed from our primary screen server for videos, graphics and lyrics. The output of that is then going into a Matrox Monarch HD video encoder/recorder... which usually does an okay job encoding the livestream and sending it directly to Vimeo. Except when it randomly overheats and drops the stream. Also we currently only have a single volunteer who does all of the video production work, camera operation, post production and live stream management every week... me.
At Believers Southern Baptist Church we are currently doing a pre-recorded live service. We are using two PTZOptics 30x NDI cameras with EasyWorship lyrics. The Mac is capturing, mixing with OBS.
I do a combination. Community Church Online is a linear program using Church Online Platform featuring a recording from the live that runs all week long. On CCI+ (subsplash app) contains the live stream and an on demand. The sermon is cut and put on like a program Sim-Live on Wednesday night called CCI At Home. The worship set is also cut and put into a "program" called Heart of Worship which sim-live on Sunday morning at 7 AM. The Sim-Live are on Facebook, UA-cam, CCI+, and Community Church Online. Full disclosure, I'm writing this from the future. As of April 2020, we were just doing a Live worship set followed by a Kids show Live from a different location, and then a prerecorded sermon (sim-live).
We have been streaming since 1998 first audio with real player then to video starting 1999. Just purchased a jvc gy-hm250ua 4kcam camera which we can live stream straight from the camera instead of having the stream cast boxes from AJA and Videon Streamcast. For sound with jvc live stream camera i use the Rode Wireless Go
Great stuff Jake. We are doing simulated live as well, then using the Church Online platform and Facebook for our services. It’s worked great. We live the community aspect that Cur h online platform gives. Keep up the great work.
Same! I brought the 12 channel mixer from church home to make it easier. I play worship videos on a separate device than the zoom call, also separate device from the streaming computer. It’s a lil extra but works smoothly from a streaming stand point lol. Just felt like sharing
Yup, premiering right as we speak. Reason for us to use premiering instead of live stream: nothing can go wrong with a computer or internet connection.
I'm from a church in the inner-west of Sydney, Australia. We haven't been able to adapt to live streaming at this point in time so what we do currently is basically set up a page that comes out every Sunday on our website. This is our latest one: burwoodbaptist.com.au/sunday-worship/sunday-5-april-2020/ It basically encourages people to watch through videos as they scroll down the page and participate. Thanks for all the good work you're doing Jake. Really appreciate this youtube channel offering all kinds of tech ideas for Churches.
We wanted to do this, but the time schedule was against us (we did not know of a possible lockdown at the time, lots of rumours and panic but no official word). So decided to design a "system" with Proclaim (ProPresenter is quite heavy on my machine), Skype (Pastor) and OBS. Hoping to pull this through this coming Sunday!
Currently using the UA-cam Premiere as any live streams were struggling with our internet situation in South Africa. We are also using the Discord Platform for online voice chat rooms for prayer every day during the week.
My home church has three language congregations and have three UA-cam channels. In the past few weeks we went from...plan to live stream our service to live streaming using OBS (combining our video feed and ProPresenter or PowerPoint)--very basic PIP; then live streaming as before (but without a congregation) present; then to pre-recorded (voice-overs of ProPresenter and PowerPoint); then to pre-recorded video (virtual worship team recording their instrument pieces from a common click track and mixing). We have a video of our worship leader with ProPresenter set on lower thirds. Sermon has video of our pastor with PowerPoint added in as a PIP all using OBS to produce the combine segments. Then we combine everything and load it to UA-cam as a Premier. The simulated live stream seems to add another dimension of complexity. This week's challenge is getting two recorded services out: Good Friday and Easter!
We’re recording with multiple cameras (Sony camcorders, iphone, DSLR) to SD cards, then I edit in DaVinci resolve-it’s free! I then play the video as media through Propresenter 7 during the live stream, doing the lyrics live. The sermon is live. During the sermon I used our streaming software to switch cameras. Now I’m using ProP7
Live Stream the service on Sunday Morning and Bible Study on Tuesday. Stream to my CDN provider and sermonaudio for 📱. Archive the service for later viewing through sermonaudio, Facebook and just started a UA-cam page
Lyndon Christian Church in Louisville, KY is doing a simple simulated live stream. Prerecorded with one song, communion, prayer time, sermon, and announcements. All done in the Senior Ministers office with only one camera and two microphones. We're a small church with limited resources but managed to share our worship time with our congregation. It's not a slick production but it works for us.
We are prerecording everything like a normal Sunday morning. We are recording out Worship set on Wednesdays. The speaker does the teaching on Thursday along with announcements. I mix the audio that comes out of our x32 to Ableton w/ iMovie on Saturday and upload to UA-cam and the church Facebook group. We have a video from one of our leaders telling people to grab stuff for communion. That’s something that we do every Sunday. We are premiering on UA-cam and posting in the Facebook group on Sunday mornings.
At the moment we are still doing a true live stream. Because we are a small congregation, and most of the time I am the single tech person, i have had to innovate to make things as easy and as cheap as possible for me to do the streaming. Starting to find more and more uses for the small raspberry pi computers.
In Ecamm, you can set your videos to auto play the next scene. Great way to make sure it keeps happening even if you have to step away! You can even have a scene end the stream when it’s finished!
Jake! Like everyone else I am going to add myself on that list and just tell you that your videos have been nothing but blessings! So many great ideas for churches on a budget and not only that but to give the Lord excellence! Man, I love it! I do just want to say maybe some day down the line, in the near future and maybe you've got this before but have you ever thought on maybe making a Churchfront en Español for the Spanish speaking community? Maybe you might have a Spanish speaking friend or something but man, I wish your videos were in Spanish for some of the folks over at my church so they could not only learn but understand the concept of media, production and mixing! Just a crazy idea (that you've probably heard before) that I know for sure would help so many other folks in different communities as well! Blessings my brother and keep up the great content!!
Jake, We've just started recording our service. We never did any video before, but we would record the sermon as mp3 and post to out website. Now we've begun (week 2) Pre-recording a simplified service. I do the recording and editing, then post it to our website.
We are doing a pre-recorded live stream. A lot of our team are considered essential workers and at risk populations so we really need to limit time together.
Currently we are live streaming through Facebook. Since all of this started, we began discussing what we need to budget for and purchase in the future to have live stream through our website/UA-cam Channel every week.
We are live streaming the service. Our Sunday School classes are using Zoom, except for mine. None of my class members have internet access, so I'm just recording a lesson and Premiering it. I'm using XSplit to record it, so it looks the same as it would if I were live streaming.
We are streaming a sim live for our churchonline platform but also premiering on Facebook as well as sending the prerecorded message to our local TV and Radio stations
Live. We put all vido content into ProPresenter. That computer (a high-end iMac) also runs OBS which grabs the screen that goes to projection. We are currently using an iPhone 11 with the OBS-VirtualCam that plugs in with a standard iPhone USB cable. Our SoundCraft GB8 audio board takes the house mix and remixes each channel through an AUX channel. That audio goes to OBS via an M-Audio IO box. ProPresenter outputs to two projectors at each side of the 90-ft wide platform. We have four OBS scenes: 1) main camera (iPhone now), 2) main camera w/ ProPresenter PIP over the normal projection screens, and 3) ProPresenter. When we zoom in for the message we still have the projection showing in each upper corner. Our service stream flow right now is Splash Screen with logo (in OBS), Pre-service slides (ProPresenter from now on, updated for this situation), 5-min Countdown, Welcome/Announcements, Praise & Worship songs (full band), Offering, Message, Benedication, and back to Splash Screen. The OBS operator only has to begin the stream with logo, switch to Projection, switch to MainCam, switch to Offering Video, zoom for Message, switch to logo, end stream. Although I’ve been doing audio and projection since the mid-eighties, I’m new to video and am learning. Just picked up on the VST Plugins and will be incorporating those to clean up our mixed audio. House audio is greatly affected by the worship center room. Streamed audio isn’t and sounds very different. It doesn’t get the noise gating, EQing, and compression that our house speakers do. We intend to add an existing 1080p camera as the main, a video switcher, and a PTZ cam. In addition, we’ll be updating to ProPresenter 7 for the built-in capability to to multiple output screens (lower-thirds overlay to stream), and purchase a computer dedicated to OBS.
We were doing a truly live stream for the first couple of weeks. Due to some audio issues and streaming issues we moved to "Simulated" and this will be our first Sunday sending it out "Simulated." It was nice to be able to have full control of all the content and be able to start over if we made mistakes :)
We are recording everything separtly and then putting the pieces together using premier pro, but we are using a software called Castr.io to upload the video and then schedule to go live simultaneously to UA-cam and Facebook live at the service time this way we don't run on internet drops or power issues.
we are doing most of the part of the service as simulated with pre-recorded sermon and then switch to real time livestream on Prayer meeting on Zoom/Skype part , all then thru Castr.io to get it into facebook live and youtube live. and so during prayer time, people can post their prayer request on the chat session, and the church prayer leader can pray on those items.
At my church, Centerville grace, we’re multitracking using the Behringer x32-mix as an interface into Ableton. Then we export to Pro Tools where I spend a day or so producing it. My pastor is using a nice Nikon and a couple iPhone 11s for the video. On Friday morning I hand my pastor the produced audio file and he combines it with the video in Adobe Premier. We record the worship set, announcements, and sermon all at different times but through transitions in Premier make it look like one service.
At our church, we eventually decided to do a mix between simulated and pure live. We recorded our worship music, but do our announcements, prayer, sermon, etc live.
We are pushing sim-live stream. Pushing from NewTek Tricaster TC1 for playback to AWS Elemental Encoders to live Akamai, OTT, FB, and then 2nd system to FB. We are working on a scheduled based sim-live delivery off hours for delivery as well.
We are currently doing Facebook Live from a phone set up close to the stage. We have set a speaker down in front so the phone has better audio to pick up.
We are recording and premiering on both Facebook and UA-cam. This Sunday will be the first one where we use Vmix to record so we can add more elements.
We're doing a regular service just like normal but there's no congregation. We've had to do things like have a prayer line instead of an altar call and we post a link to give instead of passing the offering buckets, of course, but everything else is pretty standard. It's just weird for some people to be playing with no one else in the room. Even so, we still worship like it's going out of style! 👐👐👐
Hey Jake btw with your videos in Ecamm you can actually have it just go to the next scene for you. It is that arrow looking thing between the microphone icon and the rewind icon. You can say go to next scene. That is what I do for the parts of our service that are pre-recorded.
We’ve been recording it, editing it then premiering it on both UA-cam and Facebook. It’s becoming a little more difficult for us to meet to record (even though it just my Pastor and I) here in NYC but thank you for your video I wanted to do something like this through Wirecast but it’s hard due to the experience of many people in my church with equipment, and I’m still working from home so I can’t really go out and record as much but thank you
Yes that's the exact same way we do it. Jake from Church Front does it amazing but to be completely honest I think it's a bit over kill and unnecessary. The easiest way is to Record Video / Audio, Edit then premiering both to Facebook / UA-cam. Saves more time and no extra Hardware / Software Needed!
We've been cutting our team to the point that we can still go live but we are going to pre-recorded this Sunday. The biggest issue with our live stream was our upload speeds at church. Wed end up with close to 80% dropped frames.
Live stream. I have too much work on my plate to be editing later. We can meet on Sunday, but basically just the worship team, me (audio mixing) and up to 5 congregants total.
We are using Ecamm and Restream to go live. Our entire service is pre-recorded except we have a live host before, in the middle and after the service. The host welcomes people, gives announcements and encourages conversation at the end of the service. BUT, we have a separate prerecorded service with the host as a backup, just in case something goes wrong....
At first we have been showing past videos of preachings and worship with a pre recorded video shot and edited 15 or 20 mins before going live. The congregation sees the video as it were live but it was filmed mins before lol. Now we're actually going live during the services using two Elgato video captures because the Blackmagic Atem mini's are sold out 😭
It needs a countdown, UA-cam uses to start the stream 1 minute later and skip this minute. Yes, we also discovered that WLAN isn't reliable enough to stream.
Jesus Movement I agree, there’s also less stress than having everything in order right up to going live. We record and prepare everything the day before.
We're recording on Saturday and premiering on Sunday Morning. We do not have the bandwidth to provide a quality live experience so this is the best way for now. I just need a better system for rendering. Been using DaVinci but my i5 is struggling and hangs.
Hey, Jake I appreciate how you are helping all us small churches. At The Rock A Christian Church Las Vegas we are a setup/teardown church as well and we currently are recording and posting the content to the channel. Question, do you have to set and bitrates or doe Ecamm and Restream do that? Thanks for the Hack and all the other awesome videos. Please keep it up, I know it has up me tremendously. May God continue to bless and keep you!
I just wanted to tell you, though you have heard it plenty of times, dopeeeee content! Means a lot and I appreciate the effort you have for putting out content to help everyone else out, especially in a time such as this. 1 small question. How do you go about sending audio out from your daw in to your video feed. The farthest I've been able to go has been from my XR18 in to Logic Pro x .
ua-cam.com/video/_AJh0pIhZ8c/v-deo.html - Hope this helps! It helped me. I'm running a multitrack audio interface through Ableton into OBS. I had no clue either but this video set my feet on the right path.
I think that you're probably in a sweet spot being on Mountain Time. Here in the East, live streaming on Sunday mornings has been a disaster of problems because of system overloads.
If you abandon the "Live" portion, you can pre-upload to both UA-cam and Facebook, and have it go public at an appointed date and time! Then you can upload at any period where networks are clear, and have a "broadcast" at your audiences expected time.
Where doing a live stream from different locations using Zoom, Worship Leaders plays keyboard alone from his home, Pastor preachers from his home, all live
True live stream.
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We are simply going LIVE on Sunday morning and whatever happens happens.... we are new to all of this because of COVID-19. We are a traditional "older" church and this world event has forced us into the 21st century. I am a younger pastor 32, but I am not tech savvy and this has been a struggle for me. Thank you for posting these videos and the help you are giving to help spread the gospel in the most clear platform available.
We're pre-recording everything...music, communion prayers, sermon, etc. I then edit in Premeire Pro and upload the final on our website and Facebook. The response has been great.
We are currently actually live with a 2 minute delay for our 9:15am service - on Facebook, our app and website. For the 10:45 service, we push out our 9:15 recording. With Living As One - our stream provider they have a Sim Live function where you can push out the last video streamed - at anytime. Quite handy.
We're a small church (+/- 50 people each week) so keeping it _really simple_. True live-stream to youtube, using OBS on a laptop with external camera and line-in from a small analogue mixer (2 mics for presenters, and mp3 player for music). Also using another laptop to see the live chat and incorporate responses as we go (e.g. reading suggested scriptures etc). Thus far we've just used pre-recorded music; may move on to some live music (probably just guitar, backing track + 2 vocals) in the next couple of weeks, but we'll see how we go on that one. Learning more about OBS as we go along, which is helping increase the production quality. Got some reasonable 3-point studio lighting this week to help make the video a whole heap better. Pre-recorded service was never really on the cards for us - the interactivity is part of what makes us "us", so the ability to have the feedback from the dispersed congregation was an important factor. Using OBS we could send out a window capture of the song lyrics and, potentially, use "green screen" tech to have guitarist sit in front of the corner of the screen, recreating more of our in-person experience. It's been fun learning this tech - not something I'd ever even considered less than 3 weeks ago. :)
I'd love to see your set up. This is the first time our church has live-streamed. I think we will continue after the quarantine and would like to see what others are doing.
Hey @@JackGilbertJr Check out our church's channel - ua-cam.com/channels/ApMO2IJ6FgvYLKnQ2CO2kw.html I had a few tech issues this morning (that a reboot would have fixed, but a bit tricky once you're into the livestream), so excuse the obvious production errors on today's broadcast. It'll give you a fairly good idea but if you have any particular questions about what's going on behind the camera (and there is only one webcam), do feel free to contact me via the church's wsite.
We did simulated live stream, pre-recorded then pushed live through WireCast the first 2 weeks. Switched to simulated through FB & UA-cam Premieres now. Much smoother process with less stress for us! Thanks for your videos!
Jake, thanks as always for sharing your experience! We’re totally in lockdown in many places so we are using a pre-record and Facebook Premiere so everyone is on hand engaging in comments. We’re a campus of 60 people in Cape Town, SA with 20 other locations worldwide so we get preach content from our central location alongside notices and testimony from around the world. Each location records their own notices and we stitch it all together then premiere it in each location separately.
We’ve spent most of our effort in creating an online experience. Everything is shared with a link shortener url and we even have a welcome team ready to chat and use Facebook Page Messenger to have 1:1 chats with guests.
Love seeing what everyone is coming up with in this season. Nothing can stop the Gospel.
We're doing a kind of both. We're a relative small german church (250-300 people). We have an old good tradition, that everyone in the service, who want to recite something, like a poem, song, testemony, he or she will have room in the service.
In the Corona time, this is a little bit tricky, but we have a solution! The people can record themself at home, send it to us, then we will playback it in the service, and also we have live music and live preaching. This works really good.
We were live streaming the first 2 Sundays of this crisis. But went to Simulated Live, recording on Saturday mornings, as of last Sunday. We are streaming to our Facebook, UA-cam, and web site using Boxcast. They make it extremely easy to do Simulated Live.
Jake, your channel has proven so helpful for so many churches in our area, probably more than you ever know. Just wanted to drop a word of encouragement for the work you’re doing. Thank you so very much.
Such a great idea Jake! Thanks for joining the Worship Summit this week
We record our services, devotions and talk shows during the week. We use 3 cameras, a Blackmagic design switcher, ATEM control software and record audio seperately using Audacity because the embedded audio on the SSD/Hyperdeck shuttle usually has a buzzing sound or is delayed. We edit using Premier Pro, then premier our services on both our UA-cam and Facebook platforms. UA-cam allows one to premier videos only in 15min intervals, so in order to have our service premier at exactly the same time on both Facebook and UA-cam we have a countdown of 15 minutes before actually service time where we include worship and promotional material in the countdown period.
Previous to this we hired out an Intensity Shuttle so we could have LIVE services during the Lockdown but our Internet\(LTE) failed us. But I'm excited to say that we installed fibre this week at speeds of 50Mbps Up/Down so running a simulated LIVE services shouldn't be a hassle. We used OBS but will look definitley at E-cam and Restream for multistreaming. Thank you for this video, great content.
We started with live stream, but moved to Premier to eliminate bandwidth issues/human error, etc. We actually still use Ecamm Live to bring in remote participates (via the Skype interface) and easily mix it with our graphical content (e.g. sermon visuals, Bible passages, etc.). We may try simulated live stream again for the reasons you mention in the video. I love your idea of filming in different locations. Thanks for the great video!
Our church (Kempsville Christian Church, Virginia Beach) has been recording the services on Wednesdays in our building in as close to the same format as a normal Sunday morning service as possible with our worship team (slightly limited) and Pastor recording in separate sessions to minimize the number of people in total required at any one time. Then we would post the videos as Facebook and UA-cam Premiere videos along with live streaming the pre-recorded service through Vimeo. We were originally feeding the Vimeo stream to Facebook live but started running into issues reported by users of frequent drop outs on the Facebook and Vimeo streams. We switched to Premiere videos since we assumed that the FB and Vimeo Servers were probably being crushed by the number of churches currently running live events at the same time. Once we switched to Premiere videos we stopped receiving the frequent reports of the streams dropping out.
Overall we have a fairly good sized church but we are still relatively new to live streaming and have just been figuring everything out as we go. We have realized through this that we also desperately need an upgrade to our equipment and workflow for the actual live streaming of services. Currently we have just two cameras running into a Roland V-1HD along with a feed from our primary screen server for videos, graphics and lyrics. The output of that is then going into a Matrox Monarch HD video encoder/recorder... which usually does an okay job encoding the livestream and sending it directly to Vimeo. Except when it randomly overheats and drops the stream. Also we currently only have a single volunteer who does all of the video production work, camera operation, post production and live stream management every week... me.
We are recording on Saturday and releasing Sunday morning.
At Believers Southern Baptist Church we are currently doing a pre-recorded live service. We are using two PTZOptics 30x NDI cameras with EasyWorship lyrics. The Mac is capturing, mixing with OBS.
I do a combination. Community Church Online is a linear program using Church Online Platform featuring a recording from the live that runs all week long. On CCI+ (subsplash app) contains the live stream and an on demand. The sermon is cut and put on like a program Sim-Live on Wednesday night called CCI At Home. The worship set is also cut and put into a "program" called Heart of Worship which sim-live on Sunday morning at 7 AM. The Sim-Live are on Facebook, UA-cam, CCI+, and Community Church Online. Full disclosure, I'm writing this from the future. As of April 2020, we were just doing a Live worship set followed by a Kids show Live from a different location, and then a prerecorded sermon (sim-live).
We have been streaming since 1998 first audio with real player then to video starting 1999. Just purchased a jvc gy-hm250ua 4kcam camera which we can live stream straight from the camera instead of having the stream cast boxes from AJA and Videon Streamcast. For sound with jvc live stream camera i use the Rode Wireless Go
Great stuff Jake. We are doing simulated live as well, then using the Church Online platform and Facebook for our services. It’s worked great. We live the community aspect that Cur h online platform gives. Keep up the great work.
We're doing 100% live. Canon camcorder for the pulpit camera, older Sony camcorder for praise band camera, OBS and PowerPoint, and a StreamDeck.
Nice work brother. We have a very small church and are using Zoom. Still ironing out the audio bugs with the music.
Same! I brought the 12 channel mixer from church home to make it easier. I play worship videos on a separate device than the zoom call, also separate device from the streaming computer. It’s a lil extra but works smoothly from a streaming stand point lol. Just felt like sharing
Recording and premier is what we're doing at this point. Nice video! Thanks for all you put together.
Doing a live stream with just a one man band is a struggle. That’s why when pre-record becomes handy.
Yup, premiering right as we speak. Reason for us to use premiering instead of live stream: nothing can go wrong with a computer or internet connection.
I'm from a church in the inner-west of Sydney, Australia. We haven't been able to adapt to live streaming at this point in time so what we do currently is basically set up a page that comes out every Sunday on our website. This is our latest one: burwoodbaptist.com.au/sunday-worship/sunday-5-april-2020/
It basically encourages people to watch through videos as they scroll down the page and participate. Thanks for all the good work you're doing Jake. Really appreciate this youtube channel offering all kinds of tech ideas for Churches.
We wanted to do this, but the time schedule was against us (we did not know of a possible lockdown at the time, lots of rumours and panic but no official word). So decided to design a "system" with Proclaim (ProPresenter is quite heavy on my machine), Skype (Pastor) and OBS. Hoping to pull this through this coming Sunday!
Currently using the UA-cam Premiere as any live streams were struggling with our internet situation in South Africa. We are also using the Discord Platform for online voice chat rooms for prayer every day during the week.
My home church has three language congregations and have three UA-cam channels. In the past few weeks we went from...plan to live stream our service to live streaming using OBS (combining our video feed and ProPresenter or PowerPoint)--very basic PIP; then live streaming as before (but without a congregation) present; then to pre-recorded (voice-overs of ProPresenter and PowerPoint); then to pre-recorded video (virtual worship team recording their instrument pieces from a common click track and mixing). We have a video of our worship leader with ProPresenter set on lower thirds. Sermon has video of our pastor with PowerPoint added in as a PIP all using OBS to produce the combine segments. Then we combine everything and load it to UA-cam as a Premier. The simulated live stream seems to add another dimension of complexity.
This week's challenge is getting two recorded services out: Good Friday and Easter!
Very nice Video bro. Greetings from Puerto Rico. Blessings
We’re recording with multiple cameras (Sony camcorders, iphone, DSLR) to SD cards, then I edit in DaVinci resolve-it’s free! I then play the video as media through Propresenter 7 during the live stream, doing the lyrics live. The sermon is live. During the sermon I used our streaming software to switch cameras. Now I’m using ProP7
Live Stream the service on Sunday Morning and Bible Study on Tuesday. Stream to my CDN provider and sermonaudio for 📱. Archive the service for later viewing through sermonaudio, Facebook and just started a UA-cam page
Lyndon Christian Church in Louisville, KY is doing a simple simulated live stream. Prerecorded with one song, communion, prayer time, sermon, and announcements. All done in the Senior Ministers office with only one camera and two microphones. We're a small church with limited resources but managed to share our worship time with our congregation. It's not a slick production but it works for us.
This is a great help to our church simple online streaming services. Thank you Jake!
We are prerecording everything like a normal Sunday morning. We are recording out Worship set on Wednesdays. The speaker does the teaching on Thursday along with announcements. I mix the audio that comes out of our x32 to Ableton w/ iMovie on Saturday and upload to UA-cam and the church Facebook group. We have a video from one of our leaders telling people to grab stuff for communion. That’s something that we do every Sunday. We are premiering on UA-cam and posting in the Facebook group on Sunday mornings.
At the moment we are still doing a true live stream. Because we are a small congregation, and most of the time I am the single tech person, i have had to innovate to make things as easy and as cheap as possible for me to do the streaming. Starting to find more and more uses for the small raspberry pi computers.
In Ecamm, you can set your videos to auto play the next scene. Great way to make sure it keeps happening even if you have to step away! You can even have a scene end the stream when it’s finished!
Jake! Like everyone else I am going to add myself on that list and just tell you that your videos have been nothing but blessings! So many great ideas for churches on a budget and not only that but to give the Lord excellence! Man, I love it! I do just want to say maybe some day down the line, in the near future and maybe you've got this before but have you ever thought on maybe making a Churchfront en Español for the Spanish speaking community? Maybe you might have a Spanish speaking friend or something but man, I wish your videos were in Spanish for some of the folks over at my church so they could not only learn but understand the concept of media, production and mixing! Just a crazy idea (that you've probably heard before) that I know for sure would help so many other folks in different communities as well! Blessings my brother and keep up the great content!!
Jake, We've just started recording our service. We never did any video before, but we would record the sermon as mp3 and post to out website. Now we've begun (week 2) Pre-recording a simplified service. I do the recording and editing, then post it to our website.
We are doing a pre-recorded live stream. A lot of our team are considered essential workers and at risk populations so we really need to limit time together.
Really good, do more videos like this please
We are doing True Live Streaming. Using OBS Castr.io for streaming to FB and UA-cam simultaneously.
Your pastor on location in the snow is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing this.
we do a true live stream from the Philippines! :) God bless! happy palm Sunday
Doing a premiere for tomorrow's Palm Sunday sermon. First time doing this.
Khup Sukte be encouraged. I hope it went well.
Currently we are live streaming through Facebook. Since all of this started, we began discussing what we need to budget for and purchase in the future to have live stream through our website/UA-cam Channel every week.
We are live streaming the service. Our Sunday School classes are using Zoom, except for mine. None of my class members have internet access, so I'm just recording a lesson and Premiering it. I'm using XSplit to record it, so it looks the same as it would if I were live streaming.
We are streaming a sim live for our churchonline platform but also premiering on Facebook as well as sending the prerecorded message to our local TV and Radio stations
i just gotta say mahalo for the insight into all of this..... so helpful and this opens so many doors in my brain! thank you, thank you, thank you!
Live.
We put all vido content into ProPresenter. That computer (a high-end iMac) also runs OBS which grabs the screen that goes to projection. We are currently using an iPhone 11 with the OBS-VirtualCam that plugs in with a standard iPhone USB cable. Our SoundCraft GB8 audio board takes the house mix and remixes each channel through an AUX channel. That audio goes to OBS via an M-Audio IO box. ProPresenter outputs to two projectors at each side of the 90-ft wide platform. We have four OBS scenes: 1) main camera (iPhone now), 2) main camera w/ ProPresenter PIP over the normal projection screens, and 3) ProPresenter. When we zoom in for the message we still have the projection showing in each upper corner. Our service stream flow right now is Splash Screen with logo (in OBS), Pre-service slides (ProPresenter from now on, updated for this situation), 5-min Countdown, Welcome/Announcements, Praise & Worship songs (full band), Offering, Message, Benedication, and back to Splash Screen. The OBS operator only has to begin the stream with logo, switch to Projection, switch to MainCam, switch to Offering Video, zoom for Message, switch to logo, end stream.
Although I’ve been doing audio and projection since the mid-eighties, I’m new to video and am learning. Just picked up on the VST Plugins and will be incorporating those to clean up our mixed audio. House audio is greatly affected by the worship center room. Streamed audio isn’t and sounds very different. It doesn’t get the noise gating, EQing, and compression that our house speakers do.
We intend to add an existing 1080p camera as the main, a video switcher, and a PTZ cam. In addition, we’ll be updating to ProPresenter 7 for the built-in capability to to multiple output screens (lower-thirds overlay to stream), and purchase a computer dedicated to OBS.
Super helpful and informative, thank you!
We were doing a truly live stream for the first couple of weeks. Due to some audio issues and streaming issues we moved to "Simulated" and this will be our first Sunday sending it out "Simulated." It was nice to be able to have full control of all the content and be able to start over if we made mistakes :)
We are recording everything separtly and then putting the pieces together using premier pro, but we are using a software called Castr.io to upload the video and then schedule to go live simultaneously to UA-cam and Facebook live at the service time this way we don't run on internet drops or power issues.
we are doing most of the part of the service as simulated with pre-recorded sermon and then switch to real time livestream on Prayer meeting on Zoom/Skype part , all then thru Castr.io to get it into facebook live and youtube live. and so during prayer time, people can post their prayer request on the chat session, and the church prayer leader can pray on those items.
Currently pre-recording and using Premier on Facebook and UA-cam.
At my church, Centerville grace, we’re multitracking using the Behringer x32-mix as an interface into Ableton. Then we export to Pro Tools where I spend a day or so producing it. My pastor is using a nice Nikon and a couple iPhone 11s for the video. On Friday morning I hand my pastor the produced audio file and he combines it with the video in Adobe Premier. We record the worship set, announcements, and sermon all at different times but through transitions in Premier make it look like one service.
At our church, we eventually decided to do a mix between simulated and pure live. We recorded our worship music, but do our announcements, prayer, sermon, etc live.
We do almost Livestream, few premier and every Livestream we also do for later use a "sermon only" video.
Fun thing is, when we did the "Livestream only worship services" we used our small cafe as studio and some people was surprised, how small it is.
same here. simulated live stream for my church
I going to start doing this
We are pushing sim-live stream. Pushing from NewTek Tricaster TC1 for playback to AWS Elemental Encoders to live Akamai, OTT, FB, and then 2nd system to FB.
We are working on a scheduled based sim-live delivery off hours for delivery as well.
True live streaming.
Recording on Wed and editing before sending out for the weekend
Thanks Jake for this video! Relevant and timely! 😁
We are currently doing Facebook Live from a phone set up close to the stage. We have set a speaker down in front so the phone has better audio to pick up.
Great stuff. Thank you
True live stream
We are recording and premiering on both Facebook and UA-cam. This Sunday will be the first one where we use Vmix to record so we can add more elements.
We're doing a regular service just like normal but there's no congregation. We've had to do things like have a prayer line instead of an altar call and we post a link to give instead of passing the offering buckets, of course, but everything else is pretty standard. It's just weird for some people to be playing with no one else in the room. Even so, we still worship like it's going out of style! 👐👐👐
Jake- So far we are doing true live streaming with our pastor and her IPad with recorded music on her IPhone.
Hello we do premiere for tomorrow's Palm Sunday Sermon.
Hey Jake btw with your videos in Ecamm you can actually have it just go to the next scene for you. It is that arrow looking thing between the microphone icon and the rewind icon. You can say go to next scene. That is what I do for the parts of our service that are pre-recorded.
Heart of the City Church, Coeur D Alene Idaho! We are doing simulated live! But we are doing Facebook and UA-cam premiere videos!
We’ve been recording it, editing it then premiering it on both UA-cam and Facebook. It’s becoming a little more difficult for us to meet to record (even though it just my Pastor and I) here in NYC but thank you for your video I wanted to do something like this through Wirecast but it’s hard due to the experience of many people in my church with equipment, and I’m still working from home so I can’t really go out and record as much but thank you
Yes that's the exact same way we do it. Jake from Church Front does it amazing but to be completely honest I think it's a bit over kill and unnecessary. The easiest way is to Record Video / Audio, Edit then premiering both to Facebook / UA-cam. Saves more time and no extra Hardware / Software Needed!
We are doing true live stream. We prerecord the musicians and then three singers sing live with the pastor Sunday.
We have been doing a premiere every week
We are basically doing the preparing the material beforehand but we use UA-cam and Facebook Premiere. It acts the same as Live 🙂
Thanks Jake --Awesome content.
We did a simulated Livestream using a free trial with boxcast. We used to use restream, until it failed us last week.
This is what were doing for 2 weeks now.
We do both live and simulated
Funny, I’m about to do our first simulated live stream tomorrow. About to sit and edit it now
We've been cutting our team to the point that we can still go live but we are going to pre-recorded this Sunday. The biggest issue with our live stream was our upload speeds at church. Wed end up with close to 80% dropped frames.
Live stream. I have too much work on my plate to be editing later. We can meet on Sunday, but basically just the worship team, me (audio mixing) and up to 5 congregants total.
We are doing simulated live streaming in ICF Bydgoszcz.
We are using Ecamm and Restream to go live. Our entire service is pre-recorded except we have a live host before, in the middle and after the service. The host welcomes people, gives announcements and encourages conversation at the end of the service. BUT, we have a separate prerecorded service with the host as a backup, just in case something goes wrong....
At first we have been showing past videos of preachings and worship with a pre recorded video shot and edited 15 or 20 mins before going live. The congregation sees the video as it were live but it was filmed mins before lol. Now we're actually going live during the services using two Elgato video captures because the Blackmagic Atem mini's are sold out 😭
It needs a countdown, UA-cam uses to start the stream 1 minute later and skip this minute.
Yes, we also discovered that WLAN isn't reliable enough to stream.
We are recording, and then premiering.
That's the best way. Record, Edit, Premier. There's no difference! No Extra Hardware / Software Needed! 1 & Done.
Jesus Movement I agree, there’s also less stress than having everything in order right up to going live. We record and prepare everything the day before.
@@RomanMestas you absolutely right. We just record, edit, set and done. It goes Live and Saves everything, with All the Comments and Views!
We're recording on Saturday and premiering on Sunday Morning. We do not have the bandwidth to provide a quality live experience so this is the best way for now. I just need a better system for rendering. Been using DaVinci but my i5 is struggling and hangs.
The Scheduler feature in Restream is also great for simulated stream
Hey, Jake I appreciate how you are helping all us small churches. At The Rock A Christian Church Las Vegas we are a setup/teardown church as well and we currently are recording and posting the content to the channel. Question, do you have to set and bitrates or doe Ecamm and Restream do that? Thanks for the Hack and all the other awesome videos. Please keep it up, I know it has up me tremendously. May God continue to bless and keep you!
Currently we’re doing true Live streaming from Facebook Live
We are currently doing true live stream and recorded, but discussing transitioning to pre-recorded live
Yea we pre-record our services for the livestream. So much easier
I do both for three different churches, 2 go live and one simulated.
I just wanted to tell you, though you have heard it plenty of times, dopeeeee content! Means a lot and I appreciate the effort you have for putting out content to help everyone else out, especially in a time such as this. 1 small question. How do you go about sending audio out from your daw in to your video feed. The farthest I've been able to go has been from my XR18 in to Logic Pro x .
ua-cam.com/video/_AJh0pIhZ8c/v-deo.html - Hope this helps! It helped me. I'm running a multitrack audio interface through Ableton into OBS. I had no clue either but this video set my feet on the right path.
we stream live in the moment with switcher studio app
We’re doing true live streaming!
I think that you're probably in a sweet spot being on Mountain Time. Here in the East, live streaming on Sunday mornings has been a disaster of problems because of system overloads.
If you abandon the "Live" portion, you can pre-upload to both UA-cam and Facebook, and have it go public at an appointed date and time! Then you can upload at any period where networks are clear, and have a "broadcast" at your audiences expected time.
@@jdjohnson2131 that's what we do 😉 we haven't had the problems that others around us have experienced because of this.
Where doing a live stream from different locations using Zoom, Worship Leaders plays keyboard alone from his home, Pastor preachers from his home, all live