The Dummies Guide To LIVE Streaming For Churches [2020 EDITION] 

My only question is what app you used on the tablet???? 😅

That's Procreate.

Awesome!!

Pro Church Tools with Brady Shearer is there a template for what you showed in the video? Or did you create it all?

Erick S Rodriguez The diagram? I created that.

Brady I have sent you an email for private consultation, please respond.

Thanks for watching, and the kind words! You might find the budget friendly options my friend Joel put together here: www.joelwsmith.com helpful.

A great place to start for troubleshooting, Amber.

David Pavkovich 🙏

Valentin Onitu Glad to year it, Valentin. 🙏

Thanks for the kind words, Mitch.

@@prochurchtools Of course. Quick question-where do software/services like OBS or Be.Live come into play here? Are they considered sources or destinations?

Thanks for watching, Ian.

Brilliant! Glad to hear it.

@@prochurchtools Yes, need a video to cover the gear; especially the camera for live production. There are lots of videos out there to cover ProPresenter and OBS, but not as many about the camera.

Appreciate the kind words 🙏

Hmm. Not sure if that’s possible from your phone - from a desktop, I’d recommend Restream.io.

TL;DR: It's OBS for software. For dedicated hardware it's either Blackmagic Web Presenter or the new ATEM mini.

Familiengemeinde Langenthal It was a great trip visiting there.

Laura Olding glad you enjoyed it!

Rick & Amy Cordova 👀

Thanks for the kind words, Nathaniel. No scholarships with The 167 right now. Just because each student requires my personal time and attention, it's not an easy thing to discount - unlike software, where if we issue you a scholarship our hard costs don't increase dramatically.

Easy answer for me on this - I highly recommend recording/premiering over live streaming. I think the pros vastly outweigh the cons and it's not particularly close.

Thanks for the quick reply! You just verified what I was thinking.

Not both at the same time without separate software - but direct to one of FB or YT, yes.

There are a few different ways to do this. One way is to bring your video from your switcher (or direct from the camera if you don't have a switcher) into PP with something like a Blackmagic Decklink. PP will be able to overlay on the video. If you have PP7 it's able to do double duty to run your main stage display for worship and sermon notes on the main projector and have a 2nd output for the stream to keep the words on the bottom of the screen. If you don't have PP6, then it gets a little trickier. Our solution was to use a 2nd instance of PP6 on another machine just for streaming. the 2nd machine acts as a slave to the 1st so the operator on the 1st machine runs the lyrics and that updates the 2nd machine to match. 2nd operator drives independently for the sermon since the slides don't usually match well between full screen in the sanctuary and lower thirds on the stream. You should look at Paul Allen Clifford's channel. He goes into a TON of detail on how to do this stuff with PP. ru-vid.com

Thanks for the suggestion!

@@prochurchtools Keep up the great work! I'm from a church in Gatineau, Quebec and we love your content! Very inspiring!!

Would love to know the answer to this question.

Plenty of different options to go with. You already mentioned OBS. Ecamm Live is really nice too.

To go from OBS to Facebook and RU-vid at the same time you'll need to use a paid streaming service like restream.io or castr.io. Or, you'll have to have a 2nd computer that can take the output from the OBS machine and bring that into OBS on the 2nd machine and have the 2nd machine stream to a different destination. We experimented with it, but it has a lot of opportunity for failure, and it adds sync issues to the 2nd stream. We opted to use a service instead. The free tiers won't allow you to stream to a public Facebook page though, so know upfront you're going to have to spend some $15-20/mo. But, it's pretty easy to setup and use.

If you're talking about the ecoding feature you shouldn't really be able to tell the difference compared to a capable computer running OBS to do the encoding. If the machine isn't doing anything else it doesn't take an overly powerful machine to do software encoding.

Haven't used it personally. I know churches that do and are pleased with it. I'm hesitant to use a fully wireless solution for live streaming, even if the hardware is quality.

@@prochurchtools thanks.

That's correct. One of the downsides of the original ATEM Mini (which makes it not the best option for many) is that it doesn't have that encoder built in.

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