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Post 1 made on Sunday November 27, 2022 at 18:09
Ernie Gilman
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Edit: added first paragraph.

There's a large group of companies (shall we say) that are motivated to broadcast content, and the fact that such content would go on the internet and therefore be receivable anywhere in the world (shall we say) should mean that there is employment for many of us if we can just figure out how to tap into the process and be helpful. And this is it:

Are any of you involved in providing equipment, wiring, and programming for church streaming systems? I mean sending out live or recorded services available via Youtube and Facebook, Zoom webinars, and Free Conference Call for those only interested in listening. Plus many other means of getting the signal on the internet.

I am right now listening to a Zoom meeting where a group of churches are meeting to share information with one another. A fact that just went by is that this one church went live on Facebook in 2015. Another fact: at this point they figure their budget for upgrading equipment will be around $100,000. That's not for establishing new services -- it's for keeping up with technology as things change.

Somewhere out there the local Xfinity channels include the local church's programming. Youtube is a cable channel of church functions for those customers.

What's up out there that you're aware of?

Last edited by Ernie Gilman on November 27, 2022 21:53.
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Post 2 made on Sunday November 27, 2022 at 21:36
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We did a theatre a few years back with camstreamer. It's an app that runs on an axis camera - no other gear needed. We had it set up to start a private youtube stream. It does facebook and other platforms too but we never tried those. It was solid except the camstreamer app needed updating a few times to keep up with the changing Youtube API. I left the company so I don't know that continued to be high maintenence. Maybe it updates by itself now or another solution does, something to consider.

There was a way to make it super simple where you could flip a switch linked to a contact input on the camera to start and stop the stream. You could have a "on air" light too. Never tried that though, we just had the user login to the camera to control the stream.
Post 3 made on Monday November 28, 2022 at 08:43
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Ernie

There are lots of options available, depending on degree of sophistication desired. Things to ponder:
1. Where they want to stream to, in terms of website
2. Will this be a static feed or will there be multiple feeds?
3. Will there be an operator for the system?
4. Lighting?
5. Sound?

Plus a lot more.
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Post 4 made on Monday November 28, 2022 at 09:30
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On November 27, 2022 at 18:09, Ernie Gilman said...
Edit: added first paragraph.

There's a large group of companies (shall we say) that are motivated to broadcast content, and the fact that such content would go on the internet and therefore be receivable anywhere in the world (shall we say) should mean that there is employment for many of us if we can just figure out how to tap into the process and be helpful. And this is it:

Are any of you involved in providing equipment, wiring, and programming for church streaming systems? I mean sending out live or recorded services available via Youtube and Facebook, Zoom webinars, and Free Conference Call for those only interested in listening. Plus many other means of getting the signal on the internet.

I am right now listening to a Zoom meeting where a group of churches are meeting to share information with one another. A fact that just went by is that this one church went live on Facebook in 2015. Another fact: at this point they figure their budget for upgrading equipment will be around $100,000. That's not for establishing new services -- it's for keeping up with technology as things change.

Somewhere out there the local Xfinity channels include the local church's programming. Youtube is a cable channel of church functions for those customers.

What's up out there that you're aware of?

As an FYI, I don't know if you have seen or considered it, but there's a whole (large) segment of the AV industry called House Of Worship- here's a link to one of the magazines-

[Link: avinteractive.com]

Some denominations have been doing this kind of thing for a long time, although is didn't necessarily involve streaming to people at home, although it was a natural progression. LDS facilities have used satellite to send programming from Salt Lake City since before the late-'90s and they had AV systems that were able to send the signal to various parts of the facilities, but only using approved vendors for the equipment so if you do any work for LDS, you won't be able to use whatever YOU want an they had a requirement that called for at least one member to be involved in the contractor companies.
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Post 5 made on Monday November 28, 2022 at 11:04
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Church Sound & Media Techs on Facebook will help get you educated.
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Post 6 made on Monday November 28, 2022 at 11:11
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I use Extron's SMP351. Analog and digital audio inputs along with 2 HDMI inputs. Pump the mic feed into it and a camera feed, schedule when they need the recording, then it packages the video up and can send to anywhere.

I have one in a school where the videos gets sent to a Dropbox account that parents can then log into to view the feed.

I also have others that just stream it live on their websites, etc.

Really comes down to how technical or non-technical they want it to be.
Post 7 made on Monday November 28, 2022 at 20:47
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I've installed streaming systems for a could churches. WireCast is a great system.

They used to sell complete turnkey systems, but nowadays, they just do the software side of things and you need to spec a PC(Or Mac) for the client with Capture cards.

If you really want to get into it, you can do the same thing with OBS. Its open source Software very similar to Wirecast.
OP | Post 8 made on Wednesday November 30, 2022 at 16:10
Ernie Gilman
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On November 28, 2022 at 20:47, Impaqt said...
If you really want to get into it, you can do the same thing with OBS. It's open source Software very similar to Wirecast.

Thanks for mentioning that. This is what's being used now. (I was not involved in the selection or implementation of the system.)
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