More Churches Should Take Advantage of Streaming Media

Posted by Derrick on September 24, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

More Churches should take advantage of Streaming Media.  It’s unfortunate that with the many Churches throughout the world that many don’t.  However, Streaming Media is a great solution that Churches can take advantage of.  If you think about it one Church might have 2 services recorded per week, 8 services per month, and 96 services per year.  Wouldn’t it be great for Church members and others to be able to view any of the 96 Church services video taped over the course of 1 year? Well, this is possible for Churches that delivery Streaming Media.

What’s nice about delivering streaming video on-line is you can have the entire Church service placed on a Streaming Server.  You can add Chapter Points for viewers to be able to access the parts of the On-demand Streaming Video that they would like to see. You can have Chapters Points for Praise and Worship, the Pastor’s Sermon or Special Announcements.  Having streaming content also gives you a built in archive and also makes studying previous sermons easier for Church members and others.

With Streaming Media you can provide Live Streaming of Church Sermons, Conferences and other events.  You can then provide On-demand Streaming of similar video content after the event.

If you need assistance implementing your Streaming Video Operation call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com.  For those located in the United States, we provide On-site Consulting for setting up your Streaming Media Operation.  If you’re not interested in On-site Consulting you should consider attending one of our 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression Training classes to learn more about Streaming Media.

Wirecast Live Streaming Great for Churches

Posted by Derrick on September 3, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression | Read the First Comment

Wirecast Live Streaming is a great option for Churches.  With limited budgets Churches can get the benefit of having a full video production studio on their desktop. Usually when you do a full scale production a video switcher is needed but Wirecast actually becomes that switcher.  This gives you a very inexpensive option to switch from videos for playback, camera sources, and presentations.  Wirecast includes a Preview and Program window so you can see which sources are in Preview and which ones are in Program (Live).

Now with using a tool such as Wirecast for Live Streaming you can think about your production for your Live Streaming event in a more professional way.  You need to plan on having a Director to switch your event and you should have a Producer that maps out all of the activity happening during your event.  Next, the Producer should create a script that has all of the speakers that will participate in the Live Streaming event.  He/She should also document all the cameras and sources to use during the production.  Lastly, the easy part is to follow the script and use Wirecast to do your switching.  If you’d like to get up close and personal with Wirecast make sure you attend one of our Wirecast Live Streaming Trainings or one of our Wowza Media Server Trainings. Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com for more information.

Also, If you are a Church that needs to deliver a lot of on-line video content and Live Streaming you should consider Creating TV Channel Style Live Streaming.  This gives you the power to have your own On-line Video Channel using Wowza Media Server 2.