Renewed Vision blog

Probably the biggest step in integrating video into your services is moving from a single video signal to multiple video signals. Generally, this means upgrading from a computer hooked directly into projectors to display words and graphics, to a video switcher or switcher scaler with one or more computers, cameras, playback devices, etc. as inputs, with the output going to the projectors.

Discover how ProPresenter enhances live game streaming experiences with powerful video presentation software. Perfect for streamers on platforms like Twitch and YouTube.

If you weren’t already live streaming your services before the pandemic, chances are, you started doing so at some point in 2020. Even if your “live stream” consisted of a pastor speaking on an iPhone on a tripod, that still counts!

Zoom has become incredibly popular, with many organizations using it for meetings, town halls, worship services, funerals, classroom teaching, and more.

Live Streaming has become the focus of attention of many productions. Many rushed to implement their streams or do adapt the live broadcasts to broader audiences online. In the rush to get to the scene, it was easy to just “get it working”. I know what it’s like, sometimes when your boss says something needs to be done, and fast, we don’t always get to make it pretty. So today, let’s work towards making our live streams pretty!

As churches improve their streaming, they’ll often look to other churches for ideas or best practices. We recently polled our ProPresenter Users Group on who they liked to look to for live production ideas, and from that have created a list of churches respected for their live streaming. We’ve analyzed their lower thirds, recommended some best practices, and have included a ProPresenter Theme for each church so that you can use a similar look in your environment! So, let’s look at how 10 key churches show lyrics on their live streams.

Facebook, Resi, Boxcast, Restream.io, Youtube. Each of these have something in common: they all operate as a Streaming Solution. Every person and organization that decides to live stream inevitably has to decide who they want to use as their live streaming provider. So many variables to be considered before making a decision! For example, maybe you simply need a free option, or maybe you need to stream to multiple destinations at once. Maybe having analytics on your audiences is important, or the reliability of the quality of the stream is the most important.

There are lots of awesome choices today for playing back music. Whether it’s Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal (does anyone use this?), Pandora (does this still exist), YouTube Music and more! So, we are going to talk about which one is best for playing back music for your live stream – or even any in-person productions! Topics will include: legalities of streaming music, legalities of streaming music from a specific app, and the best app for your workflow.

So you’re looking for the best live web streaming platform? We know our ProPresenter and PVP users need the BEST live web streaming platform for their broadcasts. Everyone wants a reliable and easy to use streaming platform that “just works”. So we set out to find the best of the best. That search and previous encounters we had led us to develop a relationship with Resi (Formerly Living As One). We know you need the best streaming solution and so here’s a little bit behind why we are partnering with and recommending Resi!