Comments on: Live Stream Your Church Service for Free http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: khikhilisu http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-327 khikhilisu Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:10:46 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-327 please pray for our video ministry (MLW) Kachin Stage in Myanmar. please pray for our video ministry (MLW) Kachin Stage in Myanmar.

]]> By: John E. Girton, Jr. http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-284 John E. Girton, Jr. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:47:49 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-284 This is a great post. I've been on ustream and Mogolus turned Livestream for nearly 3 years. I switched from Mogolus to Ustream back to Mogulus once it became Livestream. I've been experiencing some issues with the live broadcast for the past couple of months on Livestream. Not sure what the deal is. I don't have a media team and I manage the live stream myself. That can be tough if there are issues. But, our virtual church members simply pat their virtual feet until I get things corrected. I was searching around today to see if there are any new solutions out there to assist folks like me who have fully virtual churches and limited budgets. We don't have a sister nor mother church to help us with financial support. So, we're simply praying for provision. I'd be willing to pay for a service that is more reliable and stable. But, for as much as I like the free version of Livestream, I can't bring myself nor the few members I have around the country to commit to $350 per month for Livestream. At this point, all I can say is "Pray Church!" Pastor Girton (www.thelovingchurch.org) The Church Has Left The Building This is a great post. I’ve been on ustream and Mogolus turned Livestream for nearly 3 years. I switched from Mogolus to Ustream back to Mogulus once it became Livestream. I’ve been experiencing some issues with the live broadcast for the past couple of months on Livestream. Not sure what the deal is. I don’t have a media team and I manage the live stream myself. That can be tough if there are issues. But, our virtual church members simply pat their virtual feet until I get things corrected.

I was searching around today to see if there are any new solutions out there to assist folks like me who have fully virtual churches and limited budgets. We don’t have a sister nor mother church to help us with financial support. So, we’re simply praying for provision. I’d be willing to pay for a service that is more reliable and stable. But, for as much as I like the free version of Livestream, I can’t bring myself nor the few members I have around the country to commit to $350 per month for Livestream. At this point, all I can say is “Pray Church!”

Pastor Girton (www.thelovingchurch.org)
The Church Has Left The Building

]]> By: Michael Moyer http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Michael Moyer Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:15:23 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-250 Joe, I'm not sure I understand the question. If you have a delay in your broadcast (i.e. not exactly live) it is because it takes a bit of time to encode and for the computer to upload to the server then for the end user to get the broadcast. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Joe,

I’m not sure I understand the question. If you have a delay in your broadcast (i.e. not exactly live) it is because it takes a bit of time to encode and for the computer to upload to the server then for the end user to get the broadcast. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

]]> By: Joe http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Joe Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:40:11 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-247 Trying to improve with what we have but, seems like we always have delay in all our broadcast. Is there a way to have less broadcast with the bandwith we have? Trying to improve with what we have but, seems like we always have delay in all our broadcast. Is there a way to have less broadcast with the bandwith we have?

]]> By: jim http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-185 jim Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:20:06 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-185 Please keep in mind that livestream owns everything that streams on their network - forever. They can do anything they want with it. Read the terms and make sure you agree first. Please keep in mind that livestream owns everything that streams on their network – forever. They can do anything they want with it. Read the terms and make sure you agree first.

]]> By: Michael Moyer http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Michael Moyer Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:44:33 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-173 Chris, I'm thrilled to hear you started live streaming your services! It is such a great tool. I think it will be a blessing to many people. Chris, I’m thrilled to hear you started live streaming your services! It is such a great tool. I think it will be a blessing to many people.

]]> By: Christopher Sanchez http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Christopher Sanchez Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:13:21 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-165 Thank you Bro. Moyer for all these great suggestions! We started livestreaming our services this Sunday with ustream and it worked like a charm! Many of our college students were excited that they were able to watch the services of Montecito Baptist Church as well as our graduates serving around the world. Thank you so much for all of your help! You're a great blessing directly to the ministry here at Montecito Baptist Church! Thank you Bro. Moyer for all these great suggestions! We started livestreaming our services this Sunday with ustream and it worked like a charm! Many of our college students were excited that they were able to watch the services of Montecito Baptist Church as well as our graduates serving around the world. Thank you so much for all of your help! You’re a great blessing directly to the ministry here at Montecito Baptist Church!

]]> By: Daniel Irmler http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Daniel Irmler Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:33:58 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-131 Wow great article. Livestreaming for a church is a big wow factor and this was an awesome article on getting the job done! Wow great article. Livestreaming for a church is a big wow factor and this was an awesome article on getting the job done!

]]> By: Michael Moyer http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Michael Moyer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:52:31 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-67 <blockquote>Chris, thanks for the valuable insight! I hope this can be a help to many churches.

Chris, thanks for the valuable insight! I hope this can be a help to many churches.

]]> By: Chrismtp http://www.mediaministryblog.com/2009/09/live-stream-your-church-service-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Chrismtp Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:46:10 +0000 http://www.mediaministryblog.com/?p=200#comment-66 These are incredible resources that any church with a camcorder, firewire cord and a pc can become broadcast ready. I have used Ustream for the last 2.5-3 yrs for our ministry and it has gone from dodgey and blurry to very good in quality. If you use a Mac you are limited on Ustream to pretty good quality, but on a Windows PC you can get higher quality with the free FME (Flash Media Encoder) application. It gives you near HD quality, for free. Our connection is DSL so we run at 10fps with video and audio quality sliders all the way up. But be forewarned, when recording, our experience is we get disconnected frequently. If we don't record using Ustream but just broadcast, it almost never loses connectivity. That's just our experience. One more thing about Ustream on a Mac. Our media team uses the free CamTwist app to handle the interface between the firewire and browser. It opens up a ton of settings like titles, lower thirds... Google Camtwist for Mac and you'll see what I mean. Our Camtwist has a slide setting saved for between services so I can play music and keep the broadcast live; it shows a picture of our church, a title and a clock. Not bad for a free app. Then we switch back to webcam when svc begins. Also Quicktime 7 captures that output so we get a very nice MOV ready to be trimmed and sent to Blip.tv for syndication to our blog, twitter and podcast. One last thing about Usream, Livestream or Stickam; these service many times come with chat. You may want to turn it off. Kids got on ours and posted rude comments during preaching so we disabled all the live chat comments. Just be forewarned. Thanks Bro. Moyer for a great article. These are incredible resources that any church with a camcorder, firewire cord and a pc can become broadcast ready. I have used Ustream for the last 2.5-3 yrs for our ministry and it has gone from dodgey and blurry to very good in quality. If you use a Mac you are limited on Ustream to pretty good quality, but on a Windows PC you can get higher quality with the free FME (Flash Media Encoder) application. It gives you near HD quality, for free. Our connection is DSL so we run at 10fps with video and audio quality sliders all the way up. But be forewarned, when recording, our experience is we get disconnected frequently. If we don’t record using Ustream but just broadcast, it almost never loses connectivity. That’s just our experience.

One more thing about Ustream on a Mac. Our media team uses the free CamTwist app to handle the interface between the firewire and browser. It opens up a ton of settings like titles, lower thirds… Google Camtwist for Mac and you’ll see what I mean. Our Camtwist has a slide setting saved for between services so I can play music and keep the broadcast live; it shows a picture of our church, a title and a clock. Not bad for a free app. Then we switch back to webcam when svc begins. Also Quicktime 7 captures that output so we get a very nice MOV ready to be trimmed and sent to Blip.tv for syndication to our blog, twitter and podcast.

One last thing about Usream, Livestream or Stickam; these service many times come with chat. You may want to turn it off. Kids got on ours and posted rude comments during preaching so we disabled all the live chat comments. Just be forewarned. Thanks Bro. Moyer for a great article.

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