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Do I really need to be truly ‘live’?
A live broadcast has a lot of associated complications, which you can avoid if you simply pre-record your videos and make them available On Demand at your event time, or by playing it ‘as-live’ at your event time.What hardware will I use to create my stream?
Having a video and/or audio feed which is easy to see (if video) and listen to (for both audio and video) is critical to a successful stream. Having an excellent internet connection, with a fast upload connection is also critical.What software platform(s) will I use to distribute my stream?
Depending on whether you want to be live or not, you’ll need to either connect to a live streaming solution. We’ll walk you through the options on how to connect your provider into your EzyChurch app.
Choose: Live or Pre-recorded?
If you haven’t used a live stream before, carefully consider whether now is really the best time to try and stream fully live. Many churches practice live streaming before it becomes a critical part of their communications strategy. So, if you do plan to stream live, it’s important that you undertake lots of testing to be very confident that your stream will play out without technical issues such as buffering and ‘operator’ errors as your content is produced. There are no second chances with a live stream, so test, test, test, and practice, practice, practice.
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Controlling when your content is live/publicly accessible,
Sending a notification linked to the video file when it is ‘live’.
Remembering that if your video is pre-recorded, people can play it when they like. So, if they are ‘late’ they can in effect ‘roll back time and start at the beginning by watching even 5 or 10 minutes ‘delayed’.
Live Streaming Hardware
Having a good video feed is important, but having good audio is even more critical. Consider whether you plan to stream from a mobile device, plug a camera into a streaming encoder, or software encoder, or use a multi-camera setup. Here are a few tips to get you started:
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3. Connect your streaming solution to your chosen live stream option, as below.
Software
Pre-recorded Streams:
Pre-recorded video material can be directly uploaded into your EzyStream dashboard. You may already be doing this for audio files and the process is identical. Just make sure you have the a video module active on your account. If you only want your media to appear on a Sunday, you can control the offer associated with your upload. You may like to de-activate the notification for when the upload is complete, and rather schedule the notification for your ‘live’ time.
When you want to tell everyone to access the video file, consider sending a notification. This can be manually sent, or pre-scheduled. You can learn how to send notifications attached to media files here.
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If you’re concerned about giving to your church, or what to promote this especially in the event of there being no public gatherings, you can connect your EzyStream Giving Appeal to your pre-recorded video file when you upload it, so that the giving link is presented to each viewer while watching the video stream.
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