Professional quality graphics can elevate the live stream’s production value and help your church with audience growth and engagement. Photo courtesy of Hope Community Church, Raleigh, NC.
Whether it’s a Sunday sermon, a youth event or any other church webcast, adding custom graphics, clips and tasteful effects can elevate your live stream’s production value and help with engagement. Sound expensive or difficult to achieve? Not necessarily. What if you were able to insert custom logos, a watermark, a presenter’s name and title, or insert a video clip without the need for expensive broadcast equipment on a system that was volunteer-friendly and easy to use? Keep reading below for more on how to give your production that professional quality finish that can come from leveraging the power of custom graphics and video.
Now, producing a live stream can be done by virtually anyone who can operate a smart phone.
One of SlingStudio’s (List price: $999) most powerful features is its ability to easily import custom graphics and pre-recorded video clips allowing you to quickly add pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll video clips, promos, bumper videos and more live during your live stream productions without expensive equipment or highly trained operators. SlingStudio also makes recording, editing and post-production work incredibly easy, so you can add even more polish to your downloadable, video-on-demand library.
With SlingStudio's ease of use, it offers large churches the opportunity to provide access to their secondary events (youth services, recovery groups, business meetings and more) by allowing technical staff to delegate streaming production to virtually anyone who can operate a smart phone.
Bypassing the need for expensive, sophisticated, cumbersome equipment, SlingStudio is a godsend for small and medium sized churches who want to take their streaming and video recording production to the next level.
To get you started, we’ve assembled five easy tips which will put you well on your way to creating superior quality content:
1. Create and Import for Easy Access: Simply drag your graphics or video clips into SlingStudio by inserting an SD card into the Hub or by connecting your USB storage drive to the SlingStudio unit using the SlingStudio USB-C Expander.
SlingStudio is a godsend for small and medium sized churches that want to take their streaming and video recording production to the next level.
2. Always Ready and Available: Once you have imported your graphics and video clips, there is also the option to store the clip/graphic into SlingStudio’s internal storage. This option will make the graphic or video clip available to any project. This is a great option for clips or graphics that you’ll use on multiple projects.
3. P.C. As a Video Source: SlingStudio can connect with up to 10 video sources (cameras, computers, etc), with up to four active at any one time. If you are looking for the simplest way to add video clips to a production, using a separate computer for video playback will do the trick. Simply change your video source and switch the associated input, press play, and you’ve got video from your P.C. as an input for your live event or production.
4. SlingStudio Saves Time – Ever wanted a system to remember the custom placement for every graphic including the lower thirds? SlingStudio allows you to do this by simply saving the graphic to your preferred location on the display. When the graphic is added to preview or program the Console app will remember your saved graphic’s location.
5. Unlimited Video Clips Effect – SlingStudio allows you to manually queue up to two pre-recorded videos at a time (clips or full length videos). These videos can play automatically once the previous video has concluded. This feature is perfect for running introductory pre-event promos before your live stream, during event intermissions or post-event, outro content allowing you to add another to the queue continuously. SlingStudio may be the most affordable way for church volunteers or non-technical staff to produce and record a quality live stream, including the ability to insert graphics, logos and video clips.
Between the affordable price, the ease of use and the intuitive nature of the product, it is an amazingly good fit for the church market.
How to Stream a Sunday Service with SlingStudio
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