How many of your church's online attendees come back again and again? Delivering a professional-quality video experience is vital to capturing and growing an online audience. If you're from a small or medium sized church, your next video production system could be as simple and inexpensive as the Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio.
Every church in America wants to connect with attendees online. But it’s not simply the sheer number of views your church’s live stream is getting, churches are about engagement. How much time is each viewer spending with your live stream? How many of them come back again and again? Delivering a professional-quality video experience is vital to capturing and growing an online audience. Some churches are pre-producing their online services --- they call it pseudo-live or simulated-live --- in order to reduce errors and hiccups. But that’s a heavy lift --- a process that’s beyond the staffing and production capabilities of most churches. So how does a small or medium sized church improve the look and production quality of its live stream without investing big bucks?
Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio is an application that currently runs on the Mac or iPad and allows you to integrate up to eight different camera inputs and switch between them to create polished live or recorded content.
In addition to professional cameras, Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio also allows you to connect multiple iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) on the same network and use them as camera inputs.
That's where Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio comes in. Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio is an application that currently runs on the Mac or iPad and allows you to integrate up to eight different camera inputs and switch between them to create polished live or recorded content. It allows you to add graphics, media, titles, audio, and stream to Facebook Live, YouTube, Linkedin, Twitch, or any RTMP. In addition to professional cameras, it also allows you to connect multiple iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) on the same network and use them as camera inputs. That, to me, is exciting.
There are two versions of Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio available. A free version and paid subscription version that costs as little as $29.99/mo or $199.99 per year. The free version allows you to connect up to two cameras and eight audio sources. That's plenty to get you familiar with the app and decide whether or not it will meet your needs. You can control Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio using a Mac or an iPad running the software. Using iPhones as cameras requires use of the free app, Cinamaker Capture.
In the coming weeks I'll be running an in-depth evaluation of this software, which I'm super excited about. One of the features I'm particularly interested in is its ability to record and then edit in playback mode while in the in-app editor, and also import the recorded content into Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere. Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio claims it will ISO record each camera and create an XML file for both Adobe Premiere and FCPX which you can then import at the touch of a button and edit as a multicam edit, as well as import all the assets you may have used in your recording. If that works as advertised, that's really impressive and useful. I'm really interested to see how well it handles that process.
Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio also allows you to add graphics, media, titles, audio, and stream to Facebook Live, YouTube, Linkedin, Twitch, or any RTMP.
I'm also interested seeing how well it handles a mixture of different inputs including integrated audio from a soundboard. It's one thing to have an image to broadcast, but you also need intelligible audio. You can connect audio to Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio in a number of different ways including a digital audio interface, USB, or possibly an adaptor for the iPad. If you can get audio into your Mac or iPad, we're told you can use it as a source in Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio.
With Cinamaker Director Multicam Studio it seems you can make your livestream productions and recorded videos as simple or as complicated as your heart desires. If it does everything it claims, they truly have made it super easy and affordable to jump into professional looking video content.
