Are the features listed below worth the price for video hosting? Look over the features and then decide if the service is worth the cost. (Cost disclosed at bottom)
- Our free iPhone app (has now been downloaded over 45,000 times from over 60 countries). Also, we have plans to start working on an Android app later in 2010.
- A fully customizable embeddable player that is automatically updated once the upload is finished and you do not have to manually embed each weeks sermon every Sunday afternoon.
- No ads.
- An aggregated network of content providers where over 40,000 unique visitors come each month to find solid, Bible-based content.
- Being part of our growing community of churches. We have signed up over 110 churches in the last 4 weeks.
- Future and current IPTV relationships. Established relationship with Sky Angel Network, a Christian IPTV service. We will be sending them hundreds of sermons each month for the channel. This will act as a free television ministry for the church. Long term, our parent company has connections with people at both Direct TV and TiVo, and the goal is to have a On Demand channel in one or both of those services to help expand each church’s reach.
- Purchase button where we cover all of the man-hour, material, taxes and shipping costs to fulfill an order and twice a year we send a check back to the church for 10 % of the content that is sold through the channel.
- Free unlimited bandwidth and storage.
- Eventually robust stats.
$50 per month. Is it worth it? Leave your comments below or reply on Twitter to @churchtechhelp
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Intro for Compassion Sermon
This is an preview of a video for an upcoming service on the compassion of Jesus, it will be a message intro. We are still trying to decide on using the track under it or having our pianist play it live. Your feedback is welcome, via twitter is best.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Video Switching Equiptment
I wanted to list some of the video hardware we use in our service and for recording. The SE-500 is our recording switcher, we then digitize with the DAC-200 and record a backup to the D-R410, the main recording goes into FCP. THe OFD802 is our live projection switcher it goes between computer, dvd, and iso from center camera.
DataVideo SE-500
http://www.datavideo.us/products/switchers-mixers/se-500-video-switcher.html
Datavideo DAC-200
http://www.datavideo.us/products/discontinued-products/dac-200-digital-to-analog-converter.html?keyword=DAC+200
Toshiba D-R410
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=d-r410
OCTO Fade OFD802
http://www.analogway.com/product/OCTO-FADE
DataVideo SE-500
http://www.datavideo.us/products/switchers-mixers/se-500-video-switcher.html
Datavideo DAC-200
http://www.datavideo.us/products/discontinued-products/dac-200-digital-to-analog-converter.html?keyword=DAC+200
Toshiba D-R410
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=d-r410
OCTO Fade OFD802
http://www.analogway.com/product/OCTO-FADE
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Video Wall
We opened our new KIDS Town building on Aug. 2 and one of the main features in the lobby was to be a video wall. We wanted to be able to have photos of our kids and also play videos. So we embarked on a journey to make it happen. When I say we I mean our Children's Pastor said "John David make this happen and look GOOD!!" I will be posting over the next few days that process and how we made it happen.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Great things are happening
Today after I finished up the short Friday list I headed to Franklin to have lunch with Stephen Proctor (@vjproctor). We spent almost 2 hrs at a small table at McCreary's Irish Pub in downtown, drinking sweet tea and talking. That alone was great, I finally was able to have a face to face with someone I didn't know before meeting them on Twitter. Read the post from Mike Sessler here about making connections and my thoughts on the same subject here.
Moving on. The main reason for this post is to being getting some of my thoughts, about a topic that has come up recently, written out. Our main discussion was on turning off/scaling down, for some period of time, the technology we love so much. Why? Exactly, why. Because we have forgotten to ask our selves 'why am I using ________?" It's not a "why are doing THAT" as in "thats stupid, old and so last year." But "why are you doing that?" as in "is that the most effective, is it too distracting, or is it just right?" That in its self is enough to make your head spin.
The thought the gets my head really spinning is why has God given this spirit of change to a bunch of 20something visual media-tech guys and not a group of educated senior pastors? It' scary and exhilarating all at the same time. Join in the conversation with us. Leave a comment and look for the tag #visualworship on Twitter.
Also read great thoughts at the following:
http://worshipVJ.com/
http://visualworshiper.com
Moving on. The main reason for this post is to being getting some of my thoughts, about a topic that has come up recently, written out. Our main discussion was on turning off/scaling down, for some period of time, the technology we love so much. Why? Exactly, why. Because we have forgotten to ask our selves 'why am I using ________?" It's not a "why are doing THAT" as in "thats stupid, old and so last year." But "why are you doing that?" as in "is that the most effective, is it too distracting, or is it just right?" That in its self is enough to make your head spin.
The thought the gets my head really spinning is why has God given this spirit of change to a bunch of 20something visual media-tech guys and not a group of educated senior pastors? It' scary and exhilarating all at the same time. Join in the conversation with us. Leave a comment and look for the tag #visualworship on Twitter.
Also read great thoughts at the following:
http://worshipVJ.com/
http://visualworshiper.com
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Building your LAN.
Tonight Rachel and I went over to Pleasant Heights Baptist Church for "Town Hall For Hope." As I was sitting there I had the thought "why have I not been here sooner and met the worship/tech people." After all that was one of the things on my list as I started my job at The First Family, get to know the people in surrounding churches.
We should have a LAN (local area network) just like in computer networking. Twitter has given me access to many friendships that would not be possible any other way. I consider my Twitter friends part of my WAN (wide area network). Now it would be wonderful to have the 8-15 Twitter friends I communicate with regularly close enough to meet with often. (Could you imagine all of us in the same area? WOW) But we are spread out across the U.S. and thats fine too. I would not trade the 140 character conversations with them for a 8 core MacPro with 32 GB of RAM and 4TB of HD space, or would I?? BUT we do need to have some physical interaction with other like minds, thus the LAN.
After the stream was over I, like we all have, strolled back to the rear of the worship center where up a few steps was the video side of "the sound booth". There I met Rush, yes Rush not Russ, Rush like the water and wind RUSH over or by. Rush is the Associate Pastor of Worship & Music. My first impression, "this is one of the nicest people I have met." We exchanged contact information and talked tech for a min and decided we need to have lunch. I am excited to have a new friendship in town and be able to learn from and offer help to another church. I encourage and challenge you to go meet the worship/tech/media person at a church, that is more than likely less than 5 miles from your church, and start a LAN!
We should have a LAN (local area network) just like in computer networking. Twitter has given me access to many friendships that would not be possible any other way. I consider my Twitter friends part of my WAN (wide area network). Now it would be wonderful to have the 8-15 Twitter friends I communicate with regularly close enough to meet with often. (Could you imagine all of us in the same area? WOW) But we are spread out across the U.S. and thats fine too. I would not trade the 140 character conversations with them for a 8 core MacPro with 32 GB of RAM and 4TB of HD space, or would I?? BUT we do need to have some physical interaction with other like minds, thus the LAN.
After the stream was over I, like we all have, strolled back to the rear of the worship center where up a few steps was the video side of "the sound booth". There I met Rush, yes Rush not Russ, Rush like the water and wind RUSH over or by. Rush is the Associate Pastor of Worship & Music. My first impression, "this is one of the nicest people I have met." We exchanged contact information and talked tech for a min and decided we need to have lunch. I am excited to have a new friendship in town and be able to learn from and offer help to another church. I encourage and challenge you to go meet the worship/tech/media person at a church, that is more than likely less than 5 miles from your church, and start a LAN!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
700mhz Legality
I'm in a bit of a hard spot when it comes to the impending 700mhz vacation. After taking in to consideration the lack of information given to us wireless mic users about what will happen on Feb. 17 ahhh I mean June 12, I have come to the following conclusion. We could, and I mean it is possible, have interference from local police, fire and EMS on the day of the switch. This in my mind is a mute point as we SHOULD be completely clear of the 700mhz by the transition. The other conclusion or confusion is the legality of staying in the 700mhz. As you know everyone is technically operating illegally without a license from the good folks at the FCC, with the exception of the two guys who got their license when they got off the ark. Technically were are outside the law, however the FCC has made it no secret that giving a license is the last thing on their mind and have all but said "go ahead and use them, what do we care." As the Church we want to follow all laws set by man as commanded by The Lord, but when there is no opportunity to stay within the law I conclude we are exempt. But what about the command from the FCC in 08-188 (NPRM&O), Paragraph 14:
"As discussed above, the Commission and various affected parties, such as SBE and Shure, have contemplated that low power broadcast auxiliary devices would lose their secondary status, and would need to vacate the band, upon completion of the DTV transition. We therefore tentatively conclude to revise our rules to make clear that low power auxiliary stations authorized under Part 74 of our rules – including wireless microphones – will not be permitted to operate in the 700 MHz Band after the DTV transition." (Jason has a post on this)
Is this language stronger and different than the current language and stance on general operation in the wireless spectrum? or do we say "I'll get out when they knock on the doors of the church or I hear dispatch on the pastors channel!"?
Now, I am of the opinion the language surrounding the 700mhz is clear and different from the spectrum operation language. What about you? What are your thoughts? How do you respond to someone who wants to take the "I'll get out when they knock on the doors of the church or I hear dispatch on the pastors channel!"??
"As discussed above, the Commission and various affected parties, such as SBE and Shure, have contemplated that low power broadcast auxiliary devices would lose their secondary status, and would need to vacate the band, upon completion of the DTV transition. We therefore tentatively conclude to revise our rules to make clear that low power auxiliary stations authorized under Part 74 of our rules – including wireless microphones – will not be permitted to operate in the 700 MHz Band after the DTV transition." (Jason has a post on this)
Is this language stronger and different than the current language and stance on general operation in the wireless spectrum? or do we say "I'll get out when they knock on the doors of the church or I hear dispatch on the pastors channel!"?
Now, I am of the opinion the language surrounding the 700mhz is clear and different from the spectrum operation language. What about you? What are your thoughts? How do you respond to someone who wants to take the "I'll get out when they knock on the doors of the church or I hear dispatch on the pastors channel!"??
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