How to Upgrade Video Quality for Church Live Streaming

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[kimanipanthier]

Thanks Jake, I watched your "Church Live Streaming Setup 2021 | Best Cameras, Switcher, Software, and Multi-Streaming Platforms" video and convinced my church's leadership to invest in our streaming software using the budget proposal you made. For the first time this Sunday, we tried the multi-cam setup with 2 Sony a6400 and the ATEM Mini Pro with ProPresenter 7. OMG SUCH A HUGE QUALITY UGRADE! IT WAS GREAT! Thank you for your videos. They are super helpful!

[mrboom]

I provide consulting services for audio, video projection and streaming mainly for small to medium traditional churches. I do agree with a lot of what you present. Different churches have different needs. NDI and PTZ cameras have their place. Many small churches don't have the money, space or people to place and operate a DSLR on a tripod. This is where a PTZ camera is a good solution. All of your technical information is accurate but what is "best" for one church may be completely wrong for another. Many times a $2000 PTZ camera. A $1500 PC, and vMIX for $350 a small church can do quality streaming for less than $5K. When designing an audio, video or streaming solution for any church there are many things to factor in like budget, personnel, space, aesthetics, skill level etc. Always enjoy your vids. Catch you on the next worship summit. 👍

[carlitos]

Thank you Jake for sharing all your experience. I have learned a lot of valuable things from your videos that we have applied in our church in Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico.

[asilva_media]

12:51 about the ptz stuff, what we did at my church is we actually have a Canon M50 with a nice f1.7 lens on it on a DJI Ronin SC gimbal controlled remotely from our streaming booth, bout $1200 for the setup but not too bad for the quality and movement we get from it

[Donovanleonphotography]

What about the Canon Rp.. It's about the same price than the Sony but full frame...

[czdot]

Somehow I'm learning more from a church tech channel then anywhere else. :-D

[MiguelReyes-sxvs]

Hey Jake.. Great video.... Don't sleep on the NDI Protocol solutions... it has nothing to do with video cameras.. NDI Protocol is the future when it comes to a production environment, people don't understand it now because it requires network knowledge to really fully implement it but watch in a few years how the NDI protocol will take over the production environment when 10gig networks becomes the normal. We currently run some aspect of our production through NDI... heck even the ProPresenter feeds comes to our switchers through NDI... The NDI protocol will eliminate SDI runs in the professional environment just give it some time.

[vgoard]

" making me look like a smurf" LOL... Honestly Jake, I was just looking to see what camera we were going to upgrade to and was on the fence from a previous video you posted about the Blackmagic 4k but the added info about the lenses you shared today was key! Always excited to learn from your amazing content. Thank you for helping ministries feel empowered!

[dominik]

In my opinion NDI is a great solution for church livestreaming and I made great experiences with it. For me: way better dann using HDMI. I have two BirgdDog PTZ Cams which are great but the struggle with the tiny sensor is real... Last time I used a FUJI X-T3 with a 70-140mm Fuji lese and a Birddog Flex4k NDI Converter. The picture was awesome and the ability to use a iphone in a gimbal and one for the Drums was a budget friendly opportunity with overall awesome Quality

[milagrostephen]

Hey Jake, i would love to see a full connection with the sony cameras you have there with the atem switcher

[TheBoringVoice]

You can get great quality video out of a PTZ camera. You just gave to prioritize lighting design. There are also PTZs with larger sensors. PTZs get a bad rap because there are a lot of low quality ones out there.

[mohamedaminchairi]

Unfortunately, restream doesn't support crossposting on facebook.
Lighting is probably the most important. I use just 3 camrecords from SONY pxw-Z90, great camera's with all necessary inputs/outputs. I think it's the best choice since we're really doing long records (12h in a row)

[kdigitalproductionservices]

Hie Jake. You spent, less than 2 minutes in the video talking about lighting and yet it has the greatest potential of increasing video quality regardless of what other camera gear is in use. Give it some thought.

[hampdenhighlandsumc]

Hey Jake, I appreciate all of the stuff you put out! Its amazing and incredibly helpful. I was wondering if you've done any work with any more traditional churches. My church absolutely loves their 150 year old pipe organ and hymnals and huge windows with lots of natural light (on a good day). How do I work on amplification and lighting and cameras when I'm not in control of all the variables?

[brianwillis]

Nice video. Super helpful. Just a suggestion, you may want to reference the aperture as iris as well.

[bicher]

100% with Jake here, work on your lighting. We use Blackmagic Design Mini Ursa cameras *wow* but with poor lighting we are still struggling to get to a nice image quality.

[dylancronin]

Hey Jake, what are those vertical LED lights in your background been trying to get my hand on some but can't find the right ones. God Bless

[NeilJohnsonHXC]

Thanks Jake! Excellent content and update on a changing landscape. A couple questions come to mind. First, if you go with a bigger season like the Sony you recommended, then will it be more taxing on the computer or program your using to stream? This may be taken care of with your encoding section. Second, do you think PTZ cameras will increase their sensor size? Or are they best served for preset camera positions, movements, and tracking in sports settings?

[hilbertspuybroek]

Hi Jake, why do you Connect the audio directy to the computer and not to the Atem mini? And sync the audio there? Is this a sound quality reason?

[RonClifford]

Great video! While I love the Sony a6100 and 6400. The kit lens is only "just" usable. Upgrade the lenses for sure 🙂