March 14th, 2008
Video Podcast
Posted by Church Video Ideas under Blogs, Church Media, Church video, Churches, Communication, Media ministry, SoftwareToday’s topic is capturing your service for video. We are working behind-the-scenes to launch a new video podcast of our pastor’s sermon. I’m curious as to how some of you capture your service/sermon. I know some churches capture straight into Final Cut, some capture in QuickTime Pro, some even in iMovie. How do you capture your service digitally at your church? I’d love to hear. I’d still love to hear from some of you about how you do digital signage at your church.
EXTRA:
I had a great time at the creative brainstorming meeting yesterday at Fellowship Church. They have a very gifted and cool team assembled there. It was fun to be in that environment and take part in a series planning session. They had their worship leaders from the local campuses all there, as well as 2 technical staff members and their Miami worship leader, who was video conferenced in. I enjoyed lunch (Mexican food!) with their worship pastor, Pace, afterwards. I do want to again encourage you to check out Pace’s blog and welcome him to the blogging world. He also mentioned that his pastor, Ed Young, has just started blogging as well. You can check his blog out HERE.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:55 am
We are building a new sanctuary, and I wanted to have video-to-digital capabilities, but it just isn’t going to happen yet. We ended up with only one computer (for presentation software) and one camera (only for projection). If we want to record a service, we will have to record to tape and edit later on (ugh).
Matthew
March 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I use an Avid Media Composer Adrenaline System to do all of my editing and capture on. We shoot our service with the Canon XLH1 at 1080i 60 fps. After it’s recorded on HDV tapes, we place the tape in the playback deck, and let Avid do the rest. We aren’t doing video podcast yet, but that’s soon to come. After the video is captured we export as a Quicktime Reference and insert that into Sorenson Squeeze and compress it to a flash file to play in our flash player on our site. We’re still working on this a little bit, because the image is fuzzy once converted and placed on the server. I havn’t really looked into podcast too much yet, it’s only a goal as of right now.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:29 am
We currently shoot are service using a Canon XL2 and XL1. We run all the cameras through a switcher which is then projected onto side screens. We run mini DV tapes in our main camera, and one after the video is looped through the switcher. This gives us a master copy as well as a static view of the presenter. We only capture the master DV tape to a hard drive through FinalCut Pro. The other is just a back up. We also have a DVD recorder looped in with the switcher as well. No video podcasting yet, but we do have satellite campuses that use the previous weeks recording.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
We use two JVC GY-HD110U cameras and record to DV tapes which we then capture into Adobe Premiere. Everything we do now is post-production rather than live becuase all of our campuses are on a week delay of recieving the message and it just gives us extra time. After that we create a DVD backup for each campus and a hard drive copy.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Before moving to HD we used a three camera shoot with one static and two dynamic cameras. Only the static had a tape recording in it. The edit was then recorded by the vtr on a monitor mix from the mixing console.
The static tape gives us a backup image to paste over in case of a bungled switch. Most of the time it wasn’t necessary, but added security to the shots.
HD allows us a direct capture to Final Cut, saving a step from tape to disk (though we still record a tape in the VTR for archive.
We’re beginning this year to set up churches as well as Bible colleges for video podcasting in Ireland. I’ve always been a fan of North Point’s streams (http://www.northpoint.org/messages) and have been encouraged to produce a similar format using Flash produced by Sorensen Squeeze.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
We capture straight into Final Cut Pro (from our Ross SDI to NTSC converter card). I’d like to go straight SDI in, but I’m not convinced yet that the cost to benefit ratio is worth it. We also record to a Sony DVCAM deck to tape, for backup & archive - also composite (and also from the Ross converter card).
March 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Forgot about the digital signage part. We have several 50″ Panasonic Plasmas (which are AMAZING displays). I purchased a SDI input card; which to my surprise was a few dollars cheaper then buying the external AJA converters. I also purchased an Extron IP Link TS01 (I think) serial control device for each display.
Our digital signage is controlled from our Synergy1 mixer frame, off of an auxiliary. We have a dedicated computer that runs the digital signage 24/7. We only use our digital signage on the weekends at this point. Anyway.
We run SDI to each TV from the control room (and the cards have a SDI loop through). We installed the Extron devices which was very easy, and they tell the TVs when to come on and when to turn off - the staff doesn’t even have to think about the TVs which is good.
Right now we use PowerPoint for our digital signage (and it looks pretty good); but in the future might move to a digital video playback device.
Some of the benefits of this setup is that the graphics department updates one computer, which all of the building’s digital signage is fed from (we use that same digital signage for Pre/Post advertisements). And since our signal type is SDI, there is no quality loss over the longer runs. Also, at any points in time, with 2 clicks of our Synergy1 control surface, we can change what’s being fed to them. No more trying to find the right wire, grabbing another T-barrel, etc. It’s nice.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
We capture video from our switcher and audio from a DA staight into Final Cut Pro. From that we export the sermon as a FCP movie and also as an AIFF. These are for the video and audio podcasts.
We also export a .mov with chapters for DVD distribution.
Lastly, we export the entire service with no chapters, for flash encoding and uploading to our webcast. We use Lightcast Media for our streaming services.
All our videos are exporting as FCP movies, and NOT self contained. They take up so much less HD space.
For video compression we rely on Visual Hub, and I can’t say enough good about it.
For audio compression to mp3, We use Audacity. I guess Itunes would do a credible job at it as well, but I don’t like the way my Itunes library gets all cluttered.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
We have two campuses with identical setups. Three Hitachi cameras run to a switcher to the center screen. Sermon slides go to two side screens. The cameras a mixed live and we simply have a second output of the mix going to a GrassValley Turbo iDDR hard drive recorder. From there I export the file to our Final Cut machine where I convert it to DV. Unfortunately it’s a little cumbersome since I have to export the file (which puts it in MPEG2 format) transcode it to DV (I use Visualhub; I agree with Brian about it’s being so awesome) so I can import it into Final Cut Pro where I trim the ends, drop in any titles, or intersperse the sermon slides if necessary, and do a final export for DVD or web. Presets in Compressor help there.
We currently are not podcasting although that’s something we hope to do in the near future. Live streaming is also something we want to look into in the coming months.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
We are currently shooting our services with 4 cameras. (2 Panasonic DVX 100As and 2 Sony PD-170s) for IMAG. We also record the message from our 9am service onto DVCAM tape directly out of our switcher. Then this tape is delivered to our video venue 15 minutes away and replayed off a DV Deck for the message of our 10:30am service. No computer is used for replay of our message. We also record a DVD copy and is played back simultaneously for back-up.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
We also tape an earlier service and drive it to our second campus. We shoot it with one Canon XLH1 on a static shot, and project it back on a panasonic 7000U projector in 1080i onto a 17′ x 10′ screen. It gives the feeling our pastor is walking around on the stage that our screen is set on because of the static shot and the size of the screen.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Well we have been livecasting all our services since 2/04. We have also been running a 24/7 live stream that carries mainly rograms that we have produced in house (services, news, specialty programs) as well as a few odd and ends we have purchased.
We shoot with 5 cameras during the services (3 xl2’s and 2 pickup cams) and feed them all through a Newtek VT5. We capture onto the HD as well as run 2 DVD recorders for backups. We also have 3 more cameras that we shoot our live preshow with.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Currently, we shoot our services with 3 XL2’s through the Sony AnyCast switcher and capture to a Firstore Hard Drive which records a native OMF file for our Avid Adrenaline. I transcode it through Sorenzen Squeeze and upload it to our servers.
We are seriously considering upgrading to HD. Both the AnyCast and Avid were purchased a few years ago with the intent of upgrading to HD one day and here we are. Any advice on HD cameras would greatly be appreciated. Someone has recommended the Sony BRC series robotic cameras. I’m not so sure. They look like overpriced web-cams to me but I’ve heard they’ve got a great image.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
We have three remote cameras in our auditorium connected to a video switcher. The output of the switcher is fed to a Sony D1000 where it is recorded to mini DV tape. The firewire output of the D1000 is routed to a citidisk DV hard drive which records the sermon in DV compliant AVI files. Once the service is over, the citidisk drive is connected to an editing computer via firewire to create a DVD of the semon. The tape is used as a backup. The citidisk drive saves an incredible amount of time by not having to capture from the tape and the files are usable in premiere. Most of the time, the only editing is a title is dropped in at the beginning and a fade out at the end. We plan on using this workflow to eventually do a podcast.
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
At Oak Pointe Church we capture the service two different ways at the same time. We have a multi-cam set up and use ProPresenter for all are graphic, lower third and video content playback. The program-out goes through a D.A. with on feed going to a mini dv recorder. The recorder also has firewire out. I take this f.w. output and run it to a second i-Mac with Final Cut running on it. I capture in real time the entire service in Final Cut. The mini dv deck only records the message from our Pastor.
After the second service is done on Sunday’s I immediately begin editing the podcast witch consists only of the message. This works great. No recapturing of video necessary.
Once the podcast is edited I export using Quick time conversion and export the audio only as a Wave file. This makes up the audio version podcast. I then do the same in H.264 for the video version.
The entire service video is then burned to DVD archival purposes. We then off all the video to external hard drive for use later as needed for video production.
Easy and efficient.