EP011: Steve Kaminsky & Church Broadcasting 101

Hey, you're listening to the Church Digital Podcast.

My name is Jeff Reed, and it is a pleasure to have you guys join us today.

We are on episode 11.

We just came off a couple great episodes with Eric Geiger talking a lot about how to communicate

to your leadership about church online and talking about OmniChurch.

So if you didn't catch those, check those out in episodes 9 and 10.

But we're going to shift gears a little bit today here with some new podcasts for the

next couple episodes.

I've got a guest host with me, going to call him a co-host for a couple weeks, Stephen

Kaminsky, and he and I go way, way, way, way back.

So hey, Steve, man, why don't you just take a moment here and tell everybody a little bit

about yourself?

Yeah, so I grew up in the church, got engaged in church tech for a long time, so much so

that led me into the life of being a roadie for a few years.

I got to tour around the country with a bunch of different acts, do big shows, have fun with

it.

But ultimately, we did all that to learn how to come back and do what we're talking about

today, which is help the church reach people with the gospel.

So after my roadie wandering days, I came back and been part of a couple large churches.

And as Jeff said, now I'm part of the portable church team, helping churches go multi-site

and really thrive and reach their cities and sometimes even states.

It was a pretty cool gig.

Yeah, so Steve and I have worked together.

We worked together at Austin Ridge Bible Church in Austin, Texas, which is a phenomenal church

and they're doing some really neat things out there.

But way back in the day, I think I have this vague memory of actually babysitting Steve Kaminsky

and his sister once in their lifetime.

And I'm not that much older, which made it weird.

And I don't have a lot of like babysitting clientele history, but for some reason that

did happen.

And I've never really understood how or why, but together, Steve and I are ingrained that

way.

In a minute, we want to get into and actually want to start talking about specific product

that does a lot of this broadcasting.

But before we get there, I want to unpack this one idea.

What are some practices?

What are some good traits that we, small church, considering broadcasting, from a technical

perspective, what should we be doing really before we even start to look at introducing

the camera and the broadcast kind of piece, the encoders, all of that in?

What do we need to nail?

Yeah, I think the first thing you want to nail is audio.

Video, a static shot, all those things are a little bit more easily forgiven.

But man, bad audio is not good.

Think about all the Super Bowls that you've watched where the halftime show audio has just

been all music or all voices and you just kind of sat there and just, man, this is a bummer.

It's not like the guy's got one job, but anyway, that aside, I'm not saying, I'm just saying

it's great.

And I'm not criticizing because that job, I wouldn't want that job.

It's brutal.

But on the flip side of that, we want to make sure that we can get out.

So best practice, record what you think you're going to send to the camera.

And after church, pop that USB stick into your radio, load that MP3 file on your phone,

listen to it on the way home, and analyze that thing.

And try and figure out the best way to get that so you're comfortable listening to it wherever

you're going.

It's not going to be perfect.

It's a live environment.

So don't strive for this CD quality perfection.

Sorry, I said CD.

MP3, produce quality perfection.

Don't worry about that right now.

Worry about getting it to where you can listen to it on the way home as the person who's overseeing

that department.

So make sure you can get a good audio quality from there.

And then start thinking about camera placement.

Where are we going to get this?

What do we want our environment to feel like?

But if that audio is wrong, man, that's going to be rough.

Yeah.

So good.

I can tell you just there's forgiveness in a lot of things, but a bad mix is going to

turn off in a big way.

And so you definitely want to be venue first, but listen to that mix because there's a way

to kind of balance it out where it wins for the room and it also wins online.

And so, hey, Steve, man, that's some great feedback there.

Another idea would be like the positioning of the camera, right?

Like, you know, what does that kind of, what does that look like?

So you, ideally you want to have your camera lens at center of your camera lens at or just

below eye level.

Sometimes you'll see where a camera is set up in a balcony and, you know, during the

message, you're looking down on the top of the head of the pastor and it's just, it's

not flattering.

So as much as you can is get that camera centered on your stage, especially if you're talking

to one camera and get it set up.

So you're right kind of in that eye level.

And it's going to give you the best perspective of if you're in the audience, sitting in the

seats, looking up, it's what's happening on stage.

And one thing on that is make sure that the audience that you see on that lockdown shot,

that there are actually people in the audience.

Nothing kills a live broadcast worse than seeing like 25 to 40 empty chairs.

Consciously, that's going to speak a lot to your first time attender, the person that doesn't

know a lot about your church when they're watching the broadcast, if they're seeing nothing but

empty chairs in front of them.

And so, you know, maybe it's tightening up on the camera.

Maybe it's asking guest services to be a little more intentional or the ushers to be a little

more intentional, seating people up towards the front, but be conscious of kind of that

environment of what things look like on the video stream within that video frame itself.

That's so good.

Third option, third thing we had talked about was lighting as even as possible.

And I know that that's hard in some contexts, but like what should a church be looking at

here?

Yeah, so what you want to avoid is what I like to call hotspots.

So your camera has the ability to set up essentially one light level.

And we can get into technical terms like auto iris and all that kind of jazz.

What's most important is when you set that camera up and you point at the stage, you want to

avoid having one person be brighter than everybody else.

Because what you're going to do is you're going to see this one person that's going to stand

out and everybody else is going to look like they're in the dark.

So now if that's what you're going for, great.

But if you want to kind of be able to see everybody evenly, try and get that lighting as even as

possible across all the folks on stage.

And then try to make sure it's not so bright that everything else is in shadow.

So if all your folks are really bright, but then everything else is pitch black, again, you're

making it look like they're in a black box.

So you want to play with that life and try and get an even look and feel.

Good stuff.

Good stuff.

By the way, and just throwing this out there, like we're talking a lot about broadcasting

and things like this.

A lot of these products that we're talking about added to the, and we're going to get

into the little IT side here, which is my kryptonite, transparently, I confess.

But like, should we be doing this a separate internet kind of bandwidth for this?

Is this over normal network?

Am I having to do fiber for this?

Like from an IT perspective, for the average option that the type of thing that we're going

to talk about today, how should we be considering this from an IT perspective?

Man, you know, a lot of these types of streams are fairly low bandwidth.

So unless your internet service is like five megs up, five megs down, which I'd be a little

bit concerned about, you are probably going to have more than enough bandwidth than you

know what to do with in order to stream.

Now, I do suggest as much as possible trying to get a hard line to whatever is streaming

out.

It's just best practice.

Sometimes it's not possible, but in best practice language, that's going to be great

to do.

But aside from that, if you've got like your standard 15 up, 15 down, you should be good

to go.

Awesome.

Well, I tell you what, and the other thing that obviously we need to care about, and we're

going to be talking a lot about production in this aspect, but have that discipleship plan

in place because as you connect with people, as you're connecting with the front door person,

the person that's coming in to check out your service from the first time, you're inviting

them to the campus.

As you're connecting with that side door person, the person who is already engaged with your

physical church, just traveling and what have you there, like they're already in that.

But there are people who will be watching this stream who are not connected to your church

or any church otherwise, and they're looking to your church for spiritual guidance.

So church pastor, church leader out there listening, be working on the discipleship strategy part

of this too, as we're preparing our church and trying to do church holistically in context,

not just the service, but the ministry aspect in context of online.

So start asking those questions, start wrestling with those things.

Don't just prepare your service flow.

Don't just prepare your technical, but prepare your ministries for what it looks like to do

ministry online.

What I wanted to do here is let's drill into maybe, like I said, we wrote down six different

products out there.

And so just maybe an overview of what they are, we'll detail down at the end, some pros and

cons to consider.

And we're going to list, if you're like driving and you're like, dude, this is a bunch of

information.

What am I supposed to do with this?

It's going to be in the show notes.

And so you can check it out in the show notes or go to the church.digital.

And we've got it written on there as a blog.

But definitely check out some of this information and the links that we'll have in place.

Because in the end, with this episode, we want to help the churches out there that are

considering doing a broadcast or maybe just taking those first steps in the broadcasting

services.

We want to help you guys take those first steps.

So I don't know if I'm going to go through any order here, Steve.

Here's what we're going to do.

We're just going to fake it.

The first one that we had talked about was Mevo.

And so there's a Mevo camera that's out there.

By the way, all of these, and I didn't say this before we get into Mevo.

All of these are entry level.

And so some of them require an additional camera.

Some of them don't.

But they're all probably in that sub $2,000, $3,000 range with the cameras.

And even some of them are much lower than that.

But they're all positioned in a way to get you a product at an entry level that you can

be proud of at an entry level.

So, all right.

So for the first one we want to talk about, Steve, let's talk about the Mevo.

What do you know about the Mevo?

You know, we actually use the Mevo a lot at Austin Ridge.

I think it is one of the coolest app-enabled products out there.

It's essentially a 4K camera that you can set on a stand and you hook it up to your iPhone.

And then this iPhone allows, or the iPhone or your local internet connection allows you

to stream it live to Facebook, YouTube, Periscope, Twitter.

They have a Vimeo live stream as part of it.

So, it is enabled to do a ton of stuff.

But what's really cool about it is it's a 4K camera.

So, you can actually punch in and set it up so you can have, you know, essentially fake

multi-camera shots.

It's a beautiful part of shooting 4K because you're streaming 720.

Well, now you have a huge palette to be able to use.

Plus, you can see comments and likes on the interface on your phone.

It is, and the great part is it's under $1,000 for even for the pro package.

And you can do a plus, you can capture straight to the Mevo if you're not capturing to one

of your other services.

I too, I love the Mevo.

I bought one or we used one a lot at Christ Fellowship when I was there.

And so, like, we would use it to record or broadcast some of the smaller venue stuff.

Like, they had a, you know, a 200-person all-staff.

And so, we would use it to record and broadcast that.

You know, set it up, like you said, a 4K so it's a wide shot of the stage.

And if I wanted to, you know, drill in on a guitar solo, you know, press that shot and

it cuts real tight to the guitar solo.

Or if I wanted, like, to have it track the lead pastor when he speaks.

He's on roller skates, walking left and right.

Not literal roller skates here, figurative roller skates.

You know, going back and forth.

But it's able to track with him as he's walking.

Like, the Mevo, if you're looking for that wide shot and you want the ability for somebody

to kind of track with it, with it tight, it's one of my favorite products that are out there.

So, definitely consider that.

There's a second one.

Number two that we're talking about here is Sling Studio.

So, Steve, what do you know about Sling Studio?

So, this is one of the ones that I've only been able to play with just a little bit.

But we demoed it.

And it's a great way to be able to stream video back to a hub.

So, you've got a hub.

You've got a couple what they call camera links.

You can utilize an iPhone.

You can utilize a camera with an HDMI cable to all send video back to your hub.

And then you either have a computer or an iPad hooked up to that hub.

And you can mix all those signals together.

I've seen events at student ministries where they've had four people, five people with iPhones

all around the room getting shots.

And then they're mixed and streamed online.

It's actually, it was one of those things I wasn't going to share I was going to like.

But once I saw it work, I'm like, man, this is cool.

Now, I'm a huge fan of hardwire.

So, I love that you can hardwire one in and then have a couple other cameras strung about

the room.

At least you always have that hardwire.

But it, man, it's the same thing.

It streams to a bunch of different services.

It can fit in a backpack.

In fact, actually, they sell a backpack for it so you can transport it.

Say you're doing an outside baptism or remote service or anything.

You have the ability to take this thing with you and do that.

And again, this is one, like the Mevo, it essentially comes with a camera built in because you can

use your iPhone, your Android, anything that pretty much all of us already have and probably

10 other people in the congregation have too.

The thing that it does, you know, the Sling Studio and the Grand Steam is probably one of

the higher priced ones we have.

But it's because you need to provide the cameras.

However, you know, most of us have access to some sort of a DSLR or know someone within

our ministries that does.

And so, what really is a high point, maybe price-wise, because you need to get all the

glass and the cameras for it.

It's not really that if you can figure out how to, you know, utilize some of the resources

that maybe people within your ministry have to make it work.

But the one thing, and I don't know if you know specifics on this, Steve, this is the

one thing.

What, I mean, is it hitting Facebook Live?

Is it hitting YouTube, Periscope?

Does it hit all of those?

You know, that's a great question.

I know it does YouTube Live and Facebook.

I don't know that it's hitting Periscope yet with Twitter, but I'm pretty sure it's got

a number of different solutions that it hits.

Again, I don't know if it can do...

So, yeah, it does YouTube, Facebook Live.

It also can stream to a website.

So, it can do a RTMP push out to a website that you've got set up to receive that stream.

Awesome.

Well, very cool.

So, for more information on Sling Studio, check out the show notes that's listed there.

So, great product, very flexible in different use cases, you know, with no cameras, probably

a little more on the high price point with that.

Switcher Studio.

Now, and Steve, you've not...

I've had exposure with this one.

So, let me tell you a little bit about this.

I've actually got a friend of mine that's using this.

And so, I went over to his church to go check it out one Sunday.

And it was funny.

He's like, in the back with the production department, he's like, hey, let me borrow your

phone.

Hey, let me borrow your phone.

Hey, let me borrow your phone.

And I'm like, what are you doing?

And he's like, oh, I'm going to use all these phones for cameras.

And then he walked around the worship center and positioned these phones, basically all

became the live production cameras for the worship service.

So, he had like five or six different angles.

And he's got some like, you know, high school kid in the back of the room with an iPad.

And the guy's just cutting live producing this stuff when it's really just a...

All his phones, all his cameras are just phones.

And so, like, he always made sure to get the better phones.

Like, it was funny.

I have an iPhone XR and he saw it after the service.

And he's like, oh, I should have put your phone over here.

Because I guess he had like an iPhone six or five that he couldn't figure out.

Because, you know, the XR has got a better lens.

So, like, the quality is dictated by the camera that you got.

With Switcher Studio, it's actually very similar to Sling Studio,

where you can interact and you're cutting to these, like, on an iPad device from the multiple angles.

But instead of having to buy expensive DSLR cameras or borrowing some of those in place,

you know, you're able to crowdsource that and to really pull some of that from just iOS devices,

which is phenomenal.

So, you know, like, Steve, like, any thoughts on that?

What are some pros or cons?

You know, I think that there's a lot of pros on being able to do that.

I think Switcher Studio, like Sling Studio, has that ability to utilize existing lenses

that you already have that you can put around the room.

I just think there's no loss to that.

Imagine having a couple iPhones that are sitting on your stage in different places.

That you can use to create that.

So, money there is all in, you know, the software and the studio itself.

But because you're just using what everybody already has, which is iPhones.

So, it's a great investment.

And I also think from what I'm seeing here, there's probably some other ways you can use Switcher Studio

for video blogs and different things that you want to be able to use to connect with people throughout the week.

So, it's a great-looking solution.

Definitely.

And I think, like, I don't know that I've done the exact math on this.

And it depends upon how long you run it out.

Because I think Switcher Studio is a monthly as opposed to, like, the Mevo, which is a one-time.

But I'm pretty sure Switcher Studio may be the cheapest option.

At least it's the cheapest multi-camera option out there to get involved in.

So, like, if you're looking for a real entry-level device, an entry-level system to start the broadcast,

check out Switcher Studio.

And that's at switcherstudio.com.

More information, of course, will be in the show notes as we're getting into there.

But now we're going to move into maybe another suite here.

So, let's talk about the Epiphan Webcaster X2.

And I always hesitate whenever I say Epiphan.

It's E-P-I-P-H-A-N.

I don't have no idea.

Is it Epiphan?

Epiphan?

I've always said Epiphan.

Epiphan.

Okay.

I mean, like I said, I don't – it looks like Greek almost, or it's – anyway, whatever it is.

The Webcaster X2.

Google Webcaster X2, us listening audience out there, and you'll be great.

Hey, Steve, tell me about this device.

So, this is probably one of my favorites.

I'm a big fan of the Epiphan products.

And the Webcaster X2 is set up to be able to stream to Facebook, Live, YouTube, Twitch, Switchboard Cloud, a few others in there as well.

And it takes in HDMI, and it can also take in a separate audio signal.

It's really cool is you can actually buy one of those Shure USB audio interfaces and plug it directly into the X2 and just bring in audio from your console.

It'll also take audio in directly from your camera.

And then the other thing that I really dig about it is if you've got a touchscreen monitor, you plug that monitor directly into this X2, and all the interface is right there.

So, you don't need a mouse and keyboard and everything.

It's small.

It literally can fit in the palm of your hands.

It can do Wi-Fi.

It can do Ethernet.

And it's just really, really stable a solution that can broadcast where you need it to go.

Like I said, I'm a big fan of this box.

Now, I think one of the limitations of the X2 is that you have to pick a service to send to.

So, it's not something that's going to send two, four, five, six services.

You're picking one of those services.

So, there are some limitations to this box.

And if you want to go past those limitations, you're looking at one of their larger products.

And they've got the Epiphan Pearl Mini, the Pearl 2, all kinds of other stuff like this.

But if you are saying, you know what, we're not paying for the YouTube service or the Twitch service.

We just want to go to Facebook Live.

And that is where we're going to put our focus.

This is probably one of the better choices for y'all.

Yeah.

And so, I've got one of my clients is using the Webcaster X2 and loves it.

I've got another that's looking into it.

The thing that with the two churches that are, for me, that are utilizing this device,

they are putting the cameras at the far back of the worship center,

which is an extreme distance away from the stage.

And so, in order to really get that stage-wide shot they're looking for for the lockdown,

they needed a camera with a stronger telephoto zoom lens.

And so, it was kind of cheaper to buy the nicer camera

and then broadcast that out to the Epiphan, to the Webcaster X2,

rather than, you know, that's the limitation of the Mevo.

The Mevo that far away, like, it's, you would be drilling in,

but the wide shot's so wide, there's really not enough pixels

to really get the detail that you're looking for.

Whereas, because they're not doing a digital zoom,

the cameras that they've got have more of an optical zoom,

it looks much better when you're zooming in to get that stage-wide feel.

So, you are going to have to pay for the camera on this.

And if you need something that's got more of a zoom on that,

like, a single camera going through an Epiphan is great.

It's actually, like, it's an Android box, isn't it?

As I recall, like, the guts of it, Steve?

I think so.

Yeah, and so, like, it totally operates like an Android OS.

And when I was configuring it, like, I'm an iOS guy.

And I'm like, well, crap.

Now I got to, you know, learn how to deal with Android and stuff.

And to call on one thing, one of the, and I did see this recently,

they did figure out how to do multiple platforms, multiple channel stream.

Oh, did they?

Okay.

Yeah, but you don't, like, you don't stream direct to the channel.

You stream to a cloud service that they charge a monthly for.

And then that cloud service breaks it up and sends to the multiple.

So, it's kind of a, I'm not saying it's clunky, but it's not a polished part of it.

But if you were, like, gun to my head, I got to do YouTube and Facebook at the same time,

like, Epiphan can do it.

It just may not be as best as some of the other options that are out there.

So, that is definitely an option.

So, that was number four.

Number five is the Blackmagic Web Presenter.

Steve, what do you know about that one?

So, this is one of the newer ones.

It's come out in the past year.

It can do Facebook Live or YouTube and a few others in there as well.

I've not had a chance to play with this box, but it is, in a sense, very similar to the

X2 in the sense that you can hook up a remote camera.

You can set it in the back of the room so you have a little bit more flexibility, or you

can hook it up to a switcher if you have a video switcher and use that to stream.

So, it's got plenty of options there.

And then, it does have SDI in on the back, if I'm not mistaken.

So, that way, if your camera has a HD-SDI source, you have that availability, too, as well.

It works really well with the full suite of products.

So, again, it's another really solid box for you all to be able to stream into.

It can use a USB webcam as well.

And then, you can bring audio in from an external source.

Yeah, as we're going further down this list, and Blackmagic, I think, is one of the first

that can work kind of as an entry-level device.

But as your system grows and evolves, and as you add that switcher, as you add the more

of a physical switcher, not the iPad switcher, as you add more cameras, that Blackmagic web

presenter can grow with you for a season.

I've known people who are using the web presenter with just a one camera shoot, but I know that

there are organizations that are using it on, like, as a switcher output that are feeding

and are broadcasting for a multiple.

So, there's definitely room and stability to grow, you know, and transparently, and I'll

be this guy, sometimes Blackmagic, as a brand, gets a little sketchy in the context of lifetime

on gear, you know, sometimes what normally would last four or five years with Blackmagic

lasts two.

The thing I love about Blackmagic is it's often still cheap, so if you had to buy it

every two years, it's still cheaper than buying something else that won't last four or five.

So, you may just kind of, I tell people sometimes, it's like, you can buy that, just like, budget

for its replacement sooner than not.

But, I will say, if you're building out a system, and you've got some of those Terranex

adapters, and you're putting them on a rack shelf, this one fits right in that rack shelf

form factor.

If you're doing portable in any way, shape, or form, it's a very nice portable option.

So, you know, I'm one that can get down on Blackmagic sometimes, but this, I think, is a great

option to be considered.

And again, the price point on this product is going to be great.

So, even if it does break, you are not, everything breaks.

You're not out tens of thousands of dollars.

So, I would take a serious look at this box.

Awesome.

Last up, number six for us is Telestream's Wirecast software.

And there's several different flavors of this, but Steve, why don't you unpack a little bit

here about Wirecast?

So, Wirecast is probably was the first thing I used to stream online.

It is all software-based.

So, you have a computer, you load the software up, you get your camera input into it, and you

are good to go.

Wirecast will stream just about anywhere and everywhere you want to go.

So, you get an interface for your camera.

So, Blackmagic makes a bunch, a bunch of companies make interfaces for them.

You get that camera into your computer, and then you can stream that anywhere.

So, sources such as Facebook, websites, Vimeo.

If anything can stream to it, Wirecast can do it.

Wirecast has a bunch of different options, down from their most basic, which runs about

$250, which gives you one video input, all the way up to their Pro, which expands inputs.

You can use fancy, funky things like NDI video inputs.

They've kind of made this Wirecast to be a sky's the limit type of thing.

So, it is, it is, it's a great product, but it's, again, you are, want, you need an external

camera, or two, or three, depending on how you want to use the software.

And then you're going to need a video and or audio interface to get that video into your

computer.

So, it's a little bit more complex, but it's probably the most, robust is the wrong word,

but multi-use piece that we've talked about yet today.

Yeah.

So, I love Wirecast in many different ways.

One of my favorite features of Wirecast is the ability to add in content exclusive for online

separate than the broadcast.

And so, let me unpack a couple things here.

Maybe you want to create announcements for the online audience, where you've got people

who are not connecting to you, let me say it this way.

You've got people who are connecting to your church that aren't engaged with the physical

church.

And so, maybe the campus pastor announcements from the broadcast campus aren't, don't fit

the bill.

Don't connect with somebody watching from another city or state.

Or, you know, maybe you want to do a pre-service countdown that's more front door friendly, because

you've got a bunch of front door attenders who are checking out the service before they're

walking on campus.

Or maybe the teaching pastor's application, as he's ending the message and landing the

plane, the application is more for in the room, and it doesn't connect with the online

audience.

You want to do something with online.

And so, what Wirecast does is it allows you to insert content, even video content, photo

content, another camera content, layers of, you know, keys on top with text and other information

in real time.

And so, how, and that is a resource hog.

And so, as if you're running it on a Mac and a PC, it's just, okay, we're going to build

this machine up and up and up, but right of all of the ones that we listed here of the

five, they're all kind of, we're just going to broadcast whatever is happening in the worship

center.

Now that we're talking about Wirecast, Wirecast is the first one that really says, okay, I

can broadcast what's in here, but I also can broadcast some other things with that.

I've actually, I've got one of my clients that uses the Wirecast to delay the service, the

worship and the teaching.

So, they'll do the teaching live, they'll do the worship live, but they slow everything

down.

They time slip it like two to three minutes and insert their own content, their own

announcements, their own pre-service countdown video, all of this in utilizing Wirecast.

Now, they're, they, just for this one church, they were using, I mean, I forget what, they

were using a high-end Mac for it, one of the trash cans, one of the Mac Pro, you know,

trash can models that were out there.

And they were using so much of it that it actually like over blew what the trash can was capable

of with like processing and just, GPU is a big thing.

I don't want to get into the technical aspects of it, but what they ended up doing, they bought

into Wirecast gear where Wirecast actually sells hardware that's designed to do this.

And so, if you're one of those churches out there that's like, hey, I would love to do

custom content.

I've got some of this stuff.

I'm really interested in going down some of the stuff that I just talked about.

I love Wirecast software.

It's going to, and I love Macs.

It's going to, it's going to eat up your Mac.

Maybe consider looking at the Wirecast gear.

And if you contact me directly, I can get you connected with the right people towards that.

But like, there's plenty of options out there that can really make Wirecast gear be a powerful

thing.

So, have you, have you, so you used it, you said that was like one of the first things

that you did, right, Steve?

Yes.

So, we ran it on a Mac Pro Tower and then the coffee can as well.

We were looking at transitioning to a, one of the gears, I think the gear 210.

But right around that time, we were switching into some cloud-based solutions and some other

stuff.

So, we're, and as we talk about next week, you know, we, we, we've really recently landed

with the Living as One folks for a variety of reasons.

Yeah.

But, you know, we could talk about that next week when we're, we're hopping on the call

with them.

But it's a, it's honestly, it, that Telestream Wirecast gear, you know, get, get with Jeff.

That is, it's a really good solution.

You can get up to four HDMI or four HD-SDI.

I mean, it is, it's just one of those things that should leave you like amazed at what technology

can do these days, especially for the price.

And so, that's, that's probably the closest more to like a mid-level, upper level.

Yeah.

You know, the order we went through kind of the, the Mevo, the Switcher Studio, the Sling

Studio, the Epiphon, the Black Magic, like that's, maybe that's like elementary to middle

school type of thing where we're, we're, we're growing more and more complicated as, as we're

going, as we're growing down that list.

Next episode, we're going to dive into maybe the deep end of the pool, maybe get more into

high school, college, as we're going to bring in the Living as One guys.

And, and it's a, and it's a phenomenal product that they've got out there.

And with Living as One, also a lot of what we want to talk about next week is, is the advanced

broadcast, like how to do professional video, how to get your audio to sound good with that.

And so it's not maybe as much on the technical aspects of, of the encoding and the decoding,

but Hey, if you're a church out there, that's doing a broadcast and you're looking to take

those next steps on, on how to elevate your game, what do you do?

How do you do that?

And so Colin, Paul, and Steve's coming back for the next episode when we're really going

to start to unpack that.

And so that's going to be a great one.

And we definitely are excited about that.

So, Hey, Steve, thanks for joining this time and jumping on in this and man, we're looking

forward to having you again next time.

Hey, Steve, as before we wrap 20 seconds, anything to land the plane?

No, don't, don't let things stop you from getting things out.

We talk about the folks are already there.

We talk about the front door and being able to invite someone in and don't ignore that front

door option.

People don't come to the church for answers anymore.

They're looking to so many other things, but online can be a front door and it's an easy

way to say, Hey, I know you don't want to come to church with me.

Check us out online.

So guys, I implore you don't let things be a barrier because these options that we've talked

about today are really taking away any barrier that you might have putting your content online.

That's awesome.

The lobby of your church does not exist in physical space only.

The lobby of your church, the first impression, the parking lot of your church, it exists in

church online.

And so get it out there.

It exists in social media.

Get these resources, get these out there, get your services out there so people can, can

see it, can experience it, can get a feel for who you are, and then use your church online as to draw

them in, to pull them in to your physical campuses through your discipleship process.

So, hey, Steve, man, thanks for sharing, being part of this episode.

If people want to find you online, where can they find you?

You know, you can go to facebook.com backslash servant for life, all one word.

You can also head on over to the portablechurch.com website, and you can email me through there.

You can also hit me up at steve.kaminski at portablechurch.com.

Yeah.

By the way, you didn't talk a lot about Portable Church.

Phenomenal company, phenomenal organization.

Straight up, if a company, if a church I know is launching in a portable,

landscape, well, I did it.

One of my clients was, and the first person I texted was Stephen Kaminski.

So, reach out to Steve in those contexts, and he'll definitely get you connected

and going in the right direction.

But for Steve, my name's Jeff, and it's been a great episode.

Glad you've been here, and thanks for listening.

Bye.