Building a Better Church Livestream with OBS
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Many churches are continuing to look for ways to improve the production value of their new live-streamed services amid the worldwide quarantine. OBS, a free video streaming program, has the tools necessary to produce a professional look and feel. Today, let's talk about how to get the most out of the program and help you build a better church livestream.
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OBS Virtualcam is only for Windows; Mac solution?
You're correct - we hadn't noticed that!
There does seem to be a bit of a workaround using an app called "Cam Twist." Here's a link to a tutorial that shows you how to set it up: www.rightpoint.com/thought/2017/12/19/improving-your-video-meetings-on-skype-with-green-screens
Search for NDI virtual input
You can use a second monitor and record that screen with the slide show on it.
Yes this is dependent on supply/demand; but I got around the lack of VirtualCam on the MacOS with hardware:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FXHN43Y/
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BVP5CLM/
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Blackbar - the MVP! Been streaming for the last couple of weeks and it has been going so, so well, thanks to your many tips and tricks!
I just completed the second week of live streams at my church, your videos put me on to OBS and I’m still working on opportunities to improve the quality. I appreciate the content.
You put out the clearest, most concise explanations on CZcams, Caleb. So easy to implement following your instructions. Thanks!
Thank you for taking your time and giving us those advices, appreciate!
Great Video!
Very helpful!
We’ve been streaming for about 9 months now so I’m still pretty ‘Green’ as far as my knowledge of OBS goes.
You have given me Several new ideas on how to improve our services.
Your information is clear and concise (For the most part). This is a Really Big Deal to those of us who are still getting our feet wet!
Can’t thank you enough for your help!!!
I agree with your last statement regarding a change in how we engage digitally. Our church is tiny and only this last year started to put our videos on CZcams. Streaming was still way in the future for us. This pandemic situation changed all that. We started streaming six weeks ago to FB via a cell phone and when my ATEM mini pro arrived we started streaming live to CZcams. We are now two sessions into it. It is like drinking from a fire hose learning to stream on the fly. What we have noticed is our attendance has actually increased. We are still learning and your channel is very inspiring and helpful.
Shoutout from Bulgaria. Thanks for the super helpful content. God bless!
Thank you, Caleb! Amazing content, as always.
You deserve more subscribers bro. Thanks so much for this!
Thanks for posting content about live streaming in an emergency. Our church is trying to get this together to live stream Easter. Much appreciated!
You covered alot of helpful info in the least time possible. Thank you.
Dude!!!!!! Thanks so much for this! The OBS for iOS was the answer to my prayer literally. On a self-promoting note, I was doing most of what you showed with scenes and cameras. I did my lyrics a bit differently. Using Proclaim -you start Proclaim and Go OnAir. Now the lyrics are a window source you can capture. Sometimes I show lyrics full screen and other times I show lyrics underneath a smaller camera space so I have multiple scenes that you can double click to show. Anyway so awesome! Thank you. (if anyone else reads this the Proclaim method only works on PC without some manupulating) Mac requires some extra steps which I don't need since I have PC's in the "studio".
Great video!
I have two ideas that might help some people:
1) For lyrics overlays, I setup my lyrics in my presentation software, and set the background to solid green. I then window capture the live output (add source, window capture). I then add the Chroma Key filter on that source (right click the source, filters, + sign, Chroma key). This allows me to run my presentation software exactly how I usually would, or via hotkeys or something, and overlay it on my stream. Much easier than recreating slides all over again! If needed, one could even just use it to capture those individual slides in order to do your suggested method.
2) Audio sync, I usually just record the clap, pull it into my video editing software and count the frames between the visual and audio clap. From there it is some simple maths to figure out how many ms delay to put. Also, there is a video sync filter, called 'async' for in case anyone might need that. Add it the same as you add the Color Correction filter. Not highly recommended for multicam setups, as it can cause jitters when transitioning between scenes in my experience.
Good luck everyone! We're all in this together!
Yes i recommend the window capture of powerpoint because you can skip or go back in case there is a mistake in lyrics sequence. Make sure to hide the window capture if you need to skip or do something with your powerpoint
Brother I must say you are a blessing thanks some 💯
I wish I saw your videos 2 weeks ago! It has been definitely jumping in the deep end with OBS.
Thanks for the tip on the desync problem. Just what we needed.
Thanks brother for the superb explanation.
From Lagos nigeria.you are the real one bro.thanks
I love and appreciate your videos. God bless you.
I absolutely love your last statement. Many of my brothers and sisters support my Media Ministy team, but when we ask for upgrades it's often disregarded as an inessential need. My husband and I personally paid for all of our tech upgrades in 2019, just because I already knew what I wanted wasn't in the budget. Anyway, since this has happened God have moved us to the forefront and the membership is extremely grateful and supportive. Many of our seniors have learned Zoom and CZcams and now appreciate what our team brings to the Body of Christ.
"My husband and I personally paid for all of our tech upgrades in 2019, just because I already knew what I wanted wasn't in the budget." Agreed... Church A/V budget = my tithe says the audio/visual guy of a small church..... just learning livestream. First try last week was a fail. Next time,.. maybe better.
@@skootles1 keep working at it. Our first official week was also a fail and I preached that Sunday.I look like a robot that has freezing issues, while the sound kept going immaculately. Lol We always had someone stream with their personal cell phone but it was much different when we installed the equipment suggested on this channel. I can say now that we're moving like a fine tuned machine!
You get right to the points, and convey them well, thank you!!!!
Amazing video dude. so helpful
This is a great tutorial, thanks for share, blessings!
wow, great job of explaining OBS, I also learn from this video.
Merci beaucoup, vos conseils sont extraordinaire clair , merci encore. Je vous suis depuis Paris
Brilliant !
Thank you for this, it was insightful and helpful.
Thank you...this was a great help!
Thank you for sharing, God bless you more!
Thank you so much. Your info are very useful.
Great tips! Thanks.
Thank you so much Bro! This is so much helpful
Thank you for great content!
Great content, big help! Thank you
Muchas gracias por su trabajo. Muito brigado por su trabalho. Ty for your work.
Great video. Thank you so much!
Awesome video. Thank you!!!!
Thank you and God bless
nice, work. Thanks for the video.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Cool Stuff. Thank you very much. God bless you. Greetings from Germany
A big thank you.
Thank you, brother, for this….
thanks very helpful, God bless
This is so good. You trimmed all the fat and just tell us what is needed. Good, good work.
Very helpful video
Awesome! A few little gems that I can now use!
Thank you 🙏
Loved the video, Ed
Thanks so much
Thank you
Great info and presentation.
wow thank you so much for this tips.i am helping my pastor to get his sermon on line via fb live. i want to have a good video and audio quality using just his i phone and a rode micro. you help me a lot. keep on giving us tips. God bless you.
Bro as a new media director this really got me excited and hopeful! Makes me feel smarter than I am bringing this to the table 😂👏🏻👏🏻 keep it up dude!
Ditto.
Same! Haha
Super presentation👍👍👍 ,
informative ☺️☺️☺️
Thank you so much!
Thanks
very nice video man
I just came across your page today. I like the way you do explain the steps. Quick question the way you did the repeat with the lyrics can it be done with images on going back and forth with it? Thanks and I'm now a subs and I did hit that like button.
Thank you!
Good stuff!
thanks for the explanation. I must get a mini recording with the thunderbolt output. I have an input on the Mac book, so I guess I'll need to get a extra cabel to connect with thee mac book. greetings from the Netherlands
Thank you.
Thanks! Jesus bless you
Very nice tutorial I've been using obs for few months and I got a lot out of it.
Really good stuff.
Thank you so much for every tip! Lots of questions answered ... castr is another multi streaming service and only costs $9.99 / month for streaming to 2 different places like Facebook and CZcams at same time
Try using OBS multi stream plugin, you can save money and stream to multiple platforms at the same time.
Good Tip
Awesome tips! For the hymn lower thirds you could try using OBS with OpenLP.
We have a 2 PC setup at church. 1 PC running CCLI's WorshipExtreme (you can use Media Shout, ProPresenter, or whatever other dual-display capable program you want), passing HDMI out into an AverMedia Live Gamer Mini that then connects via USB into our 2nd PC running OBS. We then have a separate camera (Panasonic HC-V770) running into an Elgato Cam Link into the 2nd PC as well. We add both as video capture inputs into OBS, and then have 2 scenes: 1 with just the stream from the 1st PC, and another with the stream from the camera. In that 2nd scene, I add in the input from the 1st PC in a smaller box in the lower-right hand section of the window, so that way it appears similar to a PiP setup. Still working some of the kinks out...for some reason the video periodically locks up from the Elgato Cam Link, so I have to re-choose the device from the Properties window in OBS for that input to get it working again.
Also, there is an app called EpocCam that lets you use your smartphone as a web cam. This would let you set the iPhone feed as a source in a scene as a primary or secondary camera. And EpocCam works over wifi or usb.
I myself built the live stream for my church using obs studio, 2 elgato capture devices and 2 inexpensive cameras connected to our sound board.
Great 👍
This is my new favorite channel. I am totally your target audience right now. We are trying our first live stream tonight for our Good Friday Service. Thank you so much for the great information. God bless.
Thank you!!!!! God bless you for this video. I've been using OBS for a few months, I knew about the plug in and using my phone as a device at home. Long story short I brought my church camera home and forgot it needed the capturer (new to the live stream lingo vocab). Made it work, but you give awesome tips and tricks I hadn't played around with. I've been using my computer mic for the past few months because the mic I had wouldn't sink, finally got it to work lol
Do you have any videos on the switchers in your channel? And with the switcher would I HAVE to bring the video capturer to use my camera as another scene? Thanks in advance!
GOD BLESS!!!!
I've seen people use Elgato Stream Decks as switchers before as well.
Hi. Thanks for this straight forward video. Please what the corresponding solution for android phone as regard to "Camera for OBS"
FWIW, Proclaim plays nicely with OBS and helps for lyrics overlays, super polished onscreen Scripture passages with animations.
Proclaim is the program that I can incorporate into OBS? Where do I get it? How much?
You can still use ProPresenter with your slides going to OBS, you can use SyphonClient inside OBS. and on Propresenter Enable Syphon. I hope this will help. God bless
Instead of a physical stream deck you can use an app called Touch Portal. The basic one is free but for 12 bucks you can make unlimited pages with unlimited buttons. I’m using it with OBS and it’s amazing
To project Bible verses or hymns on a screen, or via OBS, I use VideoPsalm. It's free, and it comes with a multitude of Bible versions, in addition to several songbooks. Easy to use, and can be projected as a source or scene in OBS.
A quick tip for anyone with audio video sync issues. Your brain is much better at dealing with audio that is later than video than video that is after the audio. So if you are having trouble dialing it in error on the side of the video being ahead.
For anyone wondering why this is it has to do with the speed of light being much greater than sound thus in our daily lives we are used to having light reach our eyes followed by the sound that matches that light.
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Excellent video! I have a question, do you prefer to use OBS for chroma key, or the Atem Mini for such effect? And why?
Another great video!! Wanted to share an idea I came up with, using PowerPoint to create your over overlay images. Yes you are correct that PowerPoint can not create transparent images, but what you can do is set the background to the standard green screen color (#00b140) and then use a chromakey filter it out. Most everyone has PowerPoint, not everyone knows how to create transport images. Also, changing your images is easy when the filter is in place. Hope it helps.
So I want to show the entire image while the message is going forth so I can create a slideshow in OBS and just drop my jpeg images in?
Alvino Dickson could you do it by show and hiding a layer above message?
I'll try it thanks
I did it a clunky way. I made slides but then screen captured cropping to only see the lyrics.
@@HangingwithJesus
You can use the PPT NDI plugin for OBS, it will remove any background image from PPT and you can add it as a NDI Source in OBS.
Thank you so much for this and your other content. I am certain there are many folks who benefit and do not comment or subscribe, so very well done!!!
I'm in a similar or same situation as Micah - My Pastors would like to just focus on their message and the service, not all the slides, videos, songs... Can I essentially run the "production" for my location and simply have the contributors as individual video sources from their locations? An would their be a way to share screens with them so they know what's coming next? I am not not short of computing power or internet speed, but they may be.
Propresenter works pretty well with syphon to work with OBS by the by.....for those of us who are used to propresenter.
There is actually a way to get ProPresenter slides directly into OBS using NDI without having to create individual slides for every line. You can even do this in a live scenario where are your normal slides show to the congregation and then you send a separate lower Thirds with transparent background to your streaming computer via NDI.
There are some tutorial videos on how to do this.
Great video tips, please tell me how to put pastor name while preaching after song lyrics
loved the tips, especially the iOS OBS camera!! great back-up plan for church if capture device goes wierd, or for other angles. could you compare Restream IO to others like Castr, or sermon.net like our church uses now? thanks... in this all together!
Kerry Anderson We just signed up for Restream and love it so far.
Hey Caleb, a big THANK YOU from South Africa!!! This video is absolutely excellent. Just did our first church livestream from home. Big help. God bless u bro.
Great video would obs allow me to use my rode wireless go connected to my iPhone?
Can you use an iPad with the Camera for OBS app? If so, how do you set that up or do you have a link of a video on how to do this?
How would you connect your audio mixer for the band and get that to the OBS stream
@Blackbar I have a question and a suggestion.
Q: how can you setup obs to stream if you only have 3Mbps dsl over wifi?
Suggestion: VideoPsalm can show the verses /songs with your camera footage in the background instead of slides. (Just an option I've gotten working but can't stream yet but can record with OBS )
If I don’t have an audio equipment, can I use the iPhone’s audio as well?
Honestly we found it was easier to just run slides through our normal software onto the projector and capture that monitor in OBS. Also that way when these lockdowns are lifted we can run our in service slides and continue livestreaming at the same time.
Very good overview. Thank you! Can you use that app for OBS in Windows with a Canon mirrorless camera?
Yes, but you’ll need a capture device like an ATEM mini or for single camera search for HDMI video capture card on amazon - they run for about $40 and your DSLR will be recognized as a webcam.
Wondering what your opinion is of streamlabs vs generic obs?