r/churchtech

We use the Tenveo PTZ for our services, Live streaming to YouTube from Zoom. The camera keeps dropping, I.e. the picture no longer appears on Zoom.

Does anyone have any ideas on what might cause this?

Hi I could use some ideas. I have a very small church that just uses an iPad to stream to Facebook. The video and audio is not great. I’d like to surprise them and upgrade some stuff but I need to do it cheaply.

I’m thinking an actual camera (instead of iPad camera), a couple mics to pick up and go into a small soundboard dedicated to online only then fed into the regular sound board. Then a cheap laptop to run OBS so they can stream to FB and YouTube. Of course I’ll need a video capture card as well for the camera.

Any other ideas? Suggestions?

What is everyone using for their web presence/website needs? We are coming up on the end of a contract with our current service, and hope to get some ideas for other options. We essentially just need a website (eGiving, communications, calendars) are handled separately. We are a small-ish church and our website gets traffic but it is not as visited as often as our social media pages.

Hello, we recently upgraded our webcam for livestreaming services, but the wires we used to connect it to the computer are for the old one, so they're all USB 2.0, which isn't strong enough for the new camera. I was wondering if I should just order a long 3.0 extension USB cable, or if there's something I'm just overlooking. The camera is attached to a pillar about 50 ft away, so I'd need a very long cord, with the new camera we're hoping to get 1080 at 60fps.

Thanks