The link between ministry and technology is not immediately obvious. In fact, it can be easy to question whether technology has any place in the church at all.
Still, as ministries around the country continue to incorporate various modes of technology into their day-to-day operations, it becomes paramount to examine God’s Word on the subject.
Below are four Bible verses that encourage techology in ministry.
This post talks about how you can send your live stream to multiple destinations like Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Periscope (Twitter), your website, AppleTV, Roku, and many other platforms at once. At BoxCast, we call this 'Simulcasting'. It's part of our series on BoxCast Tech.
'Simulcasting' is the name for live streaming to multiple destinations (your website, Facebook Live, AppleTV, etc.) at once.
If you're live streaming the same video content to your website and to YouTube at the same time, we would say 'your live stream is being simulcast to your website and YouTube' or 'you are simulcasting your broadcast to two destinations.'
It's just a term to help define that form of multi-destination digital broadcasting in a world where there are many places on the internet to send your live stream.
With that definition out of the way, let's dive into the value of simulcasting.
This post talks about HEVC compression and the implications of the new technology for the video streaming industry. It's part of our series on video encoders.
It wasn’t long ago that the discussion of 4K capture and delivery seemed like an elusive hypothetical. Debates abounded regarding the need for 4K versus its high cost and potentially slow rate of consumer adoption.
Five years ago, you’d have to take out a second mortgage to get your hands on a 4K camera. Today, your iPhone is a 4K camera. The change has been dramatic. 4K is no longer a topic of debate; the industry has clearly arrived.
Customer: USA Deaf Basketball Federation
What they Stream: 10-day basketball tournament
Live Streaming Goals: Broadcasting the world championships to fans around the world
The Setup: Canon VIXIA HF G40 into the BoxCaster with scoreboard overlays via the BoxCast Wireless Scoreboard Adapter
Destination: Website
We had the opportunity to go onsite to visit with Stephen DaSilva and the USADBF Organizing Committee. We learned about how they used BoxCast to stream the U21 Deaf World Basketball Championships to their fans around the world.
This post looks at how The Cleveland International Film Festival increased their viewership through the power of BoxCast's simulcasting feature. It's part of our series on BoxCast Case Studies.
The Cleveland International Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is the largest film festival in the state. Every year, the film festival presents hundreds of feature films, and attracts over 100,000 visitors to the city.
This post covers how to earn revenue from a live stream using the ticketing feature from BoxCast. It's part of our series on BoxCast Features.
Live streaming can be a great way for your organization to earn additional revenue. There are a variety of options for monetizing your streams. At BoxCast, there are two main ways our organizations make money from their broadcasts.
1. Setting ticket prices to watch an event
2. Displaying ads and sponsor overlays
In this post, we're going to talk about the first method: ticketing viewers.
At BoxCast, we believe that your live streamed events should be as similar as possible to your in-person events. If you sell tickets to watch your in-person event, you should be able to sell tickets to the live streamed event as well. BoxCast makes it possible and easy.
This post discusses the reasons that your city council meetings might be lacking in attendance. It also addresses some possible solutions. It's part of our series on local government live streaming.
Whether you're a council member, public information officer, or engaged citizen, you may have noticed a decline in the number of seats filled at your weekly public meetings.
Your local government isn’t alone in this struggle – low attendance is a regular concern of municipalities across the country.
As a part of my job, I’ve attended council meetings in various cities and have witnessed the problem firsthand. I’ve even shown up only to realize that I was the only non-government employee in attendance.
However, I’ve also had the opportunity to talk to residents. Time and time again, they’ve made it clear that they care about what’s going on in the community, but just can’t make it to council meetings in person.
This is what they’ve had to say about why that is....
This post talks about the various ways you can add scoreboard overlays to your live stream on your website, Facebook Live, YouTube Live, or Periscope. It's part of our series on sports live streaming.
Arguably the most important part of recreating the in-person experience of a game is letting your viewers see the score. If viewers don't know who is winning or losing the game will be tough to follow, especially if they tune into a broadcast in the middle.
For that reason, it's important for sports broadcasters to find a way to add a scoreboard to their live streams. Here's a few ways to do it.
This post covers the best video switchers for starting to live stream with multiple camera angles. It's part of our series on live streaming equipment.
When it's time to level up your live stream from one camera to more than one camera, your production setup adds an additional piece of equipment: a video switcher.
A video switcher allows you to bring in multiple feeds (camera, audio, presentation slides, etc) and choose which feed to send live at any given moment.
Customer: Redeemer Church- Madison, GA
What they Stream: Church services
The Setup: 3 Cameras and ProPresenter into a video switcher into the BoxCaster
Destinations: Their Website and YouTube Live
We recently had the opportunity to speak with the team at Redeemer Church in Madison, Georgia about how they use BoxCast to live stream their worship services.