On today’s Tech, No Babel: WireCast for Church Streaming What if you wanted a software encoder, a software switcher, a video processor, screencast software, and a video recorder? Wirecast by Telestream might be your solution. It’s not free, but it might just be worth it for your church. Listen to…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches: I don’t trust Twitter, FaceBook, or Google; What can the church learn from that? Let’s look at mistakes each of these companies have made to erode trust and think of strategies to do better. Subscribe for free: Subscribe for free in iTunes. Subscribe for…
On today’s Tech, No Babel: Turning a DSLR into a Live Cam. What if you need another camera, but don’t have the money to do so? With a few changes, you can take a DSLR and use it live. There are limitations, but we’ll talk about what I’ve done in…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches: Live-Tweeting the Sermon. There are a lot of reasons people give for why you shouldn’t live-tweet the sermon. Most of those are personal, not technological. Let’s look at why it’s helpful and who should and shouldn’t do it. Paul Subscribe for free: Subscribe for…
On today’s Tech, No Babel: The Rule of Thirds vs. Nose Room. When you’re composing a shot, and you have the subject in either the left or right third, but their nose is close to the edge of the frame, is that okay? If not, how do you fix it?…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches, Be Imitators of God; Be Everywhere: Ephesians 5:1 says, “Be imitators of God…” and I often joke that I don’t have omnipresence down yet. The fun thing about living in the 21st century is that you can make it look like you’re everywhere using…
On today’s Tech, No Babel, Headroom vs. The Rule of Thirds. When you’re composing a shot, when you see “too much room” above the subject’s head, but their eyes are on top third line, what do you do? Subscribe for free: RSS feed iTunes one-click subscription For more questions, comments,…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches, Google keywords for your sermon. If you want to connect with people, using common language is important and the Google keyword tool gives you the ability to see how many people are searching for a term and some synonms are more common than others….
On today’s Tech, No Babel: Using Music for Your Videos. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on this podcast, so this isn’t legal advice, but I understand that every audio work has inherent rights granted at creation to the creator. These are sync, mechanical, performance, master recording,…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches, church website mistakes. Just having a website isn’t enough. There are some mistakes that keep your church from being as effective as it could be online like not owning your own domain, hosting on a free, ad-supported site, having bad design, not updating calendar…