

And that’s when we decided to make an effort to compose such a list and dedicate our self to keep it updated. However, we couldn’t find a single post that offered an up-to-date listing of all the available Church Presentation Software products. Today, in 2021, the space has gotten a bit more crowded, with more products and offers, and the amount of web sites blogging about the Church Presentation Software space has grown significantly. It was obvious that there was a big crowd actively searching for options on how to handle the AV and multimedia content at their sermons and church services, and not many sites offering a listing of the available free alternatives.

The comment section, which is still active today, was quickly filled with literal praise, questions and recommendations by our readers. That blog post, to our surprise, immediately got a lot of attention and shares on social media. There are lots of options in this setup you will need to master, but it does produce a robust method of Live Streaming a service to a online audience.More than four years ago we wrote a short post about the free and open source alternatives to the professional, and somewhat costly, church presentation software products that were available back then. Once OBS Live Stream is configured and working, EasyWorship is used to control the service, what appears on Easyworship appears on the live stream screen. OBS controls the Live Stream and sends the output to YOUTUBE, via the Internet connection, for public viewing. The video output from EasyWorship (sent to projectors etc.) is also captured by the OBS Studio software (running on the same laptop – or separate laptop if required). The EasyWorship program on the laptop, allows the Camera picture and sound to be merged with EasyWorship Service slides that form the service displayed to the congregation. This helps reduce latency between Video and Sound on the Live Stream. Sound and video is fed diectly to the Laptop via the HDMI (camera output) to USB (computer input) adapter (dongel). The Webcam supports XLR wired connections direct from the Sound Mixer or from a Micrphone (Wired or Radio) to the camera. The Church normal sound system, as used by the worship musicians and lecturn microphones, was used to link the sound to the Live Stream service via a standard XLR to XLR audio cable. YOUTUBE CHANNEL (Live Streaming needs setting up for each stream).At least 2mbytes of Internet access is required from the Laptop.Soundcraft UI24R Rack mounted sound mixing deck USB or XLR out.Camlink ELGATO 20gam9901 HDMI to USB Dongel (video and sound).All Saints Liverpool are learning how to share our Sunday services Live online.
