How to create & upload videos for your church website! Simple steps, tips & advice from the pros! We help you get the right camera, get the right shot and provide a step-by-step guide to edit and upload your new church video directly to your website!
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1. Adding Video to Your Church
Website Stu Marks
Chicago Area Media Designer, specializing in
videos for business, church and non-profit.
For EZWebPlayer
2. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
3. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
4. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
5. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
6. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
7. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
8. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
9. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Suitable Video Camera
A Good Tripod
Good Isolating Headphones
Editing Software
Media Ready Computer
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
10. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Suitable Video Camera
A Good Tripod
Good Isolating Headphones
Editing Software
Media Ready Computer
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
11. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Suitable Video Camera
•Records digitally to tape, DVD or Card.
•Good zoom ratio so the camera doesn’t have to be too close to the
front of the room.
•An external audio port so the camera can receive input from the
existing sound system. XLR is best and most reliable.
A Good Tripod
Good Isolating Headphones
Editing Software
Media Ready Computer
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
12. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Suitable Video Camera
•Records digitally to tape, DVD or Card.
•Good zoom ratio so the camera doesn’t have to be too close to the
front of the room.
•An external audio port so the camera can receive input from the
existing sound system. XLR is best and most reliable.
A Good Tripod
•Heavier is better.
Good Isolating Headphones
Editing Software
Media Ready Computer
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
13. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Suitable Video Camera
•Records digitally to tape, DVD or Card.
•Good zoom ratio so the camera doesn’t have to be too close to the
front of the room.
•An external audio port so the camera can receive input from the
existing sound system. XLR is best and most reliable.
A Good Tripod
•Heavier is better.
Good Isolating Headphones
•Blocks outside noise from the wearer’s hearing.
•Seals around ear.
Editing Software
Media Ready Computer
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
14. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Suitable Video Camera
•Records digitally to tape, DVD or Card.
•Good zoom ratio so the camera doesn’t have to be too close to the
front of the room.
•An external audio port so the camera can receive input from the
existing sound system. XLR is best and most reliable.
A Good Tripod
•Heavier is better.
Good Isolating Headphones
•Blocks outside noise from the wearer’s hearing.
•Seals around ear.
Editing Software
•There is often free video editing software on new computers.
•Using a direct capture to the software can save money on recording
media by recording directly to the computer hard drive, but does not
offer a backup solution if the computer crashes during the recording.
Media Ready Computer
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
15. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Good Tripod
•Heavier is better.
Good Isolating Headphones
•Blocks outside noise from the wearer’s hearing.
•Seals around ear.
Editing Software
•There is often free video editing software on new computers.
•Using a direct capture to the software can save money on recording
media by recording directly to the computer hard drive, but does not
offer a backup solution if the computer crashes during the recording.
Media Ready Computer
•Good sound card.
•Fast enough to handle editing video.
•Large enough hard drive to handle over an hour of video.
High Speed Internet Connection
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
16. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Good Tripod
•Heavier is better.
Good Isolating Headphones
•Blocks outside noise from the wearer’s hearing.
•Seals around ear.
Editing Software
•There is often free video editing software on new computers.
•Using a direct capture to the software can save money on recording
media by recording directly to the computer hard drive, but does not
offer a backup solution if the computer crashes during the recording.
Media Ready Computer
•Good sound card.
•Fast enough to handle editing video.
•Large enough hard drive to handle over an hour of video.
High Speed Internet Connection
•Even the slowest high speed connection should be suitable.
•Faster is better, speed = time.
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
17. Adding Video to Your Church Website
What you’ll need
A Good Tripod
•Heavier is better.
Good Isolating Headphones
•Blocks outside noise from the wearer’s hearing.
•Seals around ear.
Editing Software
•There is often free video editing software on new computers.
•Using a direct capture to the software can save money on recording
media by recording directly to the computer hard drive, but does not
offer a backup solution if the computer crashes during the recording.
Media Ready Computer
•Good sound card.
•Fast enough to handle editing video.
•Large enough hard drive to handle over an hour of video.
High Speed Internet Connection
•Even the slowest high speed connection should be suitable.
•Faster is better, speed = time.
Subscription to EZWebPlayer.com
•www.ezwebplayer.com
18. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
19. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
20. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
A word about the audio-video relationship.
Worship service recording is a unique event. As a video, there is nothing like
it in the entire media arena. The genre’ handles a very unique content and
therefore has both special limitations as well as a few caveats like no other
media event.
For this reason, the video can suffer more on the visual side and get away
with it, such as only using one camera, and that being locked down on a
medium wide shot. A single camera angle locked down might be preferable
to a single camera angle being manually operated by an inexperienced
volunteer or novice. Eventually, the video library should show marked
improvement approaching professionalism for future viewing generations.
The audio, however, must be near perfect from Day One. Those viewing the
video must be able to enjoy the music as well as understand every word and
inflection of the important message.
21. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering.
Don’t allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No
daisy chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the
headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
22. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
•Use headphones that completely cover the ear.
•Make sure the headphones are plugged into the camera.
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering. Don’t
allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No daisy
chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
23. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
•Use headphones that completely cover the ear.
•Make sure the headphones are plugged into the camera.
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering.
Don’t allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No
daisy chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the
headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
24. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
•Use headphones that completely cover the ear.
•Make sure the headphones are plugged into the camera.
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering.
Don’t allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No
daisy chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the
headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
25. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
•Use headphones that completely cover the ear.
•Make sure the headphones are plugged into the camera.
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering.
Don’t allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No
daisy chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the
headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
26. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
•Use headphones that completely cover the ear.
•Make sure the headphones are plugged into the camera.
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering. Don’t
allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No daisy
chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
27. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Audio First
Patch the sound system into the video camera via a cable. No wireless.
•Make sure your camera is receiving the audio signal from an original
output source of the sound system, as apposed to taking it from another
recording device like the CD, tape or digital audio recorder, or another
computer.
Constant monitoring of the camera’s audio via headphones insures quality
•Use headphones that completely cover the ear.
•Make sure the headphones are plugged into the camera.
Make sure the audio source is raw, board out, audio. No extra effects or
extra sweetening at all like reverb or inappropriate equalization. The finished
video file will be naturally compressed somewhat during rendering.
Don’t allow the camera to be an audio source for any other output. No
daisy chaining from the camera. The only output should be to the
headphones.
Turn off the camera’s auto limiter and record manually.
If the camera has manual settings for two channels, check for balance.
Single channel recording is preferred to problematic stereo.
28. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
29. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
30. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Shooting tips
Camera movements should be smooth or not attempted at all.
• Virtually anyone can learn to smoothly operate a tripod-mounted
video camera. Practice makes perfect. Until a practiced hand is available
to operate the camera to follow the movements of a lecturer who does
not stay behind the podium, a static shot is preferable.
• A standard tripod has friction settings that effect the pan and tilt of the
head. These settings should be such that the start and end of each
movement is executed without an initial jump or ending stop-jerk.
Zooming in and out a lot is not a good idea. If multiple cameras are being
used, it is better to already have the chosen zoom set before coming to that
camera.
Operator fatigue is a real issue.
Wearing dark, plain clothing helps the camera operator be less of a
distraction to those seated in the auditorium.
31. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Shooting tips
Camera movements should be smooth or not attempted at all.
• Virtually anyone can learn to smoothly operate a tripod-mounted
video camera. Practice makes perfect. Until a practiced hand is available
to operate the camera to follow the movements of a lecturer who does
not stay behind the podium, a static shot is preferable.
• A standard tripod has friction settings that effect the pan and tilt of the
head. These settings should be such that the start and end of each
movement executed without an initial jump or ending stop-jerk.
Zooming in and out a lot is not a good idea. If multiple cameras are being
used, it is better to already have the chosen zoom set before coming to that
camera.
Operator fatigue is a real issue.
Wearing dark, plain clothing helps the camera operator be less of a
distraction to those seated in the auditorium.
32. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Shooting tips
Camera movements should be smooth or not attempted at all.
• Virtually anyone can learn to smoothly operate a tripod-mounted
video camera. Practice makes perfect. Until a practiced hand is available
to operate the camera to follow the movements of a lecturer who does
not stay behind the podium, a static shot is preferable.
• A standard tripod has friction settings that effect the pan and tilt of the
head. These settings should be such that the start and end of each
movement executed without an initial jump or ending stop-jerk.
Zooming in and out a lot is not a good idea. If multiple cameras are being
used, it is better to already have the chosen zoom set before coming to that
camera.
Operator fatigue is a real issue.
• Use a larger view finder instead of the eye piece.
• Having more than one camera operator might be a useful way to keep
production value high while training more camera operators.
• Wearing comfortable shoes is a must.
Wearing dark, plain clothing helps the camera operator be less of a
distraction to those seated in the auditorium.
33. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Shooting tips
Camera movements should be smooth or not attempted at all.
• Virtually anyone can learn to smoothly operate a tripod-mounted
video camera. Practice makes perfect. Until a practiced hand is available
to operate the camera to follow the movements of a lecturer who does
not stay behind the podium, a static shot is preferable.
• A standard tripod has friction settings that effect the pan and tilt of the
head. These settings should be such that the start and end of each
movement executed without an initial jump or ending stop-jerk.
Zooming in and out a lot is not a good idea. If multiple cameras are being
used, it is better to already have the chosen zoom set before coming to that
camera.
Operator fatigue is a real issue.
• Use a larger view finder instead of the eye piece.
• Having more than one camera operator might be a useful way to keep
production value high while training more camera operators.
• Wearing comfortable shoes is a must.
Wearing dark, plain clothing helps the camera operator be less of a
distraction to those seated in the auditorium.
34. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
35. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
36. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Getting the footage onto your computer
Before editing or posting to the web site, the footage must first be
transferred from the camera or its media, to the computer’s hard drive.
Which video editing software you own may effect the way your footage gets
from camera to computer hard drive, but mostly they are the same.
• If your camera is so equipped, you can simply plug it into an available
USB2 or Firewire port on your computer, and execute a standard file
transfer through your computer’s operating system like Windows or
Mac, if the camera outputs to an editable file format recognized by your
editing software. This is not common, but as technology changes it may
become common.
37. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Getting the footage onto your computer
Before editing or posting to the web site, the footage must first be
transferred from the camera or its media, to the computer’s hard drive.
Which video editing software you own may effect the way your footage gets
from camera to computer hard drive, but mostly they are the same.
• If your camera is so equipped, you can simply plug it into an available
USB2 or Firewire port on your computer, and execute a standard file
transfer through your computer’s operating system like Windows or
Mac, if the camera outputs to an editable file format recognized by your
editing software. This is not common, but as technology changes it may
become common.
•The standard operating procedure for conventional video editing
environments is to execute a “capture”. In Adobe Premiere, the
command path would be FILE > CAPTURE.
38. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Getting the footage onto your computer
Remember that you get what you pay for, but three of the more common
free programs are;
• Windows Movie Maker. This program came free on some bundles
installed with Windows XP.
• Apple iMovie
• Avid FreeDV
Also, it has been common practice in the past for companies like Sony and
Canon to include fairly decent editing software bundles with some of their
consumer cameras.
39. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
40. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
41. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Publishing formats
Publishing your video makes reference to rendering or developing your video
for a Web Ready state, just like developing an old style film for viewing in a
theater. In this case, you need to make sure that your video is assembled the
way you intend your viewers to watch it.
Cuts, edits, transitions, graphics and audio video matching might be
something you did not intend on manipulating: hoping that your camera
would spit out a watchable product virtually direct from camera to web. In
some cases, this might be possible. But, just in case you would like to change
or add something, now is the time.
42. Publishing formats
Most publishing software packages allow for various levels of video editing.
This is a sample of Adobe’s Premiere Pro CS4 timeline. All of the simplest editing
environments will have some characteristics of this sample. Visual clip manipulation,
audio control as well as transition effects and titling are all here.
43. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Publishing formats
When finished editing, you will most likely be faced with a list of choices no
matter what editing software available to you.
Since publishing to the web is your goal, many of the overall technical
decisions are already made on a higher level. You want a small file size with a
premium quality. Fortunately, you have the luxury of trial and error in case
web pixel values and the rendering thereof is not your strong suite. Don’t
worry, it’s not mine either, and I’m a business video producer with a degree
from an Art School.
Rendering video is an art form in itself and many institutions have full timers
devoted to doing just that; rendering videos for web.
44. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Publishing formats
So, do what I did, and simply try some of the default file types suggested by
your web video publishing software. The one that was defaulted for me in
Camtasia for the previous video clip in this PowerPoint presentation was
MP4. And sure enough there was no tweaking needed in either Camtasia or
PowerPoint. It worked smoothly the first time, so I stayed with that.
45. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
46. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Agenda
• What you’ll need
• Audio first
• Shooting tips
• Getting the footage onto your computer
• Publishing formats
• Uploading your video to your website
47. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Uploading your video to your website
All that’s left is installing your player and uploading your video.
Go to www.EZWebPlayer.com.
Click on the button.
Follow the instructions for installing the one time code set on your web
page.
Upload your first video.
48. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Uploading your video to your website
All that’s left is installing your player and uploading your video.
Go to www.EZWebPlayer.com.
Click on the button.
Follow the instructions for installing the one time code set on your web
page.
Upload your first video.
49. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Uploading your video to your website
All that’s left is installing your player and uploading your video.
Go to www.EZWebPlayer.com.
Click on the button.
Follow the instructions for installing the one time code set on your web
page.
Upload your first video.
50. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Uploading your video to your website
All that’s left is installing your player and uploading your video.
Go to www.EZWebPlayer.com.
Click on the button.
Follow the instructions for installing the one time code set on your web
page.
Upload your first video.
51. Adding Video to Your Church Website
Uploading your video to your website
All that’s left is installing your player and uploading your video.
Go to www.EZWebPlayer.com.
Click on the button.
Follow the instructions for installing the one time code set on your web
page.
Upload your first video.