#Propresenter 6 mac mini 2014 reddit software#

If you don’t have any plans to add screens in your venue or stream to an overflow room or have a seperate video feed for anything else in the future, you have less to plan for. You will need to think about a couple of things including your current budget and what else you hope your system will need to do in the future. If you are starting from scratch, things may be a little more expensive, but sometimes it is easier to start from scratch. Fortunately we found an old unused line that still worked or we would have been running a lot of cable through the walls. One of the trickiest hiccups I hit was simply running audio from our soundboard downstairs up to the room upstairs where the video equipment is. Because our system is older and has been upgraded and patched together many, many times, I had to basically take the entire system apart to figure out how it worked. This part ended up being the longest and hardest part for me. You are going to need to know what you have so you can get the right equipment to encode your stream. If it is newer, you may have an HDMI or DVI output. If your equipment is older, you may be outputting at RGB-HV or component or composite. This may be the output from your camera, your switcher, your audio mixing board or some collection of these. You are going to need to know what sort of video and audio outputs you have. a live feed on screen or a feed that goes to an overflow room) find out exactly how it works. If your church already has a video feed of some sort (i.e.

Your setup could cost way more if you go with higher grade stuff or need to start from scratch.Ģ.

#Propresenter 6 mac mini 2014 reddit software#

There are free options for software and there are less expensive cards for the video signal. You may already have a computer that can do the encoding. So the total cost for us was about $600 for a new Mac Mini, about $250 for a BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle to get the signal into the Mac, $400 for the live stream software )we went with Telestream’s Wirecast software), around $100 a month for hosting, and about another $100 for adapters and cables. The venue we started with already had a camera, a Mac running ProPresenter and a switcher. Costs may include new or upgraded video and/or audio equipment, hardware and software to encode your streaming signal, a monthly fee for hosting the stream and staff, outsourced, or volunteer labor to set everything up and keep it running.

Live streaming is not very expensive compared to just a couple of years ago. I am not sure this is the right order, but just think about all this stuff before you get started.ġ. These are all things I did but some of them I did in the wrong order. If you are a church thinking about live streaming services, here is how I would have done things if I had to do it all over again. You are welcome to check out our stream on Sunday mornings at 9:30 (central). After what seems like years (it was only actually a couple of months) I have brought live streaming our traditional worship services from idea to reality.