Streaming Video for House of Worship Customers
Streaming Video
for House of Worship Customers
The internet and technology have made
changes to nearly all aspects of modern life.
They have even transformed how our house of worship customers reach
their congregations. Let’s take a
quick look at why houses of worship stream video, what that streaming looks
like, and how it is accomplished.
Why do
House of Worship organizations stream video?
House of worship customers of Tulix
come to us for a variety of reasons and motivations. The house of worship clients we have are all
about service, serving their members, and the world at large. Streaming video is one more tool that they
can use to accomplish their service.
Live church services, or other content,
can be made available through streaming in other geographic locations all over
the world. We have clients who have
expanded their congregations to other continents through streaming video. Streaming live services can make them
available when viewers are able to watch them if they are provided on demand. While most parishioners can make regular
weekly services, sometimes they are not able due to travel, other commitments,
or illness. COVID has provided us with an
excellent example and case study for why streaming house of worship services
and other content is invaluable. After
COVID restrictions have listed, there will still be people who are generally
unable to attend live events. Streaming services,
and video on demand content can make a huge impact on their lives and be a real
spiritual lifeline.
We typically think first of live
services when we think of streaming for house of worship organizations. However, video streaming can also be used for
Bible studies, Bible courses, fellowship programs, and much more. Streaming video can also be a part of multisite
house of worship solutions. Many
churches have additional locations or are part of affiliations. Connecting different sites, aggregating
content from multiple locations in the cloud, and working with an OVP or Online
Video Platform is all possible with today’s technology.
Investments in streaming live services
and other house of worship content typically pay for themselves at a minimum. Often,
they pay for themselves many times over, based on the ability to expand the reach
for donations geographically, or because of the increased availability of video
content.
What does
streaming house of worship video require?
Onsite the requirements for to start
streaming live services are basic. A camera
to capture events, a video encoder to digitize and compress video is needed
(sometimes these can be the same device), and a data connection to upload
content to a CDN / Content Delivery Network or OVP / Online Video Platform is
all that is needed. Many churches are already skilled with audio and video
production. Adding a camera and
uploading content to that mix is usually not over burdening.
Once video is captured it can be
directed to social media if desired. It
can also be directed to an OVP for more comprehensive streaming video
solutions. Most OVP providers operate in
the cloud. A few, like Tulix, operate in
their own data, or infrastructures, centers.
An OVP will provide video processing for record, capture, and playback of
video at any time. They can also create
VOD (video on demand) catalogs and live channel creation. Live channels can be all live events or a mix
of live events and stored content that is played out on a schedule to create a
channel. An OVP will enable live linear and
the ability to pause live TV. They can
also provide 7 days (or more) of stored content and the viewer capability to
rewind and fast forward through content.
When streaming live channels or VOD content from an OVP, a house of
worship streaming customer will need a CDN.
It is important to note here that Tulix is both a CDN and an OVP and can
offer advice and assistance with all of this.
How to get
started … Is streaming video an option for your House of Worship?
If you think you might want to explore
house of worship video, there are many options.
If you think you might want to speak to a house of worship OVP or a house
of worship CDN, Tulix as mentioned earlier, offers both services.
Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in,
or even lost in the technology. In our experience
it is best for our house of worship customers to capture their video, get it to
our data center, … and then let us do the rest.
The rest can be different based on the needs of the customer. We will work with you to define that. Tulix can help make your content available
globally, and at any time. We can help
create channels and libraries for on demand content. We can also manage the publishing to multiple
social media platforms.
Tulix is a fully managed streaming
service provider with its own
infrastructure. This makes our solutions
flexible and cost effective. Our services
include; channel origination, live 24/7 streaming, encoding/transcoding, CDN,
security, monetization, distribution, and custom streaming offers. With Tulix there is no additional hidden
charge for cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.
We have our own cloud! We work
with broadcasters, content owners, startups and just about everybody who needs
streaming.
Please reach out to us here for further information. http://tulix.com/contact.php