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by Brian Blackmore, editor of Church Production Magazine
It’s about providing a tool set that’s easy to use and accessible to “non-broadcast trained operators.” The solution includes automated camera moves with professional-looking transitions, and pre-designed templates for the church’s text and graphic elements.
The pandemic thrust a multitude of smaller churches into the live streaming world almost overnight. But high-quality streaming isn’t always possible with consumer-grade products, and professional-grade systems can often be too complicated for volunteer production teams.
The critical question becomes, what do smaller churches need—or even larger churches with limited time and resources to put toward streaming? Church streaming in a box? That’s what Broadcast Pix, a Boston-area integrated production solutions provider, is now offering to churches like the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Rapid City, South Dakota. The cathedral recently installed The BPswitch FX series complete video production solution with a pack called ChurchPix. It’s designed to be everything needed to make professional-grade programs, integrated into a single software package with an easy-to-use interface and a layer of automation to enable professional live stream content to be produced at the touch of a button.
Learn more in this Dave.video conversation with Sharp, Nickolaus Dunn from KT Connections, the integrator on the project, and Brian Blackmore, editor of Church Production Magazine.
We’re very much focused on the end content and less on the technology,” says Graham Sharp, CEO at Broadcast Pix. “We try and make the technology as easy to use and as transparent as possible, but to focus on helping our clients and customers make better content as an output now.”
“The system that we have from Broadcast Pix has been instrumental in us being able to reach out to our church members, parishioners, and others who are looking for an experience of the church when they’re not able to be physically there at the church,” says the church’s leader, Father Brian Christensen. “We use it for our regular Sunday services and our masses that we broadcast to our local community. But again, because of the wide reach of the internet, many people have joined us across the country and even around the world.”
The church now broadcasts daily and Sunday masses, and the system has been instrumental in allowing families to join together for occasions like weddings and funerals. “They can now be part of the celebration, part of the event, part of the liturgy with their family and friends through the internet with Broadcast Pix and the capabilities that we now have here at the church,” Christensen says.
“We don’t have the distractions of [a camera operator] wandering around the church disrupting the services since these [cameras] are all hard-mounted and have excellent angles and locations for a really wonderful production,” says Father Brian Christensen from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Rapid City, SD.
