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If you have EasyWorship presentation software, and you have a video camera and capture card or a webcam, you can live stream your camera feed and also have lower thirds text overlaid. You can also send any media or presentation slides you have in EasyWorship to your live stream.

You can go to the vMix website and click Download at the top of the page. Then, click to download the latest version of vMix. It will include everything you need to get this done. Once downloaded, install it and then open it from the icon on your desktop or from your Windows start menu. If you need more features than what comes with the basic version of vMix, you can check out their paid versions as well. That will give you access to things like higher video resolutions and more. You can also currently get a 60 day free trial of the Pro version.

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Creating a feed in EasyWorship requires you to have a camera connected to your computer via a capture card or USB connection or built into the computer monitor. Once you have your camera set up with your computer, follow the steps below to create a feed in EasyWorship.

You can add the theme you created to a specific song by adding a song to your schedule and then drag and drop the theme onto that song in the schedule. If you want to use the theme on all your songs, you can set it as your default song theme by right-clicking on the theme and choosing Set as Default Song Theme. That way, any song that uses the default theme will use it and the background will be your feed and the text will be in the lower thirds of the slide.

Dan Willard has been helping EasyWorship customers troubleshoot since 2006. He is head of all things training and teaches a weekly webinar which helps EasyWorship newbies look like pros. Dan also loves playing music and has been a worship leader since 2000. He enjoys golfing and eating good food, but not as much as he enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons.

The vMix Animated Lower Third Package is designed to make your workflow seamless and efficient. All you need to do is import or drag the lower thirds directly into your vMix project, and you'll have instant access to a wide variety of animated lower thirds at your fingertips.

Once imported into vMix, you can easily edit each lower third to match your specific requirements. Customize the text, font, color scheme, and even incorporate your own logos or graphics to create a visually stunning and cohesive look across all your videos.

This article walks through, briefly, what are lowers thirds before discussing what makes a good lower third and use cases. It finishes off with instructions on adding a lower third to a live stream with instructions for several popular encoders.

In a single word: readability. A good lower third should be easily legible above all else. This usually means avoiding a single text color with no background. For example solid white text, which could clash against light skin tones, the sky or other elements in the frame. A solution to this is adding a solid background to the text or adding a shadow effect, so that the text is still legible regardless of the background.

While visually appealing, it draws a bit too much attention to itself. In addition, the design favors aesthetics over readability, as it contains a multi-tone background that makes the white text pop less. See the cover image at the very top for an example of something that is more legible while looking professional.

Lower thirds are common in many kinds of video content, from interviews, sports casts to even webinars. Similarly, what information is found in the lower third can be diverse as well. Below are a few use cases for lower thirds.

To add lower thirds to your live video content, this is generally done at the encoder level. Luckily, many software encoders have the feature either built-in or a way to manage lower thirds when added, such as through layers or adding inputs.

Alternatively, you can also do this with overlaying an image onto another source. This is done by clicking the numbers below which are stated as 1, 2, 3, 4. These numbers work like layers, meaning that you can have up to three images overlaying on top of a video feed or another source.

However, the images will generally fill the frame. This means when you create your lower third it needs to be the exact same resolution and size as the source. So if your video source is 1280720, make sure the PNG has amble transparent space so that the total size of the image is the same: 1280720.

Open Broadcaster Software is an open source encoder. Similar to other software solutions, it has a couple of ways to add lower thirds to your video stream. First off, OBS works on the concept of sources in a layered view, as seen below.

Similar to Wirecast, OBS has a built-in text option as well. This includes both text and colored backgrounds. It also includes the ability to make the background semi-transparent, which can be more visually appealing. Alternatively, an image file that is a lower third can also be uploaded and placed above the video source. Eye icons appear to the left of each source, so a lower third can be enabled or disabled by clicking these.

Executing on a lower third can vary, although many software encoders contain built-in ways to add them to your live stream. This includes ease of use models, with directly adding text into an encoder, to more visually pleasing options that can require bringing in an animated element or an image.

With the new technologies available, organizations are leveraging the internet to record, broadcast or stream their content to the web. Along with this there is more use of cameras to include live video of the speaker/stage with a text overlay. This can be done a variety of way and the most popular is the use of software to manage and facilitate this process. One way to do this is to leverage the NDI technology across your local network.

Starting with SongShow Plus 9.1, the Ultra Edition has the capability to broadcast output window content (video only) via NDI to any location on your local network. SongShow Plus utilizes a subset of available NDI features to perform specific tasks in SongShow Plus.

One common use case of NDI (Network Device Interface) in SongShow Plus is to facilitate live streaming or recording of content from one or more Output Windows. GoFishMedia can provided purpose-built machines to accomplish this and does provide limited support for that setup.

NOTE: Neither SongShow Plus Support nor GoFishMedia will provide support for your 3rd party recording/streaming devices or software (vMix, WireCast, OSB, etc.) specifically. They can only provide assistance in establishing the supported output from SongShow Plus. Refer to your selected hardware/software support resources for additional information.

There are several ways that SongShow Plus can be configured to work as an input for other software for recording or streaming.
These require changes to the SongShow Plus Display Settings. Once complete, when content is presented in SSP, it should also appear wherever the NDI broadcast is connected. Ways of testing this can vary depending on what your destination is.

Additionally, with the use of cameras and TOLV (Text Over Live Video) specific setups both externally (3rd party hardware/software configs) and internally to SongShow Plus (Display and Slide Properties settings) are necessary. This will be accomplished by creating a hidden display (does not go to a Monitor/Projector/TV) to carry the TOLV with lower thirds of the Song and Scripture text, and then by adjusting the Slide Properties of that hidden display to limit the text to the lower third of the content window.

Depending on your current subscription level, you can go to the GoFishMedia website training page and log in with the same Customer ID and password that you use to log in to the SongShow Plus site or activate SongShow Plus. Review this article for more details.

Trying to determine if Proclaim is the right tool for the job...We live stream services, and are wanting to have the ability to overlay whatever is in being projected onto the live stream. Using OBS Studio as streaming software. What would be the easiest way to do this? Is there a way to cast the presentation directly to OBS? Or is there a browser based live viewer of the presentation that we can screen cap?

So I'm not sure about OBS, but if it supports capturing a desktop's output then you could use that to bring Proclaim into your live stream. If it supports chroma keys or Luma keys you can then key out colors from Proclaim. You can use transparent pngs in Proclaim as your backgrounds and then when you are OnAir you can tell proclaim to fill the transparent part with green or blue for keying purposes.

I know this is an older post but I found myself adding the same thing. Screen capture didn't work because I was using 2 different computers. What I found to be the solution was to add the ndi plugin to OBS (link below) and add the presentation as an ndi source. The streaming computer then grabbed this as an ndi source and overlayed it on the stream.

Are you trying to just live stream your presentation, or overlay video on a live feed as well? The latter is a little more tricky, but basic live streaming is free and simple. You won't need a video switcher. OBS should be able to capture two feeds as well.

So with OBS you can capture both the live feed and the presentation slides, and sort of live stream them together. The video switcher is more so essential if you wanted to say overlay song lyrics from Proclaim over a live feed.

Is there any way that one could send hot keys to OBS from within Proclaim. I have been looking to find a way of doing this using the lighting midi feature but so far, i haven't been able to find a midi app (mac) that will let me run OBS in the background but still have it receive hotkey commands.