Church Livestream Software

[Desmond Hutchins]

Lookingfor a past livestream? You can find the last three months of video services in the playlist below, or visit our Sermon Archives for even more recorded messages. You can also take our livestream on the go via the Brandywine App. Download it today!

**On Saturday, July 13, a probable lightning strike damaged a number of components related to our sanctuary livestream equipment. Thank you for your patience as we assess the damage and work to restore full functionality as soon as possible.**

We livestream all of our worship services as well as other special events. Scroll down below our live feed to see an archive of past worship services. You can watch here, facebook, youtube and the new McCabe Church Channels on Roku and Apple TV.

Many congregations are considering livestreaming worship services in this time of concern for the health of vulnerable people. Livestreaming can be an effective way for church and community members to remain connected with worship.

All copyrighted content must have specific written permission from the copyright holder(s) or a streaming license that includes that particular copyrighted material in order to be live streamed. Hymns in the United Methodist Hymnal and ritual in the United Methodist Book of Worship (both copyrighted resources) can be used in United Methodist worship services, but cannot be reproduced or livestreamed without written permissions or the appropriate licenses. The ritual resources in The United Methodist Hymnal (the standard Sunday service materials, Psalter (but not music!), funeral, wedding, and morning and evening prayer) and worship resources in The United Methodist Book of Worship are approved for reproduction (no longer livestreaming, since the Covid-19 crisis is declared officially over) by The United Methodist Publishing House. Contact [email protected] to obtain written permission for livestreaming copyrighted ritual resources.

A word to the wise: It can sometimes take weeks or months to track down and obtain written permissions from copyright holders. If you want to begin livestreaming this Sunday or as soon as possible, purchase a streaming license that covers materials you want to use, and then use only the materials covered by your license in the ways your license permits.

Streaming License

A streaming license is needed in ADDITION TO a standard license your congregation may have from CCLI or OneLicense to reproduce the copyrighted works covered in their catalogs. The standard licenses from CCLI, Song Select, or OneLicense do not permit livestreaming. A separate streaming license is required to livestream the copyrighted songs in their catalogs and is only for congregational singing. These licenses do not cover choir anthems.

Christian Copyright Solutions sells a streaming license as a separate item (it does not offer reproduction licenses). The prices can be a bit higher than those of a reproduction license plus a streaming license from other providers.

License Coverage

None of these licenses permit you to stream pre-recorded copyrighted music or music videos created by anyone else or using any copyrighted elements created by anyone else.

CCLI does not state it permits you to include pre-recorded copyrighted music performed entirely by you apart from an actual service of worship. CCS does explicitly permit this. Contact OneLicense for an interpretation of their rules if you intend to use pre-recorded copyrighted music you have performed in your livestreams or premieres.

Any copyrighted music you want to include in your livestream must be performed by you unless the creator of the copyrighted music performance has stated it has released it for livestreaming. That a video or audio performance appears on YouTube or on another streaming platform does not mean you can use it in livestreamed worship. Without additional permissions, you cannot do so under any of these licenses.

None of these licenses cover copyrighted ritual. The ritual of The United Methodist Church is copyrighted, but The United Methodist Publishing House has released items in The United Methodist Book of Worship(1992) for United Methodist congregations to use in livestreaming during the COVID-19 crisis. Follow the instructions about copyright citations in the article when you use these materials online or in other forms.

None of these cover copyrighted Bible translations. That's right. All Bible translations 1925 and later are copyrighted. The Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version are now released for livestreaming during the national emergency in the US without needing further permissions. The Common English Bible has also updated its copyright permissions statement to include livestreaming. We recommend you use one of these for your livestreaming unless other publishers release their translations for livestreaming as well.

Other options

The only way to avoid needing a streaming license for your worship service is if all material in the service is in the public domain or is created solely by you (not adapted from some other copyrighted source).

This is why many congregations who livestream choose to stream ONLY the sermon. Assuming the pastor has not used copyrighted materials from others in the sermon, the congregation owns the rights to the sermon and therefore may stream it.

1. The Piano Accompaniments of Public Domain Hymns from Discipleship Ministries are released for livestreaming during the national emergency.

2. ALL hymns, anthems, other musical works (texts and tunes) and all ritual published PRIOR TO 1929 is now in the public domain (as of January 1, 2024). You can use or adapt any of these (texts or tunes) and then stream them. Learn more about how to identify public domain hymns.

3. The entirety of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of The Episcopal Church is in the public domain. You can use or adapt any part of it at any time.

Full Communion Partner Resources

The Evangelical Lutheran Church and Augsburg Fortress Press have a subscription service called Sundays and Seasons that includes the livestreaming rights to all Sundays and Seasons resources under Augsburg Fortress copyright. This includes the ritual material in the current ELCA hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship. You still need a separate license for any musical resources.

Where can I find what I need?

Licenses (alphabetical order)

CCLI+ Streaming

Christian Copyright Solutions (WORSHIPcast)

OneLicense

Public Domain and other Basic Resources:

The Book of Common Prayer (1979)

Ask The UMC: How can I identify public domain hymns?

Piano Accompaniments of Public Domain Hymns

Other Public Domain Texts and Tunes

Comprehensive Hymn Information (including copyright date)

Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue offers at least one mass every single day of the year. On Mondays through Saturdays at 12pm we offer prayers and intercessions at the shrine of Our Lady of Fifth Avenue followed by a celebration of the Holy Eucharist. This service is offered as a live and on-demand audio webcast. On Sundays we offer a 9am service suitable for children and families and, during the academic year, 11am and 4pm choral liturgies that are video livestreamed at the High Altar and then available on-demand. Visit our complete worship calendar to learn more.

Our tech team and staff work hard to provide an exceptional livestream church service experience for you. We stream the whole service each weekend, with music, announcements, the message, and any other elements that occurs during the 9:00am in-person service.

You can watch the services live on this page or on our Youtube channel or Facebook page. The livestream service is available in its entirety for a few days afterward, at which point only the messages are available on our website or on Youtube.

Autumn Ridge Church is a non-denominational Christian church located in Rochester MN that exists to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus. Autumn Ridge desires to be a church of all cultures where curious, skeptical, and hurting people love to attend.

Please know that inevitably, there are technological challenges posed by livestreaming which will necessarily affect your experience. The stream can only be as reliable as our intenet and technology platforms are. Thank you for extending grace in your understanding of this as we do all we can to provide you with the best user experience for remote participation in our services.

How do I normalize the audio so we get a consistent sound level? I have tried putting a compressor on the output of Mix4, but it ends up forcing either the music or singers to overcome the other and only really allow one to be prominent.

To do that set all the mix 4 channel levels the same, that way it will track what the main house mix is doing. You can still go into the mix 4 levels and make some general level adjustments on channels that may be consistently too high or low on the live stream mix.

Our music was too loud. compression helped that.

Music/singers too low is rarely a problem unless the singers are under the music then their levels do need to be raised. Some songs are just less loud than others. Sometimes the piano is too loud and the singer is too soft. Less a problem on livestream than live where the piano acoustic sound does not need much amplification at all.

Raising the gain can help but some of them vary too much too fast to keep up with.

I think, and many here disagree, that if we could implement upwards compression on the speakers that we could better limit their DR and then set the average signal where we want it.

We feed our livestream from mix56 (or mix78 not really important just a stereo mix out). The livestream PC is running livestream/OBS which is a good free program. From there final levels are tweaked then sent to livestream and also to the radio station where I presume they split the signal and route to the AM and FM transmitters.

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