Simple, Affordable Ways to Share Your Church’s Sermons
Services such as Blip.tv and Vimeo have made it affordable and simple for even small churches to upload and share their sermons online.
You’ll learn how to upload and share sermons on four video sharing services: Blip.tv, Vimeo, Facebook, and YouTube. All of these services allow you to upload [...]
Share Sermons on the Social Web Ebook
12. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Videos on YouTube: Overview
YouTube
Blog
Help
Twitter
Why Use It?
Most popular videos sharing service
Free Plan
Time limit: 10 minutes
Max file size: 1GB
Player customization: minimal
Paid Plan
None
Accepted formats
.wmw
.3gp
.avi
.mov
.mp4
.mpeg
.flv
.swf
.mkv
Recommended settings: Video
Codec
H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 preferred.
Frame rate
The frame rate of the original video should be maintained without re-sampling. In particular pulldown and other frame rate re-sampling techniques are strongly discouraged.
Key frames
24
Data rate (bit-rate)
Because bit-rate is highly dependent [...]
11. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Facebook Overview
Blog
Help
Twitter
Free Plan
Time limit: 20 minutes
Max file size: 1GB
Paid Plan
None
Accepted formats
.3g2
.3gp
.3gpp
.asf
.avi
.dat
.flv
.m4v
.mkv
.mod
.mov
.mp4
.mpe
.mpeg
.mpeg4
.mpg
.nsv
.ogm
.ogv
.qt
.tod
.vob
Recommended Settings: Video
Codec
h.264 as .mov or .mp4
Frame Rate
30
Resolution
Maximum width: 1280
Deinterlace
yes
Recommended Settings: Audio
Codec
AAC
Sampling Rate
44.100 kHz
10. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Vimeo Overview
Vimeo
Blog
Twitter
Help
Why Use It?
Great quality audio
Highly customizable player
Free Plan
Time limit: Unlimited
Weekly upload limit: 500MB
Paid Plan: $60/year
Time limit Unlimted
Weekly upload limit: 5GB
Max file size: 1GB
Accepted Formats
.asf
.asx
.avi
.divx
.dv
.dvx
.m4v
.mov
.mp4
.mpeg
.mpg
.qt
.wmv
.3g2
.3gp
.3ivx
.3vx
Optimal Settings: Video
Codec
h.264
Frame rate
Current
Note: Vimeo converts all HD videos only up to 25 frames per second in order to optimize playback performance.
Keyframes
Every 30 frames
Data rate
1800 kbits/sec for standard definition 4:3 video
2500 kbits/sec [...]
9. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Blip.tv Overview
Blip.tv
Blog
Help
Twitter
Why Use It?
Highly customizable player
No time length limit
Auto transcoding
Creates video podcasts
Free Plan
Time limit: unlimited
Max file size: 1GB, 100MB recommended
Paid Plan
$8/month or $96/14 months
Features
Priority transcode access
Transcode to iPod and MP3 formats
Longer transcode times
Ability to re-request failed transcodes
Hidden videos
Timed publishing
Accepted Formats
.wmw
.avi
.mov
.mp4
Recommended settings: Video
Codec
h.264 as .mov (QuickTime)
Frame rate
Current
Key frame interval
less than 24 K.F., or auto. Lower is better.
Data [...]
8. June 2009
Online Sermons and Copyright
What can you upload?
Here’s what YouTube says:
“Important: Do not upload any TV shows, music videos, music concerts, or commercials without permission unless they consist entirely of content you created yourself.
The Copyright Tips page and the Community Guidelines can help you determine whether your video infringes someone else’s copyright.
By clicking “Upload Video”, you are representing that [...]
5. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Entire Message or Just Clips?
Entire Message or Just Clips?
Online viewers should watch the entire sermon as a whole just like in church right? Watching the entire sermon just as it was preached is important however, online viewers usually do not like watching long videos. Also, several of the most popular video sharing sites have video time limits that do [...]
4. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Free vs Paid Options
Deciding on a Budget
Social web video sharing is the most affordable way to share sermons. Since these sites were made for consumers and not business and enterprises, they are either free or have a low fee.
If you choose to use only free video sharing services, you will still be able to share your sermons online, [...]
3. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Share, Embed, Comment
Share
Have you seen the video of the laughing baby or the sneezing panda? Besides being hilarious, these videos were watched by millions of people because it was easy for a view to share the video with a friend. Uploading your sermon to the social web, makes it very easy for someone to share your sermon. [...]
2. June 2009
Sharing Sermon Video: Sermon Use Examples
How will you use your sermon videos?
Will you just use your video on your church’s website? Want to make your sermon video podcast in iTunes? Can others comment and rate your sermon? Can they embed it on their blog?
Sermon Use Examples
Church Website
It’s easy to embed the sermon in your church’s website. Just copy and past [...]
1. June 2009
Why Your Church Should Share Sermons on the Social Web
Expand Your Message’s Reach
Your message can be easily shared and viewed by anyone.
Promote Your Church
Thousands of people in your community who’ve never visited your church are using the social web everyday.
Improve Your Website
Gives your church’s website quality, lasting content.
Encourage Discussions
Give and receive comments about each sermon.
Create an Online Archive
Just by posting a video on the [...]
29. May 2009
Church and the Social Web Ebook
Church and the Social Web
Here’s a guide to the basics of expanding your church’s online presence using the social web. It has dozens of social web examples that your church can start using today – most of them for free. It also shows how one church is already using these tools to connect with [...]
29. May 2009
More Social Web Case Studies
Groundswell
If your church is interested in getting started using the social web but need examples and results from companies using social media, get the book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Groundswell, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research, has 25 case studies of how companies around the world are [...]
29. May 2009
Church Social Web Case Study
First Baptist Church Hattiesburg, MS
2008 was the first year that First Baptist Church Hattiesburg expanded from a traditional website into the social web. Photo sharing on Flickr was first, followed by video sharing on YouTube – both are free and easy to learn.
2008 Statistics
Website
17,539 unique visitors; 31,529 visitors, 107,726 pageviews
YouTube
17,540 views
Blip.tv
19,288 views
Vimeo
3357 views
Flickr
71,264 views
Budget
$225 including [...]
29. May 2009
Social Web Resources
Blogs & Web Sites
AllFacebook
Chris Brogan
church.alltop.com
ChurchCrunch
Church Marketing Sucks
Church Technology Evangelist
Groundswell
Mashable
Micro Persuasion
ProBlogger
ReadWriteWeb
Seth Godin
Social Media Marketing Strategies
TwiTip
Twitter for Churches
Webware
Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang
Books
The Blogging Church
Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with [...]
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29. June 2009
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