How To Live Stream Your Worship Service on YouTube

Prerequisites

  • Laptop with Camera
  • A microphone (the one on your laptop will not be sufficient)
  • Internet access in the church
  • A YouTube Account
  • Licence to broadcast Songs and Music on YouTube

Preparation

Set up Laptop with camera and microphone  

Connect laptop to internet

Open YouTube https://www.youtube.com/

Sign in to your account

Test Run

Do this before every service as the positioning of the camera is important.

Record a test

Click CREATE >>GO LIVE

Set the following options:

  • Allow access to camera and microphone if necessary
  • Enter name eg TEST - JUC Epiphany 2, 17 Jan 2021
  • Change PUBLIC to PRIVATE (because this is the test run)
  • Click the option NO IT IS NOT FOR KIDS

Click MORE OPTIONS

  • Select default microphone

NB the first scene the camera sees will become the default thumbnail image, so ensure something appropriate is in the camera’s vision

Click GO LIVE

  • Make some test audio and video

At end of testing, click END STREAM (NB recording does not stop here)

Click END to cease recording

Check the Test

Click icon at top RHS

Choose Your Channel

Your Videos

Select LIVE tab

Select the current test video

Click PLAY

Check:

  • The camera is capturing the appropriate scene
  • Audio is good (NB you might need to revert to your laptop default speaker settings to listen)

Make the appropriate adjustments then delete the Test video

Live Recording

Click CREATE >>GO LIVE

Set the following options:

  • Enter name eg JUC Epiphany 2, 17 Jan 2021
  • PUBLIC (because this is the live run)
  • Click the option NO IT IS NOT FOR KIDS

Click MORE OPTIONS

  • Select default microphone (if necessary)

NB the first scene the camera sees will become the default thumbnail image, so ensure something appropriate is in the camera’s vision.

Ensure everyone knows you about to livestream then Click GO LIVE

 

You are now live

 

At end of the service, without getting into the camera’s view:

Click END STREAM >> END

NB The live streaming continues until you have clicked both END STREAM and END.

Sign out when finished.

 

The Video will be available on YouTube for anyone to search for. It may remain on the page(tab) marked LIVE for a few hours but will then go to the main page of your account.