 Okay, recording is on. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to VC314, our course on media and technology, and we're going to get started. I will probably just do one hour or maybe less than one hour lecture today, just having a little little throat and stuff like that. So I just want to go and get some rest. So let's get things started today and we will continue things next week. May somebody lead us in crime please? Good morning everyone. Somebody could lead us in crime then we will get started please. Thank you Father. Thank you Lord for this opportunity that you've given us to come before you Lord, to gather together Lord and learn these principles for the Lord, these leveraging Lord the technology in media and ministry for the Lord. Yes Father Lord, we pray that you help us understand Father, you give us the wisdom. We pray that you help us not only gain the knowledge but help us also apply these in areas of ministry for the Lord, that it can Father help in the advancement of the kingdom of God. We thank you and praise you for Pastor Ashish. We pray your grace, your kindness and mercy Father, your wisdom upon him Father Lord. I pray Father for complete healing from every sickness Father that he be able to be able to carry out Lord's responsibilities and duties Father Lord in the days ahead. We also commit all the students Lord who have gathered here Lord were on the way to join Father. We pray that you guide us with your Holy Spirit that we be able to listen attentively Father and be able to apply these truths in Jesus precious name. Thank you. Thank you. All right welcome everyone and I have shared the PDF or this lesson and so you should be able to get that from the class book classroom. Let me go ahead and share the PDF here and so we are going to start talking about digital equipment and when I talk about equipment it's kind of a mix of software and hardware so it's not only hardware part but software and hardware that we use for media work and I'm sure we're going to go through this mainly to give us all an overview and an understanding of different things that are actually used even in a church setting so we're using all of these things and and you know as a pastor I think I mentioned this last week as a pastor even though you know my main responsibility is the spiritual side a big loss of responsibility I have to get involved in some of these things making decisions you know when our team of course I'm not doing all this work the work is being done by people and different kinds of people in different areas but they will refer back when we have to make decisions you know what software to buy what hardware to buy what equipment to buy all those kinds of decisions and of course ultimately you're responsible because you have to say yes or no you have to approve or not approve and you know if money gets wasted or the source gets wasted people can question you as the leader of the pastor why money was spent on so on so forth so we need to understand these things so that we can make my decisions at the right time although the work is actually being done by other people decisions on these things also come back to pastors or ministry leaders or those are involved in these areas so I'm sharing it from that perspective and also for you to understand what people in the church may be doing they're doing these things and so on so so let's start up with some basic thing you know graphics software so when graphics of course is a very useful very important part of media for almost everything and when you're making announcements you're doing in a video you know different things graphics will have to be created somebody's going to do it and to do that of course they need the appropriate software and so there are both commercial and free software that could be used on the commercial one which is from Adobe creating cloud this whole suite of tools that are available and the interesting thing is we can receive a discount for non-profit so they do offer a number of beef benefit from that you know by getting a discount saying okay we are a church organization and so they do give us discount and we can you know make continued use of the by licenses and you know our media team uses that on the other hand if you're not interested in you know spending money on using license software you can also use a lot of free software that's available you know starting from can or other things and I'm sure that we got a lot in other free applications web applications that you could use all graphics so you know if your team is small if your congregation is small and you just want to create you know interesting graphics without necessarily being licensed software there's a lot of options and a lot of things can be done in no way you know should our work be hindered and we also have a free free version of Adobe create cloud express that can be used and then video editing software for people you know who are involved in the thing again you've got paid licensed versions of software you've also got free versions we are using Adobe Premiere Pro which is a licensed version our team uses it but you can also have you know use some of the free editing software which in many cases is more than enough for the kind of work that needs to be done basic simple videos and things like that you can do that and with this video editing software you can also use multiple cameras so it's not just that you know you're using one single camera what you and you edit just that video output but you could use multiple cameras bringing in images and then you you switch between different cameras and you get a one in a good video produced and you can also use you know cameras for motion tracking that's that's you are recording people as they are doing so for example we not so we're doing it right now but there was a time until recently we were tracking for example when you see a Sunday services and you suddenly see you know the the drummer you see a close-up of the drummer and he's drumming and we have a small GoPro fixed on to you know the screen that was right there close to him and so we switched that we can see what he's doing and and show that as part of the overall production so we can track or we can even attach a small video to people who are moving and actually track what they're doing so you can use videos your information tracking when you attach a video to the object that they're moving and you can record so you can do a lot of things with video having the right cameras and so on some of the other things that you also and need to know is that and the reason I mentioned it these kinds of things is because sometimes after recording happens you can request the team the media team we do these things so if you know that they can do it yeah you can tell them to do it one is for example color grading so if in the recording for whatever reason lights suddenly when day or you know the clouds came on and so light was blocked you know all kinds of things happen while you're recording and you don't have to worry it's oh no my recording is gone no no no you can always improve the what has been recorded by doing what is known as color grading so they can make it look better they can even though while recording something may have gone wrong lights they've gone and something was not exactly right they could improve it while they are editing they can do this color grading and you know they can make some changes to how things appear so understand that you know while you're recording the video but of course you want to do it the best there's a lot that can happen while you are editing the video and working on it using the software you can also do special effects so you can request for some of these things that hey while the sermon is doing I want I want the script just to come on the side or on the lower lower third or I wanted to come on the side I wanted to switch between scriptures at the video things like that you know so we can ask for these things if you know that they can actually do these it can be done obviously with software and multiple cameras and so on you can ask for this hey I would like this to happen and or while I am preaching on this particular portion show this particular graphic so that it communicates to the people you know it enhances what is being communicated you can ask for that special effect to be applied on the video also you can do certain things that you can speed up slow down do some reverse kind effects some things with the action how things are happening and these can be done I don't I don't actually interfere with what the details of the media team is doing but from time to time I can make requests like I could say hey you know do this for this please and so on so that they get an idea of what I want I would like to be done in a certain video or so on so it's good to know that you know that these things can be done and you can request them whenever needed otherwise you know most of the time the media team is completely free to do their work another important thing to understand is about video rendering that means and this is important because you need to know that this takes a lot of time that means you know they work on a video but before they can actually release the video out into the public they have to render the video and depending on the duration of the video the resolution of it this rendering can take time you know it can take sometimes and also depending on the hardware that you know sometimes and especially for this long term and some things like that it can take a quite a lot of time maybe an hour two hours three hours just depending on the duration so on so the reason you need to keep this in mind is maybe as a pastries hey do the video and release it well it's not as simple as that because they do that they have to put it takes time to work on the video to all this stuff and then even after the everything is done they have to render it and if it is you know 45 minute 50 minute 1 hour 7 and depending on all that's gone into it the rendering itself may take you know two three hours depending what they're doing so you're wondering like what are they doing why is not being released because it takes time to render the video before they can release it out to the public so just keep that in mind so you can factor that in when you're working with your media team it's not straightforward there is this step that is involved as well in all the work they do they have to render the video and lastly keep in mind that many times if it's simple things you know it can be done on mobile phones itself our small videos things that are happening in small events people can just record edits on their phone and push it up on social media so we can make use of that if you want people to report on events in almost real time so if some event is happening a conference is happening you want people to just quickly upload a small snippet a snapshot of what's happening that can be done it doesn't have to go through this long process of editing and you know and in a very professional way it can be done right there on their phones they can do it and upload it just to keep people informed of what's happening so that's something you're familiar with right this is a little introduction in terms of graphic software and video editing software what you can do we'll get into more details later right similarly for desktop publishing so for our books ABC books the way we work is I would you know I just use word document word Microsoft word to write the book the the content then I set it off to Hanna who is our head of publications she will then read work through it in terms of proofing corrections checking everything you know layer just making sure it's in the standard format she still works in the word document and from there it goes to desktop publishing right now we don't have an in-house person so this person is is actually sitting at our printing printers whom we work with so after Hannah does a check she will send that word documents to our to the desktop publish and all of that work is done in a domain in design so there the desktop publishing publisher actually puts it in a lay out of the format which is then going to get printed into the book so our books are of a standard size and we have certain standard things you know we have cover graphic we have the inside cover all those details that will be taken care they have to be laid out in in design and you know the chapter chapter headings of all those things have taken care of so somebody has to do it as of now it is outside at some point we may have our own person doing this work in house but they use desktop publisher now in the past in the past they were using page make so all our early books you know from 2001 till about and I think and I'm thinking maybe 2007 16 17 something like that they were doing in page make a different software and then we had to move everything doing design and so that was a big problem for us because all our old books were done in a different software safe in a different format now we are moving to an upgrade I mean a different version something more contemporary but all the content is in no different format which cannot be read here so it's a big problem for us to move all our books from page maker to in design but we had to work through that process one by one get all our books into this publishing software and you know then so now we are maintaining we keep our own copies of word in design PDF so one book is a you know we keep it safe and all of these formats then you add to this different languages so we have English for English you know you don't need to keep this book you need to have a repository of the word document the in design document and the PDF now you have to do this in for all the other languages and now in languages there's another problem which is we have to write it in that particular script and the translators have to type it in Unicode which is again a very specific way in which these the DTP person will want it so we have to be careful of that it's okay you save it as Unicode and send it to us so that then we can then give it to the publisher and take it forward and then again we have to do the same thing keep a copy of all the formats so that we can bring out further revisions so the books there's a lot of work that happens actually using this whole desktop publishing and so on so you just need to understand it I personally I don't do this but I understand it why because sometimes they will say hey if you're having a problem with this or this happened and then you need to give some guidance on how to solve the problem or how to resolve it and so on those kind of things those kind of things as a leader you have to provide the answers and guidance although you're not the person doing the work actually there are different people doing the work now but you need to know how to help them get past any problem that they might face right so it's good to know you know what's off there's been used to what formats why they're facing certain problems and so on okay just maybe one or two more on this touch on before we stop today another important software that you will be using in church and ministry is for media presentation that means inside the hall or auditorium where your audience is during worship as the worship team is singing you need to display the lyrics of the song then during the sermon you may need to display the scripture voices and you may also need to display some important points you know of the preacher preaching and not only that so that is for the audience that are in house inside the auditorium but also if you're live streaming it should also be song lyrics scripture verses key points the points of your sermon should also come for them like those are watching online so it should happen in both places it should have been inside the auditorium as well as church happen online so live streaming we will talk a little later in this document how the live stream is set up he'll explain that but for and again all of this is done through presentation software and talking about in house so for the people inside the hall again you have commercial free open source software that you can use for presentation of course we all know simplest is the PowerPoint if you're just using a simple LCD projector and you're putting on the screen yeah PowerPoint is more than enough but if you're doing these song lyrics and you're switching between you know screens and so on it's that is you know software that's tailored for use in church in the early days we were using a software that was called easy worship and it was good enough in those days for are used in the church service we could do a lot of things that song lyrics scriptures announcements media announcements that are played sermon notes everything are very good then there was a slightly better software called pro presenter and so we switched to pro presenter quite a few years ago which is a licensed a licensed version and we used pro presenter for all other work now practically what happens so this is what happens for every week so the worship team the worship let's say and this has to happen across all of our locations so there are five locations in Bangalore and now what happens is each worship leader who is leading worship the worship leader decides on the songs that they're going to sing that Sunday so the worship leader for each location after they decided okay they're going to sing these five songs or six songs they will put the lyrics of that song in our document they have to check the make sure all the spellings are correct so we don't want anything projected on the screen that has bad you know wrong spelling some spelling mistakes or things we don't want so the worship leaders responsibility is to make sure that the lyrics are correct and what we have we decided to do was to capitalise all the words so that way you know less chance of error between capital G and small g and capital H or Holy Spirit and smaller H and all those things so we just capitalise all the words everything is in caps so less likelihood of error happening in terms of what needs to be capitalised one day and so that's why all the lyrics will come up as caps so that's a standard thing we follow and then that word document is sent to the media team so media team gets the worship lyrics and they get it into their version that local version of Pro presenter it's there put in there they get ready with it and then also if I am preaching on Sunday whoever is preaching the pastor prepares the sermon notes and so you know I have my full sermon notes but I have to make a version called we call key points of the text there's just the text that I want which I want to come on the screen so I have my own sermon notes I want send the full sermon notes to the media team I will send only the highlights the things that I want the scriptures and the key points so I send them usually I'll send it by Thursday so if I send it by Thursday morning the media team has to prepare two kinds of presentations one they prepare a power point with the sermon outline with the sermon key points and the power point is used in all of our other locations and they also prepare graphics for each and every text every verse everything because that graphics is going to be used for the lower third for the live stream so for the live stream it's a separate set of graphics is prepared because that will appear on the lower third for the live stream whereas for the in-house people inside the auditorium they are seeing what's coming from power so both these things are prepared by the media team and they send it to the what we call as the media presentation team so the media team that is the people inside the office they prepare the power point they prepare their graphics for the lower third for everything and they will send it to the media presentation team the media presentation team is the team that actually does the presentation on Sunday morning in the service in house and for live stream so by so so the way this works is I have to send the outline by Thursday morning usually by Thursday evening the power point and the lower third graphics is ready it goes for a quality check so there is one person dedicated to check everything there should not be any spelling errors etc everything is correct they approve it then by Friday evening the media team will send everything to the media presentation team that is the team that is going to actually do the work of presenting on Sunday so by Friday evening everything is ready then on Sunday morning the media presentation team at Central has to make sure that the lyrics and the sermon text come on both in-house on the LED screens as well as for the live stream and people are watching but they have all the content ready they have the PPG ready they have the lower third graphics ready and they put it into Pro Presenter they can import it into Pro Presenter and they're through Pro Presenter they do the production in-house and live stream and we will talk in detail about how the live stream happens a little later on but that's the work that goes in to the media presentation so the preparation is done everything is ready by Friday evening and then on Sunday morning all these things happen and people have been trained so people are trained they do they do all these things and so on okay any questions so far is that too much of information in one day did you all follow what's happening any questions all right so I think I'll just pause here for today I will we've got a lot more to cover what we're going to do we'll pick this up next week is we will talk about camera which is just camera for photography again why do you need to know it because somebody will come and say faster we need to buy a camera and then you have to think okay I have to buy a camera how much do I spend what kind of camera do I need to buy what are the advantages of this system and yeah you have to make that decision then we're going to talk about our sound system public other system so mics speakers mixers cables just to understand a little bit on that because they're also they're going to come and say we need to buy this we need to buy that okay you have to ask the right questions why you need it and also you need to have some understanding but how the sound is distributed inside the auditorium because sometimes congregation people will come and complain it's too low or it's I can't hear or in that part of the auditorium I can't hear all these kind of and you know it has happened many times so then you need to understand what is happening and how you know we need to make sure that in the auditorium everybody's comfortable in listening to the sound so we talk about that then we talk about the video camera which is the video production so again here you will need to know a little bit about video cameras and what goes into doing a video production for example we do a lot maybe there is the five minute daily devotional so that's recorded ahead of time I'll just I'll go to the details I'm just giving you over here what we're going to cover next week at the beach to come so daily devotional so every day we put out a five minute video how that production is done and then we may you know we may do we used to do something longer like 20 minute productions so just an idea of how that is done or if you're doing a music shoot I know what goes into it the cameras and all of that equipment so just an understanding because as a leader people come to you and say we need to we need this camera we need this lighting we want this kind of a set then you have to you know you have to either prove or ask questions and all of that so because ultimately you have to approve the money that's going to be spent so you need to have some understanding and then we'll talk about the live stream setup live stream is very useful these days because we have the tools and it gives you the opportunity to reach a lot more people than those inside the auditorium so it's good to have a live stream setup for your communication we will go through the setup that you need and you can get started very simply and then you can improve it you know Mr. Vesta and it's wonderful you know when we actually started live stream in I think it was 2017 2018 we started very simply we had only one camera it just kept focused on the stage and that's it and we just used to have maybe somewhere around 30 people watching online that's all and then the numbers increased so now on an average we may have about 200 people watching us live during the service and then again a lot of people do watch it afterwards so the live stream has happened and then we see people listening to it watching the stream at a later point whenever it's convenient to them so there's a lot of benefit you can extend your reach beyond that and so we will talk about the live stream setup then we'll talk a little bit about podcast how you can set up or have a simple setup for podcast and do that as well okay so that's what we're going to cover we'll do this next week and go on but here you're welcome to go through the notes I've given the notes you can just look ahead and get some ideas okay any questions today all right so let's pause here I'm sorry I'm stopping a little early I just want to give myself a little rest so I'm stopping a little early I'll pick this up next week and take it forward okay thank you everyone it's close thank you pasta thank you thank you well at least I know