 hey the recording is on and welcome to this class we see 314 on media and technology in ministry to let's pray and let's get started and yeah so Kiran can you please pray for us the class and then we will start yes come before you thrown father God we want to just say thank you for the subject into the timing father God thanking you father God gave you based on knowledge and understanding to the subject father God that we can understand and apply to your kingdom but thinking about the almighty Jesus name we pray amen okay good morning everyone welcome to the course BC 314 media and technology in ministry it's our second lecture this week yesterday we went through social media and I just kind of gave an overview of you know some of the ways in which as a church or as a ministry we can use social media and some of the things you keep in mind as we use social media to engage with our audience from this point in the course we're going to change our focus a little bit and we're going to start talking about digital equipment so I'm going to today's class maybe a little short class we're going to talk about the software side of things then from next week we'll get into the hardware side equipment the physical equipment that we will use and and my objective in and talking about the digital equipment the software and the hardware is not that we're going to learn how to use those things but more I'm speaking more from a perspective of a pastor or as a Christian leader or somebody who's involved in Christian ministry that as you think about using media and technology now you will have to talk to the people are going to do the work that means you know whether it's your graphic designers your video editors your other people who are being involved and you will have to talk to them you know and so it's good to have some knowledge not from point of view of operating you know using the software or using the hardware but just to know that okay this is what is there and this is what they are talking you know I have something I have some understanding of the language so you can talk to them and sometimes you know even ask the right kind of questions or maybe point them in the right direction if you're saying look this is what I want to be achieved in order for the ministry to take place and so on so I'm coming from that perspective right so it's good even though you know all of you are going to be involved in the spiritual side of ministry that is the word of God and prayer and ministry it's good to have some understanding of these kinds of things so that you can have proper conversations meaningful conversations sometimes even make decisions you know because they'll usually come back to you on what to buy or what to you know for your approval so it's good to have some understanding so we're going to talk about digital equipment I will discover a little bit on the software side today it's very simple I've listed things out just as a thing a reference you can have and then next week we'll get into the equipment you know we talk about the cameras the audio equipment that you need for you know for a PA system the live streaming equipment just to know that this is what actually goes in and this is how it's set up so that when you have when you're going to do any of these things in your ministry you have some understanding yeah just this is from a way of story just to give you a little background you know in 2001 when we started all people's church we were very and that time we're very small it just you know a handful of people were 20 you know 20 25 people we decided okay you know why don't we use get on to television and these with cable television that means it just covers you know certain parts of the city of Bangalore doesn't cover the whole city it's cable television and you could buy time by some slot on it and have your program as cheap and comparatively and so I remember back in 2001 that was the first time I record recording programs for television and that time it was cable television we had no background no understanding no people nothing right so I actually got you know went to another church that had they had of course they had a church building and they also had the setup they had camera they had somebody who could do the editing of the video programs and we paid them and said you know can you record programs for us so that's how we started and they didn't have us even a studio so we used to go at 4 o'clock in the morning to their church because at least there would be no disturbance in that hour of the day and we record and they had just one camera it comes straight there I would stand behind the pulpit and just preach just talk to an empty hall they would record the program and that then that person would edit it and you know make it look nice and then put it on cable television so that's how we started our TV program in 2001 you know and I had zero knowledge of all this I just knew that this would be a good way to you know try and get into people's homes on cable television and and you know maybe bring the word of God to them you know let's see how it goes so we started doing that it was very difficult because four o'clock in the morning you have to go there and record you know what three or four sermons or you know 25-minute sermons they would that person would edit it and take it to the cable TV and then they would put it out and all those things so anyway it was a learning experience then came the next thing was they said look there's something called green screen where there is a studio but the studio was just a small room and they had a green screen so basically what they said was we can replace the green screen with any other background you know so you have to make sure that you don't wear anything green in your clothing don't have anything green you just stand there and you speak and then the green screen will be replaced by you know some fancy background that you have some photograph picture something like that so I remember even those days you know we did green screen or you know that that kind of recording that we did in those days and you know again it was all a learning experience I didn't know all these things then we yeah I'm trying to look for the right word here anyway so we went through that stage where we used to do green screen recordings and you know and I was standing there they could even put a poop but in front of me they could do lots of things you know and they did all that stuff so we did that for some time and and all of this was rented like we never owned any equipment we never had a studio nothing and then something very interesting happened in 2012 you know and by that time slowly Christian programming from India and within India you know slowly started increasing we are different Christian TV stations come up and many of them have gone actually many of them have disappeared from the scene today but those days they were there and then very interesting happened was 2012 and I think it was August of 2012 or something when we received a call from God TV Asia and those days God TV was pretty well known and was was doing well and they called us and they said you know we would like for you we want to have some Indian preachers on God TV because at that time it was you know all a lot of other countries but they didn't have any Indian pastors or preachers yet and they said you're the first person that we felt we should call you want you would you be interested now this was a paid thing you know you have to buy the time and so God TV called and you know and we asked them give what's your rate and what are your charges also they gave us all the information and we were in a position to do it so we said yeah and we were actually I think and the first first church in India to come on God TV and then slowly other churches you know other churches in Bangalore and places came on God TV Asia God TV Asia but I remember how difficult it was in those days to record the program I remember the very first set of programs we did for God TV and then we got some help people come help us how do we do record this and we actually rented a huge auditorium that was the MLR convention center in Whitefield so we rented a huge convention center we built physically built props on the stage and it seemed to be such a big effort just to record you know four programs one per week and we didn't have all the you know it was all a learning process for us but from there we moved to you know just doing so many you know we just kept improving improving learning improving learning improving and you know until and then we went on God TV till 2019 December 2019 and then we decided to discontinue and God TV programming simply because there was a change in engagement that means more and more people were just you know going on YouTube to watch whatever they wanted not necessarily television and then we said okay why should we spend so much money on television we should focus on delivering content directly to people through YouTube because they're now people are watching on their phones and they're not necessarily sitting on you know in front of TV so we saw that shift and then we moved from our focus on TV programming to more on digital platforms like social media and other website you know app and all of that but it's been a you know it was a learning experience throughout these those years and so you know I who had zero background in video editing and all of these things I had to talk to people who you know who are going to do this for us I needed to learn what understand what they are saying why they are saying it so on and and so what I'm trying to do now what I'm trying to do in this class is I just share with you some some of some of things that you will find useful from a you know a digital equipment side of common you know so that you can have conversation today I'll just go through some of the software that you know you need to be aware of and so today what we have is we have you know we have a full media team we have people in house who do our recording or editing and distribution of things so a lot of work so you know we have the software the hardware the computers the some of the cameras and some of the cameras we still hire from outside it's all those things so over time you know we we have our own in-house team that does all this but it's been a learning experience so I'll just share these things with you you know you may or may not use them right away but it's good to know it so that in case in the future you have to work with you know a video editing team or people like that at least you have some idea what they're talking about now of course I know that you know maybe two years from now things will change change somewhat there may be new things new terminologies and new things that we need to learn but hopefully this will be a starting point and be useful for us right so today's lesson I think will be pretty short I'm just focusing on the software side so we talked about the graphics offer that you can use the video editing software that you could use and I was just going through these various you know terms that people use when we are when they are talking and just trying to explain what these mean and yeah so that you know what they are referring to and that means you you know so motion tracking as it's for your following something that's moving in what you are recording and you can blur the face and so on you can color grade you can improve the color of the video the shade and so on you can have some special effects you can do transitions picture-in-picture you can do chroma key as I mentioned earlier you can also you know have action effects speed up slow down effects I mentioned about rendering that is after you've edited it it takes time to bring it in the final video format before it can be released and then I also mentioned about these video editing apps that you could actually use on your phone when you're just getting started just a few more things than before we close there is software that you can use for desktop publishing so if you're going to create brochures you're going to even create books you know ebooks you're going to create newspaper or magazine and you're trying to do something in a digital format like a PDF or a EPUB or any of these digital formats you could use desktop publishing software so Canva or InDesign are ones that we work with InDesign but Canva and InDesign are some or let's say maybe the top two desktop publishing software now there are of course other things like you know you can use Microsoft Publisher you can even use Creative Cloud Express as a free version of course Word also can Microsoft Word can also be used so when you want to create brochures and magazines you would use this right and be used InDesign for our work for all the books that we create typically it's done in InDesign or sometimes we just use Word straightforward the last thing I want to just mention here today is about media presentation so when you're in the in your inner church service and some of you have used this when you were at APC you know you want to present slides you're on a music video you want to put in a video you want to show scripture text and and and you know it's difficult if you're using you know different software for doing this and so we have media presentation software for church where all this comes together in one place so that you can present your PowerPoint slides you can also show scripture text you can play videos and so on just from within one software and so this is the church presentation software the most well-known or commonly used one is ProPresenter which we also use there are several others and the other you know well-known one is easy worship which is also affordable and for for churches and so on so you know it would be good at some point if you wanted to use presentation software you get a copy of easy worship and it helps you you know and just from one place you can project your PowerPoints your play your videos show scripture text display song lyrics all of that from one place so it's good to use this okay so we'll stop here for today I'm just sorry about the video I don't know where I lost where I lost where I lost you but I hope you know there's just this document and the content and it will be useful and then next week we'll get into talking about the equipments that we that we use in media just to make you make us aware of what is there and how we can you know use it for our church and ministry okay so let's wrap up in prayer and then we will dismiss yeah so Siddharth would you be willing to close in prayer and then we'll dismiss yeah so first of all we just want thank you for this statement given us luck guys we have learned a lot of things from Pastor Arshish Lord we just want to pray God about all your reading video reading a lot of things like Jesus God we just want to pray that help us to understand more about it and help us to apply it in our life God has to be continue our day well be with us and guide us and be with us Jesus name we pray amen amen okay thank you everyone thank you Siddharth and thank you everyone have a good afternoon and a good weekend I'll see you all next week bye now