You’ve seen others do it on television and now you want to stream live church services. You’ve already found the best live church video software and set up your church for live streaming church services, but now you need some software for recording church services as well.
What are the best live streaming software for church services? Or are you more interested in the best video recording software for church services? Whether you’re after live video streaming software or would like to record that sermon, there are several types of software for professional looking recordings.
EasySlides
EasiSlides is a free worship song projection software designed for projecting lyrics and Bible texts—basically, it’s designed for church worship.
With over 80,000 downloads and counting, EasySlides is a very popular option for anyone looking for free church presentation software.
Managing worship songs
- EasiSlides installer (version 4 onwards) comes with built-in worship song lyric databases from the public domain in multiple languages apart from English
- If you want to migrate your existing song base from another church pres
- entation program, you’re out of luck though—you’ll have to recreate your worship song data all over again
- Similar to OpenSong, worship song lyrics can also be stored with chords
Managing Bible verses
- Bible versions are limited as there’s no native ability to import Bibles from third party sources
- However, EasySlides offers 3 English translations and a few more in other languages. Plus, there is a third party tool to convert Bibles from Unbound and XML versions into a format that can be imported and used in EasySlides
Media
- EasySlide shines in media playback—it can play audio and video files including live video backgrounds through feeds from an attached camcorder
- The usual features to edit slide backgrounds, add gradients or usage of custom images are also available
Slides and templates
There’s another third party transfer tool to work on one machine and then migrate the presentation including the underlying files to the church computer that will be used for the actual projection.
Extra cool features
- Project lyrics in two different languages at the same time for multi-lingual services
- Generate worship song books to print customized praise and worship song books
- HTML Generator to output all the necessary files to publish worship song lyrics on your church website
Platforms
- EasySlides is Windows only at the moment
EasySlides is an actively developed software with a huge user base—its ample set of features is sure to satisfy worship teams and Church tech enthusiasts.
Lyricue
This open source software focuses on editing and displaying song lyrics and passages of text along with images and videos on a second screen/projector. With Lyricue you are not restricted to setting everything up before the event as you can add, remove and change songs on the fly. You can type up notes directly to the screen or quickly display a bible verse at an instants notice. It is a networked software in its nature and requires you to set up a server on a Linux box. Hence it must be controlled by a web interface (called Precue) on the server computer or another remote device. The user interface is translated to English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish. The project has been running for quite some years and slowly but steadily releases new updates. It’s Linux only, uses a client-server architecture and requires a bit of technical insight to get up and running.Price: Free and Open Source
Supported OS: Linux
Screenshot: application window
Webpage: www.lyricue.orgCapabilites:
– Video, Live cam and Image backgrounds
– Import and edit songs, lyrics & text
– Quick / Live edit of text
– Multilingual user interface
– Remote Control (Android)
Worship Him
Simply the best church presentation software for Windows, Worship Him was designed to make prepairing and executing your worship presentation fast, fun, and easy. No more making slides, just drag and drop your songs and other items to a cue list or easily display them on-the-fly.
Features
- Multi-Screen
- Scripture Database
- Audio Management
- Customizable Templates
- Drag & Drop
- Language Translation
- Layout Management
- Media Library
- Text Editor
- Video Management
Worship Software Features
- Presentation Management
- Projection Tools
- Scripture Database
- Cue Lists
- Media Library
- On-Screen Bible
- Playlist Management
- Worship Planning
Other Informartion
DEPLOYMENT
- Cloud Hosted
- Open API
- On-Premise
DEVICES SUPPORTED
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone/iPad
- Web-based
PRICING MODEL
- One-Time Payment
- Monthly Payment
- Annual Subscription
- Quote Based
- Free
RESOURCES
- Help Guides
- Blogs
- Video Guides
- Webinars
- Infographics
- Case Studies
- Whitepapers
- On-Site Training
Quelea
There’s some good lyrics projection software out there already, some of which is free and open source, some of which is commercial. With Quelea we aim to incorporate the best features of existing solutions as well as leveraging new, useful technologies that existing solutions don’t have – providing it all under a free, open source license.
MULTILINGUAL
Thanks to the hard work of our translators, Quelea’s interface is available in English, German, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Hungarian, Norwegian, Dutch, Lithuanian and Portuguese
MediaShout
Mediashout is a feature rich church presentation software solution and comes with all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a market leader in this space. It is available for both Mac OS and Windows and the user interface has a lot of options for customization, such as layout setup, light/dark theme and interface language (French and Spanish, in addition to English, is supported). A nice feature, if you have volunteers running the show, is that you can enable “Voulenteer Mode”, which offers a simpler interface mode, hiding the settings and edit content controls. Mediashout offers an iOS app (why no Android app?) for remote control in addition to supporting USB wireless remotes. It has built in integration support for Dropbox (file sharing), Planning center (worship planning tool) and SongSelect (song database) and offers some additional tools for printing and reporting. The documentation on their website is good, with comprehensive articles and videos, and they even have a dedicated knowledge base app for iOS and Android that can help you out with common technical issues.Price: Starts at $399 USD, one time fee
Supported OS: Windows, Mac
Screenshot: application window
Webpage: www.mediashout.comCapabilites:
– Presentation editor & Sermon builder
– Imports PowerPoint as static slides
– Public and copyrighted bibles
– SongSelect integration
– Announcements
– Stage display
– Confidence Monitor / Presenter View
– iOS Remote Control
VideoPsalm
If you need a worship software option with all kinds of features rivaling even paid alternatives, then VideoPsalm would be your No. 1 choice.
Of all the church presentation software I’ve had the pleasure to try out, VideoPsalm is the most exceptional—you’ll find just about any and every feature you might need!
Is it an easy worship software? Maybe not, but once you spend some time to learn it, there’s no looking back—you’ll love it.
Managing worship songs
- Like Quelea, VideoPsalm can import songbooks from several sources—EasySlides, EasyWorship 2009, MediaShout, OpenLP, OpenLyrics format, OpenSong (Chords get imported too), Psalmo and plain text.
- Moreover, the VideoPsalm online library itself provides over 10,000 worship songs!
- Songs can also be stored with chords in ABC or Do-Ré-Mi notation apart from ChordPro compatibility.
- Just like OpenSong, there’s a useful transpose feature here too.
Managing Bible verses
- How does 330+ Bible translations in 100+ languages sound? Yes, that’s the number available!
- Apart from all the regular Bible verse display features, VideoPsalm also supports dual language verse projection.
Media
- VideoPsalm displays video, audio, photo, countdown, alert, PPT files and more. It’s a truly all-in-one worship software that can manage whatever you throw at it.
- Slides can also be edited on-the-fly right in the middle of a presentation.
- Media files can also be found quickly with the built-in search function.
Slides and templates
- The slide setup features are vast and comprehensive. VideoPsalm provides granular control of every aspect of your slides and templates.
- Fonts, backgrounds, media, colors etc.—all of it is easily customizable and editable.
- Even during a live presentation, background image/video can be changed on-the-fly.
Extra cool features
- Apart from adding images and videos as slide backgrounds, VideoPsalm also facilitates varying the background for each part of a song—the background for verse-1 can be different from that of verse-2 or chorus of bridge
- VideoPsalm is also portable—the application can be run from a USB drive
- Screen resolution is not a dependency at all. You can create the presentation in a 4:3 system and then project it on a 16:9 screen seamlessly
- Portable set-list files to work and project in different systems
- Available in 40+ languages
- Single click live video background is also possible
Platforms
- VideoPsalm is Windows only at the moment.
At the price of free, VideoPsalm—with its massive feature-set—is a splendid option for your church presentation requirements. I doubt you’ll find a better option than this.
Conclusion:
Some churches are also looking to use live streaming online. With the rise of techsavvy ministers, teachers and even church members, there is a rising need in this technological age for video streaming software for church services. However, if you want to do it without burning a hole in your pocket, there are many affordable options you can consider.