Live streaming can be done in a lot of ways with several different configurations. For simplicity, I’m going to provide the most common setup below.

What do I need?

A camera
A video capture card
Your EasyWorship software
A streaming software
Somewhere to stream to

Let’s break down that set-up a bit further:

A camera or webcam, if needed

You can use almost any camera that you desire for a live stream. The only requirement is that the camera must connect to your video capture card. Currently, I am using a PTZ Optics NDI HX 20 in the office for all my testing and troubleshooting needs. But if you’re really in a bind, you can always use a webcam from home to do the job.

The most popular versions of the program are 2009.1, 2006.1 and 6.5. Our users often download the installation files for the program with the following names: EasyWorship.exe, EasyWorship 2.exe, EasyWorship 2006.exe, ezFixIt.exe and IconA3C01F59.exe etc. EasyWorship (EasyWorship.exe). EasyWorship is a church presentation software with full PowerPoint support. It also comes with a Presentation Designer for creating/editing presentations; you can add text, graphics, videos, songs, etc. Pro version has additional broadcast features, such as NewTek AirSend support.

2. A video capture card(optional depending on if you go with the webcam option)

Many video capture cards will work with EasyWorship; however, we can only recommend the cards that we have tested and verified as working with EasyWorship. You can find our recommendations on the System Requirements page for the models we currently recommend. The recommended cards with (USB 3.0) at the end of the name are external cards that plug into the computer via USB port and the (PCI…) cards are plugged into the computer on your motherboard. I currently have the Elgato Camlink 4k (USB 3.0) plugged in. You can try just about any video capture card but sticking with our list will give you the best results for EasyWorship.

3. Your EasyWorship software

You need to make sure that you have your camera feed added into EasyWorship before you can send it to your streaming software. For help with this setup, check out the excellent article from Dan about adding feeds. You may also need to do some screen setup for NDI and I highly recommend our NDI Setup article for this. Note: Not everyone will use NDI. Please contact our help desk by emailing us at support@easyworship.com if you have any questions.

If you are new to EasyWorship software, you can demo the software here.

4. A streaming software

There are quite a few different streaming software available to choose from, but two options really stand out in our market- OBS and VMix. Personally, I’m an OBS guy. I think its easier to set up and use for the average person. Now, if you’ve got everything else set correctly you can add a new source in OBS to bring in your service from EasyWorship either using the Display Capture feature or by using NDI. (OBS requires a patch be installed to support NDI in.)

5. Somewhere to stream to

Many options come to mind when thinking of what websites to stream your service to. Probably the most common would be either Facebook Live or YouTube Live. You must have an account on either website to use the live streaming feature, but it is free to sign up. You can obtain a Stream Key from Facebook when you select the Live Video option from a new post to add to OBS or VMix. You can add your stream key in OBS through the Stream Settings and then you’re ready to start streaming!

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A few things that you may want to keep in mind:

~ If you are using USB to add your camera to EasyWorship, make sure that you are using USB 3.0 otherwise your feed will lose a lot of frames and have about a 15-second lag when live.

~ You can use either a video capture card or NDI to add yourcamera feed to EasyWorship but keep in mind that you may have to do thingsslightly different depending on which method you use.

~ If you are using NDI, you are limited by your networkspeeds. At times you might lose frames or see lag if your network runs into anyissues.

~ If you are going to use a webcam, it needs to be either a built-in webcam like you would find in a laptop or have a USB connection to plug into your computer.

I am a long time EW2009 user who's just installed and registered EW6. I have started running training sessions for other EW users in my church, until now using an unregistered evaluation copy. During trainee exercises we were unable to play videos, either in preview or live, whether loaded directly from the internet or from disk. I had assumed that this was a limitation of the unregistered version, but find the same problem now that I have registered v6.5.5.0.
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For the time being, I am running EW on Win10 Pro version 1703 on a Dell laptop Latitude 3540, that has an i5-4200U CPU @ 1.6 to 2.3 GHz with 4GB RAM (64-bit). It has a single video output that I have used connected to a second monitor for training purposes. The target system is somewhat different but one step at a time.

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The database has been copied from the target system to my laptop using your instructions, so I have 17 files in the Media section under Videos. The video that I have tried today is an 8MB MP4 file. It appears in the Preview and Live panes with an expected view showing a picture of the artist and the song title. However, the duration appears as 0:00 / 0:00 and pressing the Play button does nothing apart from changing it to a Pause button. There is a song background in the Media section called Communion with a picture of bread and wine and this does seem to play. I have tried other video files in the 17 with similar results. The Movies & TV app in Win10 plays the video successfully.

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What do you suggest?