Church Tech Questions on: Pro6 basics, a risky upgrade, long YouTube streams, and my Amazon link| ChurchTechCast.com Q & A Show

Transcript:On today church text .com Q and A show: Pro6 basics, a risky upgrade, long YouTube Streams, and my Amazon Link.
Hi and welcome again to another episode of the ChurchTechCast.com Q and A show. This is the show where every week I answer your church tech questions and that reminds me I like for you to ask yours, so just leave that below the video whether you’re on TrinityDigitalMedia.com or YouTube or if you’re listening to the audio, no problem. Hit me upon Twitter @PaulAlanClif or drop me a line Paul {at} TrinityDigitalMedia .com. Now that reminds me I am your host Paul Alan Clifford.
So let’s dive into the questions that people ask at those various venues, including one that is little unusual for me for this show. So first off “netzorag” I’m guess I’m saying that right, it’s a YouTube name said “I just started on YouTube on my MacBook pro, (good job). Can you direct me to very elementary first start videos on how to use, the only ones I see starts way too advance for someone like me who never used this before, I need simple help thanks.”
Well at the time that you sent me this, the best resource was Brad’s videos that he did for Renewed Vision so I sent you that link. I’ve since started revisiting some of the more basic fundamentals with the ProPresenter 6 view towards it on the Tuesday show. The churchtechcast.com screencast show so tuning to that as well and I think between those two you will get a full understanding of how to use ProPresenter.
DarrenEntwhistle on Twitter said “ProPresenter 6 is now available, is it ready for upgrading on producing machines?” Well, there are still some bugs as you would expect. You know, new software. I think here is what I would do, if you have proPresenter 5 go ahead and download ProPresenter 6 because they can live side by side and I would create all my presentations in ProPresenter 5 export them and import them in ProPresenter 6. So that way if you have a show stopper bug right before service no harm, no foul. Just open up ProPresenter 5 and you are done. If everything works fine, you are good and keep updated especially, at the beginning ‘cause there’re fixing bugs pretty quickly and so you might have one on Wednesday that by the weekend is taken care of so just keep that in mind. Make sure you run through everything before service starts, in order. So you notice if anything goes awry have someone look over your shoulder or look at the screen to see if anything goes crazy and I think there will be really happy. ProPresenter 6 is pretty stable but, as I say, you know, it does have some bugs.

I’m gonna say this guy name is Gef ‘cause its G E F on churchm.ag in response to an article I wrote there about while streaming on YouTube.
“Hello, thanks for your very helpful blog. (You’re welcome.) Is there any way to stream a 2 to 4 hour weekly services on YouTube or be hang out without the hangout logo and embedded to the church website I appreciate your response.”
Well Gef the answer is you can live stream up to four hours at a time on YouTube. I don’t recommend for other reasons. There is copyright things where even if you’re fully compliance they can pull your stream in stream and don’t say it never happens to me cause, you never get pulled over for speeding until you get pull over for speeding whether you are speeding or not it’s still a pain to get pull over for it. So there are churches that have had this problem so I’m all concerned about it. With that said, up to 4 hours is fine and the concern that I have is, what if your 4 hour service goes to 4:01 or 4:05 then you have problems and that’s a hard limit as far as I know. I don’t think there is any way to get around it, so basically you would kind of have a backup stream ready to go and if it looks like you’re getting  near that time maybe during prayer or transition between elements or something like that you stop it and then start it again, so that’s what I would recommend to you as  a way to get back past that.
Finally Kimber Turner via emails says “Paul I enjoyed your post comparing the podcast hosting services, (that was actually a pretty popular post it was just kind of a one off but any way) I am just starting mine and found your site as I was considering which to use, while on your site I noticed you had a very interesting button on the side. I too have a Amazon affiliate relationship and I absolutely love the idea of the button that folks could drag to their favorite bar. That’s something that is available on the affiliate site or did you make that yourself? I would love to be able to add that to my sites please feel to call me or email me with the information about it. Thank you.”
Ok Kimber, what happen is I saw someone else do that, who looked at that person source code I can’t remember who it was I would love to give you credit if it was you but I can’t remember who it was, so I noticed it was just basically it was a link just an image link and he said oh yea you can drag this to the bar. I tried it, it worked perfectly fine, so it occurred to me why can’t I do that so I did the exact same thing open photo shop I created that little picture that’s fits in my side bar I linked it directly to my affiliate code not any products within any specific but you know Amazon.com/affiliate code link that would take you directly to amazon.com and I just put it there. So It’s really actually simple to do. Maybe if you’re not into graphic design maybe head over to Canva or get over to Fiverr or 99designs to create something for you and then it’s just like making a button on your website or a picture that you click and it goes to something else it’s pretty simple to do.
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