Online Church Editing Workflow

In this video, Jake Gosselin shares his video editing workflow for online church services for Mission Lakewood.
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[@deliez3r]

Thanks for sharing! God bless you!

[@JoshHodgman]

I got so happy when I saw you dated everything first in order starting with the YEAR! its the only way.

[@lsh0p323]

It's so cool to be working and doing worship with something we love, I love the tech in my church and whoa I learned so much in editing and using background worship pad, I feel so proud to learn this.😄

[@benjamin.kelley]

Here's what my setup and workflow is: Currently running my Canon 80D w/Canon 24-70mm f2.8 with a Rode NTG Videomic boomed (OnStage Stands, USB-C cable) over our host or pastor/speaker, and using Adobe Audition to get usable audio. We're recording worship with the camera mic for reference footage, and running all sound straight through a Behringer X32, recorded on the console and the master track is mastered in Ableton or Audition (We would like to wire into Ableton to mix each track separately and put into a master at some point). Using these video files and audio files, it's all thrown into Premiere Pro and synced using the sync function (make sure to have reference audio from camera), in the order of Countdown (made from a free downloaded template online), Welcome, Worship, Announcements, Message, Closing, Dead time (with ways to connect/give). Posting to both KZbin and Facebook using the premiere options. We were using "onestream online" to distribute, but cancelled once we figured out the Facebook premiere function, but may go back to it because we will be doing more than one "live" stream every Sunday. Hope this helps anyone trying to up their online church production, we flew by the seat of our pants, but since I have been learning videography and watching Church Front videos, it has been a very smooth process thus far! Thanks Jake!

[@emanuelubierna8361]

Hi Benjamin do you have a link of the finish product?

[@CCEldoret]

Thanks brother, we really appreciate everything you are doing, we are from Kenya Africa and your video have been of great help in our ministry. Keep it up.

[@robertshamansky1912]

I’m just starting with video production, this is great info!

[@AsaelBaez]

Keep it up bud!

[@MrWaidly]

Jake, you're the man! Love your stuff. We do it SO SO basic but glad to see I'm on the right track of the big dawgs out there! ;)

[@wwoo4809]

Thanks. Great setup and workflow. Appreciate your videos.

[@nolesserthing7082]

Hey Jake!! Thanks for all the great informative content! Keep up the great work!! You are killin it bro!!

[@chriswhitaker9720]

another great video! i feel like im the only person using Davinci Resolve at times lol

[@andreanicole2006]

Just got it and learning it! I'm here with ya!

[@NaJieHana]

same here

[@jeremiah.massillon]

“For legal reasons, that’s a joke.’ That got me. 😂 Cool vid!

[@lukeramlet275]

You're welcome

[@yaokounakou]

Here is my workflow: Using iPhonex to shoot both the worship and sermons, editing in HitfilmExpress and using Obs for the simulated livestream

[@LacyBlonn]

Great content as always! Visual Media Church has amazing stuff, even with just a free membership. Great resource if anyone is considering it.

[@sebbyip]

I “Smashed” the like button

[@CaptRadar101]

You can get your final file smaller if you use Apples Compressor app

[@lukeramlet275]

Yeah that's what we used to do, but it's been really finicky lately.

[@mrjswartzy]

Love the walk through here. Question, do you know if your church is going to continue pre-recording even if and when your in-person opens back up again? Also, why do you run your service through restream.io instead of just premiering both to KZbin and Facebook? Just curious. Thanks!

[@nickwilliams309]

I saw where you talked about where you got B-Roll stuff that you guys used during the verses (which turned out awesome, by the way!), but what about where you got music for in the background stuff? Any specific site that you would recommend for royalty-free stuff like that?

[@mmoore86]

Really helpful video! We are currently prerecording everything like you but haven’t compiled it all into one video because we’ve wanted to have the ability to mix the audio more dynamically. How are you guaranteeing volume and balance of all the clips together?

[@andreanicole2006]

Hey Jake, found your channel by accident the other day and loving binge-watching what I need to learn right now...anyway...quick question regarding what I originally thought was a backdrop, but now see it's your studio walls....are they blue with white lights at the bottom, or black with blue lights? And can you tell me what the lights actually are? I love the simple yet classy/techy effect of the lights at the base. Thanks!

[@JhnyQ]

Thank you Jake for your videos! Just a question, you mentioned that Ashton would record your Pastor's part of the video and then send that project to you. What do you all use to share content between each other? Or does he do the throw of the external hard that is sealed in an airtight zip lock bag into your moving car's window while you are driving past his house. :) Thank you again for the all your content!

[@justesmond]

Jake, about how long does the editing and assembling process take for a finished production? Great video as usual. Due to Covid-19 our church was forced to start online service. In five weeks we went from a simple sermon and closing made on iMovie to me doing a full scale production on Final Cut Pro X. Your videos have been key for me to get up and running so quickly with quality.

[@lukeramlet275]

It depends, this video took me 8hrs to make. So for this edit I would guess 10-12hrs. It's streamlined, but there is still quite a bit of work still needing to be done.

[@danielfmyers]

We had one of those cuts too! It’s great when you don’t have to record the entire song again 🙂

[@hlokomani]

Quality content

[@BartKuipersdotcom]

Thanks for sharing! We're running pre-recorded as well, as live-streaming involves more people having to be in a single location for our tech setup at the moment. I do have a quick question: After everything is shot, what would you say is the average time you need to assemble all this, including editing of the sermon and so on? We're now having to transition to prerecording a week early, as it just takes time to assemble everything (we were recording and editing on a saturday, but that's quite the burden on the post-production people/person). We're averaging at least 5 hours of post-production, as we want to have audiolevels matched between songs, prayers, announcements and sermon, as well as having to cut the multi-cam setup. The 5 hours is without the offloading of files, exporting and uploading of course. I think that's still quite fast considering the amount of work, but would be good to compare to other churches, to see if we're wasting time or are actually on point. I'd say 5 hours is quite reasonable, but how are others doing at the moment?

[@leniee75]

Hi I'm a newbie can you advise how to set the captions on the worship music portion? in final cut pro?

[@Jordanj1203]

Thanks for sharing Jake! How long is your rendering/encoding time in final cut and what is the upload time to Restream?

[@marioskyriakou]

The master audio output is really low.. If people don't have any way to boost the audio maybe 12-14db's it may be an ''issue''.. Cheers mate ! Keep up the good videos!

[@lukeramlet275]

Yeah that's an definitely an Ashton thing. All the edits either I or Jake do we shoot for -6db.

[@noelneb2297]

What are the fonts you using in the titles in this sample video?

[@joetringali2309]

How do I get one of these transparent countdowns?

[@AsaelBaez]

How long do you all take editing? Remember that your work is not in vain! Keep it up!

[@lukeramlet275]

To put it into perspective, I spent 8hrs editing this video: making custom lower thirds, making the end card, and just general cutting and editing. So I would say maybe 12-14 hours on something like that. You do have to keep in mind that an edit like that is really pretty streamlined, you're already getting cut and mixed audio and video for your worship and if you pastor is a good speaker you might have to make very few cuts throughout his sermon.

[@dougbeckinsale3844]

How do you fund all of your gear and tech? Is it just from donations from the church?

[@JeffBarron1]

davinci resolve, one tool to rule them all

[@lukeramlet275]

Fun fact. The end card is actually my editing setup and the project on my screen is the last 1.5 minutes of this video.

[@VeshBeats]

First to comment

[@rkhicks214]

Where did you get the compressor plugin for FCP?

[@lukeramlet275]

It's just a native plug in. Just go to audio filters and search compressor it's the first option.

[@irenegloria9471]

What application you guys use?

[@lukeramlet275]

FCPX

[@CLLChristlikeLife]

Amen, this has been so helpful for sure! However I have made video without any cost, just with simple phone app! Check them out and let me know what you think about them!

[@SafeRetirement]

Call it a 'streaming' service' not a "Live Stream" because it isn't.

[@lukeramlet275]

We call it a simulated live stream. Because we still use the live stream apps like Ecamm and KZbin and Facebook live.