The WFX Expo is the world’s largest house of worship technology show. Tour the hottest booths at the largest church streaming show in the USA! Matthew Richards takes us to Wowza, ChurchStreaming.TV, StreamSpot and more in this walk through tour of the 2016 WFX Show!

Live Stream Video Index:

• PTZOptics Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=53s
• StrainAV Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=3m13s
• Wirecast Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=11m20s
• StreamSpot Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=16m17s
• ChurchStreaming.TV Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=25m20s
• Wowza Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=36m13s
• Magewell Booth: https://youtu.be/ICx5mSswFSg?t=44m23s

StreamSpot at the 2016 WFX Show
One of the most excited church based live stream provider at the 2016 WFX Show shows their latest “ONE” product which is a dedicated streaming applicance for churches. What is the most important feature? Ease of use along with automation. StreamSpot specializes in automation for churches and houses of worships starting to use live streaming as a way to grow their congregations! More information about the StreamSpot one can be found here: https://streamspot.com/one. It features a HDMI and HD-SDI input for video ingestions and at the WFX Show they showed off the PTZOptics 12X-SDI.

Wirecast at the 2016 WFX Show

This year Telestream is showing off their brand new Wirecast Gear which comes available in either 4 port HDMI or 4 port HD-SDI options. The Wirecast gear also features various Harddrive options for video production. Present in Louisville this year was Lynn Elliot from Telestream explaining the latest Wirecast 7 features including the New Blue Titler and more! (YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/WirecastTube)

ChurchStreaming.TV live from WFX Show 2016

This year is excited about 360 video streaming which is starting to help churches deploy video in new and exciting ways. Michael Smith from ChurchStreaming.TV reviewed the benefits of working with ChurchStreaming.TV and even introduced a customer who talked about his experiences deploying live streaming at his church. (YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPhQq9lbUOFPArVO6PSi4GQ)

Northwest Community Church – Jason from Northwoods Church tells us that he is a “Power Streamer” who uses drones to increase their live streaming and video production. “The support is amazing from ChurchStreaming.TV. We were using our Wowza deployment but it became cost prohibitive for us…” “We have been doing online streaming for about 3 years… Once we got all the audio and video sorted out we opened it up to the public and we have roughly 1,000 viewers that join us each week.” We asked Jason about Churches who worry about live streaming and how it could possibly keep attendees from coming to church. “We have had that conversation with senior leadership… The large majority of our online attendee’s are mom’s and dad’s who have stayed up all night with their new born babies and could not make it. Or others who are traveling and simply cannot make. You could say there is some competition but the Church is the destination and at the end of the day the computer screen is not.”

Wowza from WFX 2016 Show

Tim Dougherty from Wowza explains how the church market has really adopted Wowza. At the WFX Show this year Tim showed us how easy it is to set up a live streaming system for houses of worship. Tim shows us the front end of Wowza and the adaptive bit rate streaming from 4K all the way to 720 and 480p. “Wowza can enable churches to internal live streaming enabling video to be distributed to nurserys and over flow areas internally OR churches can own their own environment they can scale as needed. We are putting churches in the driver seat. We enable partners like StreamSpot, ChurchStreaming.TV and StreamMonkey. Wowza is the core and these dealers are adding the value added services that make the world go around for so many churches.” (YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/wowzamedia)

Magewell at 2016 WFX Show

Magewell – Kate Koch from Magewell highlights the new 4K capture cards along with their 4-port HDMI and HD-SDI capture cards. Kate says their HDMI to USB capture cards are still the most popular units by far and explains how they have become tools for testing and functional usage across the industry. Magewell will be on our live show next Friday 9/30/2016 so don’t miss the show! (YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiX0XIgtY46r2etaZVLh7pQ)

StarinAV at the 2016 WFX Show

This year at the 2016 WFX Show Starin AV showed off the PTZOptics cameras being integrated for live video production along side various JVC production cameras. StarinAV is a authorized distributor for PTZOptics and a wonderful resource for technical knowledge on Audio Visual Equipment. Present in Louisville Kentucky this year from StarinAV was Neal Weber and Clay Stahkin. (YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Starininfo)