TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap 

• Church Visuals: AI for DIY Church visuals.

• Planning Center: Calendar enhancement.

• Church Production: ProPresenter advanced features.

• Resi: Live streaming backup systems and strategies.

AI for DIY Church Visuals

Church Visuals shares “Using AI Image Generation for Ministry” (4-minute read / 12-minute watch) exploring how AI tools like Flux can help Churches create high-quality visuals for sermons, social media, and promotional materials based on a YouTube tutorial by FirstMovers.AI. The post emphasizes responsible use, cost-effectiveness, and practical applications and the tutorial walks through the mechanics to jump-start your creating high quality visuals.

Planning Center: Calendar Enhancement

Planning Center shares “Centralize your event details in Calendar” (5-minute read) introducing an update that integrates event data from Registrations, Services, Check-Ins, and Groups into a single Calendar view. This update streamlines event planning by providing a centralized hub for attendee counts, volunteer schedules, check-in statuses, and task tracking, helping Church teams manage events more efficiently.

ProPresenter Advanced Features

Church Production shares “Unlock the Full Potential of ProPresenter” (5-minute read) highlighting advanced features like Elgato Stream Deck integration to enable triggering ProPresenter actions with a single button press, Blackmagic switcher automation to enable smooth transitions between video sources without manual intervention, customized alpha keys to create sophisticated overlays, looks and layers to enable sending different content to different locations like your main stage, lobby, and live stream, and integration with Planning Center Live to coordinate service timing. The post includes links to tutorials for the features mentioned.

Backup Systems for Church Live Streaming

Resi shares “Best Practices for Establishing Backup Systems and Failover Strategies in Church Live Streaming” (5-minute read) providing guidance for establishing and maintaining a live streaming backup plan, guidance for setting up the live streaming backup system, and cautions regarding avoiding common live streaming backup pitfalls.

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