MEDIA MANAGEMENT – STUDIO FEATURES

Upload your Audio, Video, and / or Document files to our transcoding servers and we will do the rest.  We will convert them to web-friendly formats to ensure proper playback across all devices.  We will also embed the media’s meta-data information directly into the file. Your media is then made available through a variety of playback mediums, including; Players, Media Centers, Mobile & ROKU Apps, and RSS/Podcast feeds.

Broadcast anytime, from anywhere using your Sermon Studio. Are you new to broadcasting? …no problem we are here and happy to help! Broadcast to any device (desktop or mobile) through embed anywhere Players & Media Centers, iOS and Android mobile Apps, our ROKU App. We also provide you with directly access to the Live Stream’s HLS (.m3u8) URL. You can send your streams in multi-bit rates for adaptive playback on the viewer’s end. You can even run multiple simultaneous (unlimited) broadcast events through one Studio account. There is a countdown clock to live stream’s AIR time. Ability to post off-air media playback (medial promo / trailer) while you are not broadcasting. You can even archive your broadcast recording (in whole or in part) as on-demand media for rebroadcasting at a later time. So many features to enhance the Live Broadcast experience for your visitors! Let us know if you have ANY questions!

You can now simulcast your Live Stream from sermon.net directly to your Facebook Live, YouTube Live, or Periscope accounts. This makes it easy on you and your equipment as one Stream will hit your destinations simultaneously.

Trim “heads and tails” (the beginning and/or end) off of a recorded Live Broadcast before you Publish the event to your permanent on-demand Archive.

Auto-advancing date / time following each broadcast. Setup your weekly broadcasts in advance, and following each broadcast your “master live episode” will automatically update its details (date/time) to be ready for the next live event.  This makes it VERY easy to flawlessly broadcast week after week!

You can create as many Playlists as you would like within your Studio. Playlists are how you group your Episodes (individual sermons, messages, teaching, etc…).  For example; you can have a Playlist for your Sunday Morning Worship services, and another Playlist for your Youth Ministry.  Each Playlist has its own / unique Podcast RSS Feed, and can be assigned to their own Media Centers or Players. No limits!

Create as many Players and/or Media Centers as you would like, and embed them anywhere!  A Media Center has several widgets and features that you can turn on or off (live chat, integrated Bible, notes, social share tools, etc…).  Players, on the other hand, are more basic with less features.  All Players and Media Centers are viewable across just about all platforms.  All Players are fully responsive to better accommodate the different screen sizes across the plethora of devices that are now connecting to the Internet.

Create your Episodes ahead of time, and have them automatically activate / de-activate (within your Media Centers, Players, and/or Podcast Feeds) on a scheduled date / hour.

Program your media delivery like a TV station. You can set the start date & time that the Episodes within this Playlist type will automatically begin to play/stream through your Media Centers and Players. The playback controls will not be visible and therefore all viewers will be watching at the same position within the media file’s timeline, during playback. You can then moderate and encourage interaction between your staff and the viewers through the Media Center’s Chat utility. It is like watching a TV program that beings at a set time, with everyone watching at the same point in time. Please note: due to the technology involved, this feature does not function properly on all mobile devices.  For example; some mobile devices do not allow media to auto-play.  However, if they join in late they will be taken to approximately the same location in the playback time-line as everyone else that is watching.

You can limit who has access to your media (live and on-demand) by adding a Password to protect the content of a Playlist(s).

More information and examples:
– https://v2.sermon.net/for-the-ministry/studio-tutorials/password-protected-playlists/

Within the Episode’s video tab, select a portion of the media file’s timeline (instead of the full duration) for playback within Media Centers and Players. Note: if the playback takes place outside of your Media Centers or Players, for example if the file is downloaded, the full file will play (not just the portion of the time-line you set within the Episode).

Select media files from your archive to serve as a pre-roll and/or post-roll for the Episodes in a particular Playlist. You can have them play only once per Playlist, or for every Episode within the Playlist as the viewer moves between Episodes within your Media Centers or Players.  Please note: due to the technology involved, this feature does not function properly on all mobile devices.

Select what content (Playlists) will be accessible through the Apps (iOS, Android, & ROKU) within which your Live and On-Demand content is available.

Upload images to your Artwork manager then use the integrated editor to crop the source image, thereby creating unique images for specific applications (player art, podcast art, etc…).

Upload your video files to your Sermon Studio and then push the same video file to your YouTube or Vimeo channel. (Without having to re-upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo as a separate process.)  Media that has been published to an external service can be safely removed from your Studio, if desired.  (This will not affect playback from those external services.)

Upload a single high quality source video file and the Sermon Studio can produce multiple files (“derivatives”) at various bit rates and resolutions (including HD). You select your desired transcoding profiles and the Sermon Studio will take it from there. For playback, the viewer’s device will automatically play the best quality stream based on their connection speed. The viewer can also manually select between the different qualities of video ‘on-the-fly’ (and not lose their position within the file during playback). Please note: each video file bit rate / derivative that you create will produce a separate video file and this will add to your Storage total.

Search and sort your archive, then perform a batch operation across all selected Episodes. For example, you can turn off the podcast and download settings, or delete a batch of Episodes with a single process.  You can also change the Artwork across all of the selected Episodes – simultaneously.

Create your own Sermon Studio template so that as you create new Episodes your presets will already be in place (to simplify workflow).

Secure FTP uploading as an alternative upload method to the in-browser solution.

Point your own domains (using an C-Name) to each of your Media Centers. All public links will be masked with your custom domain name (download links, rss feeds, etc…).

Both the Media Centers and Players are fully HTML5 compliant to ensure cross-platform compatibility.

Create as many user-logins as needed for your Sermon Studio, and set individual permissions for each. For example; a restricted Studio user can only add new media to their assigned Playlist(s).

The Sermon Studio, Media Centers, and sermon.net site will utilize the Google translate feature to automatically translate the text and labels into the available/supported languages.

You are able to set the date format that is used throughout your Sermon Studio.  mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, yyyy/mm/dd