Church Live Streaming Lighting Setup with DMX Luminaire
God created many marvellous works, and our eyes and light are one of them. When you are hosting a church live streaming service, it is vital not to ignore lighting.
Lighting is of great importance and can help your audience on their devices to receive and assimilate the message that you’re trying to pass across. Different types of lights create different types of mood, and that is why you need professional lighting equipment’s to handle your church live streaming lighting setup.
Phantos offers the latest industry lighting equipment’s to help you in your quest to provide excellent lighting for your live streaming lighting service.
For an excellent church live streaming lighting setup, three main factors are important, and they are:
1.) Color Wash For Background
2.) White Front Light
3.) Background Pattern Lighting Or Lighting Facing Camera
Color Wash For Background
Colour wash lighting for a church service that is streamed live is highly suitable for showing the audience and creating different lighting intensities to match with the mood of the activities carried out. One of the best lighting equipment to get this done is the PHANTOS 24x12W RGBWA+UV LED HEX Panel w/Barn Doors.
The PHANTOS 24x12W RGBWA+UV LED HEX Panel w/Barn Doors
Lighting professionals know the amazing benefit of using a wash light for a live streaming lighting setup. This Hex Panel offers a professionally interesting and excellent wash light that comes integrated with barn doors which features 24x12W RGBAW+UV LEDs that produces not just basic RGBW hues. It also produces UV and Amber colour.
This lighting equipment offers a projection angle of 38.5°. This ensures that you get a cool soft-edge projection and colour bending effect, rather than a bright spot that is more suitable for low ceilings. Another interesting feature that makes this product excellent for a church live streaming lighting is that it comes with four appropriately placed barn doors. These barn doors ensure that light is properly managed and doesn’t hit unwanted places.
For a church live stream lighting, this colour wash for the background is vital to ensure a high level of lighting experience for the viewers of the streaming service being conducted.
White Front Light
White front lighting is among the basic factors to consider for a church live streaming lighting. This is because the preacher, the choir or whoever that is on stage would need to be lighted to ensure the streamers congregation flow with the church service.
Using a good wash front light equipment is a great way to ensure that you avoid situations whereby streamers will not be able to see the faces of those on stage. There are two lighting equipment’s that is highly recommended to get this done, and they are;
PHANTOS 24X8W LED Panel
SENSATION 200W Fresnel
PHANTOS 24X8W LED Panel
This lighting equipment is the direct alternative of a 1600W Fresnel light suitable for lighting small to medium venues. Since the lighting focus will be mostly on the stage performers for the streamed church service, this size should serve the purpose.
The PHANTOS 24X8W LED Panel is very economic in terms of power consumption; it consumes a combined 200W, thereby reducing its running cost by 80%. This product also features a user-selectable colour temperature that ranges from 5500k down to 3200k through DMX command protocol.
The projection angle for this lighting equipment is 38.5° for an excellent colour mixing output from a short throw distance. All these features made this product a superb candidate for the church live streaming stage wash lighting.
SENSATION 200W Fresnel
The SENSATION 200W Fresnel is similar to the PHANTOS 24X8W LED Panel in some specs, but they are of unique uses. This live streaming lighting equipment produces about 7392 lumen output through its 5600K and >90CRI cold white or 3,200K and >90CRI warm white or RGBW LED Fresnel.
The SENSATION 200W Fresnel features gamma brightness adjustment and LED refresh rate frequency that ensures there are no flickers while live-streaming the church event.
By using both lighting equipment’s for white front light during the church live streaming lighting setup, you’ll be ensuring an excellent streaming experience for the streaming audience.
Background Pattern Lighting Or Lighting Facing Camera
For your church live streaming lighting setup to be complete, you’ll need to have a background pattern lighting or a light facing camera. These additions make it possible to have an adequately lit environment, and these products can help you achieve that:
The XMLITE EXP370
PHANTOS 18x8W RGBW
The XMLITE EXP370
The background pattern lighting equipment is one of the latest generations of LED moving heads. The XMLITE EXP370 is a lighting facing camera that is quickly catching and trying to surpass their lamp version.
The lighting tool comes with a 3.5-37° zoom angle, a linear frost, a 3 facet and 8 facet prism glass, and most importantly, it comes with a second gobo wheel that features exchangeable and self-rotating gobos.
PHANTOS 18x8W RGBW
Another interesting background pattern lighting equipment for your church live streaming lighting setup is the PHANTOS 18x8W RGBW. Interestingly, this lighting equipment comes with 18 x 8W RGBW pixel mappable LEDs. These lighting bars are installed big reflectors that create an awesome stage background lighting effect.
It also comes with a wide (40 degrees) beam angle which offers a much better colour mixing even when placed too close to the wall. This amazing feature gives you the power to control background lighting intensities, mood and patterns easily.
Conclusion
A church service or church event live streaming success largely depends on some key factors, and lighting is one of them. For the best church service experience, you need to use excellent lighting tools.
We have mentioned some of the excellent lighting tools to use to actualize a great church live streaming lighting setup, and we hope that this article helps you make better decisions in your lighting setup.