Viewing Proclaim Presentation remotely

Hi-- is it possible for church members to view an on air presentation remotely? I have read this page:

https://support.faithlife.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007128932-Can-I-Follow-My-On-Air-Presentation-from-My-Laptop-

Of the the three methods, it seems the confidence monitor method requires the computer to be connected directly to the presenting computer, and the Proclaim Remote app requires you to be within a short distance of the presenting computer. The second method using a Digital Sign Feed looks interesting, but I find it confusing: on the page above, it states:

"Importantly, you can also set up any sign feed to show your On Air presentation during your services. This means you can set your laptop to show your sign feed and it will mirror your live presentation during your service, as any device with a web browser can display sign feeds."

which sounds promising, but then on this page:

https://support.faithlife.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007374331-Show-Your-On-Air-Presentation-In-Signage

it says:

"Note: Going On Air with your sign feed runs your presentation’s slides on screens connected to your computer. On Air presentations won't take over local sign feeds."

Which suggests the presentation will only display on screens connected directly to the presenting computer, not only any device which is connected to the digital sign feed remotely via web browser, which to me seems a bit pointless. Maybe I am misinterpreting and these are not contradictory. Would appreciate some clarification, thanks.

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Jordan Sjodin

Sorry for the confusion! If you have the "show on air option" checked then when viewing the sign feed on the web you will see your onAir presentation!

"Note: Going On Air with your sign feed runs your presentation’s slides on screens connected to your computer. On Air presentations won't take over local sign feeds."

This is a confusing statement. It is referring to an edge case where you run the sign feed from Proclaim itself rather than the online view of it. You can ignore this. And I'll add this article to our list to be revised.

So essentially, you can create a sign feed on Faithlife.com, check the box to show onAir presentations, and then send that link out. Then inside Proclaim go On Air with your presentation and the feed will show your slides everywhere.

Have you seen this article I made? Doing the above aproach would get your slides out there, but no video or audio.

https://support.faithlife.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040523332-Use-Proclaim-and-OBS-to-Livestream-to-YouTube

This article shows how you can livestream with some free tools! And show your slides alongside a live video

David Yeh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1091837#Comment_1091837

Thank you for your response; yes, I did see that article! We're not ready to go that far yet, this is just a preliminary step, but maybe eventually!

So if I understand, if we create a sign feed, click the "show on air option", then anyone who connects via web browser from anywhere to that link will be able to see the slides when they go on air? That is what I am looking for, I will try it out.

I do have to ask though, maybe this is not how Proclaim works, but it isn't it theoretically possible for two different computers to be running Proclaim logged into the same account, but going On Air with two different presentations? How would the sign feed know which presentation to present?

Thanks.

Jordan Sjodin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1091839#Comment_1091839

You’re welcome!

Yes, that is a possibility and I believe right now it would take the most recent one. In the future we would like to add more fine grained control here

David Yeh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1091840#Comment_1091840

Thanks, I think that clears things up. I'll post back if I run into any problems.

Incidentally, on the other thread "Live Streaming with Proclaim?", your final post was "Yup that sounds good! If you wanted songs included that is where you start needing to look at licenses", can you explain what you mean by this?

Jordan Sjodin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1091841#Comment_1091841

Sorry, when he asked if it was free and easy I said yes because he mentioned he was not going to stream songs

Due to copyright, if you stream songs, you will need to have a license to do so, unless the songs are older, public domain songs. So if you wanted to stream your worship for instance.

CCLI SongSelect and others have streaming licenses for this purpose. So if you wanted to live stream your worship, you would need to look into purchasing one of those to stay legal.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1091843#Comment_1091843

CCLI SongSelect and others have streaming licenses for this purpose. So if you wanted to live stream your worship, you would need to look into purchasing one of those to stay legal.

It might be different in different regions but I have been advised that if you are live streaming using either Facebook Live or YouTube you don’t need an additional licence as they have their own for this purpose.