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Church Media Checklist and Pre-Service Countdown

Church Media Checklist and Pre-Service Countdown

A church media checklist for the booth. Count down to the service, choose your jobs, pin what matters, set your times and print it. Free, in your browser.

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Church Media Checklist and Pre-Service Countdown

Booth Mode

A pre-service countdown checklist for the media booth. Choose your jobs, pin what matters, set your own times and print it.

Service starts at

Pick your service start to count down. 10:00 am is a sample.

10:00 am

Show these jobs

Choose one job or several. Everyone shows all of them. Pinned items always show.

Service starts at 10:00 am. Times are a sample: change them to fit your team.

Do not miss

Your pins, in countdown order. Pin or unpin any item.

Sound check with the people who will use the mics. Listen from the back of the room.30 min before, 9:30 amSound
Starting-soon slide up.15 min before, 9:45 amSlides and lyrics
Start the stream encoder (the software that sends the stream) and check the title and privacy setting. Done when the platform says it is receiving and the audio meters move when someone speaks.15 min before, 9:45 amLivestream
Start the recording. Done when its light or timer is running.10 min before, 9:50 amLivestream
Go live.At the start, 10:00 amLivestream

Midweek

Monday to Saturday. Do these when the room is quiet.

Get the order of service, songs and readings from the worship leader.Slides and lyrics
Build or check the slides. Play every video all the way through.Slides and lyrics
Finish software updates now, not on Sunday morning.Livestream
Charge batteries and check the spares.Sound
Run a private or unlisted test stream (one the public cannot find) with audio and movement.Livestream
Confirm who is serving and who the backup is for each job.Media lead
Send the sermon title, series, speaker and any quotes to whoever makes the week's graphics, early in the week.Graphics and social

Before the service

A countdown to the start. Every time is yours to change.

Arrive. Power on, plug the stream computer into the network with a cable, switch on the computers. Open the streaming account. Have a backup connection ready, such as a phone hotspot.60 min before, 9:00 amLivestreamNext
Open this week's slides and check the songs are in order.60 min before, 9:00 amSlides and lyrics
Put fresh batteries in the wireless mics.60 min before, 9:00 amSound
Run an upload speed test on the stream computer (any free one). Check the stream key is entered and the platform lets you go live.45 min before, 9:15 amLivestream
Check each camera: power, memory card space, tripod locked, framing set.45 min before, 9:15 amCamera and video
Record a short test and play it back on headphones. Done when you hear clear voices from the mixer, not a room mic, and see the picture.20 min before, 9:40 amLivestream
Phones silent. Everyone is at their station. Tell the service leader that media is ready.5 min before, 9:55 amMedia lead

During the service

Glance at these a few times. Write down anything that goes wrong, with the time.

The meters show the program audio moving and not clipping (in the red).Sound
The stream is live and matches what is in the room.Livestream
The next song or reading is ready on the slides.Slides and lyrics
The recording is still running through the sermon.Livestream
Framing follows the speaker. Batteries and memory card space are not low.Camera and video

After the service

Save the recording before you reset or power anything down.

Stop the stream and the recording. Check the Sunday recording plays and is not the test file.Livestream
Copy the recording to a second place and name it with the date and sermon title. Delete the test recording.Livestream
Tell whoever posts during the week the file name, the length and where the recording is saved.Graphics and social
Reset the slides to a blank screen.Slides and lyrics
Power down in reverse order.Sound
Coil cables, put batteries on charge, and write down anything that broke.Media lead

0 of 30 ticked. Showing 30 items. Your pins, jobs, hidden items, edits and ticks stay in this browser on this device. We do not receive or store them.

A tablet-friendly checklist for the media booth in four groups: midweek, before the service, during it and after it. Every item belongs to one of the six jobs on a church media team (slides and lyrics, sound, camera and video, livestream, graphics and social, media lead). You choose what you see: any combination of the six jobs, or everyone, and pinned items always show. You can pin any item to a Do not miss block that lists your pins in countdown order, and hide any item you do not need (hidden items are not deleted, and a count lets you show them again). Five pins are suggested at the start (the sound check, the stream encoder, the starting slide, the recording and going live), and you can unpin them or restore them. You set the service start time and it counts down to it; the before-service items carry a time in minutes before the start and the clock time that works out to, and turn to due when that time passes. The default is a sample, not a standard: a 10:00 am start with 30 items, seven of them midweek and twelve before the service, at 60, 45, 30, 20, 15, 10, 5 and 0 minutes out. Published arrival times vary from 30 to 60 minutes, so change any time to fit your room. You can edit, add and remove items, tick them, print the list as it is or as blank boxes, and reset everything. Your pins, jobs, hidden items, edits, times and ticks stay in your own browser on that device; we do not receive or store them, and after the page has loaded it keeps working without a connection.

How Booth Mode works

Four groups, six jobs
Midweek, before the service, during it and after it. The before group counts down to the start time you set. Every item belongs to one job: slides and lyrics, sound, camera and video, livestream, graphics and social, or media lead.
You decide what you see
Choose any jobs to see their items, or Everyone. Pinned items always show. Pin any item to the Do not miss block, which lists your pins in countdown order, or hide the ones you do not need. Five pins are suggested to start (the sound check, the starting slide, the stream encoder, the recording and going live); unpin them or restore them any time. Hidden items are not deleted.
Times you can change
Each before-service item has a time in minutes before the start, and the clock time that works out to. The sample uses 60, 45, 30, 20, 15, 10, 5 and 0 minutes out. It is general practice, not a standard, because published arrival times vary from 30 to 60 minutes.
Tick, edit, print
Tick items off as you go, and clear the ticks before next Sunday. Edit the list to add, change or remove items, print it as it is or as blank boxes, or reset everything to the sample.
Kept on your device
Your pins, jobs, hidden items, edits, times and ticks are saved in your own browser on that device. We do not receive or store them. Once the page has loaded it keeps working if the connection drops.

Frequently asked questions

There is no standard. Published checklists range from about 30 to 60 minutes before the service, so the sample starts at 60 and every time is yours to change.

Power and network, batteries, cameras, the slides, a sound check, a short test recording and the stream. The sample list puts each one at a time before the start.

No account. After the page has loaded it keeps working if the connection drops, and it never sends your list, ticks or choices anywhere.

Yes: your pins, jobs, hidden items, edits and times stay in your own browser on that device. We do not receive or store them, and clearing the browser's site data removes them.

Yes: pick any jobs, pin or hide any item (pinned items always show), and use Reset to suggested pins or Reset everything to go back.

Yes, as it is on screen or as a sheet of blank boxes with the times and jobs. The blank sheet leaves out hidden items.

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Church Media Checklist and Pre-Service Countdown

Church Media Checklist and Pre-Service Countdown

Booth Mode

Do not miss

Midweek

Before the service

During the service

After the service

How Booth Mode works

Four groups, six jobs

You decide what you see

Times you can change

Tick, edit, print

Kept on your device

Frequently asked questions

Sunday is saved. Now the week.

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