Tips & Tricks

Sharing perspectives and practical skills we've picked up while producing our products.

Phil Wright

Jul 23
3 min

OBS - A Virtual Education

There are a ton of videos to help you learn this popular streaming platform—here are the ones we recommend.

Phil Wright

Jun 2
4 min

The Church Reopening Checklist

Pretty much every church in the world has been looking forward to the day when they can all meet under the same roof again. But unless yo...

Dinah Wright

May 6
3 min

The Ultimate Guide to Lower Thirds

Inspiration for your lower thirds graphics for your online service.

Building a Virtual Graduation Celebration During COVID-19

Phil Wright

May 5
4 min

Building a Virtual Graduation Celebration During COVID-19

Here's how we'd build an event to honor the class of 2020 during the age of COVID-19.

Three Mother's Day Ideas During COVID-19

Phil Wright

Apr 24
2 min

Three Mother's Day Ideas During COVID-19

Graphic adapted from our Floral Burst collection. I asked my wife if she wanted to write this post. I figured: it's a post about how chur...

3 Types of Social Posts Churches Should Be Creating Every Week

Phil Wright

May 1, 2019
3 min

3 Types of Social Posts Churches Should Be Creating Every Week

“Church social media manager” was a title that really didn’t exist a decade ago. But as the way people connect with each other has change...

The 5 Most Common Mistakes Worship Lyrics Presenters Make

Phil Wright

Oct 8, 2018
5 min

The 5 Most Common Mistakes Worship Lyrics Presenters Make

There’s more to running lyrics on a Sunday morning than slapping some lyrics on top of a cool worship background.

What Is IMAG and When Should You Use It?

Phil Wright

Oct 1, 2018
4 min

What Is IMAG and When Should You Use It?

Most modern churches already have most of the infrastructure they need to use IMAG in their services. But what exactly is it?

Phil Wright

Jun 8, 2018
4 min

Self-Service iPad Video Studio Setup

Watermark Community Church‘s video production team talk through their creative solution to tackling their video studio set up.

Phil Wright

Sep 15, 2017
2 min

What Is A Confidence Monitor?

If you're a worship leader, you've experienced the very problem the confidence monitor is designed to solve.

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