Steeple Cast

Steeple Cast turns a few iPhones and an iPad into a live production system for your church. Volunteers point the phones. One person runs the whole service from the iPad. It mixes the audio from your sound board for the people watching at home, and streams to YouTube. It was built for one church's Sundays before it was offered to anyone else, and it is designed around the things that actually go wrong on a Sunday morning. MULTI-CAMERA, WITHOUT A CAMERA BUDGET • iPhones become wireless cameras over your own Wi-Fi. Older iPhones work too. • A preview and program switcher on the iPad, with a Take button and tally lights on every phone, so operators know the moment they are live. • Auto-switching, either on a pattern you choose or by following whoever is speaking, with a countdown on the next camera so its operator is never caught moving. • Zoom and exposure lock from the iPad, and a level…