Before you consider the videocasting the entire service make sure it's legal. What is the copyright on the songs sung in your services? Do you have permission to broadcast them? Most churches don't. They have a license to print the lyrics. Broadcasting those same songs legally different.













So I've been working with setting up an audio and video podcast for the church I belong to. My question is: should a video podcast include the entire worship service? It's a medium sized, traditional church so there are announcements and prayer requests spoken aloud.
I just don't know how appropriate it is to include the more sensitive content on the internet. Basically we have a 2-camera recording setup that burns to DVDs. We have a duplicator and send the copies out to shut-ins and others. I have just been ripping these DVDs, croping out the sermon audio to a podcast and then encoding and compressing the video and put it in a separate podcast feed. Any thoughts?