One of my constant frustrations is that we struggle to use all the media we can find at our different ministry environments at Romeo. We feel like we always want to push the envelope and shape the culture around us instead of being a church that responds 2-3 years after the fact.
In the last two days we’ve jumped past two big obstacles.
- We couldn’t use stuff from YouTube in MediaShout. For whatever reason, we just struggled to get a stable enough file to use consistently.
- We couldn’t use every DVD. For some reason MediaShout struggled with certain types of DVDs which is quite frustrating. Even if we could get it to work, it was just one DVD per service as changing discs wasn’t pretty.
This week I’ve managed to find solutions to both problems.
- Enter vConvert. This allows me to easily convert a YouTube video or any other format I find online into a format I can easily use in MediaShout… like Windows Media’s .wmv.
- Enter Pinnacles Movie Box. This allows me to easily import any analog signal onto our video PC and capture it. So let’s say we want to show a clip from a movie. (and we obtain permission to do so) I can run it from a DVD player and capture the clip I want in Windows Movie Maker easily.
Both of these tools will help us in the back of the house on the production side of things. It both makes our lives a lot easier and will make the whole presentation much more stable. I’m very happy to pass along these as recommendations!
Mega kudos to myhook-ups on these tips. Patti for the Movie Box and Tim for vConvert.
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