Posted by Arny Krueger on 06/20/07 00:47

<edgoad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am involved in a small church that uses a projector
> during the services. Normally this is used to loop a
> powerpoint of upcoming events or display the words of the
> songs we are singing, but more recently they have been
> wanting to use it during the services. Frequently I am
> given a DVD, VHS tape, or a link on YouTube that they
> want played during a point in the service and we keep
> running into problems with various formats and
> starting/stopping. The main problems that I run into are
> the various formats (some copy protected) and setting the
> appropriate start/stop times. Additionally, sometimes I
> need to swap between multiple sources (different youtube
> videos, various chapters in a DVD, etc...

Typical church fare these days.

There are presentation software packages that are marketed to churches that
handle this sort of problem:

One example:

http://www.presentationmgr.com/

They have media playback features that allow you to set start and end
offsets.

> What could you suggest doing here? Is there some kind of
> device that will allow me to capture all these inputs
> into one location and then set start/stop tags?

It's called a video editor. ;-)

> Can I
> pre-edit the video to combine the sources to allow easy
> transition from one to another?

Sure, do it all the time with Adobe Premiere Elements

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