Posted by Rick Merrill on 06/20/07 12:47

edgoad@gmail.com wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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? Can I pre-edit the video to combine the sources
> to allow easy transition from one to another?
>
> Any help would be great. Thanks.
>


There are a few (large, wealthy) churches that use a video server such
as imageserver 2000 (360systems) to capture and playback. This lets you
set 'in' and 'out' points very easily for a clip.

There are simpler, cheaper video capture methods to grab video frames
to computer and playback. Once you have the capture you can edit.

Some of the web playback are in 'flash' format, so you have to play it
on a computer, capture the video output from the computer and go from
there - not the simplest method but workable for short materials.

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