A bit like a you tube site (without the legal restrictions – you do realise that you shouldn’t be playing you tube videos in church services?) but with the option to download the original video file…

If you’re interested, then let me know – leave a comment below!

Timelapse App

Making a time-lapse video can sometimes be tricky – however, the iPhone can make this easy!

‘Timelapse’ is an App that you can get in the iTunes store that will create a timelapse video for you!

The program will take a photo at a defined intervals and store them in the usual photo library so you can copy them to your computer and then use the images to create a timelapse  video.

Here is an example video:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efE-M-8bwNM]

Screenshot:

iPhone Timelapse screenshot

From Photos to Video

How to make a time lapse video from a series of still photos in Windows Movie Maker? Read on!

Once you have the photos, you’ll be wanting to turn the individual photos in to a time-lapse video.

This can easily be done in Windows Movie Maker (which comes included for free with Windows XP/Vista etc)

1. Set the default duration for photos to be way less than the default 5 seconds – otherwise the time lapse will be boringly too long:
   1. Go to Tools – Options
   2. Click the Advanced Tab
   3. Set the default Duration for picture to be 0.125 seconds rather than 5 seconds
2. Import the pictures:
   1. Go to File – Import in to collections.
   2. Go to where your images are
   3. Click on the first image image, and on the keyboard press “Ctrl A” to highlight all the images.
   4. Click on ‘Import’
3. Put the photos in to the Timeline:
   1. Click on one of the images
   2. On your keyboard, as before press “Ctrl A” to highlight all of them
   3. Left click and drag and drop the images on the timeline at the bottom
4. Test
   1. Pressing play should play your new time-lapse video!
5. Export
   1. Go to: File – Save Movie File
   2. Go through the wizard to save the file as a video file

You can create 30 second clips for free, and you can pay for full-length and DVD quality movies of your work.

They have recently added video support – so as well as photographs you can add video in to the slide show.

From a church presentation point of view, this is a quick and easy way to make a great looking slide show of a recent church event, perhaps a weekend away or some other special event.

Update – As of the summer 2009, you can now upload and include video footage in the animation. – therefroe you can mix photos with short video clips recorded on a camera or a mobile phone etc.

With CamStudio, a free (open source) software program, you can, and it’s pretty easy to convert a powerpoint presentation in to a video file!

CamStudio is a screen recording program, a very good one indeed, and being free makes it even better. It basically records what’s on the screen, so you just need to press record, and then play the presentation as usual and it will make a video file. You then then edit the video or convert it to flv/mpg and so on! It’s a ppt2flv or ppt2mpg program!

http://camstudio.org/

DVD to iPod is a free program that easily converts a DVD to iPod or PSP format. – It can actually convert to MJPEG, MPEG 2 or XviD.

http://dvd-to-ipod.sf.net