Zachs website is redferriswheel.com and these videos are 720p High definition .mov files – all available to download for free.

The videos are great for day to day use – where you want some color and a little movement happening in your backgrounds but don’t want to be distracting to the congregation.

Zach seems like a top bloke – more in his website.

As a result, there are people making video loops for this purpose. They tend to be in HD resolutions and an wmv format. It occurred to me that these may be useful for use in Church settings… and it seems many are!

Google search for something like ‘dreamscene video’  and you’ll find websites with these videos to download. Most of the time they are free and the license is quite open, and just limited to ‘non-commercial’

I’ll be adding some of these sites to the MotionShare.com resources page.

For more info about DreamScene, visit Microsoft’s page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/About-Windows-DreamScene

MotionShare.com is a website where people can share videos that they have created – video loops, motion backgrounds, VJ video, countdowns etc can be uploaded and shared – the kind of videos that churches use and create. The other side, of course, is that it’s a place do download free media, without license and copyright problems… more is explained on the site.

Most things are working, eg Video uploads, Forum etc… We hope to launch mid/late January – in the mean time, you are able to register, upload and download videos…

Happy exploring!

• Single Candle Loop
• Single Candle on the side, Loop
• Single Night-Light type candle
• Four Candles in a row (Darker version for song word background)

Names of God Video

Names of God videos are quite popular and very useful for projecting on big screens or walls etc… I decided I’d spend some time making a few loops -- I’ll use them myself and I’ll also over them for free for others to download and use however they like…

Information:

This video fades and scrolls various names of God across the screen, and another version the grow in size as they fade in and out. The names are all in the same font, they are in various sizes and move in various ways -- left to right, right to left, up and down -- you get the idea! The video is 1 minute 23 seconds long, and is loopable -- as in the end frame matches the first frame, so you can play the video endlessly -- if you wanted to!

I’ll be using this video and videos like it to project on to walls, I suspect I’ll adapt them, so expect more to follow!

The sound track was something I picked up at http://binarybeats.com -- it may not work for you, but I’m sure you can change it!

Previews:

Larger Text Version, text moving sideways:

Lots of names of God moving across the screen -- Download options below…

Smaller Text Version, text moving sideways:

This is the same as the above video, but the names are about 50% small in size. Download options below…

Text moving forwards

Rather than the names moving side to side, they move forwards, or enlarge as they fade in and then fade out. Download options below…

Downloads:

You can download and use these videos for free in various formats -- you can also edit them as you wish:

M2V are MPEG 2, Blu-ray HDTV
M4V are H264 HDTV
WMV are Windows Media.

If you use the video then please leave a comment, if you have any ideas or suggestions then please leave a comment. If you adapte it, then please let me know as I’d like a copy