Posts Tagged ‘Worship VJ’

150+ High Definition Abstract Background Loops Free

June 15th, 2010

I’ve recently come across the website by Zach Fonville – he creates some great looping backgrounds – mostly of the slow/subtle variety – so more friendly on the eyes than what the Youth are after nowadays!

Free background loops

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.

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DreamScens – a Source of HD Video Loops

April 29th, 2010

It’s probably old news to some – I’m still sticking to Windows XP you see… There is a thing called DreamScene – which is a part of Vista Ultimate Edition, which allows you to have a video as your desktop ‘wallpaper’.

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

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VJing @Church with GrandVJ and Ohm64

March 27th, 2010

Just a quick post, we had youth worship event last night, about 180 kids, and I mixed visuals, projected on the front wall with GrandVJ and the Ohm64 controller…

View from Below

View from Below (click for larger view)

View from Above

View from Above (click for larger view)

I’ll post again later on with more info on how I got on with the software and hardware – but overall it was very good, having 8 channels of video to mix with is great, and the ease of use makes selecting videos quick… during one song I did have 7 layers of video in use at the same time!

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Video Mixing Software and Hardware

March 12th, 2010

I have a collection of video loops, backgrounds, footage etc, and I like to mix/blend them during worship events, as “Worship VJ”.

I started mixing VHS tapes (eg the original Images for Worship VHS tapes from onbd.org), with a Panasonic MX50 mixer connected to a couple VHS players. This was great with lyrics keyed in over the top…. I started doing this about 12 years or so ago…

Now I have a growing collection of video files and have been looking for the best way to locate, mix and control video mixing of these files – mpgs, movs etc…

I have recently been using 2 laptops with their SVIDEO output connected to an Edirol video mixer, and then connect the output of the edirol to a projector.

However, I’ve been looking for a better solution, and I’ve decided on this:

Software Mixer: Arkaos Grand VJ

Arkaos GrandVJ

MIDI Controller: Livid Instruments Ohm64

Ohm64

They are currently on order, but the idea is, that the software can mix 8 channels of videos, and apply effects etc and more, and using the MIDI controller will make make the physical mixing/settings etc quick and easy…

I’ll post back with how it goes, I have an event on March 28 at which I’ll be using this…

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Jesus Text Videos (free download)

November 20th, 2009

Jesus zoom and spin videoI’ve made some simple and short videos using the text ‘Jesus’, you can have them too if you like!

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Moon Video

November 6th, 2009

free moon videoI’m not sure if you ever wanted a moon video, but here is one you can have for free!!

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Free Names of God Looping Video (High Definition)

October 9th, 2009
Names of God Video

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… » Read more: Free Names of God Looping Video (High Definition)

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