Posting Services online

As many of you probably know, we post our services online at our website, www.elementweb.net. Click on "Watch and Listen" and then click "watch church".

We just discovered a new easy way to post online which has literally saved us hours. If you are a small or new church it really doesn't cost as much as you would think to get your stuff online.

OF COURSE YOU MUST HAVE A MAC! Just Kidding, but really it makes it so much easier.

We run our Canon XL1 with a firewire cable into our Mac Book Pro. (You could do it with any video camera and any mac, thats just what we use). You need to have Quick Time Pro. In QT you can change your preferences to select any audio source and any camera source. We separate an AUX on our soundboard that is designated for recording. We mix the recording using our AUX and then send the AUX to the computer. Then you simply start a new movie recording in QT and make sure you have audio from your sound board and video from your camera and then click record. Its that easy. At the end you save and you post your file online. So simple. Eventually we will do the same thing, only multiple cameras will run into a video switcher and you can select between cameras. It saves so much time because you record in real time directly to the harddrive. So no more waiting while you import all your footage and then sort through it all.

Anyways I thought I would share that info for any groups looking at posting online.

Worshipping Him,
Adam