At the Campus Ministers’ Conference in Atlanta last weekend, Curt Harlow stuck a video camera in my face and told me to be profound. You can see my best effort in a two-minute video at chialpha.com.
Before you cast any stones–try being profound on the spot. It’s not as easy as you might think. In fact, it’s only due to the editing genius of Curt Harlow that I didn’t come off looking like a raving lunatic.
Anyway, I highly recommend that you poke around the video blog archives. There’s some good stuff there.
If you’re a minister, know that there are several outstanding sermon/sunday school ideas you can *ahem* borrow.
If you want to use one of these video snippets in your meetings (as a call to worship or to illustrate a sermon point) here’s how to integrate it into PowerPoint.
1) Upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro. It’ll cost you thirty bucks and you can do it online in seconds.
2) Open the mov file in QuickTime Pro and click File/Export to export it as an avi file.
3) You can now either insert it into PowerPoint or edit it in Windows Movie Maker (free with Windows XP). Be sure to download the latest version.
If you’re using a Macintosh, you can probably just insert it into PowerPoint without dinking around.
I used the one titled “Gross Stuff phone booth dvdrip ” this week to open the meeting, and it worked really well.