Basic Video How-To...

Where to begin....

• Overview at Wikipedia.org (and great links, ideas, etc.)
• Entire Video & TV Production Process -- the heart of our Video Workshop.
• YouTube Video Tool Box -- with lots of great planning, shooting and editing advice.  [Another great page for quickly learning YouTube skills]
• WindowsMovieMaker Classes.... video classes online. And several very useful Articles there (listed down the page a ways) -- great place to learn.  And here's a different forum to learn some tricks/tips... such as separating audio from video.
• How about Professor Michael Wesch's insightful VIDEO report about his college students learning to video? 
• And watch some of his students' videos -- what can be learned from them?
• Specialty Video Types -- eg Screencast.  [overview at Wikipedia] Comparison of Screencasting Software  (Favorite so far: CamStudio ).  BenMcCann favorite Jing.

Great Examples of Using Videos in Ministry:

• Video-conferencing (see our Teleconferencing page)
• Submit your short video-clip testimony to Yibelieve.com.
• Here's a good example of a Youth Pastor leveraging the power of YouTube, to prep his students for their upcoming Short-term Missions Trip.  "Extras To Bring". 
• Here's Ken Ham's video series on-demand... and a new video is added weekly.  (AnswersinGenesis.org is perhaps the most innovative ministry online today.... video's, podcasting, blogging.)
• Here's a great video produced by Bryan Hudson -- an Indianapolis urban pastor who runs a Media Camp each summer.  And here's their YouTube site.  He produced this one for his daughter as she graduated from high school.  And it's way-worth watching in entirety.  As you do, note the "Failed Film" sketch... done by Christine and her friends.  Is there a point in all this?  Did she get her $120,000 college scholarship just because of her video capabilities?  No, but might there be a gem of wisdom somewhere in all this?
• Or here... from nearby Carmel, Indiana... a short, to-the-point, video introduction(s) to The ROCC.  And then using videos to prompt discussions all week long on our behind-the-scenes social-networking site... MyROCC.org.
• Example of how YouTube can be of IMMEDIATE value in urgent ministry situation.  Simple Way fire in Philly.  Distribute video via email & blogs.
• Tim Bednar, Plaid Blog... lists a number of organizations/sites producing stock video for ministries.
• Idea... CBMC guys shooting short video-clips from local coffee-shops...   eg... "Where In The World Is Eldon?".   Scene might look like a Paul/Timothy weekly get-together.  Or inviting neighbohood pastors to have coffee together, etc.

Other Helpful Links 

• YouTube.com
• HowTo YouTube 
• Stickam.com
• BlogTV.com -- grab a webcam and start your own tv show.
• Mogulus.com -- 'Ask Anything Saturday TV' is going to start with Mogulus.  Try it.
• Dan Heinrich's "Tips for Shooting Better Online Video"
• WeShow -- Collaborative Video-bin among social group
• Kaltura -- Collaborative Video editing.
• Guide to Internet Video Publishing [ht: Tim Bednar]
• DXG-506V Video Cam $99 -- saw 'em at Office Depot 
• 12 Screencasting Tools
• Orbiter -- great little program to easily grab/download videos off the web.
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•  Video tags. 
• Podcasting

Here's a couple of videos Scott generated at the cafe during our "Ask Anything Saturday" techmission program.

• Video about camcording and posting at Stickam.  The beauty of it is that we can use video even as part of our learning experience there together... capturing it for others to also learn from.