Greg Atkinson

Highway Video is having a “Back to School” DVD Sale!

There are only 3 days left to save BIG on sermon & worship DVDs! Only $25 through Sunday!

The fall season is almost upon us, and the busy season is definitely ramping up. Highway thought they’d help you get ahead of the crunch. All of their DVDs and Christmas DVDs are only $25 through Sunday!

* Highway Video DVD Volumes ————— $25.00 each (regularly $75.00)

* Vibe Video DVD Volumes ——————- $25.00 each (regularly $75.00)

* Elements Volumes ————————– $35.00 each (regularly $112.50)

Each Highway and Vibe DVD comes with FIVE great videos. That’s only $5 per video! That’s right! Change hard drives or change computers and these babies will still be on your shelf, ready to use! Element Volumes come with at least 20 video clips. (That’s just a little over a buck per video!) Stock up for Christmas. Stock up for Easter. Highway is making it easy and inexpensive to get ahead in your planning and stock up your church’s media library.

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I’m writing an article about my Top Ten media producers/filmmakers. Highway is definitely in my Top Ten. This is a great opportunity to acquire all their content.

BONUS:

Spend over $50 at Igniter Media or WorshipHouse Media and receive a FREE year subscription to Collide Magazine!

Igniter Media Group is offering a FREE download everyday until July 21st. You’d be crazy to not hit this up.

I received a couple of video request sheets from 2 of you, but would still like to receive more. Please send me what you use at your church.

BONUS:

Check out the latest from FortyOneTwenty. 5 new stills and 1 new min-movie have just been posted to the site. Recently, they have focused on creating some backgrounds that really help your words pop off the screen - their new Brown collection does just that.

Also, be sure to check out “Enthroned”, a powerful new mini-movie illustrating the process of preparing our souls for God to take His rightful place. By the way, they’d love to get some feedback on them! Email them at support@fortyonetwenty.com.

EXTRA:

Have you heard of Virb? I think it’s a really cool site, worth checking out!

I’m back home after attending my family reunion in South Carolina. The highlight of my trip was spending time with my mom and step-dad, my sister’s family and visiting Brookwood Church, where I visit whenever I’m in town. I enjoyed talking with their youth pastor and senior pastor. The family reunion was so-so. My brother, who I haven’t seen or heard from in 3 years was there. He said “Hi” and “Bye” - that’s about it. My kids didn’t even know who he was. That’s life. We all come from various family backgrounds and dynamics. We all need prayer. I know I do.

BONUS:

• Get FREE “Evan Almighty” video clips from SermonSpice.com HERE.
• Get a cool liquid distressed motion background from WorshipHouse HERE.

For my column on Monday Morning Insight yesterday I wrote an article called “The Big Picture”. I think it’s a good reminder for us all. You can read it HERE.

BONUS:

This month’s FREE Audiobook of the Month is the “Best of Jonathan Edwards Sermons”. The Jonathan Edwards trilogy includes three of the most important sermons ever preached on American soil. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is maybe the most important and well-known sermon of his, but also included is A Divine and Supernatural Light describing and illuminating what Edwards describes as a supernatural light imparted by God. His farewell sermon was given in June of 1750 and is a commendation to those who are in the Lord’s service, a plea to maintain unity, avoid dissension and false doctrine, and a call to devote themselves to prayer.

Use coupon code: JUN2007 to redeem the download format of this audiobook for FREE during the month of June.

I was pleased with the results of last night’s episode of “On the Lot“. I think America got it right and am excited about the remaining directors.

BONUS:

This just in from Jake Ludington: Roxio is well known for making video tools. Their Easy Media Creator suite is a popular solution for editing movies, photos and audio. For some things, like quickly preparing a file for upload to YouTube, a full-fledged editing suite can be more software than you need. Enter Roxio Buzz - an editing tool for quickly cliping a portion of video for upload to YouTube, GoFish, Silverlight, or all three at the same time. The free version of the software supports WMV, AVI, MPEG-1, and QuickTime MOV files. There are additional licensing fees associated with MPEG-2 and various implementations of MPEG-4, like 3gp and h.264, which is why these aren’t included as part of the free solution. For photo slideshows, you can add pan and zoom motion, apply transitions and layer a soundtrack underneath images prior to uploading. While Roxio Buzz does not replace traditional editing tools, it is a nice tool for people who prefer a quick solution for getting their favorite clips from a hard drive to the Web for sharing. It’s worth noting that Roxio Easy Media Creator users should refrain from installing Roxio Buzz at this point because the two have compatibility issues. [Windows 2000/XP/Vista $0.00]

I just landed and am back home in good ‘ol Dallas. I had a great time at the Moody Pastors’ Conference. Over 95% of the men in my classes were senior pastors. It was an honor and joy to share with them and encourage them in the great work they do for the Kingdom.

EXTRA:

SermonSpice is offering a FREE download of the spoken word video, “The Woman at the Well“. I think it’s very cool and usable in a worship service. Check it out HERE.

This just in from Jake Ludington:

Wavosaur is a lightweight audio editing application with VST support. All the basics are covered here, including support for multitrack audio files, trimming, adding effects, making loops, and normalization. Most processing settings are also available for batch conversions, making Wavosaur a handy tool for applying the same settings to a bunch of files. I like are the option to remove silence in a batch, which is a convenient way to speed up spoken word audio without altering pitch. A vocal removal preset also scrubs music files of vocals, so you can make your own karaoke tracks in a batch. The vocal removal doesn’t always get chorus sections perfectly scrubbed, but it shouldn’t hurt your ability to sing over the top of the file. The application runs as a completely standalone executable, meaning you could put it on a thumb drive and use Wavosaur anywhere. The user interface is generally more intuitive than the popular freeware app Audacity, but the two make nice companions rather than being replacements for each other. While Wavosaur doesn’t bundle all the features of things like Sound Forge and Audition, it does most of the common audio tasks well at a price neither of those two apps can touch. [Windows 2k/XP/Vista $0.00]

BONUS:

Jake also thinks Mixcraft is the Windows equivalent to GarageBand. He has searched at length to be able to say that. If you use a PC, I think it’s worth checking out.

It’s good to be back in Dallas. Today is going to be a day of rest and family time for me. I haven’t seen my kids since last Saturday. HERE is a link to a FREE soundpack that you can use on your podcast.

Free DVD authoring software is hard to come by. Many of the FREE apps are buggy. SoThink Movie DVD Maker is among the best of the free solutions available for DVD authoring. The app converts most formats, including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, RMVB, MOV, and 3GP to DVD. Basic video editing features like trimming clips and combining smaller clips into a larger movie are also supported. When your video is ready for DVD you can burn straight to disk. The default video format is PAL, so if you are authoring home movies created in the US, you’ll need to change the defaults for NTSC support. This is especially useful in combination with something like Windows Movie Maker for Windows XP, which includes no DVD burning support. While the app will work with Vista, the Vista DVD Maker application has a better burning engine and far more features for authoring DVDs. Check it out!

BONUS:

SermonSpice is offering FREE illustrations and video clips from Spider-Man 3 (which I’m going to see this afternoon).

The wonderful folks at Passion, including Louie Giglio, have released a special EP to encourage and minister to anyone affected by the events at Virginia Tech and for anyone just searching for hope in this world. To download the songs of hope, go HERE.

EXTRA:

The folks who you brought you Church Marketing Sucks and the Church Marketing Lab can now help you get a job or fill an opening. CFCC is now helping to connect churches and creative professionals with the launch of their job posting sites, the Job Lab and the Freelance Lab. Churches can post listings for full-time job openings as well as freelance projects and creative professionals who want to help the church can find the job or project to make that dream happen.

For a limited time postings are FREE while they bulk up the listings and work out any kinks. Check out the sites and spread the word. For more Center for Church Communication news visit their web site.