Comments on: Using video to communicate youth group news (2 of 2)

By: The Best Announcement Video Ever!! Until You Make Yours!

The Best Announcement Video Ever!! Until You Make Yours! — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:35:49 +0000

[...] My friend Tim Schmoyer has two great articles for making youth group video announcements Here and Here [...]

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:46 +0000

@SJBYouthGuy: Yeah, they’ve been working fairly well. I plan to keep with them for a while, although, because of the time commitment, I may start doing it every other week or so. Haven’t decided yet.

By: SJBYouthGuy

SJBYouthGuy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:17:10 +0000

Hey Tim…so did these videos work 4 ur youth group or what? Hehe, I’m really excited to try it, but I’m curious if you found that it helped. God bless!

By: brandon riley

brandon riley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:44:48 +0000

we have implemented LT in our latest lyf video announcements – search lyf student ministry in itunes and look for the vodcast

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Your new co-host is now free and very stylish | — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:46:52 +0000

[...] to Tim Schmoyer’s post here I found LT. I really don’t know what took me this long to discover this site. Crowd [...]

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:37:05 +0000

@Gary: Yeah, Eric in the comments above was looking for it, too. Maybe it’s not available there anymore, I dunno. *shrugs*

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:30:52 +0000

The video intro that I was trying to find was the one with the gray buildings and the red line running thru it. I looked on iStockPhoto and could not find it. Can you help

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:35:26 +0000

@Gary: I linked to that site under “1. Intro Video” in the post above. Check out that site for intro videos.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:28:14 +0000

Where can you find the opening video for the youth news?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:29:51 +0000

Correction – that was version 1 of the Hip Hop dancer, below is version 2 (which Tim uses I think):

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/people/3362646-silhouette-hip-hop-dancer-v2-hd.php?id=3362646

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:27:24 +0000

@ Eric – I found it (came up on first page under search for teenager in video category):

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/people/3362644-silhouette-hip-hop-dancer-v1-hd.php?id=3362644

Dan

By: eric

eric — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:33:05 +0000

i would use your video in a hearbeat and not even feel bad about it if i could just find it. I’m sure ill come up with it though. thanks for your help on everything i’m on this site probably everyday checking out your new stuff

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:38:50 +0000

@eric: I don’t know of any other sites to recommend right off the top of my head, but if you Google something like “royalty free video” or something like that, I’m sure you’ll come up with other sites. Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from using the same intro I use, either. If you like it that much, just buy it and use that same clip yourself. You’re not stealing from me. :-)

By: eric

eric — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:29:05 +0000

hey i’m struggling to find anything this cool on istock, do you know of anywhere else to look. I’m actually trying to make a sweet intro video for youth service.

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:28:10 +0000

@eric: I don’t remember, but it was probably, “teenagers” or something like that. *shrugs*

By: eric

eric — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:25:17 +0000

hey tim i was curious what you searched for to find that cool video on istock. ive looked around and found some decent ones but none that cool. Thanks for all your help

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:32:20 +0000

Thanks for the TubeTV link. That’s a new one for me!

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:10:19 +0000

@Russ Bowlin: No, but that would be fun to do! The only reason I don’t right now is because of the time element involved with meeting up and pulling it all together. It adds a high level of complication. It’s easiest right now for me just to crank ‘em out myself, but hopefully that would be something I can start doing in the future as I figure out if these videos are actually more effective than email and Facebook messages.

By: Russ Bowlin

Russ Bowlin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:04:44 +0000

so, your videos are all self made? do you ever have youth assist you in making videos?

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:00:05 +0000

@Justin: iMovie ‘08 has the lower-thirds built-in, but other than that you can get away with iMovie HD just fine. In fact, I prefer iMove HD’s timeline to ‘08 actually. It took me a while to get used to ‘08 since I’ve always used a standard timeline, but I can see how ‘08 is more user-friendly for first-time video creators.

By: -Justin-

-Justin- — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:56:33 +0000

Wow Tim, this is great. Thanks!

I use iMovie 06 for all of our video. What do you think about the newest version? Is it worth the upgrade to iMovie 08?

By: MoreThanDodgeball.com

MoreThanDodgeball.com — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

(see an example here ). Plus, our news videos are viewed by all our teenagers’ friends online when I include our youth group kids in the videos and tag them in Facebook. More on using video to communicate youth group news part 1 andpart 2, as well as a free youth group news video intro. JG Related posts: Programming the Group Youth Ministry Conference Using Video in Your Ministry The Best Youth Ministry Website in the World