fall retreat challenge video #2

here's the second of three challenge videos describing various challenges that will happen at the beginning of each worship gathering during our fall retreat.

the retreat videoes

as i have posted over the past couple of entries i have mentioned some of the animations i've made for our fall retreat that is coming up next weekend. to goof off a little before each gathering we're going to starteach one with a random "up front" game. to add a little most ziest to these games i've set up sound effects for each one and i am working on videoes to introduce each one. i finished the rough draft on the first one today. this is just the rough cut of the video. i'll be making more changes tomorrow.

swish #2 & other programs

yesterday i posted two of the three intros i had created for our fall retreat using swish. i just finished the third intro a few seconds ago and therefore thought i would post it here also.

here's the intro:

• reFUEL
  

as i have said earlier - i love swish. it is more than powerful enough for the things i need to do and yet simple enough that it doesn't take me forever to create something.

since i'm talking about programs that i enjoy using i figure i'll post a few of my favorite programs that are probably running on my desktop or laptop at this very moment:

• swish - shockwave flash animation
  
• adobe photoshop elements - photoshop lite - does most everything i need from layers to nef conversion for a 1/4 of the price of the real thing.
  
• keynote - mac powerpoint - i use it on my laptop.
  
• a href="http://wbloggar.com/">w.bloggar - blogging client - it's free and it's great. i just wish it was available for my mac.
  
• mozilla firefox - the greatest browser around on windows or mac (though i do like safari on the mac also).
  
• audacity - free mutlitrack digital recorder.
  
• itunes - i was originally all about realplayer but buying an ipod swapped me over
  

[Listening to: Down Under - Men at Work - Contraband: The Best of Men at Work (3:41)]

swish

i love swish. i like to use it for making intros for messages and variou other things within a worship service or experience. today i worked on a couple of intros for the three worship services that are a part of our fall retreat in a couple of weeks.

here they are:

• re:CEIVE
  
• re:COMMIT
  

in your browser they will loop but in mediashout they work just fine.

haggard

i've been avoiding the whoole haggard thing but i do want to say that i like the letter that haggard wrote taking all the blame for the situation & i like mark driscoll's post on the whole situation.