Most youth leaders at some point have wanted to utilize a movie clip or TV show to illustrate a point during a youth sermon. Below are just a few examples of ways to use video or TV - TiVo, etc. in your minsitry.
Please see the helpful legal pages provide by Stanford Universty School of Law (Copy right and Fair Use) and the other links at ChurchMedia.net to help you maintain legal and Christian integrity.
ChurchMedia.net - a helpful page of web links for legal copyright issues
Stanford University School of Law (Copyright & Fair Use)
How to capture and use a Youtube video
(for a picture illustrated version download the pdf version of instructions)
- Go to www.youtube.com and select the video you want to capture.
- Right click and copy the URL ex: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk
- Open another webpage and go to http://kej.tw/flvretriever/
- Once you are at FLV retriever website, paste the URL address into the box from your Youtube video selection. Once pasted into the box, click on RETRIEVE NOW!
- After you click Retrieve Now, the video file address will be captured for conversion.
- Choose the option: save as a new file and then you can rename it as a .flv file
- When prompted, save the file to your desktop or your video file folder.
- Once it is saved, simply go to the file, right click on it and choose rename. Then rename the file you want it to have AND add the file ending .flv (that’s .flv) Once you have renamed the file and saved it as an flv file, you can now convert it to a useable format of your choice
- Open up a converter program such as (www.AVSvideoconverter) www.avs4you.com or another inexpensive or free converter.
- Use the Browse button to retrieve the video that you just renamed to an .flv format file.
- When the file has been retrieved, select the format you desire to convert you video to – such as WMV for using Windows Media Player or MOV for using Quick Time Player. Then click on Convert Now!
- Once the conversion is complete, locate the new video to test it out. Now you can delete the flv file (chances are you will not use it for anything else unless you use an flv video player.
- Finished.
