Yay – My Birthday came early this year. I’ve wanted a Kodak Zi8 since I first read the reviews of it posted on C|Net a few months ago. Well I found it on sale at Target and picked one up tonight. The price seemed quite reasonable and the video quality seemed to be pretty nice for a mini-cam.
I’ve only played around with it a little tonight (before I even got it home) and I couldn’t wait to load up the video and see how things were looking. You can check out two videos I made with it below.
It took less than 10 minutes to create this and it has a few more features that I only tried out a little. It’s another neat way to share photos – especially as a time line or in a chronological order.
This summer I attended a workshop at the Willow Creek Arts Conference this Summer. Jason Hatley of the Journey Church led an AWESOME workshop that was the foundation for this event. I just wanted to share with you the exciting news about our first Worship Arts Reception. We had 45 RSVP’s but only 20 of those who RSVP’d showed up. However we had 60 people come to the reception unregistered totaling at LEAST 80 in attendance. The room was PACKED!
I Love this video. it speaks in simple ways about the awesome things that God has called us to. “How can we worship more than singing?” is a question we have to ask regularly.
Right now, I’m knee deep in planning an Arts Reception for all the creative, musical, artistic types at my church. My hope is to empower as many people as possible to connect with our church and use their gifts and to connect with other individuals who share their passions. I’m extremely excited about the potential of what could come from people gifted by God to do creative things getting together to spread the Gospel, provoke thought and action, and to communicate the heart of God.
Keep me in your prayers as I can get a little overwhelmed with the minute details (that I don’t really need to worry about). I know that God is in control and working things out wonderfully according to his plan. If you’re in the Chicago area on August 30th, I’d love to see you there! You can get details at WCarts.eventbright.com!
Wow – that’s my response to my first experience with Multi-Track recording on the iPhone using FourTrack (Apple app store link). It’s pretty impressive what I was able to do with little to no difficulty! I really could have invested more time into making a better recording, but I just wanted to see how difficult it would be. This was SUPER easy and intuitive for me. I actually had some nostalgia thinking of my Dad and how he would have loved something like this. He spent hours creating and recording his own music with various forms of technology.
Anyway, check out my first recording. I’ll be the first to say, the pitch is a bit off – but that’s my fault for not getting a key center before I started recording. This was just for fun.
Technical notes: this is actually a 6-track recording that after ‘bouncing’ or re-recording all the separate channels into one channel I imported into Audacity to add reverb and convert to mp3 format.
I did begin to get memory usage warnings, but that was only after recording a 4th track and I never experienced any trouble recording. There were a few times where the program would lock up during playback, but exiting using the home key and returning to the program loaded everything again without error.
Transferring the files via WiFi went without a hitch as well. I can see this app consuming hours of my creative time.
I’ve wanted a Kodak Zi8 since I first read the reviews of it posted on C|Net a few months ago. Well I found it on sale at Target and picked one up tonight. The price seemed quite reasonable and the video quality seemed to be pretty nice for a mini-cam.
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