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• Here Is Our King - David Crowder Band
• Let Me Sing - Todd Fields
• Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin
• Another Hallelujah - Lincoln Brewster

Both services went great today.  We introduced a new song “Let Me Sing”.  I think Gary heard it at the Drive conference a month or so back.  It’s a great song and seemed to go down really well.

Here’s the video of Come Thou Fount from NHC, 04 May 2008. 

[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5g41OEFUS4]

I’d been trying all week to pull this footage from DVD and put it on YouTube, but Adobe Premiere (Elements) was giving me jip. 

I downloaded a trial version of Sony Vegas 8 Platinum and give it a whirl.  You are supposed to be able to import straight from the DVD, but that didn’t work for me.  Apparently the DVD needs to be finalized for that to work - I don’t know if our church DVDs are or not.

So, I loaded up Super and converted the VOB to Mpeg2 and brought the Mpeg2 into Vegas.  I’d tried this step already in Premiere with unsatisfactory results, but it worked a treat in Vegas.  I cut the section I needed, added title, fades and rendered it to Windows Media 9 format for upload to YouTube.

I found a great YouTube channel (guerillabill) with loads of Vegas how-to videos.  I used tips from this video to customize the render for YouTube - except I kept the output size to 640×480 instead of the suggested 320×240.

I have to say, I was impressed by the final file size and quality of the Windows Media 9 file.  I normally use xvid/divx to keep the files under 100mb.  The Windows Media 9 file that I uploaded to YouTube was 28mb!

(There’s a $30 mail-in rebate offer available on Amazon for Vegas 8 until the end of May.  I ordered my copy this morning!)

YouTube Direct Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5g41OEFUS4