Rocketstone

If you use the NextGEN plugin and want to have a border (or frame) around it, I have found that the following code seems to work well:

<div style=”border: 12px solid black; width: 600px; height: 450px;”>[ slideshow id=2 ]</div>

(Note: In the example above I have put an extra space after the opening and before the closing square brackets to stop NextGEN from actually showing the slideshow in this post)

To get this to work for me, I also have the Slideshow settings in NextGEN set to 600 x 450 and ‘Stretch Image’ set to False.

This is the set up in Lansdowne’s media room. continue reading…

Every podcast needs an RSS feed that describes the podcast and its ‘enclosures’ (audio or video files). The feed is actually just a simple file in XML format, but this can be quite difficult to edit and set up and will require someone with specialist knowledge or a software tool to do this easily.

Thankfully, there is an easier way to create a feed.
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Each service at Lansdowne, we record the following:

• The audio of the message on cassette tape x 2 (for disaster recovery)
• The message on CD via an audio CD recorder
• The whole service video (and audio) on DVD via a DVD recorder
• The whole service video (and audio) on Super VHS tape (for disaster recovery)

We used to rip the CD as the main audio source, and if you’re interested in producing just an audio podcast continue reading…

The setup for webcasting Lansdowne’s Sunday services is very simple.

We take a composite signal from the main DVD recorder and feed this via a switch box to the PCs TV capture card (which has a composite video input). continue reading…

I am involved in webcasting the live services each weekend from my church: Lansdowne Baptist Church, Bournemouth, England.

The good news is that you can do most of this for free, assuming you have the necessary internet connection and hardware. There should be no ongoing costs.

We have a two camera setup, data feed and live subtitling for song words and captions. Typically, each Sunday, there will be a team of between six or seven people involved.
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