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Video Wave. I purchased the Roxio Suite and it came with Video Wave. I've put together many great looking videos using this program. It's biggest draw back, like so many lower end programs is you can only work with one video track, but it works very well. What I like most that you can create great looking DVD menus and how Video Wave works seamlessly with all the programs in the Roxio Suite. Adobe Premiere Elements - I have been using Elements for years. It's a scaled down versoin of the full program but has always allowed me to do everything I've ever wanted to do. I like that you can add multiple video layers along with multiple audio layers. It will let you use blue or green screen effects to name just a few. Elements also has some pre-made DVD menus included to build fun DVDs without a separate program. MULTIQUENCE - This is a program from the makers of Goldwave. It is flexible multi-track digital audio and video mixing program. This is great when prerecording puppet scripts and creating a Audio CD.
Glo - Here's a great Bible study program. Review coming soon. PC Study Bible 3.0 Ok, if you are to only have one program you want one like this. PC Study Bible has a macro that launches in Microsoft Word. Simply type the Bible reference, click the icon, and the specific text is dropped into your document. You can define your default Bible version for the program to use. If you spend much time writing your own lessons, this program or one like it is well worth the money. This program is created by the folks at Bible Soft. iLumina - You've simple got to see this program to appreciate it. It combines electronic Bibles, commentaries, and other resource works with virtual and video tours of the holy lands. Video footage include interviews with Bible Archaeologists, satellite images of the holy lands and much more. Also included, are some incredible computer generated animations of some of your favorite Bible stories. Hook up a projector or TV to your computer and you've got one incredible teaching tool. e-sword - Here's a incredible little Bible program. Okay, it's not really that little, but it is incredible. You can download various Bible translations, commentaries, dictionaries, and graphics files for this program. You can read a translation, parallel two translations or compare a verse in various translations and much more. Oh, and did I mention it's free! There's also a download for those of us with a Pocket PC PDA.
Animation Station - though not actual software, this is a membership site with some of the highest quality animated pictures for your every web need. Well worth the yearly membership. They have also started posting great Power Point templates and backgrounds, not to mention their still photo selections. Animation Station has now added video backgrounds for DVD menus (though I've been using them to make intro videos and commercials for our children's church - just dump them into your favorite video editing program!). Adobe Photoshop
Elements
- Here's an incredible digital picture editor! This is a scaled down version
to the full program (which was much more expensive!) and does what I need it to
do. Check out what your needing in an editing program and see if Elements will
work. Lots of tools in the package. Look for it on sale and save even more!
N Spire - This software lets you keep up to date info on all your kids, volunteers, record event stats, keep up with your personal library, create a resource database, and track attendance. Add on their attendance program (Attenda Plus) and check kids in and out of programs, create automatic roll sheets, name tags incorporating barcode scanning capabilities with all. N Spire lets you ad photos to each kid's file, associate households, families and has user defined tabs and menus. The Messenger program comes in really handy to remind me of birthdays. I've found if I set the Messenger to look ahead two days, then I have time get a card in the mail and to their house before their birthday. [May 2003] - We have just gone with NSpire for our entire church database, not just the children. Our office computers are networked together. So far, we're still getting data entered. Already I can see the great resources it will provide when all the ministers can access information on families, find out who's not been at services. I know for my ministry to children it's great! [Nov. 2004] We've completely integrated NSpire. We are now generating weekly absentee lists and list of those who've missed 4 weeks in a row. It's really helping us keep up with people. We've also begun using their new contribution addition. Still waiting to be able to download to my Pocket PC .[2005] They now have a way to sync customizable info on my kids to my Pocket PC. I love it. Our secretary loves the contributions element, it's so much easier to use and print out info than what we had before. Microsoft Outlook - Now this is not only an email program, but also lets you keep up with all your contacts, calendar, notes and tasks. With the start page, you can get a week over view, see all your scheduled tasks, notes and appointments. The great thing about your contact list, is all the info is at your finger tips. When you record dates in the contact lists, they are automatically put into your calendar. A great way to remember birthdays and anniversaries. I also love it because it can sync all my info to my Pocket PC.
Roxio Suite - I have been using the Roxio Suite for years. The Suite offers CD/DVD burning, audio and video editing and much more. It will do just about anything with any kind of media I have. DVD Profiler - I love this program. I've just got the freebie version, but it's wonderful to have my entire DVD collection recorded on my computer. My friend's love to browse what they call "Greg's DVD Library." I can keep up with who has what DVD with the loan feature. I love that it looks up every bit of information just from the UPC number. Prompt Media Shout! -We use Media Shout in our Children's Ministry, Youth Ministry and also in our Adult Worship Service. I run all media for my Children's Church through Media Shout, including song lyrics, Bible versions, audio and video files, DVD video and images. You can also display web pages (with internet connection) and PDF files. Microsoft Power Point - Power Point is a part of the Microsoft Office Suite and a simple way to present images, text on a project screen or television. You can also embed audio and video files into slides for use in your class or children's church. Front Page - This is a Microsoft's web page program. I use it to create all of my web pages. If you're like me and want things simple and easy to update this program works great. If you can use a desktop publishing program then you can use Front Page. This is all I use and have three pages up and running at all times.
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