Twice a year Oral Roberts University hosts a “College Weekend” where over 500 perspective students visit our campus to see what the school has to offer and if they want to…
The colored smoke moving backgrounds in the Easter 2016 CMG Pack turned out beautifully and I have gotten a lot of questions on how we did it. This behind the scenes article…
Learn how Micah Schuchardt uses this simple strategy to train his volunteers and keep them invested in the ministry.
It’s pretty trendy right now to put a white border or box around text. It’s no wonder that church media designers want to do the same for their worship lyrics….
Here is a robust workflow to help you get the most out of your creative team design process. From concept to final delivery, there are important checkpoints you need to meet to insure the…
CMG Pro Titles and Layers are .PNG graphics with transparent backgrounds. These are useful for customizing the look of your announcements and screen visuals by using pre-made graphics that match on…
Quick and easy video tutorial showing how to add a gold foil texture to your text in Photoshop. Resource links available inside the post.
As part of the Church Copyright License® (CCL®) Terms of Agreement, you are to include with each reproduced version of a song the song title, writer credit(s) and copyright notice in…
Have you ever missed a slide change? I know I have. Timing worship lyric slide changes isn’t always easy. Especially during fast songs or when the worship leader spontaneously sings an…
Guest post by Bradley Hodges from First Wesleyan Church. If you have ProPresenter 6 you can bring in your iPhone camera as a live video feed using the new Syphon feature. There is…
Spencer Jordan asked the Facebook Community this question, “Just curious, what are your AVL teams budgeted per year?”. It sparked an interesting conversation about tech budgets and the financial strain…
I’m against using church logos as screen visuals during a service when no other media is available to show. Logos are just one touch point to signal to someone that “A” is related to…
It’s Sunday morning. You’re in the tech booth, observing the worship service taking place. You listen to the message, see the lyrics to the worship songs on the screen, feel…
I got a lot of noteworthy responses from my Facebook Group when I posted this statement: “From what I understand most buying decisions in the church come down to this… How can…
Need to learn about all the hot new features in ProPresenter 6 fast? Here is a selection of video tutorials that will quickly get you familiar with ProPresenter 6 by Renewed Vision. New…
Creating visuals for your sermon series is important. They help your community better identify the key message in the series and have a visual anchor to remember it by in the future. Here is…
There is a need among visual church media leaders for video countdown timers with transparent backgrounds (also known as alpha channels). They provide much more flexibility than standard countdown timers…
I have been using Adobe After Effects for over ten years and to become an efficient user you need to make use of it’s keyboard shortcuts. Here are twenty-five keyboard shortcuts that I…
Check This Out! Visit Church Media Spot for an updated list of the best Royalty Free Music resources. You need a music track whenever you are creating an announcement, bumper,…
I love Adobe After Effects and have been using it since 2002. It’s Photoshop on steroids, and whatever crazy idea you have for an animation, After Effects can pull it…