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MotionShare.com has recently added about 158 new motion backgrounds (loops) – from Red Ferris Wheel – they are great!

There is also a bulk download option – the RFW videos amount to quite a few gigs of vids!

Check it out – www.motionshare.com

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I like Flip video cameras, they are simple, cheap and pretty good quality for what they are!

However they don’t have a reset button, and I have a broken one! It’s stuck on the ‘Flip Video Press for Setup’ screen – which is the first screen you get when you turn it on.

The model I have is the Flip Ultra HD 8Gb, model: U2120B, I suspect these steps would work for other cameras in the range (that don’t have a reset button!)

Here are the steps I took, with the help of Cisco support to resolve this…

So, I tried the usual things myself to fix this:

• Changing battery
• Taking battery out for a few days
• Plugging in to the USB ports of a few computers

I couldn’t fix it myself, so I contacted Flip Support by email. Here is what they suggested to try – I add this info in the hope that it may help you too!

First set of steps to fix a broken Flip video camera:

1. Leave the batteries out of the camera for 48-72 hours
2. Insert brand new batteries
3. See if it works now!

This didn’t work for me though.

Second set of steps to fix the broken flip:

1. remove the battery pack from the camcorder
2. connect the camcorder to a powered USB port on your computer
3. when the “Connected” indicator comes on, insert the battery pack into the camcorder
4. safe eject your camcorder from your computer
5. reconnect your camcorder to your computer
6. the battery pack should now begin to charge within the camcorder. Leave the camcorder plugged into your computer for 24 hours.
7. after 24 hours, does the camcorder turn on?

This too didn’t work for me!

I’m currently waiting for another reply – they seem to take a coupe of days to reply to messages. I’ll update this page with what happens!

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I’ve recently come across the website by Zach Fonville – he creates some great looping backgrounds – mostly of the slow/subtle variety – so more friendly on the eyes than what the Youth are after nowadays!

Zachs website is redferriswheel.com and these videos are 720p High definition .mov files – all available to download for free.

The videos are great for day to day use – where you want some color and a little movement happening in your backgrounds but don’t want to be distracting to the congregation.

Zach seems like a top bloke – more in his website.

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Here are 5 of the best Freeware, must have, video programs for Apple Mac OSX! In my opinion These program make converting, burning, playing various video formats easy!

Feel free to add a comment with your favourites!

These programs are all free to download and use, there are no spyware or adverts – just great software – some using the best open source video libararies available.

DVD to H264: HandBrake

DVD Ripping – convert DVD to H264 – of course, this would be for making mpeg 4 version of DVD’s that you’re legally allowed to do – such as DVDs you’ve created yourself.

http://handbrake.fr/

(Also versions for Windows and Linux, as well as Mac OSX)

Quicktime Alternative: QT Amateur

Great for batch exporting and re-encoding tasks – a free alternative to get the extra features that Quicktime Pro gives you.

http://www.mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/

Extra Codec Support for Quicktime: Perian

Allows Quicktime to play back extra video types, such as .avi, .divx, .flv, mpeg1 and mpeg2 (also makes these available to Quicktime Amateur)

http://perian.org/

Video Format Converter: ffmpegX

Another video format converter – If you’ve been using other free video converter programs, then it’s very likely that they are based on ffmpeg. ffmpegX is an apple GUI for ffmpeg, and makes converting from one video type to another a breeze!

(This is actually shareware, $15 to register, but free to try)

CD and DVD Burner: Burn

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net

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It’s probably old news to some – I’m still sticking to Windows XP you see… There is a thing called DreamScene – which is a part of Vista Ultimate Edition, which allows you to have a video as your desktop ‘wallpaper’.

As a result, there are people making video loops for this purpose. They tend to be in HD resolutions and an wmv format. It occurred to me that these may be useful for use in Church settings… and it seems many are!

Google search for something like ‘dreamscene video’  and you’ll find websites with these videos to download. Most of the time they are free and the license is quite open, and just limited to ‘non-commercial’

I’ll be adding some of these sites to the MotionShare.com resources page.

For more info about DreamScene, visit Microsoft’s page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/About-Windows-DreamScene

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