FUMCi
Multimedia
Videos, Presentations and Recorded Audio
On our web pages you will find videos
taken from recorded church services, clips of special music that have
blessed our church family and of events that bring life to our church.
Also there are audio clips (or podcasts) of sermons and music. From time to time there may be a special
PowerPoint presentation added as well as other types of media. A
broadband or hi-bandwidth connection is recommended for most
of these files. Those that are "dial-up friendly" will be marked
as such. Enjoy and be blessed. The use of technology to bring to
you these words of worship and songs of praise are intended for God's glory
and your blessing.
To increase your viewing pleasure, this month
(July 2009) we have added a new video service where any member
of the church family can upload a video of church fun, worship
or business and make it available to all on this web site. For
more information see below under Video.
 Multimedia
Click a link to go to a listing of that media type.
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Audio Clips
(podcasts) |
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I'm starting with audio only
clips of David's sermons. It is excellent
teaching and bears repeating. These files can be
loaded to an MP3 player, an iPod or burned to a
CD to play on your car stereo. Whenever you
NEED to hear the teaching of the Word. |
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Video |
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 We have purchased a license for a new video
uploading service named Our Church Videos.
All FUMC videos will be processed and
from this site. Members of the church family go
to the above web site, create their log in
account and then upload movies related to church
activities or people.
There are a number of
available categories (they call them channels)
to select from to where you will upload. Your
video when , will be available for
viewing as a streamed movie, no downloading or
extremely-high speed connection required. I'll
have a full set of instructions up in a couple of
days.
Video categories include:
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Sunday Services |
Contemporary
Music |
Children's
Ministry |
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Missions |
Youth
Ministries |
Marketing |
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Sermon Only |
Meet the Staff |
Meet the
Church Members |
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Testimonials |
Sunday School |
Fellowship
Activities |
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Church Meetings |
Weddings |
Missionaries |
More can be added as we see
the need. The web pages will be edited to
look just like our web site so it will be a
seamless web experience.
View the following video
OurChurchVideos.com Presentation to get
an overview of how the process works. This video
is a streaming video so you won't need a
high-bandwidth internet connection. All the work
is done on their server. Click this link to view
a tutorial on the video upload process. |
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360°
panoramic tours
of key
places in our church. |
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If you have not seen these rotating visions
of the Sanctuary, the Chapel and the Fellowship
Hall, you are really missing something. Make
sure you give the images plenty of time to
download to your PC. You also must Have Java
installed. It's free and accessible from
Sun. |
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eBooks |
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I would like some feedback on
this one. Would people download and read eBooks?
They are free. You can read them on your PDAs or
smartphones, too. It's just the thing for
waiting at the airport, at the hospital or
anywhere that you don't have a book or your
bible. I have many
versions of the bible, bible study books and
religious text that are free and
downloadable. Here's a
start. |
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What You Need
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Movie Player
 Everyone should have a Windows
default media player. It comes and installs with
Windows. It will play both the movie clips and the
audio clips. If you don't want to mess around with
anything, we'll just leave it there. The default Media Player can be quite large and a
resource hog. A smaller, full-featured freeware
media player that I use as my default player is
based on the old-style Windows Media Player. It's
called
MPlayerC (Media Player Classic). You can
download and try it if you like. It will play
QuickTime and Real files as well. |
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Audio Player
 Any audio file presented on this
web site will more than likely be MP3 files. The
default media player will play MP3 files. So will
MusicMatch, WINAmp, RealMedia and a host of others
if you have then installed. There
are programs specifically designed for Podcasts. A
podcasts is a series of mp3 audio files to which you
subscribe. I'm not sure we will go that far, but we
may. For now, your media player will do the job. |
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PowerPoint or PowerPoint Player
 If you have Microsoft Office
installed there is a good chance you have PowerPoint
on your PC. If you don't have PowerPoint, you can
download the PowerPoint Player free from
Microsoft and install it. |
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Others
For the
360°
panoramic tours of our sanctuary, chapel and
fellowship hall, you must have Java installed. The
latest version of Java
can be downloaded from
Sun free of
charge. Instructions on their web site
will step you through the install quickly and easily.
Make sure you get the right download for your
version of Windows. |
This is just a start. much more to come!
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First United Methodist Church, Irving,
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