Resources, Links & Usefull stuff…

Sources for Video & Movie clips

(i.e. how to legally use movie clips in a service)

• Muddy River Media – free Christian video clips for teaching, background, etc.
• WingClips – copyright approved clips from mainstream films organised in useful themes
• ScreenVue – another source of mainstream film clips, this covered by CVLI licensing
• CVLI (Christian Video Licensing International)
• Internet Movie Archive – free archive of material in various categories, mostly old archive footage
• Search4Worship – links to other visual resources

Sources of stills / photos / art

• — — Christian / Biblical images — —
• Shared Worship Backgrounds – a Flicker group for people to share backgrounds (check the (c) restrictions)
• Biblical Art – an easy way to find art based on biblical themes or bible passages, however it is only then a links site you still need to sort out copyright if you find something you want to use.

• — — General Stock Photos — —
• FLICKR – everything is copyright, but many users release things using Creative Commons licensing
• Free Foto conditions apply to use
• NASSA – fantastic free (at least not for profit) resource of all of NASSA’s image database
• Expressions ( I haven’t checked the conditions here, never had a need to use it myself yet)
• copyrightfreephotos.com – does exactly what it says, a collection of completely free images
• stock.xchng – an interesting idea for exchanging stock photos.  Again, I haven’t yet had the need to use this but the search lists seem comprehensive.
• US Government Archives – links to a mix of copyright and royalty free links, so check what you are downloading.
• Pixel Perfect – an image archive with commercial and non-commercial free images.
• Open Photo – Creative Commons site.
• Lycos news photos – Lycos news photos. There are some restrictions on use here but it’s probably the safest if you need news photos.
• StockVault – category-based access rather than keyword search, but lots of good quality images

• — — more links pages with similar information — —
• Wikipedia entry for Public Domain Images

Sources of audio tracks

• — Free Music
• Mobi Gratis – tracks from Mobi designed for film and video use, you have to apply to use each track but if successful it’s all free.
• http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/free-music.html
• — Not Free but getting there…
• Royalty Free Music – there are lots of these, you pay for the music but don’t need to pay after that
• — Music Searching – to find the right track
• songza.com – play samples of tracks & videos where available
• amazon.co.uk/mp3 – to purchase mp3s
• Spotify – great way of listening to tracks – good search and links to purchasing
• SMARTassMUSIC – royalty free & stock music
• Extreme Music – production music source
• incompetech – royalty free music source

Sound Effects / FX

• Free sound effects (SFX)
• Free Sound Files
• Sound Hunter
• Simply the Best sounds
  
• acoustica
• flashkit
• The Recordist
• Brendens Sound Effects

VJing.

• VJ Central – the place to start with all things VJ
• VJ Forums – ehh, forums for VJing
• Worship VJ – blog and links about VJing in a worship situation
• Creative Worship Tour – social networking for those interested in creative worship

Advice, info, etc.

• Church Video and Video in Worship –  tips, guides, resources, etc.
• Church Media.net – discussion forums
• Easy Worship Forums – discussion forums for support of Easy Worship

Film Making & Video Editing Advice

• Videomaker Mag – tips on video production
• Filmmaking Net – film making advice site
• First Light Film Making – aimed at youth and schools based projects
• New Producers Alliance – help for independent film makers
• Final Cut Pro tips – Ken Stone’s collection of hints, tips and advice
• Creative Cow – video tutorials, reviews, articles and forums.  Excellent for video tips.