Ever wanted to do this?

Put this Effect

Into This Software?

Now You Can and its FREE!

I had an idea the other day that it would be great if there were a way to have a virtual capture device that MediaShout would recognize as a Live Video Feed. This dream app would be able to point to any window that could then be displayed as a background to lyrics or simply as the foreground for the audience to view its contents.

Here is the Recipe:

1 MediaShout V3.5

1 VH Capture Software (get it here)

1 Windows Media Player 11 (other players use much more CPU but they do work)

Optional: Visualizer plug ins

1 PC or Laptop with a good video card (need one?)

Directions:

• Stir in (read:install) VH Capture Software and open.

• Click on the CREATE New One button

• Open Windows Media Player to the lower corner of your screen or a third monitor
• From the Now Playing menu choose your Visualization
• Click on the Range button on the VH Capture panel

• Now Select a range within the Visualizer window roughly the same shape as your screen output whether 4:3 or Widescreen.
• Open MediaShout but do not maximize its window. Click the Restore button if you need to.
• Arrange your windows so that you can always see the media player window

(NOTE: screenshot from 17″ laptop running 1600×1200 resolution)

• Bring a song into your script and go to the Background tab of the Cue Properties Box.
• Click on the browse button and choose Video Feed from the source selections at the top.
• Select the VHCAP as your source and hit select.

• Now begin playing a song in Windows Media Player to activate the visualizer.
• Fire the song you just set up.

• You should have the visualization as your background to the song.
• Be creative and mix it up with multiple backgrounds within the same song from different sources eg. Video files, Still images, video feed.
• The song you play to activate WMP (Windows Media Player) can be the same song the worship team is playing or just any song with a similar tempo. Be sure no one can here the music from WMP SHHH

Added Bonus:

You can point the VH capture to any window including Word, Adobe pdf, Youtube, Webcasts, Streaming video,etc.

I hope to have a cheesy video of this recipe in action very soon, so come back and look for it.

Its not hard to do and best of all ITS FREE!!! I’ll leave comments open for questions and such.