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Thank you SO much for this video! The whole thing was great. I especially appreciate throwing different systems and software out there. I’ll be looking then up. I’ll be looking up the schools program for virtual learning. Finally, as a woman doing this I appreciate Tim’s inclusive language. Thanks all for putting this out.
Of course Dorian, so glad that this content was able to be helpful to you! If there's any way we can further support you feel free to reach out on the Discord, and 100% hit Phil up if you feel comfortable doing so! Clearly he's got some great insight in this topic :)
They're censoring EVERYBODY. It's ridiculous. It's not just 'the right', 'the left', 'religious' 'non religious' .. it's EVERYBODY. You know who gets censored the most? Objective people who don't follow any of these mainline world views. They shut down those people the most. Google and RU-vid are even worse than Facebook. Most of it is the algorithm and not actual people reporting others.
Furthermore, Adobe has always ALWAYS been relatively unstable. I remember using Photoshop II and once you got into larger files it crashed constantly. But it was literally the best software on the market as far as capability or pixel manipulation.
Apple used to be a legitimate competitor to Adobe. Then around the time that Jobs died they started targeting non-professional markets and they began using “Pro” moniker as their flagship version of whatever product line. Apple used to have Final Cut Studio (Final Cut, Motion, Sound Track Pro, and DVD Studio) which essentially let you publish your own work. Apple abandoned the real professionals (Mac Pro trashcan) and so on. Final Cut X is a shadow of what it used to be. The only real competition to Adobe are industry standard editing software (Composer and Pro Tools)
I started making Christian videos when I was 26 years old. Later I decided to go to a Christian college to get a master's degree in film, video and television production. I spent all my money and starved, hoping one day I could make Christian movies. I never got any support from any church or ministry and the few people making Christian movies were very egocentric, narcissistic and arrogant. See as an example the Christiano Brothers, they want to do everything, even if they are not the best people to do. The same with the Kendrick brothers. I was humiliated at Christian film school, some teachers were very arrogant, I was persecuted and humiliated because I didn't align much with the school theology. All my friends from Christian cinema school are doing other things than making Christian movies. Christians get jealous when someone good shows up. Many years ago, I was attending a Baptist church. I had many years of video production experience. We were supposed to edit a video for an event. I got earlier to the place where the editing equipment was and started editing the video. When the youth pastor got there, he kicked me out of the editing suit saying that he was the one going to edit. He didn't want good editing, he wanted glory for himself. Many people involved in Christian movies are narcissistic and egocentric, they want personal glory, not good work. Churches just want to put their labels on the movies for self-promotion.
That last part about "does everything you create have to be about Jesus" is a misdirection. Of course not. There are many other careers where we do not hold that standard. We don't expect math teachers to always teach about Jesus, sometimes its calculus. Engineers sometimes just build a bridge, not a cathedral.
God used a video game to teach me about my identity in him. Literally one of the most important things God has ever spoken to me about besides salvation itself. He can use anything.
This seems like deviltry, putting messages (good or bad) into different formats to be palatable to others. They’ll come to where they need. No need to sneak for the lord
Thanks guys! Definitely gonna use Google Fonts for now on and I'll look into Figma! I have Blender downloaded but haven't actually used it. This was a good reminder for me to explore it more deeply
It's a beta tool for Unreal Engine 5! You can check out the rest of the episode on our channel! We get into a lot of implications about the tool and how it has the potential to be the new king of animation!
Great question! We've got a few internal projects we're working through at the moment, so merch is a little low on our priority list... but as soon as we can, we hope to get some stuff out down the line!
(arround 1:20 mark) Talking about virtual baptism, if the sacrament of virtual baptism can be authentic, what about the opposite like a demonic baptism virtually (lots of games and movie play in that realm)? just more food for thought
I consider it a huge success to have three or four good clips of Sunday's Service by Tuesday. But then again, I am the pre-production, live production, and post-production team.
Hey we understand that, but honestly 3-4 is great! We get that sometimes even getting one out after the weekend is all some teams can manage. Hope this episode is helpful with your clip process!
Cinnamon Spice brought up a good point at the end. Young people, especially, are asking questions about their gay friends and evolution and sexism and good governance and climate change. Young people are modern and secular, and they feel that they can ask discrete questions and work on distinct problems through consensus. But the church has a one-size-fits-all packaged answer to all problems, which is found in a book written by men who lived between 1900 and 2800 years ago. Christianity can't be parted out or it will not hold together very long. All questions must be biblical questions and all solutions must be biblical solutions. So churches are doomed in the long run to become smaller and more traditional or fundamentalist in nature, while an increasing number of the youth leave for places where a consensus of people acknowledge that humans are hominids who have brains but not souls and who make mistakes but don't have incorrigible depravity. Where the earth is neither flat nor the center of a tiny universe, at the top of which are the planets and stars and clouds and Yahweh's Temple resting on a sapphire dome. Where hell doesn't await for the uniform eternal torture of most humans by a God who evidently can't think of any other end game for human animals of his own making. Where gender and sex are understood within the spectrum of results scientists measure by analyzing the variables in conception, implantation, embryonic development, hormonal distribution, etc. Where women are treated fairly and those that go to work as prime ministers are not told on Sunday that they cannot address the church or at home that they are insufficiently "complementarian." Young people are ready to move on from the world as it was known when slavery went unchallenged.
Thanks Techy Tim, so glad you found this information helpful! Hopefully this can help you and your team develop a great system for taking photos at your church!
I'm a happy ATHEIST and Facebook is literally flooding my timeline with obnoxious and ridiculous religious SPAM! I simply hate it and to be honest I start hating the people doing it. Hey you religious people, leave me alone, go to YOUR platforms where you can bang each others drums on how "great" you are... 🤮
"Facebook is literally flooding my timeline with obnoxious and ridiculous religious SPAM" Then block them lol, it's your fault that you're being flooded with that, Facebook automatically adjusts your timeline based off of the stuff you watch, like, and search, crying and whining about it on RU-vid isn't going to do anything about it.
Eddie Bauer’s logo is now super similar to Lands’ End logo lol. It’s like when all the fast food companies started making their buildings look the same.
