YEC 2007

“Awesome, driving, anointed worship. . .” is how our Student Pastor, Anthony Potts a.k.a. “Pottsy” described the experience that our youth group could look forward to as we made our way to YEC 2007 (Youth Evangelism Conference) in Nashville, TN this past weekend. We were not disappointed.

I have fond memories of YEC back in my High School days, but the current crop of Christian worship leaders and bands is much better in my opinion. We heard Charlie Hall and Barlow Girl in two different sessions at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. The 25 or so students as well as us chaperons definitely had a “Real Encounter” (the theme of this year’s YEC) with Christ. One of our youth accepted Christ as his savior. That made it worth all the lack of sleep and inconveniences of tagging along with the younger generation for two days!

My video shooting and editing skills have been improving and I plan to post a short video summary of the trip in the next week or so.

After reading several reviews of Video NLE (non linear editing) software I downloaded the trial version of Sony Vegas Movie Studio and was so impressed that I just ordered a copy from Amazon.com. Vegas is much better than Ulead Video Studio 5 which was an older version of another program that came with my new Firewire card. I completed our church’s Christmas Play video with the Ulead product and it did the job, but wasn’t very stable. With my still somewhat limited skill-set, Vegas Movie Studio seems to do anything that I could ever want and does it well. It runs rock-solid so far on my almost six year old PC. I’m sure the “full” version of Vegas adds many more features, but it will probably take me a while to master the Movie Studio version.

Anyway, sorry for going off on a tangent, but I’m really getting into shooting and editing video. I am planning to compile a video at the end of the year summarizing our youth group’s events throughout 2007. It will be fun exercise.