Using video clips in church
To use excerpts from videos in church usually requires you to buy a license, which in my humble opinion is ridiculous. Then there is the whole problem with queuing up the DVD to play and finding you’ve got it in the wrong place and instead of showing the desired clip, you show something highly unsuitable for a sensitive congregation! That is until I came across WingClips, a service that offers a huge collection of ready extracted clips from top movies, all ready to go with permission granted for use in church.
WingClips has a searchable database of movie clips that can be used to illustrate a whole range of themes. Clips can be up to 4 minutes in length and can be downloaded in medium or high resolution formats. The medium resolution downloads are free and are adequate to get a point across in a smaller venue. You do have to subscribe to download, but unless you need the higher resolution versions you won’t need the premium service.
All the clips WingClips have sourced can be used “only and solely for the purpose of illustrating sermon messages and/or teachings during free public religious services and/or teaching presentations” - so no need for the video license they keep trying to sell you!
You might think that this means all the clips are from films nobody has heard of. But you would be wrong. I just downloaded a clip from Evan Almighty to use on Sunday, and this week’s featured downloads come from WALL-E.
With the themed index you can quickly locate suitable clips for your message, and you don’t even have to worry about finding and queuing up the clip to play from a DVD.
