Jane was leading prayers at Hathern Baptist last Sunday and wanted to use a promo video from Care as part of it. The trouble was that the video was over ten minutes long and without an obvious way to watch it without logging onto either their site or YouTube and hoping the Internet connection was working well. That sounds like a cue for video-editing-man to don his cloak and get to work!

The program I used to use for grabbing offline copies of YouTube videos for such situations no longer works but it turns out that you can do the job using the wonderfully capable OBS software. Video and audio captured, my next task was to shorted the piece. I didn’t want to change what they were saying so I worked mainly as if I was sitting at the projection station and manually moving the video forward to key highlights (albeit with laser-focused precision). I did indulge myself with a couple of J and L cuts, where you make the sound fade in before or after the picture (with the video above the audio, that looks like a J or an L in the editor) just to make the transitions fit the production style of the original.

Job done, and the nips and tucks meant Jane could introduce the congregation to Care while still leaving some time in her slot to actually get on a pray as well.