OK, it's pretty well finished now.  The staff and members really like the white-space when compared to the boxy look of the typical CMS template.  We lived with Vortex for over a year, and it was time for a change.

That's Monoslideshow, which was introduced with Bentobox Dark, I believe.

nice! migration

 I also am using this however am having trouble with J1.5.3 and allvideos revisited plugin. Are u using Joomla 1.0.1x of 1.5.x? and did you have any troubles with allvideos plugin??

thanks in advance for anytips!!

keep up the Good Work!

Steve

Great site!  Very inspirational, both in design and content.  I've come back to it several times while designing my church site.

I have a question about your audio.  I am totally ignorant on audio files and would prefer to remain that way    Tell me, how do you get the entire service in 13mb?  My is running about 80mb and too cumbersome.  Are you using LeBlanc's podcast?  I would like to use sermonSpeaker but I think my files are just too big.

Hello,

Fantastic Job!

I am attempting to design my church's site as well, and we want to incorporate some audio/video.  Question: For your general video editing are you using a Mac or PC and what software are you using? (imovie, Final Cust, Premiere, Vegas, etc)  Also are you using Adobe Flash Encoder to encode the audio as well as the video?  Does LoudBlog encode the video?  Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.  Would you mind sharing the template that you customized? 
Thanks in advance!

We don't have the best method for getting video web ready.  The best way would be to use the AVIs from the hard drive to our volunteer, but those are huge files.  Instead, we have the ones who produce the DVD for TV produce another for our web volunteer.  He uses MPEG Streamclip (free program) to rip the video off the DVD and convert it to MP4 for podcasting.

Here's the link:  http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

We also rip the audio off the DVD using BitRipper (another free program) that converts to MP3 nicely.

For the front page flash video, I download the MP4 that the volunteer uploads to Loudblog (he sends me an email to notify me) and then I convert it to flash using Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder.  That program ISN'T free... it's quite expensive when I bought the entire CS3 suite.  We display it on the front page using the AllVideos plugin for Joomla.

Loudblog (our podcasting program) is found at www.loudblog.de, I believe.  It's quite good, and I modified one of the simple templates for my use within a wrapper (mostly removing borders and such).

Hope that's enough info for all of you who asked.

What bitrate are you using for the encoding? 
Thanks again.