Notes on using a YouTube video: We wanted to feature a YouTube video in our warmup countdown and I thought I would post up how we accomplished it. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought. Linking the video proved easy enough, add Web Page (service item) and then pasting the YouTube link yielded a link with autoplay=1. Yay! But it inserted with a length of 15 seconds and wouldn't budge. So, 15 seconds played then the 1:00 countdown. The length of the video didn't come through or something, so it just put the default in there. To make it play the full length (2:47) we selected "show each slide for" then put in 2:47. It worked! I have my fingers crossed that an add doesn't pop up. I used a link that appears to not be monetized, so I hope that works. I noted somewhere in the process that links to Vimeo won't work. That probably needs fixed to make sure that ads never pop up.

  2. I use the clipgrab program. With the permission of the owner, I download the video and play it with in proclaim. This way ive got the MP4 video file and can control it without youtube interference

  3. , Clipgrab is the bomb! Best free app I've used since Notepad++. :HMM Well, Canva blows even them away, but it's free for the fact it's for church non-profit. Anyway, great suggestion. Playing the video Clipgrab produces is full quality and completely trouble free in Proclaim! One small complaint. It wants to install other "free" stuff like anti-virus which I declined, but now I have McAfee saying my install isn't complete. Since I have never had McAfee I now have to track that down and uninstall it. That may have been my fault for not paying better attention in the installation process though. Maybe I missed an opt out screen somewhere.

  4. The best way to deal with YouTube videos is to convert them to MP4 You can add them to warmup and use the countdown timer function and it works great