![]() ![]() The software has departed from a database-driven methodology to its current document-based structure which means you can save a Sunday worship service as a document and now just drag and drop songs or entire playlists to the desktop or wherever you choose to export them. Changes to them won’t affect the main worship service library. ProPresenter also allows for multiple libraries, which means the student ministry can have its own cache of song lyrics. You can sync to any central repository, whether it’s a local drive or a network so that changes made on one machine are available to all machines on the network. It’s worth looking deeper into this feature. Upon first glance, one’s reaction could be, “So what, templates (sigh).” But the ability to instantly configure any slide into a regularly used layout, within a second or two, is really nice and a huge time saver. Of course, there are 101 uses for this feature and the software lets you decide if the prop tracks to one slide, a segment of the service, the entire service, or displayed instantly. This is where you can bug your ministry logo in the bottom right of the screen or display a nursery announcement at the bottom of the screen. In using its visual layering scheme, the top layer in ProPresenter 4 is called props. Multiple PowerPoint presentations can be imported by a batch process and the presentations played natively there’s even a feature to extract text from PowerPoint slides and pop the words into native ProPresenter 4 slides, a really nice conversion tool. It no longer requires an export/import of PowerPoint slides as jpegs. ![]() Plus, ProPresenter can trigger PowerPoint and Keynote to play presentations created in their respective applications. ProPresenter 4 has greatly streamlined the ability to import PowerPoint (PC) presentations. To accommodate a third monitor, you can use a Mac computer with two graphics cards or buy a third party device which is mentioned on the web site. There are several options of what can be shown, including timers, notes, messages for people on the stage, current slide, next slide, and countdown clocks. This feature, similar to a Teleprompter, can display song lyrics to the praise team and band. I could see where this feature would be really useful whether the need is for graphics to go with a solo accompaniment track or as cover pictures for the student minister’s recorded voice over report about the recent mission trip. Here, however, you can pull into the timeline, slides or other visuals so that you have automated, on-cue graphic cover for a song or narration, saving you from having to do this in a video editing program. This is a linear timeline feature, much like you’d see in a computer-based video editing program. I’m also proud to report, ProPresenter 4 does a mighty fine job providing professional production standards to ministries of all sizes, serving volunteers as well as seasoned production veterans. ProPresenter does this without charge, online, and does it better than anybody I’ve seen. Software like this must not only be easy to use, easily accessible “how-to’s” must be available for volunteers. Volunteers still rule the church multimedia roost and the average church in America still has less than 500 members. When it comes to church A/V, there are two things that have remained the same. The site doesn’t just elegantly feature the application’s bells and whistles in immense detail, but it also offers free, quickly accessed tutorials. You may find an entirely different favorite set of cool tools when you visit the Renewed Vision web site, which is, in fact, the best I’ve seen for ministry presentation software. I’m going to highlight a few really cool features that I think are particularly useful. Nor will this be a ProPresenter 4 tutorial. We all know what “church presentation software” does, so our next few moments together will not be used as “Presentation Software 101”. ![]() Besides a Mac version, a PC edition is available, so even if you are not an all Mac organization, you can create, share, and present in a cross platform environment. I’d sum it up like this: they think like I do. Now, however, it is common to see a Mac Book Pro sprawled out, driving A/V for worship.įor the record, when nobody else did, Renewed Vision’s ProPresenter offered the ability to assemble, manage and manipulate presentations on a Mac, and they’ve used that massive amount of trial and error and user feedback in the development of ProPresenter 4, which is absolutely spectacular, offering robust features and intuitiveness. When it comes to projection software for worship, we have come a long way baby! Mac computers have long been used to churn out videos and background graphics but for many of us, when it came time for assembly, management and projection, for way too long our digital assets had to be imported into a Windows-based PC.
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