ProPresenter 4
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve surely heard about the new version of ProPresenter, to be released shortly. We run EasyWorship, but from what I’ve seen, ProPresenter 4 is the real deal. I had the pleasure of visiting a church in Petaluma, CA, last week running ProPresenter (on a MAC) for 2 16:9 main screens and an environmental backdrop screen. Justin, their technology director, told me ProPresenter is INCREDIBLE (his words, of course).
In any case, I wanted to list a few features of the new software here in a quick post, and encourage ALL PROPRESENTER users to contribute to our forum. Let us know the pros and cons, stuff you’re looking forward to in the new version, and any other thoughts on the software. Here’s the forum link: ProPresenter. Some features on ProPresenter 4:
- Enhanced messaging window for messages, clocks, and “tokens”. You can save messages that you use on a regular basis. And dynamic data is managed by “tokens”, which are “placeholders for clocks, timers, and text”.
- Customizable video attributes where you can make small changes like color on the fly without editing your graphics.
- The new version also allows for templates in the presentation library, and it will resize text for various resolutions based on the template.
- You can import PowerPoint directly, now. I didn’t realize this before, but EasyWorship had them beat on this one (till now, that is).
- Built-in stage display!! I LOVE this one. You can customize a third output for the stage display. Your singers/speakers can view different content than the congregation, all within ProPresenter. Obviously, you would need a dedicated video card output for the stage display. The Stage Display output is customizable.
- They are improving their original Song Automation capability to make it easier to use.
All in all, the more I hear about ProPresenter 4, the more I want to take it for a spin! Users, let us know what you think at our forum!
And here’s the link to the ProPresenter site.
