HOW TO ELIMINATE LYRIC SLIDE MISTAKES IN WORSHIP 

I started with EasyWorship 2009 and then upgraded to EasyWorship 6. I’m testing EasyWorship 7 for the remote feature. Since there are mixed comments about volunteers… For me running the computer is a full-time ministry. I’m usually the first to arrive at church to setup and I’m manning the computer the whole service. It’s rough position that requires a personal disconnect to how I’m feeling and to be totally focused on how the service is flowing.

I always listen to an instrumental version of the song I'm working on while I'm making slides, especially when I'm not familiar with it. Helps a lot when making line breaks! We use Proclaim.

I have a more challenging environment than what you describe. Our church is bilingual and most songs are in both Spanish and English. The band switches back and forth between the languages as their feelings lead. They may also jump around and do unplanned extra choruses, verses, or bridges. As a result, the video operator can only make their best guess as to what is coming next. EasyWorship 2009 is the only software I know that will let the operator see the full text of both versions of the song on the screen at the same time so we can easily switch back and forth between them. "Next, next, next,..." - I wish!

Older video, but still very relevant. At Freedom Baptist Church (Yuma, AZ), we use Proclaim. Already familiar with importing lyrics from CCLI Song Select. But what I just now learned is that it can be controlled by MIDI signals. Oh, can't wait to get back to church, connect a small keyboard to the Proclaim PC, and start playing. Thanks for the inspiration Jake!

We used Media Shout 4.5 for a long time, but since last year we have been using ProPresenter 6.

Also helpful: change to the next line *before* it's sung, so people get a second to read it before they have to sing it.

We use OpenLP, free and open source, really happy with it

Watched this after commenting and learning from your Instagram post. Excited to get proclaim united with Ableton! Thanks for including Proclaim, for me and a lot of smaller churches with volunteers looking for the easiest solution, it's simply spectacular. Pro presenter is incredible but to those evaluating media software, I'd encourage you to test out proclaim. Especially over media shout or easy worship. It's a blessing for me to create from home alongside volunteers all done online and it's ability to control lighting is sweet.

We have been using OpenLP for at least 3-4 years, but in the last year I’ve been figuring out how we can implement Ableton with proclaim/propresenter at some point this/early next year.

We use ProPresenter 6 in our small church. So far I am the only operator, but other people are able to do it. As we are in Norway and part of a larger church that is situated in another city, I try to use the lyrics provided by the main church through Dropbox. If they don't have it, I Google it. They actually have a quite good lyrics feature nowadays, so I only have to copy it into PP and change the flow to go. The worship team start to practice as I come to the venue and I of course listen when I set up the machine (we don't have our own building), then I listen from when I am finished and try to get how the song will go today. It is NOT the same every time, we allow the Holy Spirit to guide the worship. Sometimes even the songs are unknown, but I cope with that too. That is the part that make this job so exciting!

We use Presenter and CCLI. That is where most lyric mistakes begin. Song Select does not have the UMH version of most songs.

In my church in Germany (ICF Internation Christian Fellowship) we use Propresenter 6. Thanx for your video.

We from India, Chennai. And we use propresenter 6 and it's one of the best.

My church, Burke Community Church, uses ProPresenter for our lyrics, both for the screens in our worship center and for lower thirds for our livestream.

We use PowerPoint or Google Slides mostly. We don't have in-house screens so our slides only go into the livestream via OBS. Yes, it is too complicated so we are looking at alternatives. Thanks for the good info in this video!

We use ProPresenter. Thanks for the video!

We use Easy Worship. We're a small church & it meets our needs. I like to the way it's laid out.

In Germany we have also the problem, that some songs are available in 2 different German versions. When the people sing "You turned water into wine" and the slide shows "Water becomes wine and blind ones will see", for there are two German versions of "Our God"...

Thank you sir for this wonderful tutorial! It helps me now because I’m still new at our church’s Media Team. We use Propresenter but the main computer is broken so we need to stick to Powerpoint which gives us more work.

VideoPsalm is the best and free. Minus midi triggers and automation. If the software you're using doesn't have midi triggers I definitely suggest checking out VideoPsalm even just for R&D

Our church also does things a bit spontaneously: bouncing around different verses, repeating choruses, changing lyrics on the spot, spontaneous songs. "next, next, next" would be a dream haha. communication always gets a bit frantic, but i suppose that comes with the territory...

Easyworship

We use EasyWorship at our church. It has had a couple of glitches but support was on point and had it tackled in no time. So I appreciate customer service as much as well written software. I would like to know if someday we actually do Ableton live it would I integrate.

We use EasyWorship 7.3 and ProPresenter 7.8, with SongSelect. Manually advance slides. Manually reconcile EW or PP song arrangements with PlanningCenter Lyrics (WT use tablets linked to Planning Center Lyrics/Chords). Practice slide advances during mid-week rehearsal, making changes as needed. CompGraphics Tech on duty confirms arrangement during prep-hour prior to service start. Doesn't eliminate errors but greatly reduces them. However, I am curious about Abelton Live integration. Thank your for the video...very helpful reminder.

Propresenter and every song I lay out the songs exactly as it is done. All the volunteers have to do is press next. I do all except #5

Thanks for this Jake. You are such a blessing. Keep it up!

We are using EasyWorship!

Good Samaritan Baptist Church in Birmimgham, Al., Uses Proclaim and OpenLP.

We use songshow plus

I was looking for tips, and instead found reinforcement. Thank you for something I can give my team to reinforce the way we do things... download the lyrics from SongSelect, go through propresenter's reflow mode to get it easier to read, then go over the song with the worship team in practice to make sure we've got the slides in the right order. My only problem is requiring my lyrics person to be at practice. It always seems that my production team can never be there for practice. We get them for Sunday morning run-through. But soon we are going to be getting the midi module for ProPresenter, so all of that will be a problem of the past, and the slide operator can focus on the pastor's sermon slides (which he is thinking of controlling from his iPad with ProRemote).

We use pro presenter 6 in all of our auditoriums

We use Openlp

We use Proclaim

Song Show Plus. Wirecast to stream

We just started using MediaShout

Rios De Agua viva in Minnesota here! We use proclaim!

ProPresenter its the best software for churchs

2:58 this should only be done for volunteers who have little clue what they are doing. However when the spirit leads the band off track that is when only having on of each section (versus, chorus, bridge) is handy, you know where to go at a moments notice. If your good you’ll know where the band is going before they sing the lyrics

Mediashout 6 Looking at ProPresenter as we speak. Having trouble finding a camparison of the two. Thanks for the videos!

We use Easy Worship PowerPoint (for teaching and video presentations)

Hey..Thanks a lot man. You have helped a lot and help me with acoustic guitar and the rigs i need for better tone etc. Thank you!

we are using Easy Worship

Worship Extreme

Before I watch the video: Usual I can almost recognize, when a song part will be repeated. And about song mistakes in the slides, I try to correct them.

Song Select has the advantage you can transpose.

Pro Presenter

We use freeworship for lyrics in our church

We use Song Show Plus but Would LOVE to use a new one because its really old and doesn't benefit us that well please give me some names thanks

The fundamental problem is that the lyrics operator doesn’t receive the song queues from the worship leader. If you can somehow get this information to the lyrics operator, then when the worship leader signals a change the lyrics operator will know ahead of time. One way to do this is for the lyrics operator to also have access to the bands comm feed. It requires teamwork and a cooperative band.

We use easy worship and stream them with OBS

I am the poor guy behind the computer. Lol🤣😂😆

Hi Jake, Ruben here from Luxembourg (very small country in Europe, don't worry about it 😅). Quick question, using Ableton Live would our worship leader be stuck to the structure initially prepared for the service, or could the leader decide to change or repeat part of a song (or even sing a new song) during the service? Would Ableton Live allow this type of spontaneous worship? Great work on the channel, God Bless, Ruben

We use Songbeamer

I use EasyWorship 2009, EasyWorship 7, and ProPresenter 6

In our church, we use canva😊

Easy Worship

We use Easyworship for lyrics

MediaShout 6

We used SongShow for years, but it’s a terrible software so we switched to Proclaim.

i used opensong and was trained to learn the songs as much as the WL needs to. If the guitarist is expected to play every note, and he doesnt have his instrument with him 24/7, then someone who only needs their iphone or has their brain with them 24/7 has no excuse. This is why I cant stand WL who forget the lyrics too, it just means they didnt prepare

Propresenter. its the best one.

Pro presenter

Proclaim

We use an old version of ZionWorx (since before 2010 probably), and it is really simple. Tried OpenLP (gotta love open source) but it had some things I missed and crashed a lot (both on Windows and Linux). Currently evaluating ProPresenter. ProClaim looks interesting but very expensive since it's a subscription service.

We use ProPresenter 6

I would love to be able to use ableton or make the propresenter with the exact way we do songs each week, however we dont even do songs the same way from rehersal to the service. it does get annoying for my tech team that way :(

Propresenter 6

freeworship

Propresenter 6 on a windows 10 gaming laptop, upgrading sound system from analogue to digital soon, probably the X air mixer

Our church just started useing propresenter on march 20...

Media shout

ProPresenter 6

ProPresenter since it was was first launched.

At our church we use Zionworx

Our church uses EasiSlides

we are moving from PPT to ProPresenter....ugh...the learning curve isnt fun

ProPresenter 7

I would love to have you speak to our media team at church. I'm currently running with the team and would love your insight.

Pro Pres!!!

Was that computer in the thumbnail using ProPresenter 5 or ProPresenter 6? It looked like Pro5 to me, but I am not sure.

worship extream

i use freeworship because it's free and easy to use

I use Proclaim

In Germany we have Song Beamer.

ShareFaith through PowerPoint

we use Free worship software

Not entirely related but I can't find where else to ask this question. We use ProPresenter and manually advance slides. We are having a weird issue where all of a sudden the lyrics won't show on top of the motion graphic we use at the top of the song. I'm assuming it is a macro issue but I haven't been able to figure out why this is happening in our Easter playlist we are creating. Any thoughts on how to fix that?

Propresenter

I use Easyworship

ProPresenter! Hey Jake, do you use Onsong? If you do, could you do a tutorial on connecting Onsong to Ableton?

Powerpoint

ProPresenter

OpenLP

We use Propresenter6

easyworship software

Mediashout 5 trying to transition into 6! But having difficulty!

We use supercanticos 2006

Song Show Plus

I wonder can you use a master controls on propresenter with ableton live? for exp; ableton controls pro6 main while pro6 main control pro6 slave

Hello @churchfront I run ProPresenter in our youth ministry and I cannot figure out how to keep it to where it shows every slide instead it show only the slide while presenting any suggestions?