Proclaim Presentation Software for Churches | In-Depth Review 

We use proclaim at my local assembly and we love it!

Jake, you said exactly what I was thinking. If we are still using PowerPoint (yes) and we want to step up our presentation (YES) then ProClaim is a good fit for us. Thanks for all you do. I regularly check in to see what and how you are doing what yo do.

Hey Jake I am always watching your videos and certainly appreciate all you do for the church community! What a blessing! I would love to see you guys confidence monitor set up, to my knowledge I’ve never seen a video to talk about how you do that on a week to week basis . We are starting a church plant that’s also a set up teardown and would love to see how you make that happen from week to week , thanks!

Proclaim has been a blessing we’ve been using it our church for over 10 years now and it’s been getting better and better over the years it’s a solid reliable software that allows our service to run smooth and share the gospel to thousands of people! This company has been a blessing and Jake you Rock keep it up for the Glory of God!

Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!! Wow!!!! AMAZING!!!

Glad to see this. I have thought about trying Proclaim. Currently run PP6 on Windows 10 (with no issues, mind you) but just have been curious about Proclaim and some of the others that are out there. This was a good overview.

Ita good software. Easy to use. We've been using it for a few years at my church

We have used Proclaim (Faithlife Proclaim) since 2012. I absolutely love it! It blows the competition away in my opinion. I'd only recommend ProPresenter for advanced setups, but for 99% of churches, Proclaim is the better choice. With Proclaim you don't just get projection software; you get a communication platform. Smart media is one of my favorite things about Proclaim, and the media subscriptions are a great value. You also get digital bulletins which are nice to have, and you get digital signage!!! We put up Philips Hue bulbs to add some color effects to the stage lighting and control that through Proclaim as well. We trim and publish our weekly audio podcast within an hour of our last service each week. The other great thing about syncing everything to the cloud is that multiple people can upload their part of the presentation content from the comfort of their own home or office and everything is ready to go at service time. The only thing that Proclaim lacks that I'm really hoping for is a web-based editor, so that I can edit on any computer without having to download the software.

My team used Proclaim and loved it EXCEPT the Bible.. I would to see Faith Life create a better or "internal" on the fly bible situation that pulls up the entire book, chapter and verse within the "service" section (maybe something comparable to the functionality of an Easy Worship type bible /sermon presentation setup) instead of having to create slides. Reason being there are many Lead or Senior Pastors that take more of a "flow" approach when ministering, and seldom submit their sermon notes or scriptures to their A/V teams. I love Proclaim but would hate to have to relatively use 2 different programs for the sermon/bible. Otherwise, again, I LOVE everything else about it.

I've been using Proclaim for the last two years and loving it!!!

Just a comment, since it was likely added since this video was created - as a user of it today in our worship, it does now allow for multi output which is pretty slick.

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We've been using Proclaim at Freedom Baptist for several years and it works very well for us. It's nice that you can control Proclaim from Ableton Live, though we don't do this. You can automate lighting with Proclaim, which we're in the process of implementing. The best feature for us is that it's cloud based. Multiple users can update a presentation from where ever they happen to be, and the master copy in the cloud is updated automatically. This eliminates last minute scrambling on Sunday morning to update the PC in the sound booth. We also like the integration with CCLI Song Select and Logos Bible software (saves lots of typing). Jake, by multi-screen, do you mean sending different presentation outputs to different projectors/monitors? It can send different output to the "sign" display, but that's probably not what you meant. Thanks for your review!

Hey Jake, I just watched your video review and wanted to give you a tip for proclaim. You mentioned that you can do multiple independant displays, but there kind of is a way to do that. Proclaim let's you set up digital signage feeds, of which you can add as many as you need...Lobby, Youth Room, etc. When setting up you're slides for your main service, there is a setting for send to sign feed, so you can push content to which ever sign feed that you want to when you're on air. Plus since the digital signage doesn't need direct video cable running back to you're PC, you could likely run it with a web browser on a raspberryPi, Android or FireTV stick...you should check it out

Oh man! Now you're speaking my language! Been using Proclaim for over a year and wish someone could teach me how to make it cue my lights on another computer running ShowXpress! I know your answer is probably cue both from ableton. But we can't afford ableton and another computer. I can't find any tutorials on how to send a midi signal from one computer to another!

Thank you! Can you do a video on how worship leaders can get others in the church excited about putting a praise band together? I'm having a hard time with this because a good amount of them are older folks. We do have up and coming high schoolers but I've found myself lost when trying to lead the charge for a praise band.

When are you going to talk about how to automatically control ptz camera with ableton live?

We've looked at just about everything. We keep coming back to ProPresenter -- for one reason: Automation. If you have a worship leader that runs everything from stage with Ableton, maybe this doesn't matter, but for us, there is one feature that ProPresenter has that all others lack, and that is the ability to let the slides auto-advance based on a backing track (or audio file). This is critical to making it bulletproof. The tech literally presses play, and everything runs perfectly. It is so easy in PP6: you just set the audio file, and press the "record" button. You run through the song and click on the slides the way you would do it live, and it records the exact place in the timeline to switch slides. From there, anytime you play that song, the slides will advance by themselves. It's a "set it and forget it" sort of thing. So, if you are a small church that is singing to backing tracks (or RU-vid videos, or whatever...) or even a band that plays to a clicking track, you can have your slides move exactly on cue. Every time. Never a mistake. The downside is that you pretty much HAVE to have Mac for PP6. Even though they have a Windows version, it is 32bit, and it is awful. I hate spending more for Apple gear, but I do because the fact is that PP6 works for us, and nothing else does.

We use proclaim at our church, and a few of the features that we really like is the integration with some of their other services ... like adding recording cues so you don't forget to record the service, plus you can auto publish it afterward. You can also manage your announcements with the faithlife group calendar and use that to easily create your announcements and pull the info right from the calendar. Signals are also pretty cool to push content to people following along with their mobile app. things like announcement, scripture verses, giving etc. They also added some livestream recording cues where we can push the content right to youtube live which is pretty cool. It's in beta and still need's some work, but i'm excited to see what's next.

I Appreciate all of your videos. They have really helped me. I have a quick question. I purchased the MyDmx-RM so that I could save lighting scenes to it. The goal was to enable staff to push a button and have lighting scenes play without having to know ableton or any software. My question is, do you know if Lightkey will export scenes to the MyDmx-Rm? Thanks again for all of your excellent videos. I will give Proclaim a try.

This excellent review may still be helpful to those considering using Proclaim Online so it may be time to update it. Over the past 12 months there have been significant improvements. Smooth Scrolling... fixed. At least it works nicely on my i7 with a gtx1030. No noticeable Cloud based lag on a decent connection. (ie > 10mbit) Not sure what you mean by multi-screen outputs. I drive 5 monitors, 2 FoH, 1 confidence, 1 application and one reference. Plus the new virtual displays feature sends directly to my streaming PC using NDI output. This is very cool! If you want total flexibility use Resolume and feed it your PO content. The digital signage looks useful as well though I've never used it in a live production. You can't have different backgrounds during a song but you can have a live video feed as a BG as well as video loop backgrounds. The extra purchased content is too expensive for my use case. There are a range of alternative sources of good still and video backgrounds and designs on sources like UnSplash and Coverr that are provided under CC licencing. Customisation of the confidence monitor is now really good and very flexible. I'm finding that FL is putting a lot of effort into continuous updates. This is one of the neat consequences of a cloud integrated desktop / hybrid apps. Updates are frequent.

Can you do an update on how to do live streaming using proclaim.

Thanks, Jake. We're using EasyWorship in our small, rural experiences. We do not use Ableton. I don't even know if EasyWorship integrates with Ableton. So, PROCLAIM with Ableton would be a giant leap for us. I really like it as a worship leader, and as a tech guy. Obviously, it has a few challenges, but we do not have multi-screen needs (other than front/back), but the stability factor is key. I'm not crazy about the learning-curve that will be involved with moving from EW to PROCLAIM + ABLETON, but maybe we would just start with PROCLAIM for awhile until we master it, then add the ABLETON capabilities, which would only improve our experience I'm sure. I appreciate your videos for their unbiased approach, providing knowledge and information but not ramming a product down our throat. This product looks like it would be a step up for us and lead to ABLETON (and CCLI) integration. Ya, that's right, we don't even have CCLI integration where we live. :) Our slides are all homemade and hand-crafted. Thanks for another great learning opportunity, Jake and Ashton.

Hi, does anyone know if proclaim has the posibility to make bilinual slides? I tried out using the ,,Title" space for the 2nd language, but then I have to type the text in slide by slide (it does not create new slides when pressing enter)... Thanks for the help

How did you automate slides? Is it a specific midi note per slide, or is it a generic "next" midi note?

Odd that you have issues scrolling. We've been using it for years and I've never had a problem with that.

One other negative for Proclaim is that you cannot have a true cut transition. It always has a fade. I worked with their Support and they confirmed that.

Does proclaim allow worship lyrics on a transparent background to be overplayed on top of video?

How do I make guitar chords show above the lyrics in the confidence monitor?

How does one send lower third lyrics from Proclaim (computer 1) to Vmix (computer 2).

How do you connect proclaim to vmix? We use a Mac laptop for proclaim but we use window laptop streaming vmix

Having used both ProPresenter and Proclaim, which software do you think is better? Would you please do a comparison? If not, just a recommendation. We're currently using ProPresenter, however it has a tendency to crash at times.

Do you guys still use proclaim and if not why? Thank you for this video

We are just starting with proclaim. I’ve been familiarizing myself with it as I’m going to be the main user. We are a bilingual church and sing our songs like this for example, verse 1 English, chorus English, verse 1 Spanish, Chorus Spanish, etc. sometimes the worship leader may repeat verses in English or Spanish as she feels led, is there a way to manually select the slide we want displayed in case she doesn’t follow the song flow as entered?

What do you think of freeshow ? Can you do a review of the presenter for us??

Not to say it’s not great for other churches, but I’m glad you went through the pros and cons at the front end. For us, changing the stage display and multi screen functionality is super important. ProPresenter does have its flaws, but I think it makes up for it in the functionality that it has

Great video! Is this a free software? Thanks!

last update in PP7 makes the software crash on our 3 year old iMac Pro 5 - 6 times in our one hour Live Stream 3 times a week. Every update they do to make it compatible for windows makes it unstable on Mac. Get your money back anyway you can. Or wait 2 months in hopes the next patch fixes it. but i'm betting its just going to mess something else up

Can someone explain the difference between Proclaim and OpenLp?

It seems as if Proclaim charges subscription = 30$p.m where you can buy propresenter once off for 400. Am I correct? It thus means 1 year of proclaim nearly equals a full propresenter package?

Is there any reason to use ProClaim rather than ProPresenter? It seems like ProPresenter is still pretty much the standard

how do i get lower third lyrics from proclaim?

Not sure what you mean by not supporting multiple displays. We are using 4x displays with proclaim.

Can this do as much as ProPresenter? We use PP6 (because PP7 crashes non stop) and boy is it frustrating. My church wouldn't likely switch but just curious for myself. PP is so frustrating. Actually the 3 cons you just listed are all musts for us so nevermind - haha =D

Can you import from quelea?

I want to use Proclaim with obs with the NDI..............can you help?

How to go live with OBS using Proclaim?

How do you add lessons video

Does it support Multi Tracks

Can this software play bible verses ?

What program can I use to play lyrics using MIDI with Ableton in windows?

Have you used worship tools presenter?

Do I pay before downloading ?

Does midi also work on windows machines? If ableton, proclaim and bome support windows, why would i need a mac (lights will be controlled with mydmx)?

So you need WiFi to run this because of cloud? Cause my church is a church plant and doesn’t have WiFi to run at church we been using worship extreme

What Mac do you recommend i get for this? I need to also run Ableton smoothly!

proclaim is good but even greater if they support bible in bahasa... that's is their downside for me... i really wanting to use proclaim in my congregation, but till now there is no support for bible in bahasa

Why don't you ever mention MediaShout? Their newest version (MediaShout 7) is even closer to Proclaim & Propresenter. My church is a long time (over 10 years) user of MediaShout and we are actually in the process of switching to Propresenter.

Cloud based... What happens if internet goes out in the middle of a service?

Have you tried easyworship?

Which better, easy w0rsh1p or proclaim?

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Proclaim lost me at 'does not do multi screen'...

4:08 Edit Mode vs Preview Mode

I won't buy subscription software - full stop.

Well, no thanks. What I really would like in a projection software is if it could listen to the Holy Spirit and project the same words in real time that the Spirit is making the worship leader sing whenever he is going off the beaten path.