Uncovering the Best Church Presentation Software for 2024 

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I'm having issues with openLp

what issues are you having?

thanks for sharing!

So frustratiing! We are looking at Proclaim as well. We'd love to hear if you guys wind up using it.

hmm, I've heard that Propresenter has issues with AMD hardware if you're using intel/nvidia hardware though or mac you prolly won't have any issue. We've even run propresenter on really low end hardware that didn't even meet the requirements and had no issue (I wouldn't try automating it through midi on hardware that low end though).

Cool! We will check this one too. Thanks for sharing!

cool

This is noted, bro!

We like it. Working on an update coming soon.

That's pretty neat, never seen that at a church before!

We'll have to look deeper into that one.

We have heard that. We will probablly do an update and include it in the next round.

We use proclaim, have used it for 3 years now and love it. Couple dislikes but overall very well designed software

We'll check it out!

It's a nice one

We prefer OpenLP, but it may be worth investing a little and getting something better.

@@reachright can you reorganize a song structure that is different for each service ? Are animation and powerpoint support avalaible too ?

That's a pretty specific need which pro presenter can do. For a free video player on PC though I recommend VLC media player. You can make playlists of mp4's to play in order. Not sure if you can crossfade transition seamlessly at 0.5 seconds but it's worth trying out since it's free and testing what you can. -David

@@reachright Thank you so much yes probably overkill on my precise circumstances. Lol

Glad to be of help!

You might be stuck with Google slides on a Chromebook. Anyone out there have any other ideas?

will check this one!

We may check that one out in our coming update. Thanks for mentioning it.

How do you like it?

​@@reachrightWe are pleased with it. It is volunteer-friendly once customized for your Church service. Proclaim was our next step from Easy Worship.

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Our church does the same thing. We use a HDMI splitter (you could get this off of amazon for less than $20) and then just plug both tv's into the splitter. the other end would plug into your computer like a normal monitor would. This will duplicate the same display to both tv's at the same time. -David

@@reachright Thanks so much! Our media board/laptop is in the balcony. Do you think it would be difficult to have the cords throughout the church?

@@maleahoward8265 Cable managment is always a struggle unfortunately. Even some of the wireless options I've used resulted in poor quality so I always perfer to run cables no matter how much of a pain it ends up being. Look into SDI cables instead of HDMI if you can though. Those seem to be what most ppl suggest using over long stretches of cable runs.

@@reachright thanks!!!! I’m glad you said that! We’re having some guys come in soon to hardwire the cables to the monitors 😀

Cool! I hope everything is good at your end now!

David here. What you could do is use OBS (open broadcaster software) This allows you to create "scenes" and each scene allows multiple sources. In your case, you would want to make a scene with multiple video sources. add as many as you need for cameras or if using a video switcher you can add that as it's own "video capture device". Then you cand add a "display capture" or "window capture" source and size it to fit however you'd like on the screen. This would be assigned to whatever presenter software you're using such as openLP which is free. We have a OBS tutorial on our page that should walk you through pretty thoroughly!

We suppose you could use OBS (we love it by the way), but we wouldn't classify it as a church presentation software. If you are interested, we did a whole breakdown on churches can use OBS effectively for streaming. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jYexniWG5SA.htmlsi=Gs9hTGletuBKn5mx

Unfortunately, in our research there wasn't a direct and simple way to import a song database from EasyWorship to OpenLP. The workaround involves exporting your EasyWorship songs to text files or using a conversion tool. Here is the step-by-step guide: Export your EasyWorship songs to text files: Open EasyWorship. Go to the songs section and select a song. Export the song to a plain text file (usually via File > Export or by right-clicking the song). Repeat this process for all songs. This can be a bit time-consuming if you have many songs. Convert the exported files to OpenLP format (optional): If there is a conversion tool available (this would depend on the current date, but as of my last update in September 2021, there wasn't a specialized tool for this), you can use it to convert your EasyWorship files to OpenLP format. Import the song files into OpenLP: Open OpenLP. Go to the "Library" > "Song" > "Import". Follow the instructions to import your song files. Remember, before performing any data migration, always back up your data first to prevent any loss during the transition.

To VideoPsalm: Top toolbar -> "Edit" tab -> "Import" button -> "Import songs in popular formats" -> "EasyWorship" -> Follow the instructions

We highlight a few of them in this video.

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Cool! Thanks for sharing!

motion graphics for backgrounds in Openlp Isn't something I'm super familiar with. I did however find this video that you can follow ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6Qc6-TaQBmw.html. Good luck! -David

We'll take this as recommendation... :) Thanks!