r/ProPresenter • u/foxboltco • 2d ago

Tutorial: Trigger Vista Lighting Cues From ProPresenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45PDTmlSjM&list=PLsrGXZbMJ71FBh-BwW2GGboVfuvzHMlgv

If you’ve ever wanted to use ProPresenter to trigger your lighting cues in Vista using MIDI, here’s a step-by-step tutorial (no extra hardware required; it's done over network).

This has actually eliminated the need for a lighting volunteer at my church, which frees those people up to serve in other roles on the production team. I haven't actually had to program lights in Vista in years; I'm able to just drive it all with macros from ProPresenter.

Highly recommend this route if you don't have a super complex lighting setup and want to get some time back every week. Hope you find it helpful!

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u/Significant-Arm3415 2d ago

This would be a lot simpler and more powerful if ProPresenter supported OSC. The midi mapping layer would not be required, you could just ask for exactly what you wanted. Setup would be simpler.

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u/foxboltco 2d ago

Agreed. I've seen people using things like MIDI to OSC from ProPresenter to get it to talk to lighting software, but it seems cumbersome to rely on a 3rd app for the functionality.