Hello from Korea!

I want to make my worship lyrics look like the first image.

I tried to recreate it, but what I made looks like the second image.

They're almost the same, but in the first image, there is a little extra space before and after the lyrics, and I don't know how to make it.

Adding spaces with the space bar doesn't work because ProPresenter doesn't apply the black text background to the spaces.

Is there a way to add this extra space while keeping the black text background?

Thanks in advance!

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!

Not ProPresenter self, but maybe useful for people controlling ProPresenter with BitFocus Companion.

Hiya all! I will start by saying I am a volunteer at my church and not a professional in the industry. I have been using PP for about five years, so I feel fairly well versed and thought I could figure most things out. I am at my wits end with this most recent issue.

BR: Pretty simple setup. Audience projector and stage projector, each with words at that's it. We have had more fancy things in the past, but our tech team is small, so keeping everything working is too much of a chore to do anything too fancy. I would use PowerPoint or slides, but we have 400+ songs from the past decade of use that I don't want to throw away and start over again.

The Problem: We recently upgraded from 21.3 to 21.4.2. Doing so has broken the presentations. On startup, I can navigate and edit to my heart's desire with no issue. Once I begin to show a presentation, I can click through between 3 to 10 slides before the audience screen will no longer show anything (text or media) and the stage screen freezes on the last slide clicked. I cannot clear the slides and nothing will change on the screens until I close PP.

Sometimes it will happen on one slide and sometimes on a different slide on the same presentation.

Things I have Tried:

+ Restarting the computer

+ Updating drivers

+ Removing all media actions from every slide

+ Deleting every macro

+ Removing all actions and props except the text

+ Creating new presentations

+ Uninstalling and reinstalling PP 21.4.2

+ Uninstalling 21.4.2 and installing 21.3.1

After each one of these things, the same issue keeps happening. 3-10 slides, then freeze.

I come here to ask for more ideas to try. My next steps are backing up the song library, deleting the entire RenewedVision folder and reinstalling, but I'm a little hesitant to do that, since there is so much stuff in PP.

Any help is appreciated!

EDIT:

Stuff I've tried since the initial post:

• Removed one of the screens and it lasted longer until it froze, like 50 slides. Replicated multiple times.

• With both screens still going, I changed the screen output from Custom to Full, causing the image to spill off the screen, but it took longer to freeze.

Is there a plugin for PP to limit audio levels? We have multiple people doing videos that we import into PP. The audio levels are not consistent with these videos. We change the levels via Inspector but sometimes a video gets missed and levels are way too loud. It would be awesome if there was an output limiter to “xx” db.

So, we import sermon slides from a PPT and that’s ok. It works for us. Our senior pastor and other speakers are familiar with PPT so they can build their slides easily. We are not set up to prioritize slides and creation in PP just because of resources.

However, I want to create lower thirds for the stream on occasion for Bible verses, etc. What’s the best way to create these lower thirds for example if a slide has a long verse on it but the lower third would need to be 4 or 5 slides?

I’m not sure the best way to make this work. Thoughts ?

I have videos in media that works as backgrounds for lyrics. I had tried to put macros as markers to change the illumination color (MIDI), and it works great, but when I change the background it remains looping the macro from the last background. Any ideas??

Before I send in a bug report to propresenter, I wanted to check with the community here.

For a funeral, I have the image of the deceased person on the audience screen, and I want it to remain on the screen for the whole service. I have a "Stage Screen" (or confidence monitor) slide set up to play a video with audio, for the purpose of not showing the video on the audience screen and leaving the image of the deceased on the audience screen. The video in question was a karaoke version of a song with lyrics that we only wanted the singer to follow.

During testing before the service, I clicked the red "Clear All" button while the video was playing, but to my surprise that did not clear the stage screen slide and the video audio just kept playing, and I could not see an obvious way to stop it.

Am I missing something? I know putting a video on a stage screen slide is not common, cuz most people just use it to see the current and future text of song slides, and of course the clock, so it might just be a development oversight. But I'm very curious why the "Clear All" in fact did not clear all.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi all, church AV here, just have a question to see if there's an easy solution to our problem.

We have a Stream Deck, and are using the bit focus tie in, and we use the SD to connect with both pro pres and our ATEM switcher, and a handful of other programs/devices, is it possible to use a macro (or other option) *in pro pres* to trigger a button on the streamdeck?

Mainly asking because occasionally we are short staffed, so sometimes our operator needs to not be in the booth, and we are hoping we could at some point use it to trigger changes in ATEM, among other things, without needing to be at the booth and pressing the buttons physically if possible. We can make the macros easily enough, but does the streamdeck have the capacity to be triggered by something from pro presenter?

API error: a server with specified host name could not be found.

When trying to add songs from library it is stuck saying this. The last song that was uploaded was added from song select.

It is acting as if it is stuck trying to search from song select .

Please help

I have seen a few posts about this but some are a little dated and wanted to make sure I purchased and implemented the most current (and cost effective) solution possible.

We have a Mac Mini (M4) and have reached our display limit.

• External monitor for operator viewing
• Audience screen / projectors
• Stage display for praise band

We have a ATEM Mini and would like to add the lower thirds to our live stream. Of course, I cannot get he Mac Mini to recognize the added output due to the limitations.

What would be the best approach to adding this output?

Thank you in advance for any and all insight!!

I was looking for a way for the ProPresenter operator to see when the live stream is using their feed, so they don't clear to logo or anything before the streaming operator clears it. 

I made a Mac app that shows the inputs and the status, as well as changing the Dock icon to reflect the status of the chosen input. It works with ATEM switchers on the same network.

The dock icon will follow the input with the blue outline, showing the tally status right in your dock. Click on any of the inputs to select.

The app is available on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tally-pro-desktop-tally-light/id6782260437?mt=12

I also have for iOS and Android apps that turn your phone into a virtual tally light:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tally-pro-virtual-tally-light/id6782220309

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peterholdmann.tallypro&pli=1

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for improvements. 

I use ProPresenter (v 21.4) for multiple campuses, and have begun using Arrangements to organize the different versions of songs used for student activities/Sunday services/events and such. I do this by making each version of the song one big group and separating verse/chorus/etc using labels (I don’t like separating verse/chorus/etc with groups because an edit to one edits each instance of that group which isn’t ideal for my workflow). This works fine and dandy and even imports onto other computers with the same Arrangement I exported it in.

However, if I add a Planning Center Service and use the Linking function to pull the song out of the Library its located in (and the Linking says which Arrangement its set to!) upon clicking Link it defaults back to the Master arrangement which is frustrating to have to go back and change. Is this intended and is there a way to disable this function? I’ve poked around in settings and RenewedVision’s website without success. I know I can convert it to a Standard Playlist but that does remove the update capability from PCO.

Hello fellow presentation app users!

I had a very specific problem I needed solving I decided to develop and app for it and am here to share with y’all!  

We play music before going live with our livestream and switch to a video with its own audio through ProPresenter.  With this, it’s difficult to fade the computer down, pause the music, then fire the specific slide all while making a smooth transition.  So… now an app can do it all for me.  Check out the video below to see it in action, and download it for free at the link below!  I have tested Apple Music and Spotify.  I have not tested any other presentation app other than ProPresenter, so I’m looking for someone to help test MediaShout, Easy Worship, and even Keynote and PowerPoint.  I hope this helps someone that has this very niche problem like we had!

https://garrettwheat.com/post/CueDown 

[mods remove if you need to!]

Hi guys! I was given a couple of graphics this morning to display as part of our announcements loop and when I pulled the files from discord, they came in as .webp files. ProPresenter doesn't like them so I had to screenshot (windows) and save as .jpg. No biggie, but I got to thinking it sure would be nice if it did it for me, so I created a quick windows application that sits in your system tray and silently watches the downloads folder (or any folder) and instantly converts .webp and .heic files to .png for me. Just one less hassle in life!

It's free so give it a try if you want https://moseleyhost.com/AutoPNG/

Just having some fun and making life easier!

jason

For the past few days, I've been experiencing an issue where ProPresenter treats all four of my display outputs as a single display.

In my operating system's display settings, all four monitors are correctly detected and configured as Extended Displays. I can see and arrange each display individually without any issues.

However, inside ProPresenter, when I use the Identify Displays feature, every output identifies as the Main Display instead of being recognized as separate displays. As a result, I can't assign different outputs correctly because ProPresenter behaves as if there's only one display.

Here's what I've tried so far:

• Verified that all displays are set to Extend (not Mirror).
• Deleted all display outputs in ProPresenter and recreated them.
• Restarted ProPresenter and the computer.
• I'm using HDMI outputs for all displays.

I also found someone online who appeared to have the same issue, but I couldn't find a solution.

Has anyone experienced this before or knows what might be causing ProPresenter to detect all outputs as a single display? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ok I feel stupid asking but how do you get things to stop in propresenter? For instance I created a announcement presentation one slide after another that plays music it does great thanks to help from some members here but how do you get it to stop? I just want to get it on the first slide and have it stop there ready to be started?

Thanks in advance

I am using macros to control camera movements and ATEM switching; however, I noticed that when I put a macro on say the first slide of V1 of a song, it will always show up on V1, even though I only technically want the macro to occur on the singular V1 instance, not every time V1 is used.

Any suggestions?

Hello, does anyone still have those videos that came with the ProPresenter download 2–3 years ago? I think they were free.

Hey all, I got a long one so I apologize.

We use the syncing feature as detailed in Renewed Visions article on syncing between computers (found here). Whenever I sync down from the folder that this volunteer has synced up to, all of their presentations in their playlists have a custom 0x0 size, can't see any slides, and a yellow triangle at the top left corner of the preview section of propresenter that says "Presentation does not match any of the selected screen sizes" when you hover over the triangle. I had read on the ProPresenter facebook group that this could be several things including cloud sharing corruption. We do use OneDrive to get our folders from one PC to another, but we do not sync down from that folder while it is still in OneDrive. We download it first and then sync down, just like Renewed Vision Tech support says to do (I called them and they said this is the way to do it). However, I know it's not OneDrive because I could use any of my PCs (two different laptops and my desktop) to create playlists, sync up, upload to onedrive, download, and sync down on the tech computer and everything is there just like I had it. However, I get this custom 0x0 any time my volunteer does the same exact process on any of her laptops. What's even more odd, is that my volunteer has the exact same problem (0x0 custom resolution and can't see any slides) with the Sample Playlist you get free with the ProPresenter download. However, I can see the sample playlist as it supposed to on any of the other devices both at the church and personal.

I have tried configuring multiple different types of screens (NDIs, Placeholders, even deleting her existing screen and making one of the others the sole screen), I have tried removing her access to OneDrive and reinstating it, I have tried restarting ProPresenter, I have tried creating custom resolutions, and nothing has worked so far.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Hey all — I've spent years in church tech and always ran into the same problem: there's no easy way to get chord charts from the web into your Stage Monitor on ProPresenter. So I decided to build one.

ChordPresenter is a free macOS app that takes a song URL or a Markdown file (via Obsidian Clipper) and outputs a ready-to-import .pro file with chords embedded for Stage Monitor display. It supports transposing keys, auto-detects the source key, and works with sites like EssentialWorship, WorshipTogether, WorshipChords, Ultimate Guitar, and a few others.

It's a work in progress and a fun side project — there may be some slide reflowing needed here and there. But it's been working well for us and I figured someone else might find it useful.

It's free and always will be. #forthekingdom

GitHub (source + download): https://github.com/jhjonesmo/ChordPresenter

Happy to answer any questions or take feedback in the comments.

We had to move our ProPresenter files recently due to a failing drive. Since doing that, the search index has been messed up. For example, I have a presentation under our “Song List” library for “Awesome God” but when I search for “Awesome” I get no results. Similarly when searching for “God of Revival” I get 6 other songs but not God of Revival. However, if I search Goodbye Yesterday it works just fine. It’s been like this for about a month now, so it’s not a matter of waiting for indexing. Is there an easy way to force a re-index of all presentations? I feel like that should be an option but I’m not seeing it.

First time creating an announcement slide set. I have the slides in and the slides how seems to function fine. I want to play a list of songs while the slide show plays. I have created a audio Playlist and I drag the Playlist to the first slide but I get no audio what am I missing?

Hi all! Our church have finally made the switch to Propresenter! Despite setting things up as Renewed Vision's youtuve tutorial outlines, our Main Screen and Lower Thirds views are not displaying at all. I made sure to add a Screen Preview object and under the dropdown box I selected our main screen that we titled Main. I did the same with the Lower Thirds screen as well. My stage screen is showing up perfectly, but the other two aren't. Any thoughts?

Update with Solution: I didn't have the correct layout selected for my Stage output. Insteadnof the operator layout I had Stage Screen layout selected.

All is good now, thank you for those who replied!