5/7/2023 0 Comments Propresenter support![]() ![]() ![]() Our team at Church Motion Graphics are long-time users of this presentation tool, so we were excited to get our hands on ProPresenter 7. The best part? It’s available to download immediately. This new release has been highly anticipated by church tech teams over the past few months as the company has dropped hints of their newest update. ![]() I frequently have to disable the stage display, go into Preferences, change the stage display, then re-enable it again.Today, Renewed Vision held a keynote and live stream announcing a brand new version of their popular church presentation software, ProPresenter. So what happens is, many times when I start up ProPresenter, it has mixed up the order of my screens, so it puts the Stage Display on my main monitor. ![]() Integration between ProPresenter Display Settings and Windows Display Settings is not good. If I don't, I know that it won't be long before ProPresenter crashes entirely, and then I'll have to restart computer anyway. Whenever there's a glitch or hiccup in the software (ProPresenter) I have to restart the whole computer. Frequent crashes - well maybe not actually frequent, but often enough that I'm searching for some other solution that is more stable. And forget about Google Slides! It takes a lot of work to convert Google Slides to PowerPoint, fix all the formatting, then import to ProPresenter. The only way to reliably import PowerPoint is to remove all transitions and animations, then import PPT as JPG. Doesn't import PowerPoint presentations very well. Why? Double-click functionality works in some parts of the software, but not others. Preferences menu has been built to look/act like Mac. Some dialog boxes are non-standard, they've injected Mac dialog boxes into the Windows version, so buttons and functionality are different than other Windows software. It's designed for Mac, and the Windows version is not built very well. It integrates with Planning Center Online. I would not recommend this to anyone using Windows. If that's the case, why is the software full of Mac dialog boxes, Mac functionality, and no double-click functionality? If it's built for Windows, why doesn't it work like other Windows software? Whatever the case may be, the software is very disappointing, and I'm in the process of switching over to something else. Renewedvision support told me that the Windows version was built from the ground up for Windows. many loose ends didn't get ported over properly, and as a result, ProPresenter has lots of problems with crash/lag/user interface. When using the software on Windows, I get the feeling that ProPresenter was built for Mac, then ported over to Windows, but not very well. Here are two scenarios, both of which are fails: 1. There are many problems which, when combined, create a really bad user experience. While it may not be a lot, the possibility of a very small congregation or international audiences not being able to afford it, is a likelihood. The barrier to entry is probably the price and yearly subscription. This is far ahead of what the competition offers at the moment. The ability to integrate it with our present music production software (Ableton Live) is what made it possible to automate our audio and lighting scenes. Having the ability to add and subtract layers on the fly is another great advantage of using this great software. The biggest advantage of using ProPresenter for us was the ability to have multiple outputs to multiple displays. Using ProPresenter to integrate into our current production rig, saves us both time and resources. Given that most services depend on volunteers, it was becoming increasingly difficult to have the manpower required to run these different systems. From the time we decided to take the plunge to having used it for years now, working on ProPresenter has been such a great delight. ![]()
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