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Present
Build and run what shows on the screens: songs, slides, media and stage displays.
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- PresentPage Present Present is the screen you run slides from on a Sunday: song lyrics, scripture, announcements, pictures and videos on the projector, the lobby TVs and the stage monitors.
- Presentations, playlists and scripture in PresentFeature Present In Present, everything you show lives in a presentation: a song's lyrics, a sermon's points, a scripture passage, the announcements.
- Editing slides and themes in PresentFeature Present Present's slide editor is where you change the words, styling and backgrounds of a presentation.
- Running slides live in PresentFeature Present This article is for the person running slides during the service: turning the screens on, taking slides, going to black, clearing, and using timers, overlays, macros, loops…
- The media bin in PresentFeature Present The media bin is the strip along the bottom of Present that holds your pictures, videos, colour backgrounds and live camera inputs.
- Stage layouts and stage screens in PresentFeature Present The Stage screens are the monitors the band and the speaker look at: a confidence monitor with the current and next lyrics, a chord chart, a clock, or a message from the…
- OutputsFeature Present › Settings › Outputs An output is one screen Present sends to: a projector, a TV, a stage monitor, an NDI feed for a switcher, a Blackmagic card, or a web link.
- LooksFeature Present › Settings › Looks A look is a saved, named answer to "which layers reach which outputs", so you can change every screen at once, by hand or from a slide.
- RoomsFeature Present › Settings › Rooms A room is a named place a service runs in, such as Sanctuary, Youth room or Overflow, that your church sets up once and keeps.
- AudioFeature Present › Settings › Audio The Audio tab of Present's settings decides where the sound from videos and audio clips plays, which device the headphone (cue) buttons use, and the audio feed's sample rate.
- ConnectionsFeature Present › Settings › Connections The Connections tab of Present's settings links Present with the rest of your gear in both directions.
- Service checkFeature Present › Settings › Service check The Service check is a checklist that proves this computer can run the service before it starts: outputs, displays, fonts, media, audio and drawing speed, each with the…
- StorageFeature Present › Settings › Storage The Storage tab of Present's settings says where your Present media is kept, how much space it uses on this computer, and whether any files have gone missing.