Screen presentation software?

[nicholab]

Is anyone using ProPresenter or openlp for doing the screen during assembles and open evenings?

[angrycomputingteacher]

Is anyone using ProPresenter or openlp for doing the screen during assembles and open evenings?

Were not using anything special just PowerPoint. Also, ProPresenter is meant for churches.

[SteveM555]

We use vMix - Live Video Streaming Software | vMix

 

Incredibly powerful software, we use it for big presentations where we need to overlay live video on a PowerPoint, or seamlessly switch between playing videos/multiple powerpoints. It's free for the Non-HD output basic version.

[ollyyllo]

OpenLp looks like it might be useful for us.

 

Supposedly religious related websites are more likely to host malware, dont know how true that is, but I checked the installer with VirusTotal anyway, do you think these are false positives?

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a50ec41b29744eac8a2f7ef3ada5a2dc4bc27ad3ac74961af2687c5255d71864/analysis/

 

What I would really like to see is some software where you can layout all your resource (powerpoint, youtube video, slideshow, lyrics etc) into a control grid on one screen.

Then when you click on a resource it stops what is already playing, crossfades to the resource you have select, and starts playing that on the display screen.

This would suit us, as we use lots of different media and teachers often go off script and want things pulled up immediately, but I haven't found anything like that yet.

Edited July 4, 2017 by ollyyllo

[nicholab]

Also, ProPresenter is meant for churches.

 

Well they are not the only place that want to merge text, video and multiple power points into one are they? May be amateurism screen transition is ok for your school but I hate it with a passion?

[caffrey]

We use batchfiles, with the PC \ laptop set to extended desktop and the powerpoints to show on the projector. All there is on the desktop of the PC \ Laptop is a bunch of batchfiles in order

 

Desktop wallpaper is set to a black screen

 

To start a powerpoint :-

 

01.bat

 

taskkill /im POWERPNT.EXE
start POWERPNT.EXE /S "your.pptx"

 

 

In case anything goes wrong :-

 

kill.bat

 

taskkill /im POWERPNT.EXE

 

 

You could extend these easily to accommodate other fileformats, basic but it's worked for us - it looks seamless to the audience

[JackCPickup]

Were not using anything special just PowerPoint. Also, ProPresenter is meant for churches.

 

There's church only presentation software??

[robk]

Have you tried screenmonkey? Developed for a church environment, but migrated over to theatre av.