ProPresenter 3.0pr1.7 review

ProPresenter is a presentation system that utilizes two screens, empowering users to quickly and easily present slides on one screen, while controlling the presentation with another screen.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Renewed Vision Buy Now Price: $399.00 Updated: 20 Dec 2006

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ProPresenter is a presentation system that utilizes two screens, empowering users to quickly and easily present slides on one screen, while controlling the presentation with another screen. For example, churches that display song lyrics on a big screen while a song is being performed live on stage can dynamically change the slide order for a worship song.

Depending on the reaction of the audience, the band leader may choose to sing another verse, end the song early, or repeat the chorus several times.

Typically these lyrics are presented through linear slide shows, but the limited flexibility of these programs make them very unpopular because of their inability to function dynamically.

Our program allows an operator to click on a slide in our "Control Panel", at which point the projector screen immediately transitions to the new slide. What's more, the program supports QuickTime®, and can synch slides with an audio track for canned music presentations. ProPresenter also allows you to change your backgrounds dynamically and, of course, you can integrate ProPresenter with your video production system to key the words over live or taped video.

Here are some key features of "ProPresenter":
Change slides in the middle of a presentation without effecting the slide the audience sees.
Change backgrounds on the fly...even in the middle of a presentation.
Change colors, fonts, and position of text blocks on the screen in real time
Display quick cues in the middle of a presentation.
Play QuickTime movies with complete control.
Keep track of the order of presentation segments in separate files from the slides themselves.
Play sound tracks with pre-sequenced automatic playback of the slides for that song.
Type out words as a transition.
Offer the ease of use such that a volunteer to run worship after only 3 minutes of training?
Crash in the middle of a service (if it does, you definitely want to check out ProPresenter!)

Limitations:
This version will put a watermark ProPresenter logo on the screen if you have not registered the program.

What's New:
Adding songs via text files or clipboard is corrected (fixed from 050905 version)
Adding a folder of movies to a song has been fixed(fixed from 050905 version)
All known crossfades of audio slides or soundtracks have been fixed.(fixed from 050905 version)
Fixes lingering problems with soundtrack-song switching issues.
Adds DV output support through Firewire. This advanced feature is available if you have a DV to analog converter (or tape deck/camera) hooked up to your ProPresenter machine via Firewire and gives you the opportunity to display the video in as pristine a manner possible. Since the video file is playing through hardware that was designed to convert the digital video to analog, the quality is better than what we can generate when just using the computer.
Added option to automatically set the volume of the computer to maximum before playing videos.
Enhanced the slide view text display and prevented overflow of the text.
Improved scroll rates of slides in the Presenter mode.
NO MORE EXPIRATION DATES! This version will put a watermark ProPresenter logo on the screen if you have not registered the program.
Removed "Full Screen" version for those that were having problems running on 12" PowerBooks or other machines where the operator screen was limited to 1024 x 768.

Requirements:
PowerMac or PowerBook
G4 Processor or higher - 1.5 GHz or higher for moving backgrounds
256 Megabytes of RAM - 512mb recommended
Dual video support - standard on PowerMacs and PowerBooks.