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5 months ago

I am not saying I am great at how things are tagged but maybe some answers to help, and others may jump in as well. - What's the best way to organize the images I've imported? * I aim to use the naming convention of the Sunday - being a Catholic Church that may be '3Sun Ordinary Time Year C'. I do also try to add relevant tags to media I upload to assist in searching later. - Is there no way to re-order the boards I've created? * not sure about this, and with being able to search may not be as useful as good tagging. - Why do a few pictures I've added auto-tag but most don't? * In my experience it depends on both what the image is called when imported, and it may be that some images already contain some meta data which is adding to the tags. Most times I am putting in my own tags. I posted an image from a group upload from last week, and the tags showing for it. I did not add the tags, so Proclaim seems to be adding the tags either via the name of the image, or it is using some form of AI to examine the image and tag it. I am happy for Proclaim to do that, as it helps us search for media that we have previously used. - What is the purpose of the sidebar heading with the name of the current service, with subheadings of "Group Upload" and "Plain"? * Group upload refers to what you, or other users you have invited to be part of your Proclaim team, have uploaded. Any other themes or graphic families will also appear here - therefore if you have used something from the Community Media menu, then in this section you will find a list Plain, Group Upload, 'name of item from community media' - Why do I see a whole bunch of names listed under "Collections" and "Ministry Channels" on the left that I don't subscribe to, many with no content, even though I've selected "Owned" at the top? * The list is part of what is available through Proclaim, both free and paid. When I click on owned and then select an item in this list it shows backgrounds/images/slides that I could use. Be aware that whilst it may show, some items will still require extra payment to actually use. - The tags listed under "Popular Tags" seem to be focused on the context where images would be used (e.g. Bulletin, Countdown). I would find it much more useful to have a list of tags based on image content (e.g. mountain, ocean, abstract) and/or theme (e.g. praise, salvation, submission, glory). Is there any way to customize that list? * I understand that there may be times you are looking for a particular item, and thematic menu items may not help. You can put your search term in the search box at the top, and click off certain media so only those items you can use show. Personally I don't tend to use much content from the Proclaim media. As I said earlier, we are a Catholic Church and not looking for a lot of movement and action on the screens in the Church. I upload most of the content we use each week. We make good use of the 'linked slides' which we use to display an image on the screens when there are no responses/songs/prayers etc. I subscribe to another website called 'Motion Worship' which gives me some animated backgrounds to use. Again these become part of the group upload. This video may give some advice on the free and community content available. https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19863193381005-Proclaim-Training-Videos

Hello welcome. I'll try to answer the questions as best as possible. 1) Personally, the way I organize my things is by adding the tags I want. When you import things, you're able to write tags, like songs, video, countdown, etc. The point of the tags is so that you can find backgrounds with custom settings. For example, for the Bible tag, it'll format the slide for you. Usually, the verse number will go in the bottom left while the bible version on the bottom right. The verse itself will cover most of the slide while also being formatted in either, 1 verse per slide, block slide, etc. Anyways, tags help you find certain formats faster rather than finding certain mountain slides. However, it's actually possible to find slides by searching certain tags. In the search bar in browse media, you're able to search for things, usually, they're very broad, which might annoy you, but it's what we have. For instance, usually, I can find Lord's Supper easily, but sometimes other things are hard to find, and to find them I have had to search for something broader. Now answering your question, the best way that I've found for things that I've imported is to go to the section that says Group Upload. Group Upload is a section where you can find things that people in your proclaim team have uploaded. For instance, my church has 3 different teams. The hispanic, which I run, the main english, and another english proclaim team. By going to group upload, I can see things that we've uploaded. Also, I can also press on the sidebar from the other teams and see what they've uploaded on their proclaim account. That makes it easy to post the same announcement on all our church teams. Group Upload has saved me lots of time, especially cause there's another tab called recently used where you can find slides and backgrounds that you've used. In addition, you can add your custom tags, so remember that. I think I've covered most of your questions in one huge block. You also mentioned the other list items, and usually it does appear blank for me as well, but those tags are there so that you can see what other churches or groups have uploaded on Proclaim. Because in Proclaim, you're able to post it for yourself, but you're also able to upload designs that everyone on Proclaim can see. There are rules to follow, for example, you have to have permission to upload it, but yeah, you're able to share designs. Various people on Proclaim due in fact share background designs and slide formats. You can even make your own custom slide format, so that you can search for it later, and then it'll format your text for yourself. I understand Proclaim at first might be confusing, but I can tell you that Proclaim is great and fairly easy once you understand how it works. I hope this has made sense, but if not, there are various youtubers that have posted Proclaim tutorials.

Thank you both for your responses! I like Proclaim in many respects; the handling of song editing and verse-chorus sequences in particular is far better than EasyWorship that I came from. But I would love to have a simpler, cleaner interface for backgrounds.