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Brian Dunbar
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Proclaim
5 months ago

Confidence Monitor question: We typically have just two lines of text on our Slides (lyrics) display. Because of this, and because (to our knowledge) the Confidence Monitor display doesn't "break" the text, but duplicates onstage formatting, the lyrics are too small on the confidence monitor. So - question #1 - is there a way for the confidence display to break the text (or for us to insert a confidence-monitor-only break, in the same fashion that we can have chords displayed on the confidence monitor only)? OR, question #2, since we always use lyric scrolling, is there any way to simply clone the slides display to the confidence monitor? If the answer is "no" to both questions, would either of these be a consideration for future software upgrades?
  1. Brian Dunbar
    4 months ago

    Yes, Robert. Thank you. What I'm hoping the developers of the software will consider is having them show up as one line on the primary screen, but as two on the confidence monitor so they are larger. We don't want the line break for the congregation, but we do want it for the people on stage, as our confident monitors are smaller. I hope this makes sense.
  2. Bill Babcock
    4 months ago

    We don't use a confidence monitor so I haven't worked with this in practice, but just looking at it at home I see that when you are in the confidence monitor editor the lines will wrap like you want, but they don't on the actual confidence monitor output. And it appears the same thing is true for the Alt Content outputs. Here is a potential work around. You can edit the text of the Alt Content for each slide independently of the main slide. We use Alt Content 1 for our lower thirds, but Alt Content 2 is unused. So I can assign Alt Content 2 to my confidence monitor and then manually put line breaks in the Alt Content text. Then I increased the Alt Content 2 font size and even decreased the line and character spacing to get the text quite large. It seems tedious, but you only need to do this once per song in your catalog. I hope this helps. I do agree though that the lack of line wrapping for the Alt and Confidence outputs seems like a bug. If there is a reason for it then maybe line wrapping can be an option to toggle on or off.
  3. Brian Dunbar
    4 months ago

    Bill, that is a FANTASTIC workaround. Thank you for the suggestion! It means losing the customized confidence items we're accustomed to, but for the most part, that's ok. The problem - and it IS a problem for us - is that (unless I'm mistaken) there's no way to add the clock to the virtual display, as the clock feature seems to be restricted exclusively to Confidence Monitor settings.