I dont think its possible, but I gotta ask. We project content to two sets of screens; two externally mirrored (shows as a single display to the PC) up front and one in back so those on stage can also read the screens if necessary. Sometimes we want to turn the front monitor outputs off on the fly. (e.g. kids singing a song and we dont want the congregation to know they are using the back screen as a karoke teleprompter. ) Is there any way to setup a hotkey, batch file to tweak registry settings, etc that will quickly enable/disable proclaim projection on one screen? Here is the problem; If we turn off the front TVs, when we are ready to use them again it literally takes 15 seconds to power up and display the input. And we cant use a HDMI switcher to cut the input in the booth because that makes our HDMI over CAT receiver freak out and display a lost signal warning instead of a black screen. Any Ideas?

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    I usually just put in blank slides. This allows for the front screens to go black and the confidence monitor can still provide words for the folks on stage. Quick simple and easy. Trick for the front screens: set the text to black, the confidence will show normally since it disregards those things.

  3. Roy, I'm a little confused by the description of your setup. Are you saying that your front screen and your back screen are each plugged into a PC output? And then those two outputs are set to be mirrored on the PC and Proclaim sees them as a single output? If that is the case then I think here is just more detail on what I think Brent is saying. 1) In Windows set those two outputs as separate, extended outputs. This might just be listed as "Multiple displays" 2) In Proclaim; click on Settings, then Display, scroll down to the Output section. You should have an output there for each display connected to your PC. For the one you want to display everything, always (I think your back screen for the stage to view) set it to Slides. Set the one up front that you want to be blank at times to Alt Content1 (or 2). You should have those, plus Confidence and Notes by default so you should not need to make any changes with Virtual Screens. That is it for your hardware changes and you will not have to switch anything live during your services. 3) Now in your slide decks. Go to an item that you want displayed in the back and not in the front. Go into Edit mode. Right below the menu bar you should now see tabs (they don't look like tabs) for each of your virtual outputs. Click on the one you selected for your front display (Alt Content1 or 2). In the edit area there is a dropdown that currently says Slides. Like Brent said, change that to Blank. Do this for any and each content you don't want displayed up front. And that's it. Now when you get to that content the front will be blank and the back displaying the slides. One caveat. I have not tested if this Alt Content blank setting gets saved in the database and will be that way the next time you use that song. So you may to start checking that when you add items to future slide decks. Tip 1: To make checking Alt Content quick and easy. There is a dropdown just above the slides in Preview mode. Click that dropdown and click on the Alt Content (or anything else you want to see) and it will be displayed with the current slide in the right sidebar. So you can immediately see the formatting of each slide. Tip 2: If you have a song for which you want to blank out just some slides. Leave your Alt Content set to Slides and replace the text on any slide you don't want displayed with -- . That's two hyphens on a separate line. Do that for each slide you want blanked out, but make sure you have the same number of slides (blank or not) in the Alt Content as in the main slides. If/when you want to undo this and match the main slides again click on the "Restore text" link. Let me know if you need any screen shots.

  4. Thank you Bill, that is a very neat solution - to have the front projector set to a virtual screen that defaults to slides but can be set to blank. I was having the challenge of showing a video on the confidence monitor but not on the front (where the setting the front font color to black wouldn't be enough).