• Is this a thing? I'm trying to add foreground images to my presentation for this coming Sunday and they aren't showing up at all.

  • Hi all - if you're a user of BitFocus Companion, just to let you know that a new version of the Proclaim module has been published (v1.2.2) which adds some additional actions and presets that you may find useful: * "Show Text" - brings back text that has been hidden by the "No Text" action * "Custom 1" and "Custom 2" - trigger those quick screens * "Last Slide" - brings back the last slide shown before the "Blank", "Logo", "Custom 1" or "Custom 2" quick screens were fired These were undocumented commands in the Proclaim App Command API. (I wonder if we can get these added to the API documentation as well?) Huge thanks to "soulgriever" on GitHub who submitted the code to add ShowText, and set me down the path of looking for other undocumented app commands that could be added.

    1. Hoping for a feature to do custom transitions/animations for the lyrics per line - similar to Freeshow. Unless there is already a way to do it?

      1. I know this was asked eight years ago <https://faithlife.com/posts/1192628>, but will emojis be supported by Proclaim?

        1. Oh no! It's happening again this morning... can't reach the server for media!!

          2. Could you please give us a timeframe that this will be completely resolved? Is this not seen as a high priority or is it that difficult to resolve?

          3. very sorry for the issues. This is 100% a priority and we have been working on fixes and mitigation plans this week. We believe we should be good to go this weekend.
          4. The fixes and mitigations are in place, and we will be closely monitoring it over the weekend.

        2. anyone else having trouble getting new media this morning? It keeps saying it can't reach the server

          2. I am curious if all the issues are ipad and Mac related? We are using Windows and Android and did not have any issues on Resurrection Sunday. But I did most of my work on Saturday night cause of a stuff I had Sunday morning. All we did Sunday was run the slideshow.

          3. Shane we use windows and had the same issue.
          4. I did. Thankfully I was able to go and download the media I needed and get it on our presentation that way.

        3. 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).

        4. When I delete a slide, the bar across the bottom moves to the left so that the current slide is out of view. It didn't used to do this. How can i change this?

          1. 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).

          2. Paul, did you get this comment on the wrong post?

          3. I did indeed - scrolled down a bit too far!

        5. Help! Cleaning up groups I didn't understand I was part of, and now our music library is gone.

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            Yea I was doing the same and I didn't realize the "Worship Team" was connected to hosting the song library. Oops. I *will have to call Proclaim support to see if it can be restored. https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19864396203405-Getting-An-Error-Adding-A-Song?utm_content=connect-worship-team&utm_medium=app&utm_source=proclaim
            support.proclaim.logos.com

          2. Yes. Write in to support. They were able to recover and reconnect to my presentation team. I find the different 'teams/groups' confusing (Church, Presentation Team, Members, Worship Team). All connected, but how/why?

        6. Howdy All; Does anyone know how to get something in the Warm-Up section to trigger a lighting cue the first time through but to skip that cue any time after that? Our DMX software treats the MIDI cue as a toggle, so when the cue comes around again it toggles off.

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            You could use a Cue < Stage Direction < go to the Signal tab and then use the Lighting/Midi option. That's how I was using Proclaim to trigger a scene switch in OBS Studio. You could also attach that midi note signal to any slide as well. You may have to add a redundancy slide in order for it to ignore the cue again.

          2. I already have the cues set up, . I use MIDI for a lot of different cues in both OBS and the DMX kit. All of them work very well, but the one in the preservice loop gets triggered more than once. The DMX software treats each trigger as a toggle, which is great if a different lighting scheme is on when the cue trips, but if it is the same lighting scheme it just shuts the lights off. I'm trying to add a cue for the "Pre-Service Lighting" that we created into the Pre-Service Loop in Proclaim. The first time through the trigger turns on the lighting scheme -- but when it loops back around it toggles that scheme back off. I guess I could duplicate all of our preservice slides multiple times so that it never loops back around.

          3. Ah I need to read better next time my apologies. One thing I read that one of the devs does (Jordan) is his church uses a Sign Feed link to hold all of their pre/post announcements so you could have your first few slides to trigger the midi first and then use the slides in the sign feed website link to go through the same slide order without triggers. There is a quick loading screen at first that you might be able to hide with a transition but I've found it to be useful.