• Good afternoon everyone, I would appreciate some support on this feature request as I feel it would benefit the majority of you tech people in terms of what and how you put your presentations together. Also would love to discuss how this would help or maybe not help in the comments below!
    Make Video Input toggleable per Virtual Screen or Slide - Logos Community
    So in the way I use proclaim, I use a virtual screen as an "overlay" for an NDI feed to send to OBS Studio. OBS Studio then sends all its video mixes to our broadcast… in this case Zoom via OBS virtual camera. Proclaim shows its active video input on any slide that has transparency for its background meaning that if my…
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    1. Hello is any one having problems uploading a Power Point Presentation from a mac computer? I've tried from 3 different macs and have not been successful but I can do it successfully on a Windows PC

      1. I believe that Keynote is default on a Mac, . I seem to recall that PowerPoint doesn't show up in Add Item > Import Item unless you're on a Windows computer. Perhaps some of the Mac people can help. You should be able to open Keynote on the Mac, then save as a Keynote file. After that you should be able to Add Item > Import Item and choose Keynote in Proclaim.
      2. I agree with . On macs Keynote is the default. So if you don't have keynote installed, then go for it, but if you don't want to install it, which is ok, then just download presentation as a different format that's not powerpoint. So like png or jpeg. But it's easier with Keynote.

      3. On Mac, you should just need to ensure Keynote is installed; Proclaim will open the PowerPoint in keynote and export it as images and bring them back to Proclaim. You shouldn’t need to change formats. you can also export the yourself like others suggested, and drag all the images into Proclaim’s order of service and it will create a grouping of all your slides

    2. Hello! New here to using Faithlife. Is there a way to get notifications through text for Faithlife Bulletin?

      1. Has anyone noticed that Proclaim severely compresses video music files when it imports them? Over the last couple months the video playback has really suffered in quality in the audio. I finally figured out it was the program. The workaround is to use Windows Media and construct the playlist there. Then I open it up on the screen but let Proclaim open over it. Take Proclaim off air to play the videos, then back on air to resume the service. I wonder if this is a new thing, I have been playing videos on Proclaim for years, but this is disappointing.

        2. Pretty sure I figured it out. If I load the videos at home then sync at church - that is when the audio compression happens. If I load them at church all is fine. I think the sync is what the problem is, sending the large file to the cloud and back. Make sense?

        3. I don't think so, but maybe. So that would be compression for size. Later this weekend I'll download off the media library a video I have uploaded and compare. Every video we play we upload to the cloud from something other than the presentation computer. Maybe there is a setting lurking or something that someone will reveal.

        4. we do transcode but only when needed. Like if you upload an mov on Mac but your computer at church needs an mp4. but we should be retaining the quality.. do you have the name of a couple videos you noticed this on? I can take a look at see what I find.

      2. Does anyone know how to insert Scripture in a song? I would love to be able to put a Scripture slide in using the [[ ]] feature.

        1. To my knowledge the only way to do this is to add a custom text box on the slide that you want. In the arrangement section you can add a "Blank" or "Bumper" (as i've also heard them called) and add what you want there.

        2. Or, and , add a new Chorus to the song lyrics with the scripture in it. Something like Chorus 5 so that you're sure the song doesn't already contain that chorus #. Paste the scripture you want into that and then add C5 (or Chorus 5) to the song order.

      3. I am having trouble with YouTube videos playing in Proclaim. I can put the link to the main YouTube page and play the video from there but I cannot put the link to the direct video I want to play and get and error message 153. Is anyone else having this issue?
        1. Try using a app called "Clip Grab". I use it for the YouTube videos and they insert perfectly to the slide presentation.

      4. Does Proclaim have a problem importing h.265 videos? As opposed to h.264?

        2. What was your file like? Is it an mov? How are you creating these?

        3. - .mp4 file from Davinci Resolve using specific settings for export that I learned from Daniel Batal (Davinci For Noobs YT guy). That setting creates H.265 files to make smaller files. I used the same settings for the H.264 by just changing that specific part of the settings. Export screens attached.

        4. That's interesting, I've never changed my rate control settings, . I just tried it out on a video that I had rendered earlier today using MP4 h.264. Just these settings made my video be 10% of the size of the original.

      5. Anyone currently experiencing invite issues for new members?

        1. How do I change the admin for my church group on Proclaim, to delete someone who is no longer associated with the local church?

          1. To do this you need to have admin rights: Under Groups, click on the group name and then "Groups members". Hook off the name(s) you want to change and do the change wanted from the Actions drop-down menu.

          2.  — Edited

            If the only person with admin rights is no longer part of your church then you'll need to connect with Faithlife Proclaim support. Or if that person is still friendly with you ask them to log in and make another person an admin. Once you have another person as admin they can remove the previous person and make a second person admin. You should always have two people with admin status.

        2. How do I upload a PowerPoint slide show with background music onto proclaim?