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HIspanic Ministry, thanks for the detailed response. I can see how it could be handy, I just didn't know you could run a Proclaim! slide presentation directly from a mobile. So is it "Proclaim! Remote", like Trevor Haydon mentions? I guess that would answer my question. I see it now and have never tried it before. Thanks.

Tevor Haydon, yikes! We have had a couple of blank slides during pre-service loop that worked the next rotation, but that is the extent. And I think that may be the media player's fault, not sure. No freezes yet, but I hold my mouth a certain way during service. :) I looked up Proclaim Remote! and hadn't even known it existed. I'm wondering the interface as currently we just remote control the computer. It would be nice to ditch that subscription cost, but then it would boil down to whether two Proclaim! Remotes could connect, etc. Anyway, something new to look into. Thanks.

Yes. I'm also talking about Proclaim Remote. You can download it on android and apple. It's quite nice when it's fully working/syncing. The app is free. You should give it a try.

Well, from what I know, Proclaim does not allow us to import lyrics from Multitracks.com. If you press on your profile on proclaim, then press "Link Your Accounts" you'll see that Proclaim so far only allows, SongSelect, Planning Center, Elvanto, and WorshipPlanning. However, you could always just copy the lyrics and the song number, credits, etc, and just add a new song into your Song Library. Now, as for syncing with like playback app, that relates to midi automation. That part is not that difficult. You have to create 2 midi notes under "Settings, MIDI Input". Then add command. Add these two commands: "Go to Service Item slide ..." and "Go to Service Item in Service section...". Then for MIDI do note on, for both, and then you have to select the note, i chose Note 19 for the first, and note 20 for the second (see image below). Now quick explanation of the 2 midi commands. The second command allows you to select the section number under the Service section on Proclaim. Cause remember, we have Pre Service, Warm Up, Service, and Post Service. So under Service, you pretty much count downward. If you start off with a song, then that's Service slide 1. Now within that song, the first command chooses the slide number of your song. You don't start with 1 there, now you start with 2, since you've already selected your first slide when selecting the service section slide. Choosing the slide numbers is all done through Playback, Ableton, Prime, etc. In proclaim you just make the Midi notes. Then you also have to create a scene under Lighting/MIDI. Edit your scene, then add the notes under there again. And make sure that your MIDI input is coming through. In Mac's it's very easy and there's many videos on how to do this online through like ProPresenter and such. It's literally the same steps on Proclaim. Assuming that's all done, you should be able to add the notes on your playback rig and then automate your slides. It's up to you to time the slide switches and stuff.

To add to this, if you go to View > Show Service Item Indices it can help as you don't have to do the counting (for service items and individual slides)

As far a lyrics go When I run into that issue I cut and paste them into Word and the cut and paste them into Proclaim from word.

Any time - don't be afraid to point, click and experiment with Proclaim, and of course this is a great place to ask questions and see what others are doing.

has given you a good answer about setting individual slide length but I just want to point out that a preservice loop will loop for as long as you need it to until you reach the preset service time. If you have only one slide and you want it to run for 30 minutes you don't need to change it's length. Just start the pre-service loop 30 minutes before the service start time.

Also, , if you only have a small number of slides, you might want to add things like Bible Trivia (Add item>Bible Trivia -- I keep telling Proclaim that it should be renamed because there is nothing trivial about the Bible), or add slides with Scripture.

I had forgotten about that, -- my only excuse is that my wife and I have been watching our 3 y.o. granddaughter for days -- A reminder that God, in His infinite wisdom, doesn't give children to people who are in their 60s :-) Try this, , add a content slide and check the box for "Show a Countdown Clock." In my first screenshot you can see the clock in the corner on the bottom right. You can adjust the size and position. Add a song to the content item by clicking the speaker icon and then check the box that says "Show each slide for" and then set the time to be equal to the length of the song. If you place the Content item as the last item Warm-Up section it will automatically start that many minutes and seconds before you start time.

Thank you both for your help. I attempted to do what you suggested... went into both the preservice loop and the warm-up; Added Content; Added the countdown clock but do not have the option to click on a speaker icon...please help!

When you "Mouseover" the content slide you should see a speaker icon, . Click it and you will have the option to add music

This may have been answered already but 71st Church is referring to viewing the slides in preview mode, on the right side of the slide is an arrow and right next to the arrow is a timer. If you click on the timer, the slideshow stops...click on that empty space again and (it) resumes.

- thanks for pointing that out. I've never noticed or used that function.

what is exactly what I meant. To us this is a pretty useful tool as in the pre service loop we have our announcements and when someone presents the announcements we stop the slide from moving to the next one and it would be nice to have this on mobile so we don’t have to be glued to the pc for this one functionality

There is a greyed out speaker icon when you hover over the 'pre-service loop' item in the playlist. Click on this speaker and choose a song/music that you want to play. You can choose multiple pieces of music to create a playlist and it will play through the music until the pre-service loop ends. You can choose to have the one piece of music keep playing whilst the loop goes through.

Here is what is referring to, . Mouse over the pre-service loop and then click on the speaker icon. You can then upload music that will play on a loop during your pre-service loop.

I'm wont to integrate MIDI into the audio, but NOT the lighting; they've LMX-128 and DMX-512 for that. At 胡桃江市日系基督教會 of Walnut Creek (CA, USA), we've a BEAR of a time to upgrade our security system, our video (for remote on-campus view), and our lighting: Molly Burke inspired me to integrate accessibility as a part of our new lighting. Which reminds me: 篠田乃室 ShinoDa Hall REALLY needs a dimmable LED retrofit. Narrow floods, narrow spots, house globes, ye name it!

Hey Jason, if you're getting that deep into automation I recommend you look at the Bitfocus Companion App which allows a much more granular control over the automation. https://bitfocus.io/companion. Here's a video of what I was able to do with it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-sY_GN2FY0&t=1491s&pp=ygUnaHlicmlkIG1pbmlzdHJpZXMgdGVjaCBmb3J1bSBhdXRvbWF0aW9u

Hey Dave - I am already using it as well. Use it to control presets and scenes of our PTZ cameras as well as macros on our ATEM and quick triggers for all the above mentioned presets. It is a wonder remotely. I can control our entire service remotely Audio and video using Bitfocus Companion. Its great! - We do also have it available on a streamdeck as well. For me - the signals in Proclaim work well with audio because not only am I a one man media team but I am also the Worship leader :) - so while Im on stage simply moving to the next slide in proclaim can trigger what I need via MIDI. Once I am back in the booth I do use automations and presets with Companion to control audio video and proclaim.

I've never had that happen to me. Could you give us some screen shots of what you do and what happens?

Nancy, thanks for reply. I deleted slide completely and re-made. It didn't happen second time. I really have no clue what happened. More than likely "user error".

This may have been caused if you added extra lines/returns after the text. Proclaim sees these blank lines as text, if they don't fit on the first slide it will automatically move it to the second slide. I do find the announcement slide template is not always user friendly.

Well, I don't think I understand your issue. You should just be able to press "On Air" and make sure you put a time to start your service. Only by selecting a time, will the countdown start by itself. In my image, you can say that it says 11 AM. That means that 5 minutes before that, the timer starts.

OK, Go Live -- understood. Since you have a time of 10:00 set for your service, , what says is is correct. If you click On Air any time before your start time, Proclaim will play the items in your Pre-Service loop until 5 minutes and 1 second before your 10:00 start time. In my screenshot, I have a Warm-up that is 10 minutes and 6 seconds long. So, since we merely click On Air at around 9 AM, our Pre-Service loop plays until ~9:20 A.M. then it automatically moves into the Warm-up. Your presentation must already be On Air or the Warm-Up won't start automatically.

I see the issue, you aren't On Air. In my screenshot in my previous post, you can see the difference between being On Air (red with White ON AIR) and not (grey). I put my presentation On Air and found that when you right click on an item in the Order of Service the selection to Go On Air is greyed out -- meaning you cannot select it.

The simple answer is no, you can't change the default structure. But you can adapt it to your church's needs. For example, my church doesn't need the Warm-Up or Post-Service Loop, so those sections are empty. We do have an announcement loop before the service, so that's in the Pre-Service Loop. You will probably have to manually switch from the service to intermission and back again. If you're not using the Post-Service Loop, you could use it for the looping slides. Or you can repeat a group of items in the service section https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19863500268685-Working-with-Service-Items

Hi , we have found that the best way to have our service set up properly from week to week is to duplicate the previous week's service each week. As far as adding an intermission loop, there is a workaround. You can add an Image Slideshow to your service. Add your intermission slides to it (and music if you'd like) and then check the box marked Auto-advance slides every ... as is checked in my screenshot. Then the repeat box will be available. This will repeat until someone clicks on any slide that is not part of the Image Slideshow -- the slide right after it, for instance. This could be equivalent to an intermission. I have a feature request that is similar to what you'd like as far as the intermission at this link: https://community.logos.com/discussion/227647/multiple-services#latest Give it your vote if you think it can help your situation.