ProPresenter comes to PC! Why you should consider making the switch.

The industry standard of presentation software for top Christian artists and megachurches is now available for YOUR church. ProPresenter has all the features that can take your worship visuals to the next level. I’ve worked with ProPresenter on the Mac platform for several years now and I’m really excited to see it now available on PC. Beyond the typical features of song library, multi-media playback and Bible verse integration, ProPresenter employs more advanced technology that enhance whatever worship environment it’s used in. Let me tell you a little bit about why I love it through how I’ve used it at the two churches I’ve served as worship pastor at.

I worked at a small church plant of about 80 attendees (Hillside Community Church, hillsidecommunity.net) meeting in the city hall of South San Francisco. In the small meeting room we had, there was no platform for the speaker and many complained that they couldn’t see the pastor speak from the back of the room. ProPresenter was the perfect solution for us, because you can run live video straight into ProPresenter and add it as a layer to what is projected onto the screen. Using the simple built-in layout feature, we were able to run the Bible texts and bullet points as lower thirds and use the live video during the sermons.

I now work at a larger church (New Hope Adventist Church, lookingforachurch.org) with a whole new set of priorities and needs. At New Hope, there are several unique features in ProPresenter that have proved helpful. We used to use EasyWorship and had to switch back and forth between applications to project song lyrics, video clips and PowerPoint from the pastor. Within ProPresenter, we can now effectively play and mix all of our media. You can import virtually any type of video file as well as files from other presentation software, like PowerPoint and Keynote.

There are lots of great features contained in ProPresenter; give it a chance at your church! Go to www.renewedvision.com to download the free version (with a watermark on the output) and check out all of the related tutorial resources and documentation.

*Originally written for Best Practices for Adventist Worship.