Feature Review: Presenting Slide Steps
One new feature in the October 2010 Edition of SongShow Plus lets you go directly to a slide step within a slide show and present that step. Previously, from within the program panel, the lowest granularity of presentation was the slide level. If a slide, however, contained additional steps such as bullet items, you would have to then click the Next button to step through the bullet list. Now, you can go directly to a one of the bullet items without the need to use the Next Step button.
Here is a screen shot of what program panel now looks like when you expand a slide show. This is the example Announcements slide show:
With this new feature, you can now leave a slide, go present something from the database panel, such as an unplanned scripture reference, then return the slide where you left off.
This same capability is also available for songs. Previously, when using Line-by-Line or Page-by-Page to present songs, you had to first present the verse slide, then use the Next Step button to step through the song parts. With this new feature, you can now present each song part directly from the program panel.
The following screen shot shows how Amazing Grace now looks in the program panel when you select the Line-by-Line presentation mode.
This makes presenting on lower-thirds much easier.
Presenting slide steps isn't necessarily a hot new feature, but it will be a welcome enhancement for you as a current user!
(BE249)
Comments:
Now if you could just figure out a sane way to "button" all the steps up in the control panel.
It is also good for announcements (which I normally create, regardless of who is running the projector.) The operator often gets confused (while an announcement is being read from the pulpit) with a slide, not knowing for sure if they need to hit '+' another time to finish the slide,or if the additional touch will move them ahead to the next slide before the current slide has been completed.
Thank you,
I believe there are two things you need to do for this to work.
(disclaimer: I verified these instructions by looking at the June '10 version of the program)
1. Edit your song, and go into the Lyric Panel. You will notice at the bottom of the panel there is a hint to type Ctrl+Enter wherever you want a page break. I often set a page break to every 2 or 3 lines of long verses (every line, as in his example, I think would be a little much, but..)
2. But you also need to go to the Display Properties (under the Display Pull Down)
Then choose the 'Song Layout Group' on the left
then choose the 'Show' tab
and select 'Page-by-Page' (The default there is 'Verse-by-Verse')
(there are also several different options to choose there.. Which I have not tried. Sentence-by-Sentence may do what he blogged)
Now you will get a separate display page for each set of lines you separated by entering Cntl-Enter.
But line by line is based on carriage return, and doesn't consider line wrap. I say this because I once used line by line for spacing reasons, but still had two or three lines (with word wrap) on some of those REALLY LONG funeral marches (re: Larry Norman.
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