It’s always fun to discover new church presentation software—here’s one I recently came across: it’s called Praisenter.
Praisenter is an open source program to project Bible verses, songs, and custom slides with images, audio/video, and more. It sports a pretty impressive set of features that should satisfy most of your church presentation needs.
Features of Praisenter
Songs
- Easy addition of songs with ability to edit and delete
- Useful song search and preview
- Hot key support and a Quick Send panel to present song parts quickly
- Unlimited number of song parts (verse, chorus, bridge etc.)
- Create a set-list for swift song transitions
- Import songs from ChurchView and OpenLyrics
Bible
- Find Bible verses, phrases, words, or location with highlighted matched text easily for quick projection
- Simple verse navigation (previous, current, and next verse previews)
- Save a list of verses for planned scripture reading
- And this is neat: you can display up to two translations at the same time—great for multilingual services!
While Praisenter doesn’t come with an off-the-shelf Bible, it does prompt you to download, install and manage bible translations from The Unbound Bible
Slides and Templates
- Lots of customization options available with different templates for songs and Bible verses
- Slides and templates can have video looping, text outline, gradients and more
- Full or partial slide transparency
- Copy any slide or template into a new one
- Media library to store audio/video and images centrally
- Great support for nearly any audio/video format and codec using the Xuggler library
- Use videos and pictures anywhere on a slide or template—whether as a background or as a floating component
Verdict
There's a lot of good in Praisenter. In fact, imho, it’s right up there with VideoPsalm, which I believe is the best free church presentation software out there.
Give it a shot—it certainly qualifies to be a keeper!
Link: http://praisenter.org/
Have you tried Praisenter? If yes, can you share your experience in the comments?
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