A slide has 3 text areas:
- the body, which displays the song verse text (or a Bible verse),
- the header
- and the footer.
Area 4: VideoPsalm can display musical chords over the lyrics, this is a 4th text area, see further down.
This is how it looks like for a song verse:
Usually, the header of song verses is not used, and is empty. The footer is used instead.
Lower third: This is how it can look like with a green background and a relocated body area:
Lower third: This is how it can look like with a green background and a relocated body area:
This is how it looks like for a Bible verse:
The header and the footer both can display text formatted according to templates/fields related to the body content, either from the song, the songbook or the Bible, etc.
Select one of the 4 highlighted buttons to tell VideoPsalm on which text item to work:
- Body
- Header
- Footer
- Chords
Important All style text changes that you do are applied to the currently selected text area.
To set the size and the location of the body area:
1. Select the "Body" (this button is selected by default).
2. Press the highlighted button ("Display the resize rectangle" button):
1. Select the "Body" (this button is selected by default).
2. Press the highlighted button ("Display the resize rectangle" button):
In the above screenshot, the "Display the resize rectangle" button is pressed, while the "Body" button is also pressed.
The preview area displays a relocation rectangle for the body area:
The preview area displays a relocation rectangle for the body area:
Grab the corners to resize the relocation rectangle.
You can also resize it by grabbing the middle of a segment:
You can also resize it by grabbing the middle of a segment:
Before you move or resize the rectangle, make sure that you do it at the proper style level:
VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level: song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.
How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles part one
How to assign a background to a song verse or to the whole song - Cascading styles part two
Three methods to display a background/logo between two songs
How to remove an image assigned to a song verse
How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles part one
How to assign a background to a song verse or to the whole song - Cascading styles part two
Three methods to display a background/logo between two songs
How to remove an image assigned to a song verse
You may want to adjust the text alignment:
This is how your slide looks like now:
Through the “Body”, “Header” and “Footer” style buttons, you can select which relocation rectangle is displayed.
Go ahead and select the footer rectangle:
Go ahead and select the footer rectangle:
Move the footer rectangle to the left:
While the footer rectangle is selected (respectively the header rectangle), the style properties like font, font size, font colors, etc., apply to the footer (respectively to the header).
A footer with a bigger font size and a different color:
When you are finished with the resizing of the relocation rectangle, don't forget to:
- Deselect the "Move/resize" button.
- Select the "Body" button again, so that changes that you do to style attributes apply to the body, which is what we do most of the time:
When a relocation rectangle is close to the screen borders, its corners are a bit harder to catch with the mouse, and may require trials and errors at time:
The body rectangle is close to the screen border and may be hard to catch
You can resize and relocate any of these three rectangles to whatever place and size you wish:
Relocate the rectangle when the mouse cursor is a cross
Move one of its borders (top, right, bottom and left) when the mouse cursor is an arrow
Resize the rectangle from one of its corners
Depending on which text area button is selected, you see either the body, header or footer rectangle in the preview panel:
| "Body" button:  |  |
| "Header" button:  |  |
| "Footer" button:  |  |
Notes
- The rectangles can overlap or they can be close to the screen borders, in which case it is harder to grab the right one.
- The size and location settings, like all style settings, are applied at the currently selected level: song verse, song, songbook, songbooks, base. The same is true for Bibles.
VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level: song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.
Cascading styles “Must Read” articles:
Cascading styles “Must Read” articles:
To relocate the text areas at the “Songbooks” style level, follow these steps:
1. Click on a song to display its verses in the slide list.
Any song will do:
1. Click on a song to display its verses in the slide list.
Any song will do:
2. Click on one of the verses to display the slide preview in the preview panel.
Any verse will do, this is only so that you see some text in the preview panel:
Any verse will do, this is only so that you see some text in the preview panel:
3. Change the style level to “Songbooks”:
4. Select which text area you want to relocate, for example the body:
5. Relocate the body text area in the preview panel:
The changes will be applied at the “Songbooks” style level, meaning that all song verses from all songs from all songbooks will get this setting, except for those higher up levels where you overrode this setting.
Higher up levels are “Songbook”, “Song” or “Song verse”, which follows the hierarchical styles principle.
When you have finished to relocate text areas, don't forget to deselect the “Resize” button:
Higher up levels are “Songbook”, “Song” or “Song verse”, which follows the hierarchical styles principle.
When you have finished to relocate text areas, don't forget to deselect the “Resize” button:
Remember to save your changes with the “Save” button:
Side note
By default, VideoPsalm will not save changes that you do to Bibles, to prevent unexpected changes to the Biblical text. This also applies to the changes that you do to Bible styles.
Enable the saving of Bible changes in the VideoPsalm options:
By default, VideoPsalm will not save changes that you do to Bibles, to prevent unexpected changes to the Biblical text. This also applies to the changes that you do to Bible styles.
Enable the saving of Bible changes in the VideoPsalm options:
VideoPsalm would anyway remind you to save your changes when you close it.
VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level: song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.
Cascading styles “Must Read” articles:
Cascading styles “Must Read” articles:
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