VideoPsalm

See also:
How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles - Part one

VideoPsalm displays the text of song verses and Bible verses with their assigned style attributes.
The main style attributes are:

• Font name
• Font size
• Bold
• Italic
• Underlined
• Left aligned / Right aligned / Centered
• Top / Middle / Bottom
• Text color
• Text outline color
• Text outline width
• Text shadow
• Text animation
• Text body size and position
• Background color, image or video
• Background animation
• Header / Footer size and position
• Header / Footer content template
• etc. (you can see a complete list of attributes in the style explorer. See below how to open the style explorer panel).

Style attributes can be assigned at any of the following levels:
For song verses:

• Song verse
• Song
• Songbook
• Songbooks
• Base

For Bible verses:

• Bible verse
• Bible chapter
• Bible book
• Testament
• Bible
• Bibles
• Base

Each slide can get style attributes from any level, like a cascade.
If a style attribute is set at several levels, VideoPsalm considers the attribute at the highest level.
For example, if a background image is assigned at the song level and another image is assigned to the song verse level (the highest level), the image from the song verse level will be displayed.

Method a) Select the “Song” style level:

Method b) One easy way to select the “Song” style level is to click on the song:

Method c) Alternatively, if the song is in the agenda, click on it there to select the "Song" style level.

Select the “Verse” style level first:

Method a) Click on the corresponding song verse slide in the slide list:

You can see that the “Verse” style level gets selected:

You can always select a lower style level directly from the drop down menu:

To select the “Songbooks” level, click on the “Songbooks” button.
To select the “Bibles” level, click on the “Bibles” button.


Conclusion  Before you do any change to the style, first make sure that VideoPsalm is set at the right style level:

• If you want to assign a background image to a whole song, click on the song, and then choose a background image. VideoPsalm will display every song verse with this image (except for song verses that have a more specific background).
• If you want to assign a background image to a song verse, click on that verse, and then choose a background image. VideoPsalm will display the song verse with this background.

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Sometimes, you need to remove a style attribute at some level.
For example, if you assign an image to a song but a verse already has an image assigned to it: you will need to remove this image at the verse level.

To remove all attributes at some level, click on the “Brush” button at this level.

To remove all style attributes from all verses of a song, click the menu “Delete all the above styles attributes”:

If you are located at the "Song" style level, this action will remove all specific verse attributes, preserving the song attributes and the lower ones (songbook, songbooks, base).

To remove a specific style attribute at some level, open the style explorer with the tiny style button:

This opens the style explorer panel.
Attributes that are set at the current level are represented in bold, and have a “Brush” icon next to them:

Click on the brush to remove the attribute at this level.

The icons located to the very right tell at which level the corresponding attribute is defined.
In the above screen shot, you can see that the “Animation” and “Body rectangle” attributes are set at the “Songbooks” level. The other attributes are all set at the “Base” level, except for “Italic”.

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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:

Select one of the 4 highlighted buttons to tell VideoPsalm on which text item to work:

1. Body
2. Header
3. Footer
4. Chords

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):

Grab the corners to resize the relocation rectangle.
You can also resize it by grabbing the middle of a segment:

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:

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:

1. Deselect the "Move/resize" button.
2. 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:

You can resize and relocate any of these three rectangles to whatever place and size you wish:

Depending on which text area button is selected, you see either the body, header or footer rectangle in the preview panel:

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:

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:

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.
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Enable the saving of Bible changes in the VideoPsalm options:

VideoPsalm would anyway remind you to save your changes when you close it.

To install VideoPsalm on another PC without internet connection, you will need a USB key with around 100 Mb free space.

1. Download the latest VideoPsalm Installation Package from this page (click the first “Download” button at the top).

2. Install VideoPsalm on your PC. If Windows emits some warnings, dismiss and bypass them.

3. Use these instructions to add songbooks and Bibles to your VideoPsalm.

4. Open the VideoPsalm backup assistant:

5. In the “Backup” dialog that opens, select a folder from your USB key (See point 1 in the image bellow).
If the folder doesn't exist, it will be created automatically during the backup.
Select also the following check-boxes (See point 2 in the image bellow):

• Create a portable VideoPsalm application
  
• Add the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Setup
  

6. Run the backup by clicking on the button “Start the backup”. The backup take only a few seconds.

You now have a portable version of VideoPsalm on your USB key.
When plugged into another PC, you can start VideoPsalm from it, without needing to install it.
Simply open the USB key folder where you stored VideoPsalm, and start it by double-clicking on its application icon.
In case the PC where you start VideoPsalm doesn't have the Microsoft .NET Framework installed, install it first.
You will find the Microsoft .NET Framework Setup located in this same USB key folder.

7. If you want, go one step further and install VideoPsalm onto this other PC via the USB key.
Simply use the Windows file explorer to copy the VideoPsalm USB folder onto the PC's hard drive, for example on the “Desktop” or in “My Documents”.
You can then start VideoPsalm from this new location, and won't need the USB key on this PC anymore.

Alternatively, to copy the VideoPsalm folder from the USB key to the PC's hard drive, you can again use VideoPsalm's integrated backup function, to backup your USB VideoPsalm onto the PC:

1. Start VideoPsalm from the USB key.
   
2. Open the VideoPsalm backup assistant.
   
3. Specify a folder located into your PC “My Document” folder.
   
4. Make sure to select the check box “Create a portable VideoPsalm application”.
   

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