VideoPsalm

In the window that opens, enter the location where you want your portable VideoPsalm, for example on your USB drive.
In the example below, the USB key is represented by the G: drive.

Specify a specific folder, eg “VideoPsalm.” If this folder does not exist, the backup will automatically create it.

If you do not know the name of your USB key drive, click the “Choose a folder” button:

In the dialog box that opens, select your USB key and then press “OK”:

At this point, you are ready to create a backup of your VideoPsalms' documents on the USB drive.

If you want to create a portable VideoPsalm, check both boxes surrounded by red in the screenshot below, then click the “Start the backup” button:

Confirm the operation:

VideoPsalm proceeds to the backup. This should take one minute or two at most or a bit longer if VideoPsalm needs to download the Microsoft .NET Framework.

At the end of the backup,VideoPsalm informs you that everything went well:

Now you can start VideoPsalm on another PC from your USB drive.
Here are the content of the VideoPsalms' folder on the USB key:

Above, you can identify the VideoPsalm program. To start it, on another PC or on your own, double-click it.

In case the PC on which you want to start VideoPsalm doesn't have the Microsoft. NET Framework 4.0 installed, double-click first on the file named "dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe" and follow the instructions to install it.

Use the “Restore” function to restore songbooks, Bibles, images and videos from an USB key:

With the “Backup” function, you can easily create several clones of your songbook and Bibles library on your hard drive, in different folders.
You can also copy the VideoPsalms' executable files on a computers' hard drive. This way, you can start VideoPsalm directly from the PCs' hard drive, without the USB key.

If you have any further question or remark, please contact us.

The fastest way is to use VideoPsalm's integrated edit functions:

• Put VideoPsalm into its “Edit” mode, by clicking the “Pencil” icon located at the right side.
• Then select the “Edit” tab at the top.

• In case you want to add your new songs into a new songbook, create a new one by clicking the “New Songbook” button.
• Select the songbook where you want to add your new songs, by clicking on it.
• Create a new song by clicking the “New Song” button.
• In the middle panel, type in the song lyrics.
• To put lyrics onto a new slide, leave an empty line between two song verses / stanzas.
  You can tag a song verse as a verse, or chorus, pre-chorus, bridge, tag, intro, outro, slide, instrumental or other.
  For example, if you want to tag a song verse as a chorus, type the word “chorus” as the first line of the song verse.
  You can add a number after a tag, for example “Verse 2”.
  You can use abbreviations: v for verse, c for chorus, r for refrain (in french), etc.

Note  Tags can be useful to identify slides more easily in the “Slides” panel. They don't fulfill any other purpose at the moment.

• When you are finished, save your work by clicking the “Save” button on the “Edition” tab.
  VideoPsalm will also remind you to save your work when you close it, if you haven't done so before.

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Many songs that you collect here and there are in text format. For example, you collect song lyrics from a web site, youtube, CCLI, etc.
You may have some friend who sent you a file with lots of songs into it, or even a PowerPoint with slides containing songs.
The idea is to use a text editor to put together these songs in text format, and import them all at once via the VideoPsalm text import assistant:

In the text editor, while editing your songs, the song lyrics must correspond to the format that VideoPsalm is expecting.

Here is a description of the text format that VideoPsalm is expecting (see also the example further down):

Song #. Song Title
Copyright or Written by Author (optional)
Empty line
V#. Lyrics (where # is the verse number. Use “C.” for Chorus, instead of “V.”)
Lyrics
Lyrics
etc..
Empty line
Next verse #. Lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics
etc..
Empty line
etc. (other lyrics)
Empty line
Copyright symbol: © (Alt+0169) (+ optional copyright text on the same line)
At least two empty lines
Next song


For example:

1. Blessed be the name of the Lord
Written by Clinton Utterbach

V1. Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Most High! (Repeat)

C. The Name of the Lord is A strong tower,
The righteous run into it,
And they are saved. (Repeat)

V2. Glory to the name of the Lord,
Glory to the name of the Lord,
Glory to the name of the Lord
Most High! (Repeat)

C. The Name of the Lord is A strong tower,
The righteous run into it,
And they are saved. (Repeat)

© 1988 Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.


2. Above all
Written by ​Lenny LeBlanc & Paul Baloche

V1. Above all powers,
Above all kings,
Above all nature
And all created things;
Above all wisdom
And all the ways of man,
You were here
Before the world began.

C. Crucified, laid behind the stone;
You lived to die,
Rejected and alone;
Like a rose trampled on the ground,
You took the fall and thought of me, 
Above all.

V2. Above all kingdoms,
Above all thrones,
Above all wonders
The world has ever known;
Above all wealth
And treasures of the earth,
There's no way to measure
What You're worth.

C. Crucified, laid behind the stone;
You lived to die,
Rejected and alone;
Like a rose trampled on the ground,
You took the fall and thought of me, 
Above all.

© 1999 Lensongs Publishing/Integrity's Hosanna! Music/Sovereign Music UK


Notes

• Leave at least two empty lines at the end of each song.
• Leave only one empty line between song verses.
• The copyright symbol “©” enables VideoPsalm to identify the copyright text. This line is optional.
• To obtain a “©” symbol, type Alt+0169.
• Use “C.” to tag a chorus.
• In french, use “R.” to tag a chorus (refrain).
• Song verses don't need to be labelled. If a song verse has no label, VideoPsalm will consider it to be a song verse and increment its number: The first verse will get number 1, the second verse will get number 2, etc.

Careful  Microsoft Windows Notepad saves text files in the ANSI text format by default.
However, VideoPsalm expects the text to be in the Unicode format, because this enables world languages encoding.
There are two solutions to this:

• When you save your text document, tell Word to save the text in the Unicode, Unicode big endian or UTF-8 format, not ANSI.
  There is an option for this in the “Save under” dialog for this, at the left of the “Save” button.
• Use Notepad++, which is a full fledged free text editor.

Summary  The text format is the simple file format there is. You can create or edit a text file containing lots of songs with a simple text editor. These songs need to follow a simple syntax so that VideoPsalm can import them properly. You can then import them all at once into your VideoPsalm.

In case of any difficulty, please use the contact form.

VideoPsalm comes in around 50 languages.
When you first start it, it will try to select the right language for you.

​You can also select the language in the VideoPsalm options:

VideoPsalm languages are brought to you by the VideoPsalm community, and are constantly updated.
Each time that this happens, you will be notified by a toast at VideoPsalm start-up.

To update your language with the most recent version:
1. In the VideoPsalm edit mode, select the “Edition” tab and click the “Import” button:

This will open the import assistant dialog:

3. Select “Import a language” and click “Next”. This lets you select which languages you want to import from the VideoPsalm Online Library. You need an active internet connection for this.

4. Select one or several languages. you can select them all, as they don't take much space at all. Then click “Next” several times until VideoPsalm proceeds to the import.

5. Once the import is finished, after a few seconds, select your language in the VideoPsalm options: