VideoPsalm

This topic describes some of the stage view feature versus the presentation screen.

To display the "stage view" or "confidence monitor":

1. In the top tool bar, select the "Message" tab and click the "Display" button in the "Stage view" group:

1. Dialog title
This area enables you to move the window with your mouse to a dedicated monitor or location on your screen.
Normally, you will want to move this dialog to a third monitor/HDMI/VGA output.

2. Maximize button
Normally, you will want to maximize the window so that it occupies the whole screen surface.

3. The currently displayed slide title (in this example, SOF #2719)

4. The currently displayed slide content (in this example, verse 2 lyrics)

5. The currently displayed slide type (Verse, chorus, etc.).

6. The song progress (verse 1, 2, 3, etc.)

7. The next song title (empty at the moment, because the next slide is still the same song).

8. The next slide content (in this example, verse 3 lyrics)

9. The next slide type

10. The current time

Move/resize this window to the adequate screen or location, and maximize it if necessary.

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The stage view "Settings" button enables to select the font size and color and other settings.
​To open the stage view settings, press the "Settings" button in the "Stage view" group:

This opens the stage view settings dialog:

Adjust the font size, font color, bold, italic, underline and font background to your liking.

You may want to hide the stage view screen borders, next slide, slide footer, progression and time.

Stage view with current slide only, white text color, centered:

This topic describes how to highlight specific words of a slide.
VideoPsalm's lyrics editor is a WYSIWYG word processor, where you can set style attributes to specific words.

Use the neighoring toolbar buttons to adjust the font size, color, outline, bold, italic, etc. of specific words.

To clear the formatting applied to a word, select the word, then press the “Clear formatting” button:

The changes that you make to the song lyrics (text and style) are not reflected automatically.
To refresh a slide, double-click on its text in the slide list:

If you often type-in lyrics for a language that uses specific characters, like Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Korean, etc., select a font that works well with your language, maybe the Google Noto font.
I am sure that you will well know which font you need.

To set the VideoPsalm lyrics editor default font, open the options -> Lyrics editor, and select it there:

Select the right font for your language, so that VideoPsalm will not need to automatically substitute the font for words containing unavailable characters in the current font.

It is a good idea to select the “Substitute fonts” check-box. This way, you will always be able to see all characters in the editor (as long as your Windows OS has such fonts available).
The VideoPsalm editor will scan all the fonts that the Windows OS has, and will select the first one that has the missing characters.

Interesting article about fonts and world languages

VideoPsalm 1.27 is the first version that fully supports right-to-left (RTL) layout for its dialogs.
See article here

The VideoPsalm editor will provide full Right-to-left language support, hopefully in version 1.28 or 1.29.

To type-in Arabic, Hebrew or any other RTL text in the lyrics editor for version 1.27, proceed as follows:
Open the VideoPsalm options -> Lyrics editor, and select “Allow access to a simplified text editor, compatible with RTL writing”.

You will see a new toolbar button available in the lyrics editor:

Press this button. The standard lyrics editor will be replaced by a simplified text editor, allowing you to type-in in RTL direction.
The layer 2 features are not available in this editor, however you can instantly switch to the standard lyrics editor, and use the layer 2 toolbar button, with the help of this "Switch"-button.

This tutorial describes how to edit and format individual verse words, by “converting” a set of Bible verses into a song.
Additionally, this is a solution to display several Bible verses on a single slide.
See examples of this in column 2:

Here are 3 scenarios (read further down for how to do it):

• The pastor is interested in some specific words of the verse (the beginning, the end, the middle, etc..).
  -> “Convert” the Bible verse into a “song”, and keep the specific verse parts:

We will consider a passage with verses of different lengths, 1 Corinthians 13.

VideoPsalm can display the selected verses on the fly. However, in our case right now, add the Bible verses into the agenda.

Note: In general, it's always a good idea, during the service, to put viewed items into the agenda, including the items that you display on the fly.
This way, you have them on hand in case the pastor returns to some previously cited verse.

Click the “Add” button to add the Bible verses to the agenda:

Right-click the Bible verses agenda item and select the highlighted menu item:

This has the effect of “converting” the Bible verses into a free text, a “song” actually, that you can edit at leisure.
VideoPsalm puts this Bible verse “Song” in a new songbook called “Bible verses”.
This songbook is created on the fly if it does not exist already.
Consecutive Bible verse “songs” will be added to one of the songbooks marked as such (see the Personalized Bible verses checkbox below):

The screen shot below illustrates how VideoPsalm converted the Bible verses into a song:

In the above screen shot, several areas are highlighted:

1. VideoPsalm created a songbook called “Bible verses”.
   it is in this songbook that VideoPsalm puts custom Bible verses.
   As shown higher-up, you can create more songbooks of Bible verses, by selecting their "Personalized Bible verses" checkbox.
2. The icon of such songbooks is represented by a Bible.
   "Bible verses" songs are represented by a “Message bubble” icon.
3. In the example above, I have slightly edited the verses:
   I removed the line break between verses 6 and 7, and between verses 9 and 10.
   These verses are short and can fit on a single slide.
4. The slide numbers correspond to the verse numbers.
   You can edit your verses, for example merge two consecutive verses that are short, and the verse numbers will keep matching to the song verse number.
5. I configured the songbook header and footer to display the Bible verse reference and the Bible name.
   This all is done automatically when you tell VideoPsalm to make the Bible verses editable.

To complete the operation, configure the songbook to display its verses with a similar style as your Bibles, for example by assigning a Bible image to its background. This way, all the Bible verses in this songbook will automatically appear with this image.

Tell us if this suits some of your scenarios!

Other articles of interest

• Display verses from two different Bible translations at the same slide (bilingual display)
• How easily and fast you can display song lyrics and Bible verses to your assistance
• Tricks: Display Bible verses quickly, the way you want them to be (bilingual, several verses on one slide, etc.)