VideoPsalm

VideoPsalm takes full advantage of tablets or laptops that have touch-screens.

Some screens have however so many pixels that the buttons on the screen get at times a bit too narrow.
To remedy this, VideoPsalm can increase the size between its buttons:

To swap between these two sizes, use the highlighted "express" toolbar button, located at the top-left:

If ever you find that the ribbon takes too much screen estate, collapse it by double-clicking on one of its tabs:

Additionally, you can adjust Videopsalm's font size in its settings:

At time, I have been using VideoPsalm on a Microsoft Surface Pro 2, and it is a very enjoyable experience.
I play the guitar while we sing songs at Bible time with the family and I let VideoPsalm display the chords over the lyrics.
To advance to the next slide, one person touches the screen, the right keyboard shortcut or the right mouse button.

You can filter thumbnails by specific keywords in their name or their metadata:

When you assign a background image or video to a style level, VideoPsalm helps you into this task in two ways:

1. VideoPsalm displays thumbnails in a gallery.
   This enables you to visually select the right item.
2. You can filter the list with keywords into the image or video name, or in their metadata.
   This reduces the amount of thumbnails that are included into the gallery, so that you only get presented elements that fit your need.

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VideoPsalm will also search for keywords in the image file metadata, when there is some.

To add metadata (for example specific keywords) to a media file, use the Windows File Explorer, for example by clicking the "Explore video folder" menu:

This opens a Windows File Explorer in the folder where VideoPsalm looks for video files:

To add metadata, for example specific keywords, to an image or video file, right-click on it and select "Properties" -> "Details" tab:

Type-in keywords in the right metadata field.
Use preferably:

• For images, the "Keywords" property or any other property.
  
• For videos,  the "Title" property. Other properties may not work.
  

Once your files have metadata, you can easily locate them in the VideoPsalm gallery, by typing-in keywords:

Notes:

• Use the "Title" metadata property fro videos. This is an actual limitation for videos only.
  
• Other video metadata properties are not recognized by VideoPsalm, notably the "Keywords" metadata field is not taken into account. Metadata in image files is recognize properly.
  
• You may need to restart VideoPsalm after you edited metadata.

When your PC has a video camera connected to it, you can tell VideoPsalm to display the live stream under the lyrics or under the Bible verses.
The "Camera" button is located to the top right, and is displayed only if VideoPsalm detected a video camera or a web cam when you started it:

The live video stream will show either on the live screen, or on the preview screen (when the live screen is not on).

Click the "Camera" button to instantly replace the current background with the live video stream:

It is recommended to hide the "Live Camera" button in case your PC has a web cam connected to it, so that the operator does not show his face by mistake on the big screen...

To hide the "Live video camera" button, disable the corresponding checkbox in the VideoPsalm options, in the "Customization" tab:

If your PC has several video cameras connected to it, you can select the required live video camera in the drop-down button.