VideoPsalm 1.17

7/31/2017

83 Comments

VideoPsalm 1.17 is available since beginning of August 2017.

New features for VideoPsalm 1.17

Following features are announced:

New document types can be dragged into the agenda and displayed:

Web site (an internet connection is required)
YouTube video (an internet connection is required)
Vimeo video (an internet connection is required)
PDF (1)
PowerPoint (2) (improved)
Word (3)
Excel (3)
Write (4)
Calc (4)
Standalone audio with background

Associate documents to a song

Web site
YouTube video
Vimeo video
PDF (1)
PowerPoint (2)
Word (3)
Excel (3)
Video (4)
Audio (4)

and display the associated document instead of the song lyrics, while being able to find the song by its title and lyrics.

(1) Acrobat Reader not required
(2) Microsoft PowerPoint 2003+ required
(3) Microsoft Office not required
(4) Libre Office not required

Footer and header visibility
It is now easy to select on which song slides the header and the footer will be displayed:

First slide
Last slide
Middle slides

7 new skins, for a total of 45
The default skin is now "Office 2016 Colorful".

New style attributes

Uppercase/lowercase first character/whole lyrics
Wrap text/no wrap

Precisely set presentation screen location
This can be useful when presenting on some televisions that cut-off the screen borders (for example Samsung 60" TVs).

ChordPro chords can now optionally be considered as normal text
This is useful for languages that use the bracket symbols.

The Windows 10 "out of memory" error message is potentially gone
Your feedback is required here because we are not able to reproduce the problem.
Possibility to deactivate the text shadow rendering in the settings.
This could help Windows 10 PCs with the "out of memory" error message.

Windows file association

Import a VideoPsalm Bible or a songbook by double-clicking onto it from the Windows file explorer.
Double-clicking an agenda opens it in VideoPsalm.

New and improved song import filters

CCLI .txt (new)
OpenSong (improved)
Text (new)
EasyWorship 2009 (improved)
EasyWorship 2006 (new)
Presenter (new)
.rtf (new)
OpenLP, before and after 2.4 (improved)
Lyrix (new)
and more to come

Improved PowerPoint automation

No more unexpected PowerPoint "Save" prompt at the end of the presentation
Display of the animations inside slides
New "Previous slide" button
Progress bar during the loading of a presentation
Settings to adjust/correct the PowerPoint presentation screen location on PCs where VideoPsalm detects wrongly the screen size.
etc.

Improved/corrected video display

No more black screen
The progress cursor now goes over the 3 min 53 limit
etc.

Improved text rendering

No more too big line indents
No more highlighted text wrong size
Chords are displayed even if the song verse has no lyrics
etc.

Improved message display

Top
Bottom
Middle
Multi-line

Improved clock display

Analog clock
Digital clock

Songbook management with context menus

Merge songbooks
Split songbook
Add songbook
Delete songbook
Add song
Delete song
etc.

Miscellaneous

Possibility to adjust some table column widths in the settings. Useful for screens with really high pixel density.
Tooltips are now shorter (some tooltips were really long).
Song verse styles keep attached to their song verse while editing the lyrics.
Improved opening of agendas and documents.
Improved library switching, with a progress bar.
Secured songbook save, additionally with a backup file.
Improved/corrected style explorer.
Improved main dialog panel layout.
It is now possible to loop the first items. Before it wasn't possible to loop the items if there wasn't any non looping-item before them.
Improved translation grid (no more immediate row sort while editing).

83 Comments

Daniel

8/1/2017 02:23:28 pm

Fantastic software. Great features

Ken Row

8/1/2017 03:32:36 pm

I'm excited! Looking forward to the improvements.

ALEX LEIVA

8/1/2017 03:39:51 pm

FAVOR ENVIAR LA ACTUALIZACION

David

8/1/2017 09:08:49 pm

I was hoping to see new Bible translations like TLB added.

VideoPsalm link

8/1/2017 11:05:36 pm

Hi David,

Thank you for your request.

The TLB is in the list of Bibles to add in the VideoPsalm online library, however I don't know when it will be available.

Is the TLB very different to the NTL2007, which is available there?.

Xeria Santos

8/13/2017 10:20:07 am

Yes it is

Corey link

8/2/2017 10:12:40 am

I'm looking forward to testing out these new features!

Darel Leting

8/3/2017 04:30:28 am

Great software. A lot of the features in this free software are being provided in premium versions of competing products so we appreciate these guys' efforts.

Eugene de Vera

8/3/2017 07:16:54 am

Hello.. Blessings
Am so excited to see the new and Improved features.... God Bless You more!!!

Stanley Rodriguez

8/3/2017 10:30:36 am

Excelente noticia!
A disfrutar ésta bendición de herramienta, Dios les Bendiga!

J. Steenstra

8/5/2017 01:44:36 am

Well, I'm excited. A lot of changes. I wonder if the digital clock can pe projected on top, midden or bottom? And if you want to project a scripture. Is it verse by verse? Or can you project 2 or more verses at once.

VideoPsalm link

8/5/2017 04:23:21 pm

Hi Jan,

The digital clock is vertically centered, but it is not difficult to add this feature I guess.

As for the Bible verses, the feature that you mention is still in the Todo list, sorry. I just added it again, to add weight to it.

J. Steenstra

8/6/2017 03:22:50 am

After the church service today I've want to install the new version. Panda virusscanner says that it is a virus and that I'm not allowed to install it. Even when I tried with administration rights I've received the same message. When shutting down Panda, then I can install it. Of course I'm curious about the digital clock and saw that the translation was in French instead of Dutch. Even the language was Dutch in version 1.16. I think that not everything has translated yet. I have to test the rest at home, but further it looks great.

VideoPsalm link

8/6/2017 01:02:06 pm

Hi Jan,

t seems that your antivirus program is preventing you from using your PC.
Disabling or uninstalling the antivirus solved problem for the other people.

VideoPsalm recommends the "Microsoft Windows Defender" antivirus:
It is non-intrusive, Microsoft branded, and already available for free on your PC.

To use Microsoft Windows Defender:
- Uninstall your actual antivirus. A PC reboot is possibly required to get totally rid of the antivirus.
- In a few clicks, activate Windows Defender, in the Control Panel. No PC reboot is required.

Some clock messages about the clock were available in Dutch in VideoPsalm 1.16, but could not be kept for VideoPsalm 1.17 for some reason.

The list of label changes is available here:
http://www.videopsalm.org/download/localization/Changes%20from%201.16%20to%201.17.txt

J. Steenstra

8/6/2017 10:06:52 pm

That's right. If you disabled your antivirusprogram, than you can install it. After installing videopsalm I able my antivirusprogram and you can use VIdeopsalm..

J. Steenstra

8/8/2017 02:22:04 am

In the first table (text) you can change the font and size. But I miss the option for mouse to minimize or maximize this. Now I have to input the fontsize.

J. Steenstra

8/8/2017 06:16:42 am

When I want to show two translation of a Bible (f.i. KJV and NIV) I see only the first bibletext with translation and not the second one. So I see: KJV and I want to see: KJV
In the beginning..... In the beginning
. .
. NIV
In the beginning.... In the beginning

And I can see which verse I'm projecting. In this case Genesis 1:1.
But is also posible if I want to show a part of the text. So you see: Genesis 1:1 (Genesis 1:1-12). The Genesis 1:1-12 is what I have to show on screen or projector.

Further. I use Dutch language. But, by Message section or label I see french translation. Message has to be Bericht, Options = Opties, Horloge = Klok, Afficher = Tonen, The same with the last option: changes. The forth option says: Suprimer la Bible = Verwijder Bijbel. Unfortunately I can't find it in the dutch translation. So hereby.

VideoPsalm link

8/13/2017 12:37:02 pm

Hi Jan,

Thank you for your feedback about bilingual Bible display.
This bug is already in the list of things to correct.

VideoPsalm 1.18 has more texts than version 1.16, and the new texts are not translated into Dutch at the moment.
This is why these new texts/functions appear in French at the moment. Hopefully this will be fixed in VideoPsalm 1.19.

Gus

12/5/2017 08:14:56 am

fantastic, this is awesome
great features, for the work of God

Xeria Santos

8/13/2017 10:19:05 am

There are some major issues with the Message Bible application that is on the program. For example, 1 Timothy 1 does not have all the scriptures.
Please fix this error and also include the Expanded and The Voice bibles.

Thanks

VideoPsalm link

8/13/2017 12:46:16 pm

Hi Xeria,

Thank you for informing me about the seemingly missing scripture.
However, all the Bible text is there, with some Bible verses merged under the same number.
So the whole text is there and this is simply the way the "Message" Bible groups verses together.

Xeria Santos

8/13/2017 04:04:00 pm

So are there any new bibles that will be coming or any old ones that you will be updating???

Xeria Santos

8/18/2017 07:35:41 pm

Well I did check biblegateway and bible.com and the Message Version bible though grouped together does have the numbers beside each verse. That is not the same in VideoPsalm

VideoPsalm link

8/14/2017 07:00:21 am

Hi Xeria,

Thanks for your suggestion, it makes plenty of sense.

Al link

8/13/2017 07:45:22 pm

Thanks for the new version.

Excited with all the improvements - time to play and deploy!

Blessings

Deacon Dudley link

8/14/2017 04:12:44 am

Never have I been super excited to see an update like this...

8/14/2017 06:00:22 pm

I was hoping for a stage display in this version. Any updates on when it will be added?

VideoPsalm link

8/21/2017 07:28:02 am

Hi RD,

The "stage view" feature is for the next major VideoPsalm version, probably 1.20.
Thank you for your patience.

8/22/2017 06:09:05 am

Thank you for all your hard work and time. I know that you have put alot into this project. It is appreciated. May God Bless You.

David

3/10/2019 11:28:05 am

Since the newest version upgrade (1.23 I believe) there is no new support/tutorial information on the latest features, namely the “stage view”. It would help greatly to have the new features AND be able to learn about them.
Thanks

VideoPsalm link

7/29/2020 06:35:47 am

Hi RD,

The stage view is available since 1.23.
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-display-and-setup-the-stage-view

SOLOVE

8/15/2017 12:59:05 am

Good day, VideoPsalms Crew. I Just downloaded and installed the version 1.18 and it's new features. May God bless you guys immensely.

However, I have an improvement suggestion:
-Scrolling the message and giving room for multiple messages to be displayed.

VideoPsalm link

8/21/2017 07:37:07 am

Hi Solove,

Thank you for your warm words and feedback!
I added your suggestions to the list of things to do.
However I don't know when they will be implemented.

VideoPsalm link

8/21/2017 07:39:23 am

Hi Solove,

To help me understand your scenario, could you provide a few messages that you would like to display simultaneously, and a long message to display that you would like to see scroll?

This would help a lot to better implement this feature.

Roy

8/17/2017 04:25:19 pm

Praise the Lord! Good day Videopsalm team... I just downloaded the videopsalm 1.18 a couple of days now, and I'm so blessed with the program.. I've been using videopsalm for more than a year, and i am so happy with it.. This is indeed a great blessing not only for me but for every churches who used it..

One thing I just want know on how to display multiple messages in multiple lines... or is there any way to make it in this version? Somewhat like lower thirds... I've really expecting this feature in the new release...

If it is not yet available, I'll be patient in waiting for the upgrade....

GOD BLESS YOU VIDEOPSALM TEAM!

VideoPsalm link

2/3/2018 12:33:41 pm

Hi Roy, thank you for your warm words, they are much appreciated.
The lower third messages will be improved in a future version: it is in the list of things to do.

Didier UNTERDORFEL

8/19/2017 05:54:31 am

Salut,

Tu t'es lâché, super tes nouvelles modifications, je vais tester et installer

Il est vrai, je ne suis plus si souvent que cela à Guebwiller.

Bonjour à tout le monde

Rose Salazar

8/19/2017 09:46:06 pm

Wonderful work! Thank you for all the many hours you put into this update. I really like the background image dialog being so wide!
However, I miss the buttons for moving an item in the agenda up or down, although it's nice to be able to drag them.
One thing surprises me, that I can't multi-select in the songbook to either move, copy, delete, etc.
God bless you for putting so much into a free product!!

VideoPsalm link

8/21/2017 07:35:03 am

Hi Rose,

Thank you for your warm words and feedback.

Agenda item "Move up/down" buttons

To move items up or down in the agenda, use one of the following ways:
- Use the keyboard keys "Ctrl+Page Up" or "Ctrl+Page Down.
- Use the mouse and drag & drop the selected items at the new position.
- Right-click with the mouse and select "Move up" or "Move down".

These buttons were removed to gain some screen surface, but will be back in VideoPsalm 1.19.

Multi-select song or songbook
This is not possible the moment.
I added your suggestion to the list of things to do.

Lourdes

8/28/2017 08:17:54 pm

After recent updates, we were kind of skeptical since the out of memory error in Windows was overwhelming. After the first August update was announced, we ran some tests at church and it’s been three weeks and worships that we haven’t seen the error!!!!
Thanks, and God bless you and your ministry. This is state of the art software!

VideoPsalm link

8/31/2017 04:26:06 am

Thank you for your warm words!

JohnStanley link

9/8/2017 06:49:06 am

Dear VideoPsalm, Thank you for an excellent user-friendly free application, and for your continued support and updates.

However, I must be living in a different world, where basic operation functions are more important than being able to display a spreadsheet. I've commented on these matters in the past, on this blog, and in one email. Please may I take the opportunity of consolidating them again here, and, sadly, adding two new issues.

(1) Text Editor font set to Calibri with any font set to size 10 not fixed. See:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/videopsalms-lyrics-and-chords-editor 5/27/2017 09:55:56 am

(2) The background of an image is still set by the brightness setting (<=0 = black, <0 = white)
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/first-post 7/6/2017 04:48:40 am

(3) There is no way for remote presenter to move WIndows focus to the slides area
Email 03-Jan-2016

(4) NEW ISSUE / BUG:
The "Next" Button has lost all its extra goodness compared with Down-Arrow button.
Is it possible that the Next button's functionality has been removed and the Next button is now simply a duplicate of the Down-Arrow on the keyboard?
It would have been kind-of nice to have done it the other way around - to enhance the down-arrow to include the extra functionality of the Next button. Then PowerPoint animations could be controlled by wireless remote presenter controller.

Now even the "Next" button does not action PowerPoint animations, as it did in VideoPsalm 1.16.

Note the website says that the Next button *does* advance animations:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/control-a-powerpoint-presentation-with-animations-inside-slides

(5) NEW ISSUE
In the Agenda window
The re-order buttons are not present, and not able to be added as far as I can see (and customisation has been removed from the Options-Customization settings)
The context menu right-click in the Agenda window has French for the missing buttons.

(I notice that this has already been mentioned in a previous comment. Thank you for agreeing to put it back.

(6) Lastly, I retested the issue with what happens after a song with audio assigned. I posted the test results for version 1.16 at:

http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-assign-an-audio-mp3-to-a-song 9/12/2015 07:45:39 am
Here are the new results for 1.18:

Starting State: Song is at the last verse / chorus and ...

(1) Song's "Sequence" setting is: Continue with the next item.

(1.1) Music has not finished

(1.1.1) V-arrow on the screen is pressed - CORRECT:
Music stops, music player is removed, Projection advances to the next agenda item
CORRECT in v1.18

(1.1.2) Down-arrow on the keyboard is pressed - CORRECT:
Music stops, music player is removed, Projection advances to the next agenda item
CORRECT in v1.18

(1.2) Music has finished

(1.2.1) V-arrow on the screen is pressed - CORRECT in 1.16:
Music player is removed, Projection advances to the next agenda item
WRONG in v1.18 - The music now starts from the beginning. The projection does not change

(1.2.2) Down-arrow on the keyboard is pressed - WRONG in 1.16:
The Music starts again from the beginning. The projection does not change
WRONG in v1.18 - No change from v1.16

(2) Song's "Sequence" setting is: Switch off then continue.

(2.1) Music has not finished

(2.1.1) V-arrow on the screen is pressed - WRONG in 1.16:
Music keeps playing, music player remains displayed, Projection advances to the "off" screen
OK in 1.18 - Music stops playing, music player remains displayed, Projection advances to the "off" screen, music player is removed on advancing to the next song

(2.1.2) Down-arrow on the keyboard is pressed - WRONG in 1.16:
Music keeps playing, music player remains displayed, Projection advances to the "off" screen
OK in 1.18 - Music stops playing, music player remains displayed, Projection advances to the "off" screen, music player is removed on advancing to the next song

Note v1.18 I could now test the follow-on, see (3) below.

(2.2) Music has finished

(2.2.1) V-arrow on the screen is pressed - Correct for the congregation, but not correct behaviour:
The Music player remains displayed (WRONG), Projection advances to the "off" screen.
WRONG in v1.18 - The Music starts again, the projection remains at the last verse/chorus.

NOTE v1.16 had a follow-on situation here. See (3) below, but in v1.18 there can be no follow-on because it's stuck on replaying the music.

(2.2.2) Down-arrow on the keyboard is pressed - WRONG in 1.16:
The Music starts again, the projection remains at the last verse/chorus.
WRONG in v1.18 - No change from v1.16

(3) Follow on from (2.2.1 in v1.16), Follow on from (2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in v1.18): The State is: The "Off" Screen is projected, but the Music Player is still displayed

(3.1) V-arrow on the screen is pressed - CORRECT in 1.16
The Music player is removed, the projection advances to the next agenda item.
CORRECT in v1.18

(3.2) Down-arrow on the keyboard is pressed - WRONG in 1.16
The Music s

John Stanley

9/8/2017 06:53:07 am

... here's the rest

(3.2) Down-arrow on the keyboard is pressed - WRONG in 1.16
The Music starts again, the projection remains at the "off" screen.
CORRECT in v1.18

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We are a small church with several people who plan and lead services. Most of them prefer to use the wireless controller to operate VideoPsalm as they lead the service. And preachers always want to use the wireless controller to control their PowerPoint presentations themselves. Our service leaders are not generally intensely interested in solving intricate user interface puzzles. So straightforward operation is most important.

Our priorities are:

Supporting PowerPoint animations
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This has been removed completely from 1.18. But it is specified to be supported from the "Next" button and should also be supported from the Wireless Control. If you don't want to put this functionality in the down-arrow, then you can map it to a keyboard shortcut, then I as a "techy" can map the wireless controller to the keyboard shortcut.

Move Windows Focus to the Slides area so the down-arrow advances the slides
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This is especially important for a wireless presenter. Any number of times we have had the experience of an agenda item being selected and the operator / presenter / service leader has forgotten to click back into the slide text panel, so the wireless presenter does not advance the slides.
I suggested that the B keyboard shortcut might be given this additional functionality, so that the "black" key on the wireless controller could do the move-focus function.

Re-order buttons in the Agenda window
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It's embarrassing to tell my colleagues that the new version has made this harder.

A "collapse all" button for the songbooks panel.
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I did mention this is the email. Double-Pressing the left arrow key (as you told me) is not intuitive nor memorable to non-techys.

Thank you again for providing this application, which we use every Sunday.

John Stanley

9/22/2017 11:12:53 am

Well, thank you for version 1.19, which attempts to put back the Agenda re-order arrows by putting them back in the Customization tab of the Options. This works nicely, BUT when I close VideoPsalm and open it again, the arrows have gone from the Agenda panel. When I go back to the Customization tab of the Options, the boxes for the two arrows are still checked/ticked. But the actual arrows are not shown in the agenda panel. I have to untick the boxes in the Customization tab and then tick them again to get the arrows back. I have to do this every time I use VideoPsalm 1.19.

And the bug introduced in the upgrade is not fixed where PowerPoint animations are no longer advanced by the "Next" button, as documented in http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/control-a-Powerpoint-presentation-with-animations-inside-slides.

Thank you for the prompt fix version 1.19. Pity it's still not quite right.

VideoPsalm link

9/30/2017 11:41:35 pm

Hi John,

Thank you for your valuable feedback.
The agenda up/down buttons will be back for good in VideoPsalm 1.20.

At the moment, to move items up or down in the agenda, use one of the following ways:
- Use the keyboard keys "Ctrl+Page Up" or "Ctrl+Page Down.
- Use the mouse and drag & drop the selected items at the new position.
- Right-click with the mouse and select "Move up" or "Move down".

John Stanley

10/2/2017 05:08:34 am

Thank you for your reply. Is 1.20 going to be another quick bug-fix? Will it fix the "Next" button as well?

Do you have a beta test team? I would be willing to be part of it, and perhaps catch these regression errors before they get released.

Blessings!
John Stanley

VideoPsalm link

10/10/2017 02:31:45 pm

Hi John,

Yes, VideoPsalm 1.20 will be a "quick bug-fix" version.
However I am not sure that it will include all the PowerPoint fixes.

Strangely enough, several people have reported that they have a better PowerPoint experience with VideoPsalm 1.20, while others (like you) are not so happy with it.

I have to confess that due to the increasing use of VideoPsalm, we have difficulties to answer all questions timely.

John Stanley

10/11/2017 04:01:35 am

Thanks for your reply

Is it possible to find out how the people who are achieving PowerPoint animations are doing it? That is to say those people who have found PowerPoint is improved in the latest versions. I really don't think they are actioning animations through VideoPsalm. Perhaps they are getting the better experience by using PowerPoint outside of the VideoPsalm agenda.

I am sad that VideoPsalm has removed the ability to do PowerPoint animations. This is something that many of the preachers use, and is in the PowerPoint files they give us to display for their sermons.

I am also concerned that it will have taken at least three iterations of *released* versions (17, 18, 19, 20) to actually achieve the one upgrade, with new bugs and regressions not captured during testing introduced in each iteration so far - 17, 18, 19. This makes me fear for the future of VideoPsalm. It has been an excellent application to use, and of course I am really grateful for the effort put in to produce it. But it now looks like you are finding it harder to involve good quality developers.

And I am concerned at the decision to replace the processing of the "Next" button in the application (which included PowerPoint animations) with the lower functionality of the down-arrow key (which does not support PowerPoint animations) and leaving it to the users to discover this removal of functionality. It almost seems that this was a timesaving decision taken by a developer when adding the "Previous" button without thinking about the consequences in functionality and use. If this can happen with a very basic piece of functionality, I am concerned for the future of this product. This makes me sad.

VideoPsalm link

10/13/2017 03:31:27 pm

Hi John,

To play PowerPoint animations inside a slide;

a) Click the "Down" button with the mouse.
or
b) Press the "Down" keyboard key, or the "Page Down" keyboard key.

However, I understand that a) and b) do not work for you, even if you are the only person mentioning this problem.
We are investigating why it is not working for you.
Due to the fact that we fail to reproduce the problem, it is harder to fix, but I have good hope that it will be fixed eventually.
This will hopefully be fixed in 1.21.
Thank you for your patience.

Releases 1.18 and 1.19 have been quick-fix versions for bugs that where found in 1.17.
There weren't any bugs introduced in 1.18 and 1.19 as far as I know (except the agenda item up/down buttons).

Note that the "Next" button in 1.16 failed to play the slide animations.
It works in 1.19 (except for you).

We are aware that the PowerPoint integration is an important feature for many people, and will try to improve this matter in VideoPsalm 1.21.

John Stanley

10/14/2017 05:58:57 am

On the PowerPoint Animations:

Following your statement that it is working in version 1.19, I uninstalled VideoPsalm, I renamed the VideoPsalm data folder C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm so the new installation will create a completely new one, I ran CCleaner to clean any data left in the Registry and remove any temporary files that might make a difference.

Then I re-downloaded VideoPsalm 1.19, the current version for download, and installed it. I have a PowerPoint with a single slide with four bullet points set to appear one after the other on mouse click/Page Down/Down arrow key.

I test that in native PowerPoint. The four bullet points appear as expected: when the slide is first displayed, none of them is visible. Then for each mouse click or Page Down key or Down Arrow key, the next bullet point becomes visible, until all four are visible. Then the next click ends the presentation, with the black end-of presentation screen.

When the VideoPsalm installation ends, it starts VideoPsalm. Now I add the PowerPoint into the empty VideoPsalm agenda. I double-click the PowerPoint in the agenda. The initial display of the single slide is shown on the screen correctly, with none of the Bullets showing.

Now I click the "Down" button in the application with the mouse. You call it the "Down" button in your reply here, but I think it is the same as what you call "Next" in the blog post on controlling PowerPoints. Clicking this button in the application with the mouse immediately ends the presentation. No Bullet Points are shown.

The same occurs if the PowerPoint file is PPT or PPTX, and the same occurs with the Down/Next button in the application and with the Down Arrow key on the keyboard.

I am as certain as I can be that 1.17 replaced the version 1.16 application's action for the Down/Next button in the application with the version 1.16 application's action for the Down-Arrow Key on the keyboard, which is documented as not actioning animations.

My additional evidence for this is the detailed actions in the different conditions of playing a sound file with a song slide, which I documented in detail above. In version 1.17+ the test results for the Down/Next Button in the application are the same as for the Down-Arrow key, and most similar to the actions of the Down-Arrow key in version 1.16, whilst in version 1.16 the test results for the Down/Next Button in the application were different from the actions for the Down-Arrow key.

I have Windows 10 Home 64 bit fully up to date with updates, and Microsoft Office 2013, also up to date with its updates, and as I described above a fully fresh install of VideoPsalm 1.19.

Please tell me if I can send you any data to help you discover why my installation works differently from yours.

JohnStanley

10/14/2017 06:01:20 am

P.S. The "Page-Down keyboard key does just the same as the others - ends the presentation without actioning the animations.

John Stanley

10/14/2017 06:06:24 am

Oh, I forgot to say, the "Next" button in 1.16 DID action PowerPoint animations, just like your Blog Post says.

That's why we still use 1.16 on our church laptop. So we can action the animations using the "Next" button in the application.

John Stanley

10/14/2017 06:24:48 am

I'm starting to wonder if we have language problem here.
I've uploaded the very simple powerpoint file here:

http://www.js2js.plus.com/dl/PPT-animations.ppt

so you can try it natively in PowerPoint, and in VideoPsalm.

VideoPsalm link

10/15/2017 07:55:29 pm

Hi John,

As strange as it may seem, the way VideoPsalm interacts with PowerPoint obviously differs from one PC to the other.
Thank you again for your time in describing the steps to reproduce the problem.

Mark

9/17/2017 09:39:43 am

Our church uses version 1.16. Changing pages on a song can be delayed up to four seconds. Would updating VideoPsalm help or hinder? Our computer has two cores (1.8 GHZ), L1 cache 128Kb and L2 is 2Mb. Ram is 3Gb ram with usag at 47%. Windows 10 operating system.

VideoPsalm link

9/17/2017 01:55:47 pm

Hi Mark,

VideoPsalm 1.19 will certainly help (a bit).
You can revert to 1.16 anytime, if you see the need for it.

It is possible to reduce the latency:

1. By reducing the resolution of the video projection screen, for example using 800×600 instead of 1280×1024.

2. Avoid the use of text styles involving a shadow (the outline of the text does not interfere, it is the calculation of the shadow that takes most time).

3. Use less text on the slides. Prefer shorter texts by cutting the long song verses in two or more slides.
To cut a song verse in two, insert a line break at the right place.

The background images or animations (transitions) do not have much impact on the latency.

This latency requires to anticipate the display of the next slide, selecting it one second or two in advance.

If you don't mind, send me an email with an agenda (a .vpagd file) containing songs that display slowly, and I will tell you more precisely how to speed it up.

10/12/2017 02:43:54 pm

When you cut long song verses into two or more slides as mentioned above with a blank line, Videopsalm automatically adds the next verse number even if it is still the same verse. Is there a way to avoid this?

John Stanley

10/12/2017 03:18:11 pm

Put a non-breaking space on the blank line. And you can resize the non-breaking space by selecting it and using the larger and smaller buttons to make the blank line bigger or smaller.

John Stanley

10/12/2017 03:24:45 pm

Oh, perhaps you meant you wanted two slides to have the same verse number. Then when you want to 'go to' that verse, VideoPsalm has to guess which instance of that verse you mean. I don't think VP has the concept of chained or grouped slides.

VideoPsalm link

10/13/2017 03:12:41 pm

Hi RD,

You are right: When you cut a long verse in two, the second part of the verse gets numbered with a higher number.

You can replace this auto-generated number manually:

1. Click on another song.

2. Click back to the song that you are editing.
VideoPsalm will now display "Verse n" on top of the verse lyrics.

3. Replace "n" with any number that you see fit.

Does this work for you?

10/13/2017 05:42:38 pm

This will work but it takes a lot of time changing all the numbers.
Others programs we have used do not automatically add numbers It is some what complicated if you copy and paste songs or import songs. The imported songs already have verse numbers. Then when you separate a long verse or chorus it adds verse numbers. You end up with something like:
V1
V2-second part of verse 1
Chorus
V3-second part of chorus
V2
V4-second part of verse 2
Chorus
V5-second part of chorus
V3
V6-second part of verse 3

If you separate a 4 line verse or chorus into parts it gets really complicated:
V1
V2-second line of verse 1
V3-third line of verse 1
V4-fourth line of verse 1
Chorus
V5-second line of chorus
V6-third line of chorus
V7-fourth line of chorus

VideoPsalm link

10/15/2017 07:58:23 pm

Hi RD,

Thank you for describing the problem so well.
Hopefully this will be improved in a future version.

Boldeesibari

10/16/2017 01:21:40 am

The unexpected PowerPoint "Save" prompt and blank screen were my major setback thanks for the fix. God bless you guys for this wonderful work.

Gus

12/5/2017 08:16:11 am

This is best ever , more to come

stephen

1/2/2018 06:45:42 pm

hello,
Pls how do I import all my song lyrics from Easyworship to Videopsalm?

VideoPsalm link

1/3/2018 02:51:42 pm

Hi Stephen,

There is a bug in VideoPsalm 1.20 that prevents it to complete the import.
Feel free to send me your EasyWorship database and I will send you back the corresponding VideoPsalm songbook.
My email is at gmail.

Julie Theodore

9/21/2018 05:33:51 pm

Hello, in videopsalm 1.21 how do you make the slides appear without any animation. Also how do you make the default font size 100 for all slides?

VideoPsalm link

9/22/2018 03:00:54 am

Hi Julie,

To remove or change the slide transition:

1. Click the "Songbooks" button, located to the left of the "Bibles" button.
This selects the "Songbooks" style level, which means that all changes that you will do to styles from now on will be applied to this level.

2. In the toolbar, on top, in the "Text" tab, in the "Animation" gallery, select "No animation", or "Smooth fade".

3. Save your changes.

VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define in a few clicks any style attribute at any level : song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.

Please let me know if the following articles explain well enough how to make best use of cascading styles:

How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles part one
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2012/02/first-post.html

How to assign a background to a song verse or to the whole song - Cascading styles part two
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/how-to-assign-a-background-to-a-song-verse-or-to-the-whole-song-hierarchical-styles.html

Three methods to display a background/logo between two songs
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/three-methods-to-display-a-backgroundlogo-between-two-songs

How to remove an image assigned to a song verse
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-remove-an-image-assigned-to-a-song-verse

Nick

3/1/2019 04:34:00 pm

I am new to VideoPsalm. It is absolutely amazing. However, I haven't found a way to print the chorded song (song with chords above words). If you have covered this would you send me the link to it, if not, could you help me do this?
Thank you so much for your Ministry!!
Nick

VideoPsalm link

3/12/2019 01:27:36 am

Hi Nick,

It is not possible to print the chords directly from within VideoPsalm.
Instead, please use the "Songsheet Generator (SongsGen)" free app, which can print booklets with chords in the ChordPro format:
http://tenbyten.com/software/songsgen/index.php

VideoPsalm also uses the ChordPro format, which makes it easy to copy/paste lyrics between VideoPsalm and "Songsheet Generator".
In VideoPsalm lyrics editor, when you copy lyrics into the Windows Clipboard, VideoPsalm includes the ChordPro chords.
This enables you to paste these lyrics into "Songsheet Generator" and print a booklet from there.

See also:
VideoPsalm's lyrics and chords editor
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/videopsalms-lyrics-and-chords-editor

10. VideoPsalm - Edit song chords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMFehqasq8

PAUL TUCKER

4/14/2019 08:27:15 pm

is there a way to see all the song in song book or the database.. i would like to print it out

John Stanley link

4/15/2019 03:04:37 am

You can right-click on the name of the songbook in the Songbooks pane (bottom left) and choose "Copy a songbook summary to the Clipboard". Then you can paste it into the text editor of your choice and you have an unformatted list of the songs' titles.

VideoPsalm claim that their databases are in JSON format. This is a standard format that has many free tools available for querying and formatting JSON. The songs database includes all the information for the songs in a songbook, in the folder C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\SongBooks (where C is the Windows System drive in my case). Unfortunately the VideoPsalm's implementation of JSON is incorrect, so sadly you can't use any of the tools. For example, paste the JSON into https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ and it will give you a list of errors.

If the JSON was correct, then I would have written a query to give a list of song titles and authors which I could have made available to all. My original reason for looking at this was to merge CCLI reference numbers into our song database without have to type them all in, but sadly this is not possible with VideoPsalm's incorrect implementation of JSON.

권회창

8/12/2019 08:42:19 am

i'm korean and i'm new to videopsalm.
i want to change font of songs but when i change it, header and footer is changed, but the main lyris isn't change. i want to know how to fix it.

권회창

8/12/2019 08:52:47 am

https://youtu.be/5WCfERW2qhs

please watch this video.
i choose my font to "경기천년제목 medium". but it doesn't work. i can't change font. when i change song or restart it always goback to "맑은고딕 Semilight".
why the font always goback to "맑은고딕 Semilight"?
i want to change "경기천년제목 medium".

how can i save the font what i want.

VideoPsalm link

8/12/2019 03:16:50 pm

Hi, thank you for your video.
It seems that the problem is related to the whole song lyrics changed to a specific font, via the lyrics font selector.

Please solve the problem by removing the font assigned to the lyrics.

I send you an email with screenshots.

권회창

8/12/2019 10:35:16 am

https://youtu.be/ym0H0V5C1_Y

VideoPsalm link

8/12/2019 03:17:19 pm

Nate

10/20/2019 07:22:58 am

First off, I love this program and thank you for it. Problem I am having is, I set my font size at say "100" which allows the congregation to be able to read the verses on the screen but (I'll use the Message bible for an example) when I put a verse up if the verse is small the font shows correctly. If the verse is long then the font automatically shrinks to fit the screen, which now makes the font way to small to be able to read. Is there a way for VideoPsalm to automatically display only what fits on the screen at 100 font and then put the rest on the next slide?
Thank you for your assistance

VideoPsalm link

10/20/2019 02:23:11 pm

Hi Nate,

Thank you for requesting a disable "shrink to fit".
I'm afraid I cannot provide a clear Yes\No answer right now, but I have added this suggestion to a list of possible improvements and may implement it in future releases.
Thank you for the feedback!

brigido ramirez

11/8/2019 07:19:24 am

Hola gracias por esta buena aplicación que nos es de gran ayuda..

Lo que pasa es que de un tiempo ak tengo un error

que de dice ( NO SE A LOGRADO LEER EL VIDEO ) Y NO SE GUARDAN LAS CANCIONES

Por Favor si me pueden ayudar se los agradeceria

VideoPsalm link

7/29/2020 06:06:10 am

Hi Brigido,

Please send me a screenshot of the error message at my gmail account.
Under what circumstances does the problem happen?

Daniel

2/29/2020 06:39:18 pm

Great software.
I have 1 suggestion on the website feature.
If videopsalm can allow us to select our preferred web browser to be used to display website links on live view, it would be great. There are certain browsers out that that block adds and if video psalm not able to block them it wouldn't be nice when unwanted adds are presented on live screen.

VideoPsalm link

7/29/2020 05:45:42 am

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for requesting to select the web browser.
I added this feature to the list of things to do.

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