Displaying Verse Numbers/Announcements

[gower2352]

Curious if anyone knows how to display the verse numbers to each verse. I know the trial of EasyWorship had this but we have purchased MediaShout and would like to retain this feature.

Also what is your opinion on using photoshop for announcements? If so how does it go into the actual MediaShout software.

[KeckCreative]

Yes, you can display verse numbers in MediaShout very easily. Open the cue editor by clicking the little bible icon. Once the cue editor opens, click the "Foreground" button, Click on the "Cue" in the slide tree, change the cue editor's view setting to "Advanced", Expand the "Format" option, and then finally make sure the "Display Verse Numbers" box is checked. I've attached a screenshot of the window and circled the areas that I mentioned.

[KeckCreative]

I also use Photoshop to create my announcements. Just set your image resolution in Photoshop to the same as you use to project video in MediaShout (i.e 1024 x 768, or whatever you use). MediaShout does not (to my knowledge) support PSD files, but you can easily do a "Save As" with your Photoshop file and save it using one of the common graphic formats like JPEG/JPG or PNG. I personally use PNG file format for still images/graphics, which rarely has image artifacts like a JPEG can. While JPEG will typically produce a smaller file size, at lower resolutions like 1024 x 768, there's not really a significant difference from PNG.

[Richard Tarr]

MediaShout does support PSD files.

[gower2352]

Originally Posted by KeckCreative

Yes, you can display verse numbers in MediaShout very easily. Open the cue editor by clicking the little bible icon. Once the cue editor opens, click the "Foreground" button, Click on the "Cue" in the slide tree, change the cue editor's view setting to "Advanced", Expand the "Format" option, and then finally make sure the "Display Verse Numbers" box is checked. I've attached a screenshot of the window and circled the areas that I mentioned.

Now is this for songs to? Not at PC to try.

[[Director] Joseph B]

Yes mediashout does support photoshop files however - it is always best to use a jpg, gif or png at the projection resolution. It slows down your system when it has to resize or change things for projection.

[KeckCreative]

Oops... I stand corrected. MS does support PSD file, but if you have several layers in the PSD and the filesize starts to get large, probably best to still do a "Save As" and use a compressed graphics format.

There isn't a "Display Verse Number" checkbox when dealing with a song element. I suppose you could just put them in yourself by adding a verse number to lyrics. (See Attached)

[[Admin] osborn4]

Or you could put hymn number in as part of the title.

[KeckCreative]

Good point... wasn't think in terms of the hymn #. But that makes more sense for that piece of data. Another option for that could be in the header space too. I think there you have more options as to whether it is displayed during the entire song or just first verse, etc.

[[Admin] osborn4]

Sorry. That's what I get for glancing over the subject.

We do use Photoshop for our announcements (in SongShow Plus, but it would be the same procedure) we just save them as a 1024x768 jpg to match our projector resolution. This allows us to do some pretty nice full screen ads, but no animations.

[gower2352]

Yes MediaShout needs to make this option more user friendly like in EasyWorship...our congregation seemes to prefer seeing what verse they are on...right now I am just using the key text option to display what verse where on...hopefully mediashout has a fix for this soon.