MediaShout 3 Scripture/Lyrics Slides slow!!!

[hyrule571]

Hi, I'm new to the community. God is awesome is He not? =]

I have a question that some other people have ran across too it seems, with slow transitions between slides. The computer being used I'm almost sure is fully capable of running this program smoothly, I've built computers and I keep up with whats going on in computer technology and I'm pretty sure its capable. Its a Core i5-450(i think) based computer with a 63XX Radeon graphics card. It has switchable graphics and I've switched it to the performance option (the AMD Radeon card). The RAM is fine too it has plenty. I still don't see why the slides take a long time to show on the projector during church services and stuff when a scripture is pulled up or song lyrics. Is there an option to speed it up and make it respond right away and take away the delay? Is the system not capable of running it? Please help me out! Thanks!

[jameshorsley197]

What type of video card and its RAM do you have. Cards that use shared memory do not work with MS. You are also able to change the speeds of the transition but I do not remember how in version 3. It should be uder your cue properties.

[hyrule571]

I mentioned them in the above post, its an AMD Radeon 63XX(I just found out its a 6370), pretty sure its well capable of running it because it has 512MB or 1GB of dedicated GDDR3or5 RAM. It has 6GB of RAM which should be plenty, also other programs are not hogging the system memory so no concern there either. I tried going to the options and I went through the menu with tabs and found a Cue Duration setting, it was default at 5 and I switched it to 0 and it still delays like same old.

Please, any other suggestions? Thanks a lot!!

[Dan Rector]

What is the resolution of the screen you are displaying on and what is the resolution of the graphics you are trying to use? Are you using stills or motion? You will have the best results if you can match the resolution of your graphics to that of your screen. Using very large graphics (multi mega-Pixel camera images for instance) result in the system doing a lot of work re-translating the image for the resolution your screen is set to. Also check the resolution that MS is set to use as well.

[hyrule571]

The laptop's screen resolution is I think 1680x1050 or 1600x900 or 1920x1080(I can't remember, I'll see tomorrow at church). The projector's resolution is 1280x720(720p). Could that be the problem or no? Is the projector capable of running the native resolution of the laptop screen or does it also have it's own native resolution? Thanks!!

[Dan Rector]

That could definitely be the problem. I have experienced issues similar to what you describe when everything wasn't in sync.

You tell MS what the size is of the output screen you are working with.

Your best bet is probably to start with the native resolution of the projector. Then set the display settings in MS to reflect that size. Then make sure the backgrounds you are using match that (or are close).

Most of the resolutions you quoted are 16x9. Make sure your media is in that same format as well (much of the media out there is 4x3) so you need to check when purchasing. If not, you are forcing MS to translate the 4x3 image into a 16x9 image on the fly.

Dan

[hyrule571]

Okay, thanks a lot! It seems to make sense that it would turn out to be like that. I'll try to see something tonight and if it works, thank-you honestly very much! If not, I'll be back to try diagnosing this problem more, because it seems that other people have this similar problem too =/, but thanks!!!

[hyrule571]

Still not working =/.. Resolution of the laptop monitor is 1600x900 and the projector resolution is 1280x720. I put the laptop resolution equal to the projector's resolution and fired up the program and everything fresh from the start basically, and still no gain. Nothing really happened, still basically the same delay.

Is upgrading MediaShout v3 to v3.5, or v4, or v4.5 free? Or do we have to pay for another upgrade? Were trying to get this software figured out because sometimes during service, the lyrics mess up and get hard to keep up with. Trying to transition from one verse to another or to the chorus, or trying to keep up while changing the scripture from one to the next.

Thank you once again, but please any other suggestions?

[Dan Rector]

What is the resolution of your media? What happens if you use a built in colored background or one of the files that comes with MS?

Upgrading to 3.5 should be free, but to 4.x will probably cost.

Not sure what you mean by the lyrics mess up. Can you explain this further?

[hyrule571]

Okay(about upgrading)...

The lyrics don't exactly mess up(sorry poor wording), its just hard to transition from one verse to another when one of the ministers at church are reading the Bible. Changing the chorus, or trying to keep up while changing the chorus to verse 1 or 2 or something. When they name off a song to play, we have to type it in, find the song, click on the chorus, then fire it up. We'd probably make it just in time when they start singing but the delay just really hurts and messes things up sometimes.

I don't comprehend, what exactly is the media? The projector projects a 1280x720 picture, the media on the laptop itself I don't know, but the screen resolution of the laptop is 1600x900. I could take a screenshot of it and show exactly =/ sorry. I think we already use the built in backgrounds that come with MS, is that a good thing? Thanks a lot, honestly.

[jameshorsley197]

You may want to try this in the Media Shout Forum at this link

http://community.mediashout.com/medi...hout_version_4

[Dan Rector]

The media is the still image or video (or flash, .swf) file that you are using as a background. I presume you are using still images. What I'm asking about is the resolution of the graphic image itself - not the screen, projector, or mediashout setting for resolution.

For instance is the graphic 1024x768? 1600x900? You can see this by navigating to the folder where the image lives and right clicking on it and selecting properties.

This is the resolution that should match that of what is set in MediaShout. (go to Tools->Settings->Display and in the Intended Display Resolution section will be the settings that Media Shout is trying to output at. You want this to match that of your projector (and display if you have that connected to the same computer output)

The MS graphics should be fine and probably are a fairly standard 1024x768 or 800x600 which means they would need to be retranslated into a s 16x9 format.