Presentation Manager Software

[ABTarasoff]

Hello everyone. Glad to be back with CMN. Started a new job.
Our church is currently using Presentation Manager from Creative Lifestyles. All of our media ministry users like it and find it very easy to manipulate. Currently waiting to see an upgrade to use DVD through the laptop vice a separate player.
Has anyone else used this program? Would like to keep information on this particular software updated.
BTW, I am rooting for the SeaHawks.

[[Director] Joseph B]

Don't think I've ever heard of presentation manager, but if it works for you then stick with it.

[1stAGSt.JamesMo]

Hey,
Our church is using PM on two different systems. We are running PM 5 on our projection system and use it to create and display announcement loops, song lyrics, sermon notes, and scripture. Recently we added PM Pro to our broadcast set-up and key text & scripture into our broadcast video with it.

Early on it was buggy but I have been pleased with the later releases of version 5 and PM Pro has been even better.

There are only a couple of PM users on CMN.

Terry

[Gene]

The website for Presentation Manager: http://www.presentationmgr.com/.

It's among the many worship software packages I've tried. I like the way you can group sections of a presentation together under named tabs, the way MS and others do with collapsible sections. We project the entire service and follow a fairly set order week to week based on the Lutheran liturgy, so there are groups of slides. One thing I don't like about using tabs is that it means the presentation scrolls horizontally instead of vertically.

PM also lets you build slides of many elements like in Powerpoint, instead of being restricted to background graphic + foreground object. It even supports PNG graphics with transparency, which Powerpoint does, but a lot of worship software doesn't.

All in all, it looks like a good program.

[1stAGSt.JamesMo]

Originally Posted by Gene

One thing I don't like about using tabs is that it means the presentation scrolls horizontally instead of vertically.

Hey,
The latest version of PM, PM Pro allows the control panel to be configured as you choose. I have not tried to move the sequence bar vertical as you mentioned but I did notice that I can adjust the tabs to top, bottom, left or right, so from this I would assume you could make the sequence vertical if you desired.

Terry

[Richeu1957]

We use PM Pro and run 2 projectors and can run different slide shows on each at the same time which comes in handy.
To my knowledge and after speaking with some media instructors PM Pro is the only church media program on the market that will do that.
We are still working with it and learning new aspects, we hope to utilize the video recording features in time when finances allow the purchase of the equipment.

Originally Posted by Richeu1957

We use PM Pro and run 2 projectors and can run different slide shows on each at the same time which comes in handy.
To my knowledge and after speaking with some media instructors PM Pro is the only church media program on the market that will do that.
We are still working with it and learning new aspects, we hope to utilize the video recording features in time when finances allow the purchase of the equipment.

ChurchView will actually do that also. I haven't seen the software in a long time, but it looks like it's still in action. The original programmer died in a car accident a few years ago. Looks like someone took over the project.

[MediaGuy]

I'm seriously considering PM - it's down to Easy Worship and PM... I'm having a hard time creating things as easily as I want in PM, and that's the big hold-up: It's not as straight forward as I would like. But it's great on the presentation side. Anyone have any experience with it being used on a network, with multiple people accessing the same presentation? Any safeguards there for an accidental save-over-someone-else's-work?

[dovprst]

Why won't DVD's play in the demo version of PM? I want to test every feature, but that one is not enabled, or I'm doing something wrong. Other than that I'm really liking it so far.

[kbob]

Originally Posted by MediaGuy

I'm seriously considering PM - it's down to Easy Worship and PM... I'm having a hard time creating things as easily as I want in PM, and that's the big hold-up: It's not as straight forward as I would like. But it's great on the presentation side. Anyone have any experience with it being used on a network, with multiple people accessing the same presentation? Any safeguards there for an accidental save-over-someone-else's-work?

no network experience, and your review parallels my own-EW is, well, easier, PM is more full featured with respect to what you can do. Not knocking EW-that's actually what we use currently at church. We're giving PM a hard look because it does things we need, due to a non-over-abundance of volunteers, what with running a two and sometimes three camera IMAG, worship pc, switcher, and a separate director (shot caller, essentially).

The caller currently also does the audio recording in the same room as the worship pc op and the switcher operator for the IMAG...let's just say the switching is already pretty complex, and now we want to run three screens (imag center, with lyrics/sermons in two languages linked to the outer screens, and MAYBE an occasional one wide screen or three of the same screen-it's the leaderships idea, and we're running with it slowly but steadily).

Anything to take one less person, or make someone's job any easier, is a welcome addition at this point.

[geek3]

does any one know if the network feature has been added back into PM yet?

[thesmartguy]

I hope to see a better interface. It just doesn't look very professional at all.