Presentation Manager & Multiple Screens

[kbob]

Has anyone else tried the Presentation Manger software?

We've been looking at it specifically because it can do two screens in addition to the control screen-you can even link slides together so it will display say the English and Spanish versions at the same time.

http://www.presentationmgr.com/

In my testing of it when it was still in beta, it was actually pretty good.

And sysmom-we're looking at 3 screens-but doing it the a bit differently than almost everyone else. one sidescreen would be the English text, the other would be the Spanish text, and the middle screen would be our IMAG, movies, et al.

We do want the ability to display the same image or text across all three screens at once, or to stretch a single image across all three screens (hboc sure, but we have a kickin' worship service that actually looks more like a youth concert-and that's for our main service-so we'd be putting up fast moving images of our Praise Dance team, closeups of the lead guitarist or bassist, MoM, etc-and just not staying there very long).

[[Admin] danroth]

Presentation Manager certainly appears to have a rich feature set.

I'd definitely like to take it out for a spin sometime.

[pfenneran]

We do 3 screens - 2 for the congregation and 1 in the back for the singers and the pastor. It looks like this might solve my dilemma of displaying something just to them without everyone else seeing it.

[kbob]

It requires both a beefy pc and a great pair of video cards, but on the other hand it does save on an operator that might be required to run the secondary feed (in your case, the choir monitor-in ours, the spanish language translations of the sermon and songs).

[Sysmom]

So Presentation Manager could output different things to all three screens from one computer?! Wow!

[pfenneran]

Originally Posted by kbob

It requires both a beefy pc and a great pair of video cards, but on the other hand it does save on an operator that might be required to run the secondary feed (in your case, the choir monitor-in ours, the spanish language translations of the sermon and songs).

I don't think I have either... How could you tell? Although I am hoping for a desktop vs. a standard laptop.