any win - mac compatibility problems?

[yeshua]

I'm looking at getting PP for Church and I would like to go mac...but the program operators are on windows and as such, they would probably create some of the presentations at home on their PC.

Does anyone know of what incompatibilities there may be with going back and forth between the 2 OS's?

also, I went to create a second stage display setting, but it appears as though I can't rename it (have a few display variations -> pastor, worship team, guest, etc)

and this would be more for the developers, but having a toolbar shortcut to get to the stage display config/select would be handy....

Thanks for any responses

[[Admin] osborn4]

What kind of content are they creating? Stills? Video? Slide shows? Stills shouldn't be a problem. Video, depends on what format they render to, from what I've heard here. Slide shows also probably depend on what tool is used.

[yeshua]

For the first little bit at least, it would be just making the songs in service order, choosing backgrounds ahead of time...nothing too much at this point since we are just getting into it (currently using keynote, so its a step up)...as time goes by and we really start pushing ourselves to learn what it can do and try things out, then we may do some more major editing...but it would be nice to know what issues there would be going between the 2 OS's

[[Admin] osborn4]

I see. So, in a perfect world, they will actually be putting together ProPresenter presentations on the Windows version and you will be projecting them on a Mac?

I will have to defer to some who know more about PP and interoperability between platforms.

[bggowing]

The Windows version support more video formats than the Mac version does so you'd have a greater chance for incompatibility issues for videos going from Windows to Mac than the other way around. Anything that Quicktime recognizes can be played on the Mac. I'd stay away from Windows Media formats and mpeg-2 since that requires Flip4Mac (free) and the Quicktime Mpeg-2 add-on (not free). PP4 supports Quicktime natively. PP4 Windows uses the native PowerPoint Viewer 97 application to show PowerPoint slides as opposed to the Mac version which brings in Keynote and PowerPoint slides as jpeg files which means you lose the animation and transitions. Since the Windows version uses the PowerPoint Viewer application you get to keep any animation and transition effects.

I haven't encountered any ProPresenter files that I can't go between the Windows version and the Mac version.

[yeshua]

Thanks for the comments! It appears as though there are no issues besides video formats, so I guess I won't worry about any incompatibilities.

So thats answered....but no ones mentioned about renaming the stage displays....any ideas?

Thanks everyone!

[bggowing]

If you go into the Display preferences then into Stage Display you should be able to add a new template. To rename it just click on the name and it should allow you to rename it.

[yeshua]

Renaming works

I hope that there will be a button on the toolbar for quick access to change the stage displays....would be handy

Thanks everyone!