Creating on another Mac

[Josh Scott]

We just started using ProPresenter after using Keynote for the last 6 years. We are still trying use the same workflow to design our slides,

Worship arts pastor creates a play list on his mac and uploads to dropbox

Designer uses either church laptop or personal computer to add backgrounds change fonts, and make it look great

iMac in production room displays files,

The problem I am running into is I can't find a good way to have the backgrounds and fonts to follow any tips?

[petereit]

ProPresenter stores your font and media selections, but it doesn't store the actual fonts or media files -- only a reference to them. So if you want the same results across multiple Macs, you need to make sure they're all configured with the same fonts and media. Make sure your media is stored in the same directory on each machine.

[EricE]

Originally Posted by petereit

So if you want the same results across multiple Macs, you need to make sure they're all configured with the same fonts and media. Make sure your media is stored in the same directory on each machine.

I use ChronoSync to automatically and transparently keep media on all of our computers synced with a folder on our server. It works great!

[Josh Scott]

Eric are you doing your media, and template too? I saw a video online using windows mesh live I am thinking about doing that

[BassManNate]

I actually use Windows Live Mesh to sync just about everything between all our computers for ProPresenter. The only exception is our weekly announcement slides that our Communications Director creates. She puts those on a folder in DropBox since that's what the rest of the office uses.

The only 2 hitches I found with using Live Mesh are:

1) You have to have all the computers you want to sync on at the same time if you're not using a central server to store everything on.

2) You need to make sure everything is synced up on the computer you're using before you start editing. If you have a central server, it mostly takes care of itself since each individual computer syncs to the server (assuming it's always on) and then those files should be automatically available to sync to your next computer the next time you turn it on.

Just watched a video about ProPresenter 5 and it looks like it will have the ability to sync not only library files like 4 does, but also media files.

[EricE]

Yes, I synchronize everything with it. But the server folder is what everything syncs to. It's just easier that way.

Originally Posted by BassManNate

1) You have to have all the computers you want to sync on at the same time if you're not using a central server to store everything on.

2) You need to make sure everything is synced up on the computer you're using before you start editing. If you have a central server, it mostly takes care of itself

Yup. I looked at DropBox, LiveMesh and even the new Google Drive and none could really offer anything new beyond using ChronoSync for the Mac's and SyncToy for Windows gives me. If I had more people working off-site, then the transparency without having to deal with VPNs would be a benefit of the cloud offerings. Thankfully no one is that keen on working off site that often

Indeed, with their "automatic" operation, they more often than not introduced more problems. Not all "sync" is the same