Worship Him Vs Mediashout Vs Easy Worship

Hi Everyone, Im New To This And Hope You All Can Help. I Am Currently Running Demo's Of "worship Him"($179), "mediashout"($379), And "easyworship"($379). I Am Currently Leaning Toward "worship Him". It Seems To Be Easier To Use Than "mediashout" And Packs Most Of The Features, At A Much More Palatable Price.

If You All Could Give Me Any Recommendations With Positives And Negatives Of Those That You Are Familiar With, They Will Be Greatly Appreciatted. There May Be Reasons The Others Are More Expensive That I Have Not Considered. I Just Dont Want To Spend The Churches Money Without Thoroughly Researching The Decision And Regretting It Later. Thanks

[madill]

We have Easy Worship. Another church member did the research and determined it was the best overall on the market. I don't know anything about the other two. I know skstarkiller promotes Media Shout and would think that is an excellent recommendation in and of itself. EW is only limited by my abilities. I'd look long and hard before buying the cheaper one thinking you are going to get what you pay for. There was reluctance to spend what we did on EW with one person just wanting us to re-up the trial version every 30 days. I was a bit too frustrated at that point to get into why that wouldn't work and shouldn't work. EW paid for itself IMO when I learned that I can, with one adjustment, adjust the projection for early and late service. Early service wants the large sized screen and the second, traditional service, wants a "shorter" screen for the choir. I know that even with LOTS of words on the song screen the words can easily be seen by the back row.

[aqctv]

We use worship him and never had a problem with it I tried several when we were looking and I picked up on this one seemed easier to learn plus better price having never used the others I cant speak to what features if any are missing in Worship Him

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

I like MediaShout because it is the beefiest of all the packages I've seen. It does everything I want it to do and more. I do offer soecial pricing for CMN'ers.

[Tony Kanago]

If you need something lightweight that you can teach others quickly, go with EW. If you need tons of features, maybe think about another package.

[Gene]

Originally Posted by downeyflo

I just evaluated every package I could find (I think I got them all). Sunday Show Plus was our winner. Of course, your needs and requirements might be different than ours.

In any case, I would check out SSP.

Do you mean Song Show Plus, or SundayPlus? The SSP makes me think the former, but...

In any event, I evaluated a bunch of the worship software packages, and ended up with MediaShout (thanks, Phil ). It's not perfect (none of them are), but it best meets our needs at this point. I'm not familiar with Worship Him. But there are around a gazillion different programs for this, and many of them are very good.

The thing that I didn't like about Easy Worship was the battles I had trying to format song lyrics the way I wanted them. To make things 'easy', they sacrificed some flexibility. Having done church media for 5+ years now, I've developed a style of how songs and hymns get formatted for our church, and I just couldn't get it done with EW.

[kbob]

though our path to it was a bit different. We were choosing based on capatibility with what we had been using (strictly ppt 2000) and ease of use with an all volunteer staff.

Our initial choice was the freeware opensong (still an excellent choice for those on a budget). It had a really really good appearance out of the box without any tweaking on the projected image-even white text on a white background was readible (yes it happened in service once-no I wasn't the driver-and no, I don't recommend it). We actually had our entire database of songs converted to OpenSong.

Then we tried EW. To be fair, I converted the entire database to it as well. Both myself and my replacement in training at the time thought it was nice, but the only compelling features it had over opensong were video and ppt support. We weren't planning on much in the way of video at the time (something that has changed-we even use ew for video playback of very large (300mb+) clip during service), but we really wanted to see how well the ppt worked.

Of all the packages we tried (over 10, including all but one of those named here on this page (just never tried worship Him), EW was by far the best of breed for running ppt. Personally, I think the control interface for ppt in ew is way more better than the one in ppt-especially the presenter view.

While many others had that feature, none worked as reliably or easily as the ew at the time (most software has a new release out since then, including ew). We love it, and the dvd support, and don't look back at all.

[[Admin] osborn4]

We've got SongShowPlus and like it quite a bit.

I really like the ability to layer a motion video over a static image to get more flexibility out of your loop library and use their built in background motion visualizations, layering over an image, to create motion variations on a theme.

[tlsmith083]

Sounds to me like you spent the time evaluating different software and found one to fit your needs and price. I have my fav software that I chose after a similar process. I haven't seen any comments saying your choice is flawed at all, in fact one that agreed it is good software.

Well done. Although if you don't purchase EW you're a fool. ~just kidding~ I couldn't resist....

Tom
A/V Guy
Noblesville, IN

[voyager529]

I personally am a mediashout person. The interface works the way I think. EVERYTHING is drag-and-drop, or you can import if you need to. I have found though that Mediashout can be kind of picky - however it works when you first install it is how it will work for the duration of your use, lest you format or change your GPU. Some computers work flawlessly with our motion backdrops, others will not use them at all, some can show certain formats, but not others...I can't find a pattern, and have never been able to get a machine to change from one set of behaviors to another, short of formatting or upping the graphics card. Try the demo first and draw your own conclusion as to how you find Mediashout to work.

Joel, I used SSP under trial-by-fire conditions last night (mediashout was malfunctioning). I couldn't find anything! the simple stuff like looping a jumpback...was buried in a menu so deep I never did find it...up for writing a tutorial in the CMN University?


Joey

[centuryan]

We decided on Easy Worship for 2 reasons, In minutes you can have someone running a service and also Easy Worship comes with a site license so I can also have it on my laptop and the youth also use i on Wed. That was the one thing that made my mind up was the ability to use it on more than one computer without having to purchase other license. Also it works great with CCLI.

[dadasays]

Don't forget about ProPresenter ( http://renewedvision.com/pp.php ) which is being used by mega-churches as well as small ones. It runs on the Mac only, but it is incredibly easy to use (there is honestly zero training time and a new video volunteer can be using it with about a 5 minute overview).

Our congregation uses EasyWorship and I'm not happy with it. I come from a video production background and ALL the worship software I've found tries to do too much unsuccessfully rather than focus on doing a few things excellently (sounds like a lot of churches, too!).

One BIG thing to make sure you factor into the software purchase is the hardware -- all those programs run terrible on substandard hardware. I can't tell you how many services we've had paused for 60-120 seconds because of incompatibilities between decoders, video cards, lack of RAM, etc. Ugh.