Media and slides

Themes: how the words look

A theme is how the words look: the font, size, colour and what’s behind them.

The built-in themes

Classic: the starting theme.
Bold outline: thick letters with an outline, easy to read over busy backgrounds.
Elegant: a serif font.
High contrast (easy to read): for people who find the screen hard to read.
Words at the bottom: leaves the picture clear above.

Choosing a theme for songs, Bible verses and sermons

Under each theme, Use for: has Songs, Bible and Sermons. Click to make that theme the one they get. For example, songs in Classic and Bible verses in Elegant.

One item in a different theme

Select an item in the service. Above its slides, choose a Theme: from the list. Only that item changes.

A video behind one song (communion, for example)

For a reflective moment, put a calm video behind just one song:

Add the video in the Media tab (a candle, bread and wine, or a starter background).
Click + New theme, name it (“Communion”), and set Behind the words to A picture or video, choosing the video.
In the service, select the song and choose Theme: Communion above its slides.

The video loops behind the words for that song only.

Sound: a background video is silent unless you tick Play the video’s sound in the theme (it shows when the background is a video). Then the video’s own sound plays through the projector computer’s sound, starting from the beginning each time a song with that theme comes on. That’s useful for a video with its own music, and the words can even move by themselves in time with it. Or keep the video silent and give the song a backing track, or play music from Music and audio.

Changing a theme, or making your own

Click a theme’s picture to change it. Built-in themes can’t be changed: clicking one makes your own copy to change. Or click + New theme.

Name.
Font, and Largest text size. Long verses get smaller by themselves to fit; this is how big short ones get. Show all fonts on this computer lists every font.
Bold, Shadow, ALL CAPITALS.
Text colour, Outline (None, Thin, Thick) and its colour.
Line up the words (left, centre, right) and Where on the screen (top, middle, bottom).
Behind the words: The church background (chosen in the Media tab), A picture or video, A plain colour, or Black. For a video, tick Play the video’s sound to hear it.

The Preview shows how song words will look on the projector. Click Save theme. Delete theme removes your own theme; anything using it goes back to Classic.

How slides change

At the top of the Themes tab, Changing slides:

Fade (the usual), Cut (instant), Slide, Zoom, Rise.
Speed: Quick, Normal, Slow.

This is for every screen and every item.