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System Design With a Tight Budget

A week ago, we held a webinar with Jason Cole, Dave Stagl and Bob Nahrstadt of Next Creative media. The topic? System design. You can listen to the audio here. One of the main takeaways from that webinar is that most of the time, the best course of action for a church to take when [...]

Being in Two (or More) Places at Once

The other day, I had to do a funeral. Now, I generally don’t like funerals; first because they’re typically emotionally hard, and second because they’re technically challenging. Typically, funerals are planned by people who have no idea how technology works and they are always last-minute. Last week’s funeral was all of that, and more.
Because it [...]

Flying Without A Net: Running ProPresenter 4 Live

This year, in the midst of putting together the most ambitious theatrical production we’ve ever undertaken, I decided we needed one more challenge. We have been running Keynote as our primary presentation platform for some time now (since long before I arrived) and I love Keynote–but not for this application. I have been planning a [...]

ProPresenter 4 Is Coming!

I haven’t been writing much about ProPresenter lately. Mainly because I haven’t been using it that much since my transition to Coast Hills. Right now, we use Keynote exclusively for our presentation needs (at least in the main room). That’s about to change, however. Recently, Renewed Vision announced Version 4, and have already revealed a [...]

More ProPresenter Tips

Today marks my soft re-entry back to blogging. While I’ve missed writing these last two weeks, my head has been pretty full of weighty stuff as my family and I wrestle with the future. Things are going well and we have some excellent options to consider, and we’re anxiously awaiting God’s clear direction. Thanks to [...]

Know Thy Music

Someday I’m going to do a post entitled “The 10 Commandments for Presentation Techs.” Know Thy Music will be number 4 or 5 (I haven’t decided yet). On one level, it seems obvious. However, I have worked with people in the past who don’t know the songs they are presenting for, and it shows. Then [...]

Preventing Insanity Among Presentation Volunteers

By now you probably know that I’m all about the volunteers. I keep tweaking my systems, formulating new processes and trying to come up with new ways to make life easier for our volunteers. Recently, we implemented something that has gone a long way to lowering the blood pressure of our ProPresenter operators. It’s so [...]

Keynote Master Slides

One of my favorite things about Keynote it that Master Slides actually work. I’ve spent hundreds of hours in PowerPoint only to be forever frustrated with their master slides. Sometimes they worked like I expected, sometimes they didn’t work at all. When I got my first copy of Keynote a few years ago, it was [...]

Cuing Slides–Slow Songs

OK, we’re back at it again with another example of cuing slide lyrics for songs. This time, we’ll tackle a slower song, You Alone from David Crowder’s The Lime CD. This song is tricky not because it moves so fast, but because it moves so slow. There needs to be a balance between getting the [...]

Presentation Cuing–Fast Songs

This is a topic that I feel pretty strongly about. Know that up front. How many times have you been in a worship service, singing a new song, and been unable to sing it because the lyrics on the screen trail the worship leader? Even if it’s a song you sort of know, it is [...]