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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 [...]

Technology Lumping

Somewhere out there you might have noticed that sound, lighting and video are different (with apologies to The Masked Engineer). In the professional world, audio guys hold little regard for “squints.” The lighting guys don’t really care if there’s enough light for the video, and the video guys, well they don’t like anyone. A slight [...]

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 [...]

Google Wave

The other day I was completely sucked into a preview of  Google Wave. I heard about it on Twitter, went to the site with the full intention of watching the first 20 minutes or so then going on with my day. An hour and 20 minutes later, I was staring at my screen, shaking my [...]

A Couple Useful Links & A Personal Update

Well, it’s Miscellaneous Wednesday, so I thought I’d share a few things with you that I’ve found useful. First of all, I saw a Tweet last week from @Macs In Church that was a link to a pretty interesting site if you work with video at all: Zach Poff Software. Zach Poff is a New York [...]

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 [...]

Off-Site Remote Controlled Servers

This one falls right near the line that separates “pretty darn useful” and “because I can.” Since I’m now charged (for another few weeks anyway) of administering a Leopard Server, I need some way of running said server from home. Mainly because I don’t like driving to the office at 9 PM to run software [...]

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 [...]

Some Useful Tools

As a certified Mac geek, I enjoy collecting new applications. I just checked and I have well over 150 applications on my MacBook Pro. A quick scan through the Applications folder tells me I should probably clean a few out. There have been a few bright lights over the last few months, though, and I [...]