ProPresenter6 Training

ProPresenter 6 Tutorials

These fast-paced video tutorials from Renewed Vision cover the basics of ProPresenter 6 to prepare you for hands-on training at church.

ProPresenter 6: My First Presentation

In this information packed introductory video you will learn to create your first ProPresenter 6 presentation. Video length: 22:05.

Interface Overview

Learn where to find what you need quickly. The interface is easy to use and customizable to suite your needs. Video length: 7:31.

Importing Songs

This is a very time consuming process so understanding how to let ProPresenter, SongSelect and Reflow Editor work for you is important. Video length: 10:55.

Notes:

  • Johnson Church has a SongSelect license added to ProPresenter.
  • A slide template has been created to provide font size that is appropriate for our presentations. The template name is “Song Slides”. Because of the large fonts we use you will probably need to use Reflow Editor to manage the text so it fits the slides.
  • Sometimes a song is not found in SongSelect and must be searched for on the internet. In this case simply copy the text from the internet browser and paste it into the textedit application. Add a carriage return everywhere you want a new slide. Next copy the text from the textedit applications and use the import process in ProPresenter.
  • Note the blank slides at the beginning and end of a song. We use these for the slide background. Be sure to put them in the master so you can include them in the arrangements.
  • When acquiring song information from the music leaders, be sure to get the composer and arranger. This will aid in finding the right song in SongSelect. Also, the music leaders should supply you with the verse, chorus, bridge, and tag orders they plan to use.
  • Order of operations for song import: Search SongSelect, select the song, select the template, import, Reflow Editor, add blank slides to beginning and end, create arrangement, check document title.

Reflow Editor

When song text does not fit on the slide because of the font size, use the Reflow Editor to flow your text to additional slides. Choose the end of a phrase to add a slide break. Video length: 3:34.

Creating Arrangements

Musicians use different arrangements of verse, chorus, bridge, etc.. This video will show you how to create a specific arrangement of a song to meet the needs or your musicians. Many different arrangements can be saved of the same song. Video length: 7:05.

Working With Bibles

ProPresenter provides quick access to scripture and multiple bibles. Scripture is then easily transferred to slides including slide templates. Video length: 6:17.

Notes:

  • You will find several Bibles installed.
  • All configuration settings have already been made.
  • Pastor Ben indicates where and what verses he wants included in his sermons by saying, “Text of Mark 1:1-4”.
  • Be aware that this adds additional slides to his sermons, thus his slide numbers and ProPresenter slide numbers do not match.
  • You must keep up with his script and know where you are at!

Importing and Exporting

Simply put, we can do our work on a computer at home or other locations, export our work, import the work on our Sound Booth computer for display in our services. See notes below. Video length: 4:40.

Notes:

  • We are using Dropbox for the purpose of exporting and importing.
  • If you are working from a computer other than the one in our sound booth, you can be invited to be a member of our ProPresenter Dropbox folder so you can export your work to specific folders in Dropbox, and your exports will show up at church on our Sound Booth computer.

Specific folders in our ProPresenter shared folder, and their content:

  1. Bundles – contains exported bundle files.
  2. Documents – contains exported document files.
  3. Media – contains multiple folders for media including:
    • Backgrounds
    • Motion Backgrounds
    • Photos
  4. Ben’s Sermons – contains files provided by Pastor Ben for his sermon slides. Usually, these are Pages files.
  5. TextFiles – various .txt files for import usage.
  6. Music – music files in mp3 format.