Yes, you have the ability to do a setup for your entire “set” or you can do different backgrounds for each song. I ended up just using a black background with white text. It appears that you can insert a video or music to play, but again I didn’t try that out.
#OPENSONG WORDPRESS DOWNLOAD#
I didn’t do this, but it looks like you can download a bible and reference scripture and it will include just the text you specify into your presentation. You have a lot of flexibility as far as fonts and font sizes that you can use. Another trick I learned was to insert two of these characters, like this “||” at the end of a line and it broke the text into a new slide so that there wasn’t a bunch of words all scrunched up on the same slide. When you go into your “Set” which is their term for your lineup, the sequence is there. Then under sequence, you just type it in like, “V1 C V2 C B C”. Before each verse or chorus you type or or for bridge. I just copied and pasted the text from CCLI into a new song in OpenSong. I didn’t really get the CCLI import thing to work out, but that was okay. I still had to do some reading online to figure out what I was doing. I had a gig the next night and needed to get about 15 songs setup and ready to go.
It’s possible that I needed more time to work with it, but I didn’t have more time. It didn’t seem like I could change the size of the text or what text showed on which slide very easily. I couldn’t get a good preview of the presentation to show up and I couldn’t really figure out the video loops. Maybe it was my computer, but it seemed buggy. It just wasn’t working very well on my laptop. A little motion is nice, but a fast moving loop can distract from the text.Īfter about an hour or so of playing around with OpenLP I decided to try OpenSong. I prefer something blurred or more textural with some simple color. I personally don’t like having a big picture of a cross or bible in clear focus behind the lyrics.
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Many that come with the software are pretty cheesy and distracting from the text.
I’ll say one thing about backgrounds here. It looked like it had the most options that I was looking for including the ability to import songs from CCLI and to have video loops running behind your lyrics. I found two lyric presentation programs: OpenLP and OpenSong.Īt first glance, I downloaded OpenLP. Many programmers even encourage you to distribute it (as long as you’re not charging a fee) and to make improvements. When software is Open Source, it means that it’s free and legal to download. I did some online searches for Open Source programs. I don’t have the luxury of working with any Mac’s so my experience is limited to PC’s.
#OPENSONG WORDPRESS PC#
I’ve heard people say that some of these are more PC friendly and others better for Mac. You pretty much want a dedicated computer in your AV area for it. I have the most experience with MediaShout, but it’s pricey and it takes up a lot of memory on a computer. I’m not sure that it’s available independently and I’ve never used it. Planning Center has an option for projections too, but it’s part of their subscription. I don’t myself own MediaShout, ProPresenter or EasyWorship which are the industry standards. It was a situation where there was about a day’s notice and there wasn’t much time to coordinate music so I needed to take care of planning and making sure that I had lyrics. I recently had an opportunity to be a guest worship leader for an XLT (adoration service) at an area church.
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