Powerful, Professional Presentation Software PowerPoint/Keynote files don't play natively in ProPresenter, but there's a work-around. I suspect the HDMI distribution amplifier's "searching for monitors" is freaking it out. I’ve found that ALL the output monitors/projectors have to be turned ON before ProPres is opened, otherwise it sometimes freezes up and I have to “force quit.” On more than one occasion the stage monitor has timed out/turned off between church services, but if I try to turn it back on without shutting down ProPres first, it gets confused on where to output. On the Mac version I've reported a minor clunky design issue 2-3 times in the past couple of years but it hasn't yet been fixed: the song list & playlist "sliders." Clicking directly ON the slider doesn't work you have to aim 1/8" to the left of it! It's a minor negative among dozens of awesome features.
Also DVDs won't play in ProPresenter since Microsoft removed DVD support post-Windows 7. But they should at least display an hour glass to let you know something's happening. To be fair, I haven't called tech support about that yet. It's common to wait at least 30 seconds before the logo even shows up. Even first executing ProPresenter is slow, and there's no "hour glass" to let you know it's in the process of turning on. Like, click to highlight a song and wait 3 seconds before it even highlights it. I will continue my thoughts in the next section as I am out of space.Īlthough our Windows computers supposedly meet the minimum requirements, ProPresenter's Windows version is painfully slow. I can confidently say that the majority of the people actually running your program are not paid to do so, and have had little to no involvement in the design of the presentations that they control. The volunteer nerds that I have running the software each week, which, I believe should represent about 80% of your clientele, do not have the ability to be trained effectively in PP because they are not working in the program enough. PP just feels like a program that was designed by programers, which is strange when you consider that it's primary function is to help in the realm of aesthetics.
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The problem with Pro Presenter is that it was clearly not designed for someone who spends most of their time in "Apple World." The question is not, does PP run flawlessly on a mac, but does it feel like it should run on a mac.
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all under the $500 price range, it is easy to see why churches will dish out the cash for a mac when they begin shopping for high-end tech rather than sticking with free programs that can't perform as well or as reliably. With programs like Logic, Mainstage, Garageband, Imovie, Final Cut, etc. However, the general consensus in the millennial worship community is that mac is the end-all for churches. There are things that I love about it, and things that I just live with, as is the case with any operating system. I have used mac pretty much my whole life.