I push all the buttons around here.

Our first Sunday with ProPresenter went very well.  The program worked exactly as expected.  My star volunteer Jacob was able to run one of the services with only a few minutes of ‘training’.  He bravely jumped right in and had no problem adjusting to something totally different.

The transitions were all fantastic.  The videos all played on queue and best of all the program was stable and didn’t crash.  I’m not sure how to even react when a computer doesn’t crash or glitch on Sunday morning.  It was refreshing.

We did still use MediaShout for the teaching slides, but I’m eagerly awaiting the day we can move that over to the Mac as well.  I’m still not sure it was worth the 10 hours of prep time, but man was it easy to use during the live presentation.

I’m sure the prep time will only get faster as we get acclimated to the Mac in general.  I’m sticking to my last assessment that the two biggest things I really want out of ProPresenter is: 1. a way to toggle hiding disabled slides, and 2. custom margin settings per slide or per presentation.

I mentioned previously about my concern over the cross fade on switching slides where the text didn’t change.  I’m beginning to think that might not be so bad.  It does show some transition, a visual clue that you need to sing it again.  Someone told me it would be ok.  They were right.  I think I can probably get used to that one.

I know I should just suck it up and get a real mouse.  That will greatly help with my right clicking issue.  However Mac isn’t just the control+click but the command+click as well.  Might as well get used to the keyboard and 1 button mouse combo.  Because one of the two shortcuts are going to get left out if I get a two button mouse and then I’m going to have to get used to the shortcuts anyway. Then again, I can see how that’s poor logic.  The truth is, I love the little onmi-directional scroll on the Mac mouse.  I’d miss it.  I’ve never seen that on another mouse.  If I find one though I’m buying stock. Haha.

I’m not sure anyone even noticed the change over.  No one said anything to me anyway.  However, I noticed every single issue I had with MediaShout and how it presented on the main screen was addressed.  Even if the audience didn’t notice the change over this week, over time they will get accustomed to this gold standard.  After a few months, if we went back to MediaShout, I bet the audience would notice the step backwards.  We have raised the bar and it’s only a matter of time before it’s noticed.

Thank you Renewed Vision for what you are doing!

Now please fix those two things.  Haha.  I know you’re listening, you’re good like that.