What Does It Look Like?
Our customers overwhelmingly approve of the look and feel we have refined in ProPresenter 3 and 4, so why change a good thing? The award-winning WYSIWYG interface continues to evolve, however, with refinements and functionality befitting the current trends in user interfaces. Familiarity with previous versions will have you ready to work with ProPresenter 5. Plus, a completely customizable toolbar will allow each organization to get quick access to the functions they use most.
The following are a few ones from its over 100 features.
Slide Transitions and Animated Text Boxes
ProPresenter has always had smooth, seamless cross dissolves between slides and video elements. Now we've added some incredible new transitions. These aren't cheesy eighties-era wipes. We're talking 3D animations that are layer independent. So, for example, words can "fly-in" from the top right while backgrounds dissolve underneath. In addition, slide fly-ins can be made to "hover" in continuous motion for as long as they are active before flying off as the next slide flies in.
Our aim with this design is to enhance the caliber of your everyday presentations and make it easy to create tasteful motion presentations from right within ProPresenter.
Song Select / CCLI Reporting
ProPresenter 5 includes the ability to create CCLI reports for the songs you use. During your CCLI reporting period, CCLI requires that reports be filed when a presentation is first created. ProPresenter 5 makes this process easy to track and report right within the application.
Video / Image Effects
ProPresenter 5 now features some powerful new video effects beyond those introduced in ProPresenter 4. Now not only can you change the hue, saturation, contrast, and speed of video clips, you can also apply color filters and blurs dynamically to images and videos.
As always, these settings can be saved on a per instance basis. So one clip can have multiple versions of itself despite only existing once on the hard drive.
Scripture Enhancements
ProPresenter has enhanced its scripture presentation engine to include the ability to put scripture references into a separately placed text box. Many users have requested the ability to automatically format the reference separately from the verse, and this feature accomplishes this task.
We've also included the ability to add verses to an existing presentation. So in the case where a presentation with a range of verses from one chapter has already been created, it's now easy to add verses from other chapters searched on to that selected presentation. You can now easily create a single presentation for all of the scripture references for the Pastor's sermon.
Planning Center Online
Many of our church customers use Planning Center Online to manage resources and their worship plans. ProPresenter 5 now includes integration with Planning Center enabling you to download your service plans, attach presentations to specific plan elements, and get live updates of your plans right within ProPresenter.
Multi-Screen Improvements
Along with multiple template enhancement for our Multi-Screen Module (formerly known as the Advanced Module), we've added two additional features inspired by the requests of our users:
Cued Layouts: Now you can save presets for multi-screen layouts and set slide-specific cues to change the multi-screen layout when a slide is selected. This makes it very easy for even a volunteer to change from a 3-wide video layout to a tiled layout and back since it's just part of the programmed presentation.
Live Video Control: ProPresenyer's Live Video feed now resides on its own layer that can be turned on/off independently of the video layer. This allows you, for example, to have one output with words over a live camera feed, and another with words over motion backgrounds. When combined with the new Cued Layouts, the Multi-Screen module offers a whole new level of flexibility.
NOTE: All users that have the Advanced Module in ProPresenter 4 will be able to take advantage of these new features when upgrading to ProPresenter 5. A repurchase of the Multi-Screen module is not necessary.
Multi-Screen Templates
The Multi-Screen Module for ProPresenter 5 (previously called the "Advanced Module") now offers the ability to select a different template per screen. This allows you to have the text placement, font, etc on one screen be different than the output format on another screen. This flexibility helps accommodate unique output requirements in a production. For example, you can select a template with lower third text for the outside screens and select a template with centered text for the center screen. You can also have a different template for all three screens if desired.
Full Synchronization
ProPresenter 4 introduced the ability to synchronize a user's library of documents easily across volumes. ProPresenter 5 greatly expands this feature, allowing user's to synchronize all other elements - media, templates, playlists, messages, and even Stage Display layouts. This is extremely useful for any organization using ProPresenter on more than one system. It helps manage all elements of presentations across multiple installations throughout the campus.
Master Control Module
An entirely new and exciting module is available for ProPresenter 5. The "Master Control Module" allows one operator to control multiple ProPresenter Network Nodes from one computer.
This is a highly useful feature for productions where one may need to utilize multiple instances of ProPresenter to control multiple screens, each with varying content, but want one operator to control them all in unison from one station. This new module allows one Master ProPresenter Station to remotely trigger slides and Video/Image bin contents of one or more networked ProPresenter stations. Each station can have their own respective content suitable for its output, so it can be the same or different material than the Master station (great for multi-lingual environments).
This feature is available on the Mac and PC version. All systems will be capable of being a Network Node out of the box, but to utilize this capability a Master Control Module must be purchased and installed on one system.