AV SUNDAY Evening SETUP Guide
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Press the button near the bottom left of the AV rack in the Ladies Choir Vestry (room at the back of church).
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Press the button once on the left on the front of the AV computer (under the AV desk).
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On the 'Apps' tab of the Stream Deck, press the 'Launch Evening Apps' button.
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This means the main projector (white Panasonic remote in the AV computer drawer), the two side screens, the welcome screen on the column by the door (black Sony remote in the AV computer drawer), and the screen in the chancel (black Sony remote in the AV computer drawer, turn on and then launch the BirdDog app before selecting 'DESKTOP-AR8BC8U (Audience)' from the list of inputs).
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Click the '+' button in the top left panel of ProPresenter, then select 'Planning Center Service'. In the pop-up window, expand the 'Sunday Gathering' list and select the service for today.
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Drag the presentations needed for the service into the playlist from the 'Central Assets' and 'Liturgy' libraries. These will likely include a 'Notices Slideshow' for before and after the service, a 'Countdown', the 'Peace' slides, the 'Notices' for during the notices segment, and a 'Sermon Graphic' if we're doing a sermon series.
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Liase with a member of staff to find out today's scripture reading, then navigate to the 'Bible' tab in ProPresenter and type in this bible reference. Select the generated slides and click 'Save as...', then 'Save as Presentation'. Now find this presentation in the 'Scripture' library and drag it into your playlist. In the playlist, click on the first slide then, holding shift, click on the last slide to select all the slides. Now add a ‘Scripture’ Macro by right clicking on a slide and choosing 'Add Action/Macro/Default Collection' from the drop down list. Finally, to add a title slide, right click on one of the slides and choose 'Edit Slide'. In the 'Edit' tab, click the '+' button at the top of the lefthand panel and add a 'Central Default/Scripture Title' theme slide. Move it to be the first slide, then edit the text to display the scripture reference and the page number on a new line underneath. Go back to the 'Show' tab and add a 'Scripture Title Slide’ Macro to the title slide.
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Check if the preacher would like any other scripture references during their sermon and add these as per the instructions in the previous section.
If the preacher also has some images or a presentation they'd like shown then ask them to email them av@bristolcentral.com.
To import images, download them from Gmail and they will appear in the Downloads folder.
For PowerPoint Presentations, download them from Gmail and open them in PowerPoint. Then go to 'File', then 'Export', then choose 'Change File Type' from the list of options, then choose 'PNG Portable Network Graphics' as the file type. Click 'Save As' and save them in the 'Downloads' folder in Windows File Explorer.
Once you have the images saved in the 'Downloads' folder, you can return to ProPresenter. In the top lefthand panel, click on the '+' button and choose 'New Presentation' from the drop down list. In the dialog box that appears, give the presentation an appropriate name such as "Sermon Slides YYYYMMDD". Leave the 'Theme' as the default, choose 'Temp Assets' as the 'Destination' library and leave the 'Size' as 1920x1080. It'll then open up your new presentation with a single slide in it. Then simply drag and drop the images from Windows File Explorer into your new presentation in ProPresenter. Next, right click on the empty slide that was automatically generated from when you first made the presentation and click 'Delete'. Now, click on the first slide then, holding shift, click on the last slide to select all the slides and add a 'Presentation' Macro to each slide. Finally, in the lefthand panel, drag the presentation into this Sunday's playlist and order it as required within the playlist.
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Go through each worship song (which should've been imported automatically) in the playlist and check that the 'Worship' Macro is applied to every slide.
If a worship song has not imported correctly, click on the search icon on the right of the presentation in the playlist and search for the song in the pop-up window to link it.