VideoPsalm

While operating VideoPsalm, you will encounter several workflows where you can gain some precious reaction time by using the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Note
Some of these shortcuts are only working up from version 1.14.

See also:
List of shortcuts in the VideoPsalm help

Add songs to the agenda
Adding songs to the agenda is usually the first task that you encounter after starting VideoPsalm.

The following list of shortcuts will help you to get rid of the mouse in most situations.
Most of these shortcuts work similarly for Bible verses.

Swap between “Songbooks” and “Bibles” with Alt+S and Alt+B respectively:

Jump to the “Search” field with Ctrl+F and directly start typing the title or some lyrics of the song you are looking for:

Add the selected song to the agenda with Insert, Pause or Alt+A.

If VideoPsalm finds several songs that match the search expression, this is how to select the right song:

1. Press Tab to focus the songbook panel.
   
2. Press the direction keys (Down or Up) until you reach the right song.
   
3. Add the selected song to the agenda with Insert, Pause or Alt+A
   or
   
4. Immediately present the selected song in the songbook panel (its first slide) with Enter (VideoPsalm 1.14).
   

To reach the “Search” field again, press Shift+Tab while the songbook panel has the focus or Ctrl+F anytime.

To clear the “Search” field, press Esc (useful when you miss-typed some text in it).


Note about selecting Bible verses
I find it handy to always add whole Bible chapters to the agenda, instead of only the specific verses.
This enables to display adjacent unplanned verses without any overhead.

Agenda shortcuts

Delete an agenda item with Del.

Reorder an agenda item with Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown.

Save an agenda with Ctrl+S.

Open an agenda with Ctrl+O.

Presenting

These shortcuts are compatible with PowerPoint and with most wireless remote presenters.

Start the presentation with F5.
Note that this will restart the presentation at the beginning in case it was already started.

Move to the next slide with:
- the Down key
- the Page-Down key
- a Mouse left-click on the presentation screen*

At the end of a song, move to the next song with:
- the Down key
- the Page-Down key
- a Mouse left-click on the presentation screen*

Move to the previous slide with:
- the Up key
- the Page-Up key.
- a Mouse right-click on the presentation screen*

Break the loop on a song or an announcement with the E key.

Restart a song with the Home key.

While on single screen presentation mode, exit the presentation with the following actions:
- Escape key
- Mouse double-click on presentation screen*
- End key

While the slide panel is focused, which is often the case while presenting:

Jump to the next agenda item with the Plus key.
Jump to the previous agenda item while the slide panel is focused with the Minus key.

* Note
Actions with a * are only available in single screen mode, when you don't have a video-projector or secondary monitor.

See also:
List of shortcuts in the VideoPsalm help

If you miss any keyboard shortcut, please use our contact form.

If you don't need a songbook or a Bible anymore, you can easily delete it from your VideoPsalm.
This is how:

1. If VideoPsalm is not yet in “Edit” mode, go into it by clicking on the “Pencil” button:

2. Select the “Edit” tab:

3. Click on the songbook or the Bible that you want to delete, to select it.

4. Click on the “Delete” button on the ribbon bar:

This works similarly with Bibles.

In case you have added too many Bibles to your VideoPsalm, to the point where it is no more possible to start VideoPsalm because the memory is filled up, you can always erase Bibles manually:

1. Open a Windows file explorer.

2. Navigate to the folder holding your Bibles, located here:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Bibles

3. Delete Bibles manually from there.

If you have any further question, please use our contact form.

You may want to display the Bible book names in the same language as the Bible.
For example, you may want a Spanish Bible to display its books in Spanish.

Usually, VideoPsalm displays the Bible book names in the same language as its menus.
If you set the VideoPsalm language to English, the Bible book names will be displayed in English.
In the following screenshot, VideoPsalm is in English, and displays the Spanish Bible books in English:

However, some Bibles have the book names in their own language.

To enable a Bible to display its book names in its own language:
1. Click on the Bible button, to display its properties in the middle panel:

2. In the middle panel, deselect the option “Display the book names in English”:

Your changes are immediately reflected and you get the Bible books in Spanish:

When you leave VideoPsalm, it will remind you to save your changes:

By default, VideoPsalm only reminds you to save changes that you made to your songbooks.
It will not remind you of unsaved changes to Bibles, unless you specifically set this in the settings:

You can also save your changes to songbooks and Bibles anytime, via the save button:

In case the Bible does not contain book names in the proper language, you can edit each book name in the book property panel:

1. Click the book that you want to rename (for example “Lamentacion”, which should be “Lamentaciones” in Spanish):

2. This displays the book properties in the middle panel, where you can correct the spelling:

This works similarly with a wide range of VideoPsalm's items:
1. Click on an item.
2. This displays the item properties in the middle panel, where you can edit them.

This mechanism works similarly for the Testament names.
Click on a Testament:

​Adjust its name in the middle panel: