VideoPsalm

Usually, the header of song verses is not used, and is empty. The footer is used instead.

​Lower third: This is how it can look like with a green background and a relocated body area:

1. Select the “Songbooks” style level (respectively for Bibles the “Bibles” style level):

2. Press the highlighted button ("Display the resize rectangle" button):

Grab the corners to resize the relocation rectangle.
You can also resize it by grabbing the middle of a segment.

You may want to adjust the text alignment:

Now this is how your slide looks like:

While the footer rectangle is selected (respectively the header rectangle), the style properties like font, font size, font colors, transition, etc., apply to the footer (respectively to the header).

Here below, see a footer with a bigger font size and a different color:

When you are finished with adjusting footer font attributes, don't forget to select the “Body” button again, so that changes that you do to style attributes apply to the body, which is what we do most of the time:

While changing a style attribute, you may mistakenly have changed it at the wrong style level.
There are several ways to correct a wrong style attribute.
Let's start with an example:
We will assume that I assigned a background image to a song verse instead of to the (whole) song.

Press the green bullet, to activate the display of style level badges:

This displays “Badges” above the style attributes:

- A “Style level” badge (green) indicates the level where the style attribute is positioned.
Click on a badge to easily select its style level.

In the screenshot below, the font is set to “Century Gothic”, at the “Songbooks” style level.
Click on the green "Songbooks" badge to easily select the “Songbooks” style level:

It has the same effect as manually selecting the corresponding style level in the style level drop-down:

- A “Brush” badge (orange) indicates that the attribute is positioned at the current style level (in this case “Verse”).
Click the “Brush” badge to remove the “Background image” attribute at that “Verse” level:

The song verse will then be displayed with the image defined at a lower style level (at the “Song” level, or lower).

The style level brush clears the style attributes set at the current level:

This action will have the same result as pressing all the orange brushes displayed on top of the style attributes in the ribbon.

In the case we are considering, where we need to remove an image assigned by mistake to a song verse, we could do the following:
1. Select the “Song” style level.
2. Press the “Delete all the above style attributes”.
This will delete all the song verses style attributes (of all song verses):

The style explorer is a panel enabling you to see what attribute is set at what level.
To open the style explorer, press the highlighted button:

This opens the style explorer, where you can selectively clear each attribute at the right level:

When you press the “Save” button, VideoPsalm lists all changes that will be saved, and gives you the opportunity to select what items to save:

In the worst case, close VideoPsalm without saving your changes, then restart it.
This method is not very practical and should be used as a last resort.

This article lists the VideoPsalm screen areas where, when clicked, automatically switch the style level accordingly.

VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define in the fewest clicks the style at any level : Verse, Song, Songbook, Songbooks, Base, etc.

Example with the “Song” style level
When you are about to change, let's say, the background for the whole song, verify the “Styles” group, in the top toolbar, at the left.
There will be a drop-down menu to select the style level.
Make sure you select “Song”, that way all the changes for background will apply to the whole song (all song verses):

As long as the style level stays on “Song”, all style changes that you do (font, color, animation, background, etc.) will apply to the whole song (to all its verses).

To help you quickly switch to a specific style level, instead of selecting it in the style drop down #1, simply click the corresponding areas, highlighted from #2 to #6 in the screenshot below.

The currently selected style level is highlighted with #1:

The areas #2 to #6, when clicked, switch the style level #1 accordingly:

To help you see the style level automatically change, VideoPsalm displays a flyout whenever it happens:

At your convenience, you can tell VideoPsalm, in its options, to not display the flyout: