VideoPsalm

You may notice a misspelling or a wrong wording in one of the texts that VideoPsalm presents in its menus or messages.
If you find this error annoying, then correct it yourself!
Indeed, there is a tool in VideoPsalm that enables you to edit any label or message that it displays.

Follow these steps:

1. Go into “Edit” mode:

2. Open the “Options” dialog:

3. Click the “Translate VideoPsalm” button:

This opens the “Translation” dialog:

This is the tool that enables you to edit every label that appears in VideoPsalm.
In the version 1.17, VideoPsalm has around 1622 labels. These labels are all listed in this table, where you can freely edit them, a bit like in an Excel table.

First, make a bit more room in this dialog:
1. Maximize the window.
2. Reduce the help panel (after having read the help text that it contains...).
3. Enlarge the English column, to have easier access to the labels.

Now you are ready to edit the labels.
Let's say that we want to replace the term “Agenda” with: “Order of Service”.

4. In the search text box, type in the word that you want to find: “agenda”.
VideoPsalm now displays only the labels that contain the word “agenda”, and highlights this word in yellow:

Replace each instance of the word “Agenda” by “Order of Service”. This will require a bit of work and may need a few minutes of your time. It took me around 5 minutes.

There is no need to replace the instances in the “Comments” column.

While you replace the instances, the list gets smaller, because VideoPsalm filters the labels while you edit them.
At the end, you may only have a few lines left: those that contain the word “Agenda” in the “Comments” column.

Note  To search for a sentence, type the words between double quotes, for example: "order of service"

When you are finished making your changes, save your work:

Saving your work has the effect of assigning your changes to VideoPsalm (to the whole program).
You can check it out immediately, for example:

VideoPsalm will also remind you to save your changes when you close the dialog.

This dialog has other features:

• It enables you to compare the labels of different translations.
• You can add your own language to the list.
• You can email your translation to VideoPsalm, so that other people may benefit from your work.

Notes
The label files are located in this folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Localization

When you install a newer VideoPsalm version, the setup program moves all your labels to a C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Localization sub-folder called for example Before 1.17.

The English file is called: 
en-US.json
It is a text file that you can also edit from the outside of VideoPsalm, with a simple text editor.
I use Notepad++, which is a fully fledged free text editor.

Other articles concerning VideoPsalm translation

• Have VideoPsalm into your own language
• Translate VideoPsalm into your own language
• Edit VideoPsalm's labels, for example rename “Agenda” into “Order of Service”
• VideoPsalm languages/translations

If you have any further question, please contact us.

See also:
How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles - Part one

VideoPsalm displays the text of song verses and Bible verses with their assigned style attributes.
The main style attributes are:

• Font name
• Font size
• Bold
• Italic
• Underlined
• Left aligned / Right aligned / Centered
• Top / Middle / Bottom
• Text color
• Text outline color
• Text outline width
• Text shadow
• Text animation
• Text body size and position
• Background color, image or video
• Background animation
• Header / Footer size and position
• Header / Footer content template
• etc. (you can see a complete list of attributes in the style explorer. See below how to open the style explorer panel).

Style attributes can be assigned at any of the following levels:
For song verses:

• Song verse
• Song
• Songbook
• Songbooks
• Base

For Bible verses:

• Bible verse
• Bible chapter
• Bible book
• Testament
• Bible
• Bibles
• Base

Each slide can get style attributes from any level, like a cascade.
If a style attribute is set at several levels, VideoPsalm considers the attribute at the highest level.
For example, if a background image is assigned at the song level and another image is assigned to the song verse level (the highest level), the image from the song verse level will be displayed.

Method a) Select the “Song” style level:

Method b) One easy way to select the “Song” style level is to click on the song:

Method c) Alternatively, if the song is in the agenda, click on it there to select the "Song" style level.

Select the “Verse” style level first:

Method a) Click on the corresponding song verse slide in the slide list:

You can see that the “Verse” style level gets selected:

You can always select a lower style level directly from the drop down menu:

To select the “Songbooks” level, click on the “Songbooks” button.
To select the “Bibles” level, click on the “Bibles” button.


Conclusion  Before you do any change to the style, first make sure that VideoPsalm is set at the right style level:

• If you want to assign a background image to a whole song, click on the song, and then choose a background image. VideoPsalm will display every song verse with this image (except for song verses that have a more specific background).
• If you want to assign a background image to a song verse, click on that verse, and then choose a background image. VideoPsalm will display the song verse with this background.

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Sometimes, you need to remove a style attribute at some level.
For example, if you assign an image to a song but a verse already has an image assigned to it: you will need to remove this image at the verse level.

To remove all attributes at some level, click on the “Brush” button at this level.

To remove all style attributes from all verses of a song, click the menu “Delete all the above styles attributes”:

If you are located at the "Song" style level, this action will remove all specific verse attributes, preserving the song attributes and the lower ones (songbook, songbooks, base).

To remove a specific style attribute at some level, open the style explorer with the tiny style button:

This opens the style explorer panel.
Attributes that are set at the current level are represented in bold, and have a “Brush” icon next to them:

Click on the brush to remove the attribute at this level.

The icons located to the very right tell at which level the corresponding attribute is defined.
In the above screen shot, you can see that the “Animation” and “Body rectangle” attributes are set at the “Songbooks” level. The other attributes are all set at the “Base” level, except for “Italic”.

If you have any further question, please contact us.