VideoPsalm

This tutorial describes how you can translate the VideoPsalm application into a new language.
It consists into translating the texts, buttons, tool-tips, messages, etc. that appear in the VideoPsalm dialogs.

Before you start to help, please use the contact form or let us know by email.
This will prevent potential duplicated translation work.

VideoPsalm is available in more than 50 languages.
The available languages are displayed in the VideoPsalm option dialog:

In the "General" tab, expand the language drop-down, and select your language :

If your language is not in the list, still maybe somebody may have translated it since you installed your VideoPsalm:

1. Make sure you run the latest VideoPsalm version.
   You can download the latest version from here.
2. Check the VideoPsalm online library.
   Your language may be newly available there:

In the Import assistant dialog, select "Import a language" from the VideoPsalm online library:

The VideoPsalm online library contains the up-to-date list of languages.
It highlights new or updated languages:

If your language is not available (= you don't see it in the list), read further...

In the VideoPsalm options, in the "General" tab, click the "Translate VideoPsalm" button:

This opens the VideoPsalm integrated translation tool, from where you can change the texts that appear in the VideoPsalm menus and dialogs, or add a new language:

Panel 1. The label panel
The label panel lists all the labels that VideoPsalm uses.
There, you can edit the labels, as you would in Excel.
By default, the "Comments" column is selected.
Comments help to know what a label is for and were it appears. (However, not all labels are commented.)

Panel 2. The language panel
When you select a language in the language panel (2), a corresponding column appears in the label panel (1).

You need to click twice on a language to select it: the first click marks the language, and the second click selects the checkbox.
Keep the “Comments” ticked, as they will help you translate the texts.

Select 2 languages:

Language 1: A source language, where you are most fluent with, or one that is close to your language.
The choice of the source language is critical, it can significantly speed-up your translation work.
If possible, select English, French, German, Dutch.

In this tutorial, for the source language, let's select English.

Language 2: Select a target language. In panel (2), additionally select the language that you want to contribute for its translation.
Let's select Russian.

You now have 4 columns displayed in the label panel (1):
1. Id
2. Comments
3. The source language (English)
4. The target language (Russian)

Now is the right time to reorder the columns.
Drag & drop the "Comments" column header to get following positions:
1. Id
2. The source language (English)
3. The target language (Russian)
4. Comments

You get something like this:

If you don't need the "Comments" column, deselect it in the language panel (2) to hide it:

Use the mouse to resize the column headers:

Press the "Add..." button:

This opens the "Add languages" dialog, where you will find a lot more of the world languages:

Select a language and press "Add" to add it to VideoPsalm.

In the "Add languages" dialog, languages that are already available in VideoPsalm are grayed out, you cannot add them anymore.

If your language is not found in the list, add it manually:

In the dialog that opens, type-in your language name:

Use the name corresponding to the official language code, found here:
Official world language code lists

Collapse the integrated help panel and maximize the window, to see more columns and rows:

Since version 1.27, VideoPsalm operates with "Google Translate" to automatically translate the labels in around 120 world languages.
VideoPsalm will translate the source column (column 1) into the target column (column 2).

1. Select the empty cells to translate.
Alternatively, you can select the source cells, it doesn't matter. The selected rows are what matters.
To select a range of cells, click the first cell, then, while pressing the "Shift" keyboard key, click the last cell.
To add more cells, click on them while pressing the "Ctrl" keyboard key.

2. Right-click and select "Translate selection":

After a short moment, the Russian text fills the selected cells:

The automatic translation uses a free service from Google.
This function requires an Internet connection.
Your free translation credit granted by Google may get used up.
If you don't have anymore credit, VideoPsalm will fail to translate the labels.
In this case, wait for an hour or two to get your credit back again.
If necessary, instead of waiting, temporarily use a VPN, for example TunnelBear.
TunnelBear has a free plan that is big enough for this and it works wonderfully.
TunnelBear will ask for your email.
It is all what is required to get a free plan with them.

To check your translation in its context, select your language in the “Language” panel, then click the “Apply” button.
VideoPsalm will instantly display your translated texts where they belong, in every dialog.

You can then use VideoPsalm in the language that you just translated, and test if everything displays as expected.
Repeat this until you are satisfied with the result.

Save your work by clicking the “Save” button.

When your work is complete, send us your translation by clicking the “Send” button.
Send us the relevant zipped (compressed) file, as an email attachment.
In this example, this would be the “Русский (Россия), ru-RU.zip” file (Russian):

Once we receive your language file, we make it available online for others to use.

When a new language is added to the VideoPsalm online library, all VideoPsalm users get notified, via a toast, the next time they start VideoPsalm:

When they click on the toast, VideoPsalm opens the language import assistant, where they can select the language(s) to add or update in their own VideoPsalm:

Let us know how you would like your card to appear on the contributor's page.
A picture of you or your avatar is welcomed.

Thanks in advance for your help.

This method enables the systematic display of one (or more) additional Bible translations.
Lets consider that you always want to display the French translation under your English translation.

​To set the French Bible as an additional translation that will always be displayed under any other translation:

• Click the French Bible:

From now on, any Bible verse will automatically be displayed in conjunction with the corresponding verse in this Bible:

To add another Bible translation, repeat the operation.
The order in which the additional translations appear on screen is dictated by their "Position" property:

Save the changes that you did to your Bibles:

Note that per default, VideoPsalm will silently ignore to save changes that you do to Bibles.
You have to first enable this in the options:

This method enables the ad hoc display of Bible verses in two or more translations.
​The same method applies to displaying song lyrics in two languages.​

Let's display Romans 3:19-24 in the NIV (English translation) and in the Colombe (French translation).

Step 1: Proceed like usual: Select the Bible translation verses by typing their reference into the search field, and add them to the agenda:

Then click on the “Add” button to add the verse selection to the agenda.

You end up with the NIV Bible verses into your agenda:

Step 2: Select the second Bible (French Colombe) and then click again on the “Add” button, to add the same verses to the agenda.

Step 3: Now comes the important point:
​Link the first Bible verse selection (NIV) with the next one (Colombe), like so:

When you display the NIV verses, they now get displayed with the Colombe corresponding verses:

These steps can be done even during the service, as they require only a few seconds and do not interfere with the current presentation progress if you activate the shield icon.

The same principle works for songs:

It is also possible to highlight some words or phrases:

See more details here: How to display Bible verses to your attendance (at the bottom) to learn how to select Bible verses and add them to the agenda.