Control a PowerPoint presentation with animations inside slides

9/28/2014

77 Comments

Add your PowerPoint presentation to the agenda:

either with drag and drop from the desktop to the agenda surface:

or
Click on the "Open agenda" side button, the select "Add PowerPoints":

Controlling a PowerPoint presentation that contains slides with animation

Controlling a PowerPoint presentation that contains slides with animations requires the operator to be aware of following details:

Clicking on a slide thumbnail (in VideoPsalm) will display the slide at its first animation state.
Using the keyboard keys will move to the next or previous slide.
It will skip the eventual transitions inside of slides.
This is a problem (see solution further down, with the “Next” button).
With the thumbnails, it is not possible to advance to the next slide animation (it is a PowerPoint limitation).
If the PowerPoint presentation contains no animation inside slides, the operator can use the thumbnails and the keyboard keys to move to the next slide.
However, please use the “Next” button to advance to the next slide or to the next animation inside a slide:

The “Next” button will advance the PowerPoint presentation, either to the next animation inside a slide, or to the next slide
There is no “Previous” button at the moment, hopefully this will be corrected in a future version of VideoPsalm.

Alternatively, try following steps:

Give the focus to the presentation screen, by clicking on its icon on the taskbar with the mouse.
Be aware that clicking on the presentation screen will advance the presentation to the next slide.
Use the keyboard keys (up or down keys) to move to the next or the previous slide or slide animation.

Does this work for you?

At the church where I attend, the pastor likes to advance his sermon PowerPoint slides by himself, with the help of a remote controller.
We got him the following remote controller:
http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-K72426AM-Wireless-Presenter-Joystick/dp/B009K1PYG0
and he is seems happy of it.
Other controllers will certainly do, notably Logitech or other brands. However, I cannot recommend Targus remotes, as their buttons are sometimes clumsy.

Make sure that the presentation screen has the focus at the start of the presentation, for example by clicking on its icon in the taskbar.
Our pastor makes plenty of use of animations inside slides, and it works well.

We use PowerPoint 2013 trial. The trial period has elapsed by now, and PowerPoint works as a viewer only, but this is OK because the PC is not used to edit PowerPoints.

In case the PowerPoint presentation is off-center

To solve the PowerPoint being off-center, try following settings:

1. Make sure that the video-projection screen resolution is set to the "native" screen resolution.

2. Make sure that the Windows font size is set to "Smaller":

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77 Comments

Sam

2/20/2015 09:55:40 pm

I have used VideoPsalm for a few years (through several upgrades. I really like the latest updated version. I used VideoPsalm for my first video presentation via the projection software and it worked well.
I did discover that the only way I could get it to recognize the video was to include it as an extra verse in the song (our case it was announcements) just before moving to the next song.
Wonderful software! I am still discovering things I can do with the software since it was last upgraded (eg. PowerPoint presentation with animation within the Power Point slide).
Keep up the great work. God Bless you!

VideoPsalm link

2/20/2015 10:18:03 pm

Hi Sam, thank you for your feedback and all your encouragements!

The method that you use to display a video is OK!

However, if you need to display a video that is not already available in the VideoPsalm's video gallery, but located somewhere on your hard-drive, add it to your agenda the same way you add your PowerPoints.
Such a video will later not be available from within the video gallery, which is most likely what you expect.

Usually, videos that you import into VideoPsalm's video gallery are those that you will reuse, to be displayed under song lyrics or announcements, as video loops.

Abner Dominguez

7/23/2015 01:14:00 pm

Hi,

First of all, I love the program, it truly is great. I just ran into it and have started to mess a little with it before I give it to our AV team and it's right up there with Media Shout.

One thing though, I tried to import a power point presentation and I was able to but it said I didn't have powerpoint. Now, this is true, I don't have powerpoint because we use the free open source version, LibreOffice. It saves it in the same format and everything but I guess VideoPsalm wants to see the actual powerpoint program. Is there any way this could be fixed to work with LibreOffice? We'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Abner Dominguez

VideoPsalm link

7/24/2015 07:40:33 am

Hi Abner,

Thank you for your warm words, they are much appreciated.
Thank you also for requesting the support for LibreOffice. We have this feature in our plans and your suggestion helps us to put the right priorities.

bill link

6/5/2016 03:39:45 am

I assume you could install a trial version of power point, it would work as display only mode when trial is out.

David

8/25/2021 06:15:58 am

As an alternative, save the 'powerpoint' file as separate images (SAVE AS and select jpg) and then import these images into the agenda

Gilbert Veerasamy

8/17/2015 10:03:00 pm

Hi,
thanks for this VERY GOOD program. usually I work with Opensong but Videopsalm is far away above.
insert Video and play it is fine, but my issue is that i can insert Power Point but in the Agenda it says 0 Diapositive. [am using office 2015]

VideoPsalm link

8/18/2015 09:03:05 am

Hi Gilbert,

The reason why VideoPsalm cannot control your PowerPoint is most probably because the PIA PowerPoint component is missing.

Please install the PIA component located here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3508

Kindly let me know if this solved the problem.

Thanks,
Marc

Ajayi Emmanuel

9/6/2015 04:16:07 pm

i want to install videopsalm on my pc

Jack Mellet

1/25/2017 06:55:06 am

Hi Marc,
we are running Win 10 with Office 365 (Latest) and cannot load PP slides at all. Always get the error VideoPsalm did not succeed to display the PP document (PP not found on system) or something to that effect. The above proposed solution does not work Any ideas?
Thanks, Jack

VideoPsalm link

1/25/2017 12:03:56 pm

Hi Jack,

In case you did install MS Office with the "Click-To-Run" option, the only way to get VideoPsalm to control PowerPoint is to first uninstall MS Office, then reinstall it with a full setup.

Bryan

11/26/2022 04:59:10 pm

After weeks of trying different other solutions, your directive was the answer I needed, thank you Marc!

Shar

1/13/2023 05:11:16 pm

I am experiencing the same issue. Will you please e-mail me the link needed to correct the issue. Thanks in advance.

Ajayi Emmanuel

9/6/2015 04:12:25 pm

want to view video psalm presentation.

VideoPsalm link

2/3/2018 01:03:13 pm

Hi Ajayi, please navigate to https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/download.html from where you can download the VideoPsalm setup.

René Sonneveld

9/21/2015 02:48:16 am

Hi,

I have a problem with displaying the PowerPoint slides on the screen. The program reduces the size of the slides and further it shows a part of my desktop.

VideoPsalm link

10/20/2015 03:29:40 am

Hi René, thank you for your feedback. I answered you per email, where it is possible to add images.

Tom Williams link

3/20/2016 11:06:27 am

Can you pls send me this email I'm having the same problem.

Mike Presley

5/22/2016 08:30:39 am

I am having this same issue as mentioned by Rene about powerpoint slides in video psalm are showing on screen small, how can I change this to normal size?

VideoPsalm link

5/22/2016 04:55:26 pm

@Mike Presley
I answered you per email at the address that you mentioned.

Erik Furnes

6/10/2017 05:09:24 am

After replacing PP 2010 with O365 / PP 2016 (full installation) I experience the same problem as René. Please send me the same email with relevant information.

Jean Moise Bodo

11/6/2017 08:34:10 pm

I'm having the same issue problem too. The program reduces the size of my PowerPoint slides. I do not see how to configure them to normal size (full screen). It would be very nice from you if you could me an email on how to solve that issue. Thanks for your kind assistance.

Alex

4/21/2018 12:12:45 am

I am also having the same problem in displaying power point on screen. same problem as Rene'. I'm using windows 10 and power point 2016.

Anna Matthews

2/12/2016 08:39:10 am

I have the same problem to but only on the new church laptop that uses windows 2016. I don't have this problem on my laptop with office 2010. Is there a compatibility problem with the new 2016 version of windows and are you planning on doing an update.

VideoPsalm link

2/13/2016 07:04:34 am

Hi Anna,
Yes, there seems to be a compatibility problem between PowerPoint 2016 and VideoPsalm 1.16, sorry.

VideoPsalm link

5/4/2016 11:58:08 am

Hi Anna,
When you install Microsoft Office, make sure that you install all components, notably the interop/programmability components.

Terry Linderman

2/17/2016 07:30:34 pm

Same problem, using Office 2016. I see you have already admitted a compatibility issue, is there a fix for this?

VideoPsalm link

3/6/2016 08:17:36 am

Hi Terry,

I haven't tried it myself, but somebody reported that he has his PowerPoint 2016 working OK with his VideoPsalm.

Make sure that you install all the MS Office components, in particular the "Programmability components" or how they are called.

Ross

12/13/2015 07:39:02 am

Thank you for such a brilliant software tool for worship.

Unless I'm missing something, it seems Powerpoint slides are only displayed as thumbnails within the main VideoPsalm window (unlike everything else, songs, videos etc). This means that when the Powerpoint presentation includes text slides, you can't read the text from within VideoPsalm (only on the full display screen).

Is it (or could it be made in the future) possible to show thumbnails in the top panel (like song verses) and the actual powerpoint slide as displayed on the display screen in the bottom panel?

Thanks.

VideoPsalm link

12/14/2015 01:25:42 am

Hi Ross,

I understand that the thumbnails are too small to enable the reading of their text.
I added your suggestion as: "Improve text readability of PowerPoint thumbnails".
Whether this will be made available in a PowerPoint preview panel or directly on the thumbnails is opened.

VJ Patel

9/29/2019 05:40:59 pm

"Improve text readability of PowerPoint thumbnails". (2015)
Has this readability problem of power point slides been looked at?
I too need to be able to read the words of the slide. Thumbnails too small. I am trying Version 1.23 (Sept 2018 version)

VideoPsalm link

9/29/2019 09:19:14 pm

Hi VJ Patel,
This was addressed in 1.24 (beta), and will be available in 1.25.

Calvin Barrows link

11/17/2019 01:05:35 pm

I'd really link to see a larger preview in the centre panel. When you are running the software, and the speaker forgets to prompt it is impossible to know when to move to the next slide or animation!

VideoPsalm link

11/17/2019 01:53:55 pm

Hi Calvin,

Thank you for your feedback about PowerPoint thumbnail sizes.
This will be addressed in version 1.25.
Version 1.24 has this feature already, however this version is not recommended.

Richard August link

1/3/2016 12:58:16 pm

Hi - I'm trying out VideoPsalm, but I'm having a problem that when I display an imported ppt, when I get to the end of that set of slides it (a) displays a message saying 'End of slideshow, swipe to exit' and then prompts me to save the presentation - am I doing something wrong?

VideoPsalm link

1/3/2016 02:13:13 pm

Hi Richard,
What you do is correct.
Alas there is no known way to prevent the confirmation dialog to show.
Simply press the "Cancel" button.

Brian Wilkie

10/30/2018 09:17:51 am

I've been trying to get powerpoint working with some success. One thing I learned is that in PowerPoint > Options > Advanced > Slide Show > "End with black slide" can be unchecked to eliminate the "End of Slide show Screen" (I do not get the save prompt, so I guess that is already solved)

Brian

3/6/2016 07:26:00 am

Do you have to have the full version of power point or should the reader be able to import and display the slides? When I try to import I get an error and 0 slides come over.

VideoPsalm link

3/6/2016 08:13:15 am

Hi brian,

The full PowerPoint version is required.
In particular, the PowerPoint viewer is not enough.

At the church where I attend, we use PowerPoint from MS Office 2013, as a trial. The trial period has expired, but PowerPoint can still be used, as a PowerPoint viewer. This is just fine for us.

Nat

3/18/2016 11:51:58 am

1. Is it possible to switch back to PowerPoint and make changes?
I try going back to PowerPoint but it won't open program. Is there way to fix this?

2. With the PowerPoint file In "Edited Mode" the middle section is blank. Is this where you can make changes in with PowerPoint files? See link for image:

http://i.imgur.com/o91UQsL.jpg

If not, will there be a similar feature to be added in VideoPsalm?

This is a wonderful software and it would be great if it have theses features.

VideoPsalm link

3/19/2016 05:32:35 pm

Hi Nat,

Thank you for your warm words.

When you add a PowerPoint presentation to a VideoPsalm agenda, VideoPsalm makes a copy of it into a temporary folder.
All changes that you later do to the original PowerPoint file are thus ignored by VideoPsalm.

To tell VideoPsalm to use the new PowerPoint document, remove the PowerPoint from the agenda then add it again from its original location.

While selecting a PowerPoint presentation, the middle section is blank. This is by design.

Rafael

9/14/2016 01:57:25 am

Hi;
When I added a ppt to agenda, I get this error. "Videopsalm didnt succeed to display the powerpoint document" (see the pic)

http://es.tinypic.com/r/67r3es/9

Office 2013 Professional 64 bits, tools full installed
Windows 10 64 bits.
Need your help.

VideoPsalm link

9/14/2016 01:51:59 pm

Hi Rafael,

Here two troubleshooting options:

1. When you install MS Office, make sure that you enable the .NET Programmability support (or how it is called now), like shown on the screenshot at this page:
http://olappivottableextend.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Office%202013%20Primary%20Interop%20Assemblies

2. In case you did install MS Office with the "Click-To-Run" option, the only way to get VideoPsalm to control PowerPoint is to first uninstall MS Office, then reinstall it with a full setup.

Let me know which option solved your problem.

Rafael

9/14/2016 08:15:54 pm

Hi;
With you advice #2 ppts works.

Thanks a lot.

Albert A. Senge

10/2/2016 12:03:12 pm

I must thank you for providing this software, God will richly bless you beyond measures. I have a challenge, I tried playing a slide that has animations, only the first one shows, when I click next key, it takes me to the next slide instead of next animation. I'm using windows and MS office 2016, could it be the reason? thanks and God bless.

VideoPsalm link

11/5/2016 02:01:00 pm

Hello Albert,

On some PCs, there is a bug that prevents VideoPsalm to control a PowerPoint presentation that has animations inside of a slide.
A workaround is to give the focus to the PowerPoint presentation in the task-bar, with a mouse click, at the start.
Another way is to click on the "Next" button in the slide toolbar, at the right, instead of clickling on the slide to display.

Hopefully this problem will be corrected in the 1.17 version.

Afaea link

10/20/2016 03:54:09 pm

The article is very useful for people like me who first use VideoPsalm.

I would also like to thank you for having created this amazing software.

Btw, my cruch laptop that uses Windows 2016.

Is there a compatibility problem with the new 2016 version of Windows and are you planning on doing an update?

Afaea

VideoPsalm link

2/3/2018 12:36:30 pm

Hi Afaea, VideoPsalm can control PowerPoint starting from the 2003 version.

anand

11/3/2016 08:52:28 am

hey good day , i am using windows 10 and office 2016 on my laptop i installed videopsalms 1.6 , my issue is the first slide runs then when i go to the next slide it does not auto switch when you use the arrows to move the slides , the slide runs off powerpoint rather than the videopsalms , I have to stop projecting on videopsalms and restart projecting in order for i have control of presentation . i have another laptop running xp with vpsalms 1.5 and this is working fine. can you advise on how to solve this ?

VideoPsalm link

11/5/2016 02:06:16 pm

Hi Anand,
Thank you for your message, however I am not sure to understand what exactly goes wrong. Is it the same problem than for Albert?

Andrew

1/12/2017 09:17:23 am

When a powerpoint completes - I cannot advance to the next thing ie a song without getting a black screen and a request to click to exit in white at top and a box showing asking me to save/don't save or cancel. Only checking the box don't save can I advance to song. I use office 365

VideoPsalm link

1/12/2017 01:52:51 pm

Hi Andrew,
This problem is known, alas there is no solution at the moment, although I have hopes to solve this in a future VideoPsalm version.
This problem happens with all PowerPoint versions.

Cathy Daugherty

9/12/2017 07:02:15 pm

What is the oldest version of powerpoint that the new Videopsalm will work with. We have had an issue with loading powerpoints and them not fitting the screen being too big. I did try the suggestion I received by email but it did not fix the problem.

VideoPsalm link

2/3/2018 12:24:16 pm

Hi Cathy,

VideoPsalm can control PowerPoint 2003+.

11/5/2017 05:30:57 am

Hi everyone,
I had the problem that VideoPsalm wasn't able to find PowerPoint on my computer, using Office 2016. I just did the "repair" Office 2016 in the apps, and it works!

VideoPsalm link

2/3/2018 12:25:01 pm

Hi BB, thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated.

Shedrack link

2/1/2018 01:20:01 pm

To be honest, This is the best I have used. Better than easyworship (Yes you heard me right), so much features that I could not even have imagined. God bless you guys for making this free. There is no better way to evangelize. God bless you again

VideoPsalm link

2/3/2018 12:26:58 pm

Hi Shedrack, Thank you for your warm words, they are much appreciated!

Ana

4/22/2018 01:49:44 pm

Love your software!! I do have one issue with the powerpoint output. I love not having to have to switch screens back and forth but when i import the powerpoint and go to present mode it displays on a quarter of the screen it doesn't fill out to the auto or 4:3 format. And I can't change it through the powerpoint presenter mode.

Am I doing something wrong? We need the live mode to fill the screen for our projectors. TY for you help!

VideoPsalm link

6/6/2018 09:43:30 am

Hi Ana,

Thank you for reporting the problem with the PowerPoint not covering the whole screen. Hopefully this will be corrected in a future version.
At the moment, follow these steps:
1. Open the VideoPsalm options.
2. In the "PowerPoint" tab, adjust the PowerPoint margins.
3. Display a PowerPoint via VideoPsalm, and check that your adjustments are correct.
4. if the adjustments are not correct, repeat from step 2. Note that it is necessary to close the PowerPoint presentation before your new settings are taken into account.

Ken

8/19/2018 08:49:23 am

Thanks for putting a great program together. It would be great if the presentation window and the default program window can be in the same window when you have a dual screen setup. We are using multiple programs and every time I present it covers programs that I need to use simultaneously. This option would help greatly.

VideoPsalm link

8/19/2018 09:09:42 am

Hi Ken,

Thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated.

The feature that you request is quite unusual.
I am not sure to understand why you need it.
Could you please take the time to send a screenshot or describe the problem more in details, via an email at gmail?

At the moment, when there is more than one monitor, VideoPsalm "chases" the presentation screen to the other monitor as soon as you move its control dialog over the presentation screen.

Brian Wilkie link

10/30/2018 12:35:57 pm

I've been finding that when I first open VP, and run the agenda, the agenda stops running when opening the PP show. Every time thereafter, the Powerpoint starts smoothly
My sole remaining problem with Powerpoint 2016 (in VideoPsalm 1.22, using a single display) is that when the PP presentation ends, focus does not return to the agenda, I have to find the agenda presentation and click on it to continue.
My current work around is just to save the Powerpoint as a series of jpg files, and include them as a slideshow, but it there is another way, please let me know

VideoPsalm link

12/1/2018 01:22:10 pm

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your feedback.
Hopefully the problem that you describe will be addressed in the next VideoPsalm version, 1.24.

khenno

11/29/2018 02:51:47 pm

Hello Videopsalm,

thank you for your software. I have a question that is there any way to display the powerpoint inside the videopsalm?

thank you for your help,
God bless you

VideoPsalm link

12/1/2018 12:52:55 pm

Hi Khenno,

PowerPoint requirements
In order for VideoPsalm to control a PowerPoint presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or higher must be installed on your PC.

Notably, VideoPsalm cannot make use of the PowerPoint Viewer.

It is advised to use a recent version of PowerPoint, even a trial version will do.

When you install Microsoft Office on the PC, make sure to select all the setup options.
Indeed, the standard options do not include the interoperability with third party software like VideoPsalm.

The MS-Office trial version will expire eventually, putting PowerPoint in a reduced functionality mode (no more edit).
You will still be able to display PowerPoint presentations with it, which is great.

Download the MS-Office 1 month trial at Microsoft from their official page, here (and don't forget to install all components):
http://products.office.com/en-us/try

John Stanley

10/8/2019 01:17:42 pm

Yes I can confirm that the trial version works. But it's not totally robust because it wants to keep encouraging you to sign up for the full version. For example, if you inadvertently open the presentation directly in PowerPoint, it often puts itself in a state where it subsequently won't work properly for PowerPoints in the VideoPsalm agenda, and you have to restart Windows for it to work.

So a related question - would it be hard to make VideoPsalm work with "PowerPoint Mobile for Windows 10"? This is free and restricted to viewing (no editing) on screens larger than 10.1 inches, and would avoid the problems with using a trial version.

VideoPsalm link

10/9/2019 01:39:29 am

Hi John,

Thank you for describing the problem with opening a presentation in PowerPoint and then not being able to open it in VideoPsalm.
We are aware of the problem and believe that it will be solved in 1.25.

John Stanley link

10/8/2019 01:00:36 pm

Total praise and thanks for getting PowerPoint right in the 1.24 Beta. Now it really does animations completely seamlessly so that a remote 'clicker' controller away from the computer can be used right through the agenda. Better than most of the paid competition I've looked at.

Just one point about the beta which I hope will be helpful: when I installed the beta it removed the live version. This makes it very difficult to test the beta with the system that provides the live environment, having to swap between the two installations, which is very time consuming. Is it possible to have the beta with its own installation, so it is possible to have the beta and live version installed at the same time?

Actually one more point: there doesn't seem to be a particular web page where to leave comments about the beta, or even any issues that people find. In fact, will you notice this post, making a very positive comment about the new version? It would be good even for you to have a place to report findings on the beta.

So thanks again for making PowerPoint work right!

VideoPsalm link

10/9/2019 01:37:14 am

Hi John,

Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it.
To install the beta side by side with 1.23:
- Rename the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoPsalm
into
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoPsalm 1.23
- Install 1.24
- Rename the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoPsalm
into
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoPsalm 1.24
- Rename the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoPsalm 1.23
into
C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoPsalm

You can leave comments here on this forum, although the prefered way is via email at VideoPsalm's gmail account.
There is an email button in the VideoPsalm toolbar.

1.24 has bugs and it is not recommended to use it at church.

Ray

12/30/2019 06:56:31 pm

up until 3wks ago, we would load songs from PowerPoint to VideoPalms to display the words , now there is an error, did we do something different?? or how can we fix it?

VideoPsalm link

5/26/2020 12:57:01 pm

Hi Ray,

Thank you for your feedback.
What error message do you get ?
Could you please send me a screenshot via email?

david hughes link

3/23/2021 09:57:43 am

PowerPoint worked great with Office 2010. We have upgraded to Office 2016 and PP won't load into Videopsalm. I can see above that you suggest installing The Microsoft Office 2010 Primary Interop Assemblies.
This is for Office 2010. Will it work with Office 2016 or is there a download for a 2016 Primary Interop version.

Jorge Reyes

9/20/2021 05:54:17 pm

Great program!
It just lacks some updates like:
1. To be able to see a preview of the power point, since the more slides the smaller it is.
2. I think you should be able to create your own presentation (slides) in the program.
Thanks...

Larry M Bevard

12/3/2021 04:40:16 pm

I really have had a chance to explore Videopsalm but so far so good. Only problem I've had is I have is that I have a PowerPoint that is set on a timer and cycle over until I click on the next slide. Anyway to get this to work in Videopsalm?

Gene

5/31/2022 02:46:54 pm

Just installed Videopsalm recently and really pleased with the features. We are using an older version of MS office. Was wondering if there are plans to incorporate libreoffice . LIbre is free and a church our size cannot afford updated MS.

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