Display song verses in lower third

This topic describes how to display the song lyrics in the lower third and automatically limit the song verse lines to 2.

Normal display

Lower third display

1. Click on a song.
This displays the song verses in the slide panel, at the top-right:

2. Click its first verse, so as to display it in the preview area:

3. Select the "Songbooks" style level:

From now on, all changes that you do to the style will be assigned at the "Songbooks" level.
This means that all songs verses will be displayed accordingly (unless they have a higher style level change).

Cascading styles
VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level: song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.

How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles part one
How to assign a background to a song verse or to the whole song - Cascading styles part two
Three methods to display a background/logo between two songs
How to remove an image assigned to a song verse
How to adjust slide text margins

4. Limit the number of verse lines to 2:

The slide panel reflects your changes immediately:

Before:

After:

To refresh the preview area, click the first song verse (that now has 2 lines) in the slide panel at the top-right.

5. Press the "Display the resize rectangle" button:

This opens the "Size and position" dialog:

6. Remove the footer content:

7. Move and resize the body area to the bottom:

The preview area displays the changes:

From now on, all song verses of all songbooks will be displayed 2 lines at a time, in the lower third.

8. Save your changes:

Additional read
How to adjust slide text margins / lower third display