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VideoPsalm

 

How to display a picture slideshow from within VideoPsalm

9/19/2013

34 Comments

 
From within an agenda, VideoPsalm can display a slideshow.

To create a slideshow in your agenda, you can either:
  • Drag and drop your images from the desktop or from a file explorer into the VideoPsalm agenda surface,
Photo
or
  • Use the agenda “Open” button, then select “Add slideshow images”.
    ​You can then select one or several images from your hard drive:
Photo
Advantages of showing your slideshow with VideoPsalm:
  • Your slideshow is integrated with your songs, your Bible verses, etc.:
    Easily display anyone of them, for example in two clicks.
  • With drag and drop, easily reorder your slideshow images.
  • Your agenda contains all the data for your presentation.
    Save it on a USB stick, open it on another PC, and you are all set.
  • VideoPsalm makes best use of your screen real estate:
    It displays your pictures in full screen, proportionally scaling your pictures so that they occupy the maximum screen surface, without ever modifying their aspect ratio whatsoever.
  • It also wont show any borders or any floating toolbar on top of your pictures:
    The audience will give all the attention to the picture only.
  • VideoPsalm offers a consistent set of transitions between slides.
  • Last but not least: you can loop through your image slideshow automatically.

​Note
​
When you add images, videos or PowerPoints to your agenda, VideoPsalm makes a copy of these files into its own temporary folder and displays them from there. This means that if you make changes to one of these documents from outside of VideoPsalm, your changes won't be immediately reflected into VideoPsalm.

To force VideoPsalm to take your external changes into account:
  1. Remove the corresponding item from your agenda,
  2. Add the item again from its file location.

See also:
  • How to automatically loop through slides
34 Comments
Gerhard Fourie link
12/1/2013 05:02:56 pm

How do you show video files. (not as a background, but as a video with it'w own lyrics, as found on yourtube)

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VideoPsalm link
5/4/2016 12:31:34 pm

Hi Gerhard,
Thank you for requesting this feature.
This feature will be available in VideoPsalm 1.17.

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Marcos Iván
11/29/2016 04:17:07 am

You can drag a video to song playlist and then play it on live.

VideoPsalm link
12/24/2016 12:47:53 am

@Marcos Iván

Yes, simply drag and drop your video onto the agenda surface (or use the "Open agenda" button to add any kind of document, available with version 1.17+).

To enable VideoPsalm to display any kind of video (MP4, AVI, MOV, etc.), install the following codec pack:
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

To add video loops to your VideoPsalm, download them from YouTube:
1. Search for "Worship loops"
2. Copy/paste the YouTube link into the following online service:
http://keepvid.com/

This will enable you to download most any YouTube video locally on your PC hard-drive, in the format that fits your needs, for example MP4.

Does this work for you?

VideoPsalm 1.17 makes it easy to display YouTube videos while online, or display live web sites.


VideoPsalm link
12/2/2013 07:15:21 am

Hello Gerhard,
I answered you per mail.
Basically, you need to add the video to the agenda, either by dragging it from a file explorer onto the agenda surface, or by using the “Open agenda” button and selecting the “Video” filter in the “Open file” dialog.
See also:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/a-video.html
Thanks,
Marc

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Kevin link
1/16/2014 08:55:38 am

I found I could not get the slideshow (a series of pictures) to work as I wanted - setting the slide to 'loop' or 'play to end' meant they would play through the slide show just once, but I couldn't get it to repeat continuously (so I could let it repeat until I chose to move on). I got round the problem by using Windows MovieMaker to create a video of the still pictures in sequence, and then playing the video in VideoPsalm with the 'repeat' button selected.

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VideoPsalm link
1/17/2014 04:40:14 am

Hello Kevin,
Yes, a bug prevents to loop a series of pictures in VideoPsalm 1.13.
Hopefully this will be fixed in the next version.
Thanks,
Marc

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VideoPsalm link
3/29/2016 01:13:56 pm

It is possible to loop a slideshow since VideoPsalm 1.16.

http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-automatically-loop-through-slides

Please use the contact form if necessary:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

George Barnes
3/4/2014 06:20:57 am

Hi,

I have 2 questions:

[1] If I create songs from text, do I always have to repeat the chorus, or can I tell VideoPsalm to repeat the chorus,
eg
Chorus repeat

[2] I have tried openlp and VideoPsalm on Windows 8.1 with Office 2013. With an attached monitor or projector. Powerpoint running standalone displays on the 2nd monitor (extended), but when you add the powerpoint file to the agenda, it shows the slides skewed on the 2nd monitor. I know Office 2010 on Win7 works - can you confirm if this is a known issue and if it is Win8 or Office 2013 - any possible fix please.

Thank You

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VideoPsalm link
7/7/2014 07:04:53 am

Hi George,
[1] You need to repeat the chorus wherever it is repeated. VideoPsalm's text editor allows to copy and paste text like in any word-processor.

[2] Could you please send me an email with a screen shot of the problem? Use the PrtScr keyboard key and send the image in full size per email.

Thanks,
Marc

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Philippe
10/7/2016 08:44:17 am

For #1, it would be nice if no text is provided (that is Chorus is followed by a blank line or is at the end of text), that the last "verse" using that tag would be displayed instead.

That way, if we fix a mistake or decide to change a few words, we have to do the correction only once.

And it might even help improve performance as the song book file size would be smaller and less text would need to be scanned while doing searches.

George Barnes
7/6/2014 04:17:59 am

When I load a ppt file into videopsalm, sometimes I get
1: all slides show blank on OHP.
2: slides appear to be missing from videopsalm that are actually in the PowerPoint file.

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VideoPsalm link
7/7/2014 07:06:28 am

Hi George,
If you don't mind, could you please email me copy of the PowerPoint files that don't render properly when operated through VideoPsalm?

Thanks,
Marc

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Dee Gee link
7/9/2014 08:40:47 am

Hi
Does Videopsalm handle LibreOffice/OpenOffice Impress files in place of Powerpoint? I can drag&drop a .ppt but not its .odp counterpart. .ppt doesn't display but that is because i don't have a ppt viewer I guess.

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VideoPsalm link
7/9/2014 09:38:47 am

Hi Dee Gee,

VideoPsalm doesn't handle LibreOffice/OpenOffice Impress at the moment.
To control a PowerPoint presentation with VideoPsalm, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or later must be installed on the PC.

Notes:
- VideoPsalm cannot make use of any Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer.
- It is recommended to use Microsoft Office 2013.
If you don't want to buy Microsoft Office 2013, please install the Microsoft Office 2013 as a trial and you will be able to use its full features during 30 days for free. After the expiration of the trial period, you will still be able to use Microsoft Office, however some features will be disabled, notably you will only be able to use PowerPoint as a viewer, which is great.

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Kristher Vidal link
1/13/2015 08:40:38 am

Hello, How can I stretch the images I added? The image is not exactly the resolution of the second screen so I get black background on both sides. Thanks

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VideoPsalm link
1/14/2015 12:00:52 am

Hello Kristher Vidal,
Thank you for your question, however VideoPsalm does not stretch images, by design.
However, I may be missing something.
If so then please elaborate about why VideoPsalm should display images stretched rather than in their proper size-ratio?

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Hanne
4/20/2015 06:42:04 pm

Hi,
I just started to use VideoPsalm. But I've had challenges with the videos. I've managed to download a video, but it simply won't run?

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VideoPsalm link
4/22/2015 03:47:45 am

Hi Hanne,

There are several reasons why the videos don't play.

VideoPsalm can display wmv videos on most PCs, notably on Windows 8 PCs.
To be able to display other video formats, like MP4, you may need to install additional components, called "Codecs", like the ones found here:
http://www.codecguide.com/

Be careful while installing additional codecs, as some codec packs found on the internet may try to install additional software that you don't really need, and are sometimes hard to get rid of.

Here you will find additional information about how to play videos under lyrics etc:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/a-video.html

You can also use the VideoPsalm contact form, which enables to exchange emails securely:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

Thanks

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Dwight
9/28/2016 07:18:33 pm

Working on my first test presentation, took it to church to try tonight, my first image slide with welcome wants to stay on other slides. Why? I put a filler in between to fix it.

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VideoPsalm link
9/30/2016 03:52:19 am

Hi Dwight,

Let me know if the following article describes well enough how to display a logo between songs:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/three-methods-to-display-a-backgroundlogo-between-two-songs

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Albert A. Senge
10/2/2016 03:44:41 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 10 and MS office 2016, could it be the reason? thanks and God bless.

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VideoPsalm link
12/1/2018 03:49:31 pm

Hi Albert,

As far as I remember, this has been fixed in VideoPsalm 1.17.
Please use the latest version (1.23 as of today).

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David
12/9/2017 10:25:09 am

When inserting images, they seem always to load in landscape, even when they are in portrait proportions. i.e. Someone standing vertically is shown horizontally. Is there a way to specify whether an image should be portrait or landscape, or is there a way to rotate the image? My get-round is to put them in Powerpoint first, but this defeats the point of using the slideshow facility in VideoPsalm. Thank you.

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Kevin
12/9/2017 10:39:55 am

I wonder if this might be a feature of the photo? I find the same with pictures taken on my iPhone when uploading to a Wordpress website, they come out landscape although taken in portrait, and I have to rotate them in GIMP (image processing software) before uploading them. Not tried it with VideoPsalm, but sounds like it could be the same problem.

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VideoPsalm link
6/6/2018 10:46:24 am

Hi David and Kevin,

Thank you for making me aware of the problem.
I added this to the list of things to correct.

Keno
8/17/2018 07:55:24 am

Good day, I'm using version 1.21 and my images show in the correct orientation but I can't say the same for videos. All my vertical videos play horizontally. Still recommending this program to everyone though.

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VideoPsalm link
12/1/2018 02:03:24 pm

Hi Keno,

Thank you for making me aware of the problem.
I added this to the list of things to correct.

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Domingo
12/5/2018 11:32:20 am

how to change or fix a photo size to fit the screen in videopsalm

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VideoPsalm link
2/13/2019 03:10:01 pm

Hi Domingo,

For song backgrounds, VideoPsalm zooms a photo to fill the screen.
For slide shows, VideoPsalm zooms the photos so that their whole surface is visible.
By design, VideoPsalm will not stretch images.
Could you please send me an image that you would like VideoPsalm to stretch? This will enable me to understand your need.

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Ub
2/22/2020 07:37:14 pm

I commend this software for its sophisticated features so far. Pls how can i adjust the aspect ratio and brightness of a single video or image v1.23 in a way that it doesnt affect the whole videos and images i have stored in my profile

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VideoPsalm link
7/29/2020 05:51:01 am

Hi Ub,

To adjust the aspect ratio and brightness of a single video or image, do so at the same style level as where the video or image is assigned.

For example if you have assigned a specific image to a song verse, adjust the brightness at this song verse style level.

VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define in a few clicks the style at any level : song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.

When you are about to change the background, check the "style" section at the top left in the top toolbar, there will be a drop-down menu to select the level (verse-chapter-book-etc) make sure you select "Song verse" that way all the changes for background will apply to this "Song verse" only.

The following articles describe some cascading styles scenarios (the articles often consider the background, however the same principle applies to all style settings like font, colors, font size, etc.):

How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles part one
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2012/02/first-post.html

How to assign a background to a song verse or to the whole song - Cascading styles part two
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/how-to-assign-a-background-to-a-song-verse-or-to-the-whole-song-hierarchical-styles.html

Methods to display a background/logo between two songs
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/three-methods-to-display-a-backgroundlogo-between-two-songs

How to remove an image assigned to a song verse
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-remove-an-image-assigned-to-a-song-verse

How to adjust slide text margins (body, header and footer)
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/how-to-adjust-slide-text-margins.html

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Chris
4/16/2022 01:03:36 pm

Hey, thank you for making such great software for the spreading of the gospel! I am trying to create a pre-service announcement slide loop that also includes an announcement video. I can get the photos to loop, but I cannot get the video to loop likewise. Wherever I insert the video it breaks the loop and goes back to the first slide. In other words it will not automatically play the video as part of the slide loop.
I am using version 1.26
I tried 1.27 beta, but the scriptures were not working properly at the time I tried 1.27 beta.

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