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VideoPsalm

 

How to display bilingual songs

6/13/2016

14 Comments

 
Lets say that we need to display two songs, each one bilingually in English and Spanish.

The songbook called “English songs” contains the two English songs (along with other English songs).

The songbook called "Spanish songs" contains the two Spanish songs (along with other Spanish songs).

Steps to display both songs bilingually:
1. Add both English songs (called E1 and E2) and both Spanish songs (called S1 and S2) to the agenda.

2. In the agenda, arrange the song order as follows: E1, S1, E2, S2
This will display the English lyrics on top of the Spanish lyrics.
To have Spanish on top of English, use the following song order: S1, E1, S2, E2

3. Link the first song to the second, and the third song to the fourth:
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4. Start the presentation, for example by pressing “F5”.
VideoPsalm will display the first verse of song E1 together with the first verse of song S1.
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You may need to adjust the number of verses for songs E1 and S1, so that the lyrics correspond.
To do this, simply insert some blank lines at the right place.
It is possible to add an empty song verse where necessary by adding a blank (a space) in a line followed by a blank line.

To test this, download the corresponding agenda here.

See also:
Display verses from two different Bible translations at the same slide (bilingual display)
List of tricks: Display Bible verses quickly, the way you want them to be (bilingual, several verses on one slide, etc.)
14 Comments
Dorothy Nixon
10/28/2016 03:20:07 pm

Can you display two powerpoints simultaneously in this way?

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VideoPsalm link
10/29/2016 11:10:59 am

Hi Dorothy,

No, it is not possible to display two PowerPoints simultaneously this way.

Instead, it is certainly preferable to copy/paste the song lyrics from PowerPoint into new VideoPsalm songs.

If you have many PowerPoints (several hundreds or so) that you would prefer to have as songs into VideoPsalm, please let me know, as it is possible to convert your PowerPoints into a VideoPsalm songbook.

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Débora link
7/4/2017 10:59:26 am

Prezados, boa tarde!

Tenho mais de 1mil músicas em PowerPoint e gostaria de saber como faço para mandar ao programa de uma vez só ou mesmo que seja uma a uma, como faz isso?

No aguardo de resposta e grata desde já.

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Débora Vieira

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VideoPsalm link
7/5/2017 03:27:45 pm

Hello Débora,

Thank you for your question.

Here are the steps to import a whole batch of PowerPoints into a VideoPsalm songbook:

1. Export the text of each PowerPoint into a text file.
2. Manually make some adjustments to the resulting text file, to prepare the text import into VideoPsalm.
2. Import the test file into VideoPsalm via its text import assistant.

The first step (export the text from the PowerPoint files) is the most difficult.
This is why we have developed a small utility that can do just that.

Feel free to send me your PowerPoint files zipped into one zip file at our gmail address and I will send you back the corresponding text file. I have done it for several people already.

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Débora Vieira link
7/5/2017 04:51:04 pm

Prezados, boa noite!

Obrigada por me responderem.

Como faço para lhe mandar a pasta de músicas que tenho em zip para fazer tal alteração?
Se puderem me mandem um e-mail no [email protected] que lhes respondo com o arquivo zipado.
Peço que façam isso para mim, humildemente, pois não o conheço o utilitário de vocês para tal procedimento.

Se puderem me mandar o utilitário que tem para essa alteração eu agradeço, pois tenho outro computador na igreja que necessita fazer o mesmo procedimento, e para não sobrecarregar vocês eu posso fazer aqui.

Mais uma vez, agradeço em me auxiliar e já agradeço pela importação que farão de PowerPoint em texto.

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Débora Vieira

Daniel
5/19/2024 01:48:30 am

Hey, you can to help me to convert PPT to text file ?

VideoPsalm link
7/10/2017 02:52:13 pm

Hi Debora,

You can send your PowerPoints to videopsalm at gmail.

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Débora link
7/11/2017 03:08:55 am

Mas para qual e-mail devo enviar? Não tenho, poderiam por favor, me mandar um e-mail válido, pois o que respondo não aceita.

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Débora Vieira

VideoPsalm link
7/11/2017 06:03:54 am

Hello Débora,

Please be patient, the work is under progress and I will let you know as soon as possible.

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Douglas Joseph link
4/5/2019 03:03:16 am

I am very impressed with your software. We've been using OpenLP at our church for years. Your software is superior to OpenLP in many ways. However, we really need a way to input (type) bilingual lyrics into a song (both languages into a single song file), and the select (highlight) lyrics of the second language and "colorize" them to a different color -- right in the song file. Can that be done?

Why do we need this?

What is greatly needed is a way to have both languages stored inside a single song unit so that the volunteer operating the software during service does not have a setup task each time a bilingual song is sung.

What is needed for bilingual songs is a way for the volunteer to simply click on the only instance of the song, which happens to have both languages inside it, and it automatically displays correctly.

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VideoPsalm link
4/5/2019 06:40:50 am

Hi Douglas,

To achieve the desired result, try the following:

1. Type-in the song lyrics like so:

Verse 1
English lyrics
<-----a blank/space
Spanish lyrics

Verse 2
English lyrics
<-----a blank/space
Spanish lyrics

etc.

This will display the song lyrics with both languages on each slide, separated by a blank line.
The blank line is optional. To remove it, remove the blank and its newline between languages.

To assign a specific color to the Spanish lyrics, use the color toolbar buttons available at the top of the lyrics editor.

This task is described in the following article:
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/videopsalms-lyrics-and-chords-editor

Would this work for you?

Feel free to contact me through the contact form, from where we can safely exchange email addresses, or write an email directly at my gmail account:
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

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Douglas Joseph link
4/5/2019 12:01:01 pm

Yes! But it is the latter part of what you showed that works, because we need both languages to be on the screen at the exact same time, on the same slide of lyrics. Just as when two languages of a Bible verse are shown simultaneously, we need both languages of a song lyric sentence to be shown simultaneously.

The reason we were stumped previously is because when we applied font text color at the top, it was being applied to a whole slide level, instead of to the granular level of a word or a sentence.

Once your reply clued us in to another way to apply color to the level of a word or sentence, we then knew we could do it. We have tried and verified it works just as you said.

THANK YOU!

Jacob
12/30/2019 01:34:11 pm

Good work! Help me with this
"How can I display a moving alert message down of the power point

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VideoPsalm link
7/29/2020 06:01:14 am

Hi Jacob,

The alert message does not get displayed over the PowerPoint at the moment. Thank you for requesting this. I added it to the list of things to do.

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