How to edit Bible verses and format individual words

1/22/2022

This tutorial describes how to edit and format individual verse words, by “converting” a set of Bible verses into a song.
Additionally, this is a solution to display several Bible verses on a single slide.
See examples of this in column 2:

1. Automatic, instant display

1. Automatic display of a Bible verse

2. Refined, manual display

2. Formatted Bible verse, after “converting” the verse into a “song”

1. Automatic Bible verse display, with 5 Bible verses per slide (new feature in VideoPsalm 1.27)

2. Bible verses “converted” into a “song”, manually grouped into the same slide

See here how to display automatically any number of Bible verses on a slide, starting with VideoPsalm 1.27, as shown in column 1 (Article available here).

Here are 3 scenarios (read further down for how to do it):

The pastor is interested in some specific words of the verse (the beginning, the end, the middle, etc..).
-> “Convert” the Bible verse into a “song”, and keep the specific verse parts:

The pastor needs to emphases specific words of the verse.
-> “Convert” the Bible verse into a “song”, and highlight the specific words:

The pastor reads a whole chapter or several verses. Some verses are very long, others are short.
-> “Convert” the Bible verses into a “song”, then split the verses that are long into two or more slides, and put consecutive short verses on the same slide.
Alternatively, do that automatically as described in this tutorial (starting with VideoPsalm version 1.27).

Let's “Convert” Bible verses into a “song”

We will consider a passage with verses of different lengths, 1 Corinthians 13.

1. Select the Bible verses:

2. Important step: Add the verses to the agenda

VideoPsalm can display the selected verses on the fly. However, in our case right now, add the Bible verses into the agenda.

Note: In general, it's always a good idea, during the service, to put viewed items into the agenda, including the items that you display on the fly.
This way, you have them on hand in case the pastor returns to some previously cited verse.

Click the “Add” button to add the Bible verses to the agenda:

3. Make the Bible verses editable

Right-click the Bible verses agenda item and select the highlighted menu item:

This has the effect of “converting” the Bible verses into a free text, a “song” actually, that you can edit at leisure.
VideoPsalm puts this Bible verse “Song” in a new songbook called “Bible verses”.
This songbook is created on the fly if it does not exist already.
Consecutive Bible verse “songs” will be added to one of the songbooks marked as such (see the Personalized Bible verses checkbox below):

Note When you search for songs, VideoPsalm doesn't look into “Bible verses” songbooks.

The screen shot below illustrates how VideoPsalm converted the Bible verses into a song:

4. Edit the "Bible verse" song

In the above screen shot, several areas are highlighted:

VideoPsalm created a songbook called “Bible verses”.
it is in this songbook that VideoPsalm puts custom Bible verses.
As shown higher-up, you can create more songbooks of Bible verses, by selecting their "Personalized Bible verses" checkbox.
The icon of such songbooks is represented by a Bible.
"Bible verses" songs are represented by a “Message bubble” icon.
In the example above, I have slightly edited the verses:
I removed the line break between verses 6 and 7, and between verses 9 and 10.
These verses are short and can fit on a single slide.
The slide numbers correspond to the verse numbers.
You can edit your verses, for example merge two consecutive verses that are short, and the verse numbers will keep matching to the song verse number.
I configured the songbook header and footer to display the Bible verse reference and the Bible name.
This all is done automatically when you tell VideoPsalm to make the Bible verses editable.

To complete the operation, configure the songbook to display its verses with a similar style as your Bibles, for example by assigning a Bible image to its background. This way, all the Bible verses in this songbook will automatically appear with this image.

Tell us if this suits some of your scenarios!

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25 Comments

Nico Labajo

3/17/2018 12:45:00 am

Hello VideoPsalm,

Our church use your program for almost 3months. We started using it last January2018. Since this program suit us especially with the Tagalog Bible (MBB) version that we always use. Compare with others that their version is (1905) that so much old and so much different from what the pastors reading from his reference.

The only problem is when we need to post a multiple bible verse that should be in one slide. for example Genesis 22:16-17 (MBB) the pastor want to stay both verses, but since it only show 1 verse at a time. we need to copy the two verse and make a "new song" and paste it in. as fast as we can.

some of the pastors didn't gave us the full summary of his teaching. sometimes as he preach he include Bible verses that it is not in his reference. and we need it to send it to monitor and projectors as fast as we can.

I read this booklet tutorial beforehand.its good But it tooks time to create,

also worship leaders or people who are giving testimonies also share bible verses and most of the time its multiple verses. and needs to project it in one slide.example 1John 5:11,12,13

Hope in new update of this program will allow us atleast 2 bible verses can be together in one slide just by clicking and highlight the 2 verses. and the font will be automatically adjusted to fit the screen.

but above all this...we love your program.

-Nico
FLCC Harvesters Church

VideoPsalm link

3/17/2018 04:04:09 am

Hi Nico,

Thank you so much for your message.

The missing feature that you are describing makes a lot of sense.
It is one of the most requested one, and located quite high on the list of things to do.
Hopefully it will be available in one of the next versions (after 1.22).

Lhoy

7/14/2018 01:58:12 am

Looking forward for this new feature! :)

Gabriel

7/26/2020 08:17:00 am

Hi, I was wondering if this feature is in v1.23 or coming in a later version?
It's something I've been looking forward to. This app has totally changed how we hold our services. God bless you.

VideoPsalm link

7/27/2020 01:12:34 pm

Hi Nico,

The "Display several Bible verses" feature is planned for VideoPsalm 1.27.

Blessings,
Marc

Drew

10/3/2018 11:42:44 am

Hi. I'm looking for the same feature.

Ideally it would be good to be able to set the text size, then have the programme decide how many verses it can fit onto the screen. Saving this as a "selection" of some sort on the fly.

I realise this isn't necessarily an easy thing to code, but I think it would make for the smoothest user experience. It would just be a case of the user selecting "single" or "multi" verse mode. It might be useful to be able to toggle this during a service.

Still investigating, but loving the programme so far :)

VideoPsalm link

2/13/2019 02:34:58 pm

Hi Drew,

Thank you for your feedback, your feedback count!
I like your idea about "single" or "multi" verse mode.

Deborah

1/9/2019 05:05:54 pm

Hello.

Thank you for your labor of love in developing VideoPsalm! This program has been such a blessing to my church. Especially, for those who need additional time finding Scriptures or for those who are taking notes during the sermon. I am a new user to VideoPsalm. I want to know how to display the Bible verses in the slide sorter viewer? I don't know what I did to make it go away but would you please tell me how to put it back?

Thank you kindly.

VideoPsalm link

2/13/2019 02:37:29 pm

Hi Deborah,

I am not sure if i understand the problem.
Please contact me via my gmail account, where you can send me a screenshot describing the problem.

Erwin

2/17/2019 07:53:20 pm

Brothers and Sisters of VideoPsalm,
For the truth, ive been using Easyworship until Ive found out VideoPsalm, and been using this about 5 years until now. The feature that made me love this app so much is that it can display our HILIGAYNON BIBLE version via XML. and now im using it with video live using my android phone.. So much help when we are using 3 projectors so that outside the church can see whats inside the pulpit and can read the bible verses which the speaker is talking. Unlike before, only the people inside can see the speaker.. Like others wants on the next update, hope it can now display multiple verses. God give us TALENT and its for FREE.. So THANK YOU SO MUCH for this FREE application you shared for us. GOD KNOWS how to repay ALL OF YOU for all your hard works...

VideoPsalm link

7/27/2020 01:15:06 pm

Hi Erwin,

The "Multiple Bible verses" feature is planned for VideoPsalm 1.27.

Blessings,
Marc

Victoria

7/29/2019 08:17:57 pm

Hello my dear brothers and sisters at Videopsalm,

This program has been very helpful in our church and I thank God for it and may he bless you all. I have a question regarding the selection of songs and songbooks. I was wondering if you could select multiple songs in a group to add to the agenda because we're trying to transfer all of them to a new computer. We have a ton of songs so adding one by one would take a looong time.

Thank you for your time :)

Nwachukwu

10/30/2019 03:39:52 pm

Hi Victoria, multiple selection of songs is a feature I myself second to be added in the next versions.

However, while we all eagerly await the addition of that functionality, you could simply locate the folder on your old computer where VideoPsalm stores the Songbooks and copy the corresponding songbook(s) .json file to the same folder on your new computer.
For example, if your songbook is "Sunday Worship Songs Lyrics" you will see a file in the said folder with name as "Sunday Worship Songs Lyrics.json"

Right below this sentence is the path to the folder (just copy and paste it in the windows explorer address bar and hit enter)

C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Songbooks

PS. You can as well copy the images and videos that you used as the background.

The path for the images folder
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Images

The path for the videos folder
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm\Videos

I hope this helps.

To the awesome VideoPsalm guys, may God continue reward your labor of love.

Chuks Edwin

6/19/2020 08:44:51 am

God bless you for your labor of love
I cannot stop thanking you for making such a huge project freely available to humanity.
There's no greater Gospel.
Thanks to this team of glorious people

Edward Mawufemor Deti

7/1/2020 07:46:09 am

Thank you so much for the software. Very easy to use.

However, u would like to see two or more verses displayed together on the slide so that when the pastor wants to make inferences from the preceding verse, it will be very easy.

Also I will be grateful to see us makes notes in the song books with line spacing.

For example.

God's Love. (Topic) (Header line)

1. The biggest love(line 3)

2. He loves the whole world (line 5)

3. His love is selfless (line 7)

All the above should be shown on a slide. Instead of the compact one we have currently.

Thank you once again 😊❤️

VideoPsalm link

7/27/2020 01:19:28 pm

Hi Edward,

The "Multiple Bible verses" feature is planned for VideoPsalm 1.27.

To add line spacing, add a new line with a blank (a space) on the line.
Does this work for you?

How to add/edit songs and announcements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UwbvDVEiM
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/how-to-addedit-songs-and-announcements.html

Blessings,
Marc

Edward Mawufemor Deti

5/15/2021 11:52:10 pm

God bless you for a wonderful easy to use app.

I would like to know when version 1.27 will be released so that we can be able to display several Bible verses at the time without editing the verses.

VideoPsalm link

2/19/2022 02:07:42 am

Hi Edward,
VideoPsalm version 1.27 will be available in a few weeks.
A beta 1.27 version is available here:
https://bit.ly/VideoPsalm_1_27_Setup_beta

Please note that these forums are not monitored.
To get a timely answer, contact us via email at our gmail account

OFM Lille

1/2/2021 12:21:24 pm

Hi,
Will it be possible to display the same verse in two different languages on the same slide? That would be awesome!

Blessings, Shaquilla

VideoPsalm link

8/4/2021 01:37:13 am

Hi Shaquilla,

VideoPsalm 1.26 can display the same verse in two different languages on the same slide, see how here:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-display-verses-from-two-different-bible-translations-on-the-same-slide

Angelton Granfield

3/31/2023 07:47:20 am

Good day all the way from South Africa - Cape town! To the fellow believers thank you for this FREE & awsome program. I have a question wrt live streaming... can the application connect to an external camera which is a cellphone and live stream that feed? Can the application use various wireless feeds for and move in between these feeds? God bless you... Note we are using the program on a Macbook Pro laptop which we use Parallels to install windowns 11 on the Macbook... i will leave feedback on how version 1.27 works via these applications and hardware

VideoPsalm link

7/19/2023 11:18:26 pm

Hi Angleton,

Live feed
VideoPsalm will detect the video camera if the camera has the "live feed" (or "web cam") feature.
Usually, the connection is done via a USB port, or a specific HDMI-IN port.
Note that PCs and laptops usually have HDMI-OUT ports only.
However, make sure to first connect the video camera to the PC, and then only start VideoPsalm.
There is also a "Refresh camera list" button.
Does it works for you?

Additional read
Display live video stream as lyrics background
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/display-live-video-stream-as-lyrics-background

If you have multiple cameras via VideoPsalm, I recommend downloading ManyCam.
Start Manycam first before you run VideoPsalm.
Then select Manycam from the camera dropdown in VideoPsalm.
By using Manycam you can switch up to 24 different cameras.

These forums are not monitored.
If you want a timely answer, please write an email to [email protected] or use the VideoPsalm forum here:
https://videopsalm.wixsite.com/videopsalm

Albert

8/3/2023 09:36:17 pm

If you want to project two or more verses, just click the text tabs. Search for max. verses and with this you can manipulate it to display two or more verses.😇

John Kopernik

9/16/2024 02:18:11 pm

God Bless You All.
I am a preacher and I have Videopsalm on my pulpit connected to a screen.

I pick the verses while I preach, they are not prepared in advance.

So if I say let's read John 3:16, then I just click on it and it appears on the screen and the Church reads from the screen in different languages and Bible versions.

And as for me , I read it to the Church through looking at my screen.

Until there, no problems, all works fine.

What I would like to know is this:

I have a Bible version that I would like to see on my screen but that it would not appear on the Church screen, I am billingual and sometimes I get a better way to explain the Church a complex verse when I read it in the language that I am more fluent in.

Is there a way to do it?

Thank you very much for your consideration .

God Bless You All.
Amen.

C Allen

3/6/2025 06:36:58 am

We just started using this software January 2025. It has been a blessing to our ministry. We are still learning but it has been such a huge help with the little that we do know.

Thanks so much for all the helpful tutorials!

We are looking forward to the addition of an app and Wi-Fi-controlled specs.

God Bless.

VideoPsalm