VideoPsalm

This article describes where and how to configure in a few clicks the text and background displayed on the screen.
Use all the power of VideoPsalm's cascading styles to quickly create clear and attractive presentations.

Examples of what cascading styles can do:

• Change the font for all texts at once or just for one verse.
  
• Assign a background image to all verses in a chapter or to all Bibles.
• Left-align the text of all verses of a song, or only of a particular verse.
• Adjust the information displayed in the footer (author, copyright, etc.) for a particular songbook.

Suppose you want to assign the same background to all verses of a song.
Then, make sure that the style level is set to “Song”.
The new background will be applied to the song (to all its verses).

Available style levels for songbooks:

Available style levels for Bibles:

Let's see some uses for the style levels:

​Use the “Base” style to define the global defaults.

The “Base” style allows you to define the default attributes for all slides, for song verses, Bible verses, etc.
Set a default font, font size, color, text margins, and transitions at this level.

The screen is usually turned off between two songs or Bible verses, or when you manually “turn off” the screen:

Normally, you will want to assign a solid black background to the “Base” style.
Or you may want to display a logo:

To display your church logo whenever the screen is switched off:
1. Assign the church logo to the “Base” style level background.
2. Assign a different background to the “Songbooks” style level. This way, each song verse will get displayed with the songbooks style background (and not with the “Base” style background).
3. Similarly to the songbooks, assign a different background to the “Bibles” style level.

It is useful to assign a generic background image to all songs.
That way, all song verses will get displayed with this default background, as far as it is not replaced at a higher style level (“Songbook”, “Song”, “Verse”).
You may also want to adjust the margins of the body, header and footer.

Normally you won't have to adjust style attributes here, unless it is a “Bible verse” songbook or an “Announcement” songbook.

Sometimes you will want to assign a specific background to a song.
All the verses of the song will get displayed with this background, except those that have a specific background.
Remember that the “Verse” style level has the highest priority.

This style has the highest priority. Its settings override the lowest style level attributes.
​Sometimes you will want to assign a specific background to a song verse, or change the alignment of its text, etc.

This topic describes how to select the monitor where VideoPsalm outputs its presentation.

There are 3 steps:
1. Setup Windows to recognize your monitors.
2. Setup VideoPsalm to output to the proper monitor.
3. Additional settings.
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... and choose "Extend the desktop to the second screen" option:

This second method brings additional options to you, mainly:

• Set the resolution of each monitor, in particular the resolution of the presentation screen.
  If necessary, you can improve the rendering speed of your presentation by reducing its resolution.
• Drag and drop a monitor to the right or the left, to rearrange them.​

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This is available starting with version 1.27.
1. Open the VideoPsalm options and select the “Presentation screen” settings:

2. Select the checkbox for the screen that is your presentation screen.
or
3. Select the monitor in the drop-down.

VideoPsalm will instantly switch to the new presentation screen.
Confirm with the “OK” or “Apply” buttons.
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By default, your Windows 10/11 is set to show the selected window when you hover with your mouse over a task bar application thumbnail. This is what Microsoft calls "Aero Peek".
You want to disable this "feature" on the PC that you use to present a presentation:

1. Press the keyboard "Window" key.​
This pops out a dialog (called the "start menu").

2. Type-in following text in the search box:
Performance
and select the "Windows performance options" application.
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​This opens following dialog:

In the "Visual Effects" tab (the first one), uncheck the "Enable Peek" checkbox and click "OK".
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Alternatively

1. Use the Windows Registry editor.

2. navigate to the following folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

​3. Set following key to 0
EnableAeroPeek = 0
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By default, VideoPsalm shows its control window on the main monitor and displays the presentation on the second monitor.
If ever you want to display the presentation on the first monitor, simply drag the VideoPsalm control window, with the mouse, to the second monitor: VideoPsalm will then “chase” or “push” the presentation to the first (or next) monitor. This works identically in a configuration with three or more monitors.
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To start the presentation with the first agenda item, press the “F5” key:

2. VideoPsalm will select the first agenda item, ready to advance to the first slide.
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To advance the presentation, press the "Down" key. The "Right" key works too, as well as the "Page Down" key:

Alternatively, you can use any standard PowerPoint clicker:

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This topic describes how to set the Bible verse number color, alignment, size and font.

By default, VideoPsalm displays the verse number with the same style as the text:

To make verse numbers stand out, highlight them in another color, size and font:

That way, all style changes that you do will be assigned to the "Bibles" style level, impacting every verse of every Bible (unless specified differently at a higher style level like "Bible", "Book", "Chapter" or "Verse").

Make sure that the Bible verse numbers get displayed:

From now on, all style changes that you do will be assigned to the Bible verse numbers.

Adjust one of the following style attributes:

The font

Color of the Bible verse number
It is possible to set the color of the number text, and its outline.

Color:

Important  While doing style changes, you may inadvertently change a style attribute at a "Bible verse" level.
Usually, this is not wanted, however it may go unnoticed.
When you save your changes, if VideoPsalm offers to save the "Bibles" style only, it means that you correctly did all your style changes to the "Bibles" style.
If there are additional changed items in the list of items to save, it means that you inadvertently changed some style attribute at its level. This can easily happen, because the style level is automatically changed to for example ​"Bible verse" when you click a Bible verse.

To let you know when the style level is automatically changed, VideoPsalm displays a flyout panel under the style level selector:

This will help you realize that the following style changes may be applied to the wrong, unexpected style level.

If necessary, deactivate the display of the flyout in the VideoPsalm options: