VideoPsalm

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.)

When you search for songs via keywords, VideoPsalm will not look for songs into excluded songbooks.
You can see this in the following screenshot, where only songs from the "included" songbooks were found:

It is possible to hide from the list excluded songbooks altogether:

Note that hidden songbooks are not deleted, they are simply not visible.
However, it can scare someone, for example when you are looking for a songbook that someone else hid...

To show again the hidden songbooks, right-click the list of songs and select "Show songbooks excluded from the search":

1. Click here to open a new tab at SongSelect / CCLI.
Then click the "Browse" menu -> "Public Domain Songs", as highlighted in the bellow image:

The "Public Domain Songs" section is a free service from SongSelect.
Through your church subscription, you may however have access to the whole site resources.

The SongSelect Search dialog enables you to find the song lyrics that you are looking for.
Lets say that you need to add the lyrics of the song "It Is Well With My Soul".

Click the song title to open the song details.
In the song details, select the "Lyrics" tab (1), then click the "Download" button, and select "USR file" (2):

Save the .txt file on your PC, for example on the desktop.

From there, drag & drop it into a VideoPsalm agenda:

This will have two effects:
1. The CCLI song will be added to the agenda.
2. The CCLI song will be added to the first CCLI songbook that there is. If there is none, VideoPsalm creates one such songbook.

The following screenshot describes these two effects:

Note  Via Drag & Drop, it is possible to add different sorts of documents into a VideoPsalm agenda:

• CCLI songs
• Slideshow images
• Standalone videos
• PowerPoint presentations

A more conventional way of adding items to your agenda is by using the menus:

A CCLI songbook is meant to contain songs that have a CCLI song number:

When VideoPsalm creates a CCLI songbook, all it does is select the "Songbook imported from CCLI / SongSelect" checkbox:

You can create many such CCLI songbooks, if you want or need to.


Note  When you add a CCLI song to the agenda, VideoPsalm will also add it to the first CCLI songbook that there is. If there is non, it will create a new songbook, and mark it as a CCLI / SongSelect songbook.
This is the only purpose of this checkbox.

To search for the song with a specific CCLI, set the song search mode on "CCLI":

Type the CCLI song number in the search field, and VideoPsalm will instantly find it.

Keyboard shortcut  To display the song lyrics live, press "Enter" twice: Once to select the song in the slide panel, and a second time to display its first slide.

SongSelect song usage reporting

In case your church needs to report the song usage to CCLI, VideoPsalm can prepare a list for you.
This is how to proceed:

1. Every Sunday, build an agenda with all the songs that you will need to report to CCLI.
At the end of the meeting, save the agenda, for example in a folder named “2015 Agendas”.

2. At the end of the year, when the time has come to report the song usage, re-open all the past year's agendas at once in VideoPsalm.

3. Click the “Copy” button.
This will put an agenda description into the Windows Clipboard, that you can paste in an Excel document or in whatever document you need it into.

4. Close VideoPsalm without saving the changes.


Here is a more detailed article about how to report song usage to CCLI

If there is anything else you need to know, please feel free to use the contact form or the forums down here: