VideoPsalm's lyrics editor

1/22/2022

This topic describes how to highlight specific words of a slide.
VideoPsalm's lyrics editor is a WYSIWYG word processor, where you can set style attributes to specific words.

Without any WYSIWYG editor text style changes

Song lyrics without any particular text attribute

Here, lyrics are rendered in white, with a blue outline.
These settings are set at the slide level.

With WYSIWYG editor text style changes

Song lyrics with text attributes

Here, the lyrics are rendered with the same global style (white with a blue outline), and some specific words are highlighted specifically.

There are two layers of text style attributes:
1. The cascading style attributes, that are global to the slide, labeled as layer 1.
2. The lyrics editor style attributes, labeled as layer 2.

Merging of two layers

When the slide is displayed:
The text attributes from the lyrics editor (layer 2) are merged into the cascading slide attributes (layer 1).

Example with the font

The song verse is set to display in the “Century Gothic” font via the hierarchical style, as can be seen in the layer 1.

To override this font for a specific word, use the font drop-down located at the top of the text editor (layer 2):

Use the neighoring toolbar buttons to adjust the font size, color, outline, bold, italic, etc. of specific words.

Notes

Some style superpositions do not produce any change.
Examples with the Bold-attribute (there are other cases):
If the slide style is set globally to bold in layer 1, and a specific word to bold in layer 2, the word will not get “double-bold”.
If the slide is set to bold at layer 1, it is not possible to “unbold” a word through this mechanism.
Use the layer 2 to set the style of specific words only. To adjust the style of the whole slide, use layer 1.

Clear the formatting

To clear the formatting applied to a word, select the word, then press the “Clear formatting” button:

Display the changes to the presentation screen

The changes that you make to the song lyrics (text and style) are not reflected automatically.
To refresh a slide, double-click on its text in the slide list:

Lyrics editor features

Unlimited Undo/Redo (Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y), including chords.
Copy/Paste, including with chords. Chords are copied or pasted in the ChordPro format.
Search and Replace text.
Standard word processor short cuts.
Chords move with the character where they are attached to.

Lyrics editor YouTube tutorial

Font substitution for Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Korean, etc.

If you often type-in lyrics for a language that uses specific characters, like Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Korean, etc., select a font that works well with your language, maybe the Google Noto font.
I am sure that you will well know which font you need.

Note People using latin alphabet/characters do not need to worry much about font substitution.
You can skip to the next topic.

To set the VideoPsalm lyrics editor default font, open the options -> Lyrics editor, and select it there:

Select the right font for your language, so that VideoPsalm will not need to automatically substitute the font for words containing unavailable characters in the current font.

It is a good idea to select the “Substitute fonts” check-box. This way, you will always be able to see all characters in the editor (as long as your Windows OS has such fonts available).
The VideoPsalm editor will scan all the fonts that the Windows OS has, and will select the first one that has the missing characters.

Interesting article about fonts and world languages

Right-to-left editor

VideoPsalm 1.27 is the first version that fully supports right-to-left (RTL) layout for its dialogs.
See article here

The VideoPsalm editor will provide full Right-to-left language support, hopefully in version 1.28 or 1.29.

To type-in Arabic, Hebrew or any other RTL text in the lyrics editor for version 1.27, proceed as follows:
Open the VideoPsalm options -> Lyrics editor, and select “Allow access to a simplified text editor, compatible with RTL writing”.

You will see a new toolbar button available in the lyrics editor:

Press this button. The standard lyrics editor will be replaced by a simplified text editor, allowing you to type-in in RTL direction.
The layer 2 features are not available in this editor, however you can instantly switch to the standard lyrics editor, and use the layer 2 toolbar button, with the help of this "Switch"-button.

See also

How to edit chords (to be supplied).

64 Comments

Marie

5/16/2014 02:04:46 am

Can a blank line between two lines of text (in a verse) have the "font" size be reduced? The editor now seems to allow it, however, when presenting the verse, the blank line does not show as smaller. I would like at times to have a small line space between some lines of a song within one verse.

VideoPsalm link

5/19/2014 07:21:25 am

Hi Marie,
I am afraid that it is not possible to set the line height at the moment.

John

4/20/2015 07:04:19 pm

I realise this question was asked a year ago, but here is the answer for VideoPsalm version 1.14.

Yes, you can do it! You have to paste in a single blank-printing character on the line, and then apply the font-resizing to that character. which you can select. You can't use the normal "space" character. It has to be a "real" character.

The "non-break space" is good, because it shows up as a little red line on the editor (at least it does for me!). Enter it like this: hold down Shift and Alt, and type on the numeric keypad: 0160 You might have to try it with "Num Lock" switched off. Or you can find it in the Windows Character Map.

Now you can select the character in the song editor, and apply the font size change to it, and the line size changes on the display as well as in the editor.

John

4/20/2015 07:47:14 pm

Oh! I just found out you can use Control+Shift+Space to enter a non-breaking space (same as Microsoft Word). Much easier!

Michael Wang

9/4/2015 10:13:56 pm

When displaying Chinese text, the font does not show correctly. For example, if I set the font to be the DFKai-SB (the standard Kai typeface TTF font), it is shown correctly in the editor, but on the display it becomes something like a Arial typeface, rather than the correct Kai typeface. Since it works perfectly when I use English text, I wonder if there are some language options I need to change to enable different Chinese fonts? Thanks!

Michael Wang

9/4/2015 10:28:37 pm

Okay... I got it... I need to change the "Language" in the "Options" menu. Then I need to quit and re-start the program, and then it all works perfectly. It worked after I quitted and restarted the program.

VideoPsalm link

9/5/2015 12:38:02 am

Hi Michael,
Thank you for your feedback. I am glad that you found a solution to the problem. Thank you for sharing the solution.

Anjo Smith

3/3/2016 10:29:27 pm

How can I edit a whole song to uppercase letters, without typing it all over again?

i don't see that edit bar anywhere in Psalm video?

VideoPsalm link

3/6/2016 01:03:06 pm

Hi Anjo,

The uppercase feature is not available in version 1.16.
We have this feature in our plans. However, at the moment I can't give you any definite information as to when it will be implemented.

The idea is to have a button that tells VideoPsalm to display the lyrics either:
- As is.
- In uppercase.
- With each line first letter upper-cased.

Thank you for your suggestion, it helps us to put the right priorities.

At the moment, this is how you can do it:

1. Select the song lyrics (Ctrl+A)

2. Copy the song lyrics in the Windows Clipboard (Ctrl+C)

3. Paste the lyrics into Notepad++ (Ctrl+V)
Notepad++ is an excellent free text editor, a far better replacement to Notepad.
You can download Notepad++ here:
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.9.html

4. Select the lyrics in Notepad++ (Ctrl+A)

5. Uppercase the text (Ctrl+Shift+U)

6. Copy the text in the Windows Clipboard (Ctrl+C)

7. Paste the text in the VideoPsalm lyrics editor (Ctrl+V)

8. Save your work.

Norman

5/31/2018 07:57:47 am

You can also do it in Microsoft Word. Highlight text and change to uppercase, then copy and paste in VideoPsalm lyrics editor

Emilia

6/20/2020 02:36:19 pm

Hi!
Is this feature available in version 1.26?

VideoPsalm link

6/20/2020 03:30:10 pm

Hi Emilia,

The "uppercase/lowercase" feature is available since VideoPsalm 1.19 as far as I remember.

This style attribute is located in the toolbar at the top, in the "Text" tab -> "Font" group, "Ab" button.

It is a style attribute, and as such it takes part of the cascading style attributes.

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.

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
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/how-to-adjust-slide-text-margins.html

Barry

3/12/2016 05:13:31 am

How can I transpose chords in a song?

Is it possible to print songs with chords?

Can I create and print an "Agenda" list to distribute to staff and crew so they will be able to know and follow the order of service?

VideoPsalm link

3/12/2016 12:43:29 pm

Hi Barry,

Automatic chord transposition

1. In the middle panel (while in "Edit" mode), select the song "Miscellaneous" tab.

2. Use either the "Transposition" or the "Capo" dropdown to adjust the displayed chords.
Videopsalm will leave unchanged the chords that you typed-in in the text editor.
Only projected chords are transposed.

Print songs with chords

This feature is not available in version 1.16. We have this feature in our plans. However, at the moment I can't give you any definite information as to when it will be implemented.
Thank you for your suggestion, it helps us to put the right priorities.

However, you could simply use MS Word to print the agenda content (see answer to your next question bellow) and adjust the styles etc. as you need inside of MS Word.

Print an Agenda list (or song lyrics)

1. Build your agenda.

2. Click the "Copy" button aside of the agenda list.
This will copy an agenda description into the Windows Clipboard.
The "Copy" button has additional options (click the button drop-down to open the options).

3. In an email to the crew or into MS Word, paste the Windows Clipboard content (Ctrl+V).

Does this suit your needs?

Please use the VideoPsalm contact form to safely exchange emails, which is a convenient way to send screen shots or other attached documents:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

Sebastien

2/4/2018 08:54:21 pm

Do you think it could be possible to add the song key when you use the "Copy a songbook summary to the clipboard"? That would be great!

Thanks

Xavier Francis

3/23/2018 08:09:48 am

Does VideoPsalm save the transpose I prefer for the next time too or do we need to change it every time for every session?

VideoPsalm link

3/23/2018 09:08:19 am

Hi Xavier,
After transposing, save your changes to make them permanent.

Xavier

3/26/2018 12:50:24 am

Thank you for your reply. I figured that out. That question was before I could actually try it out.

VideoPsalm is great application. Is a crossplatform app in the pipeline? When can we expect it?

Sam

3/28/2016 12:17:31 am

How do I create space between two sentences without creating a next verse. I tried shift+enter as in easy worship but it won't work. Please help

VideoPsalm link

3/28/2016 01:30:21 am

@Sam,

To create a space between two sentences, put a blank (a space) on an empty line.

John Stanley

3/30/2016 11:20:05 pm

Yes, and if you look at an earlier reply it tells you how to vary the size of the blank line/space by putting in a non-breaking space (Control+Shift+Space) and then resizing it using the smaller/larger character buttons on the edit screen. I find that I usually want a smaller space than a full blank line.

Sam

3/31/2016 04:11:34 pm

Thanks guys. God bless

Jan Steenstra

5/30/2016 06:48:17 am

I work with chords this time for our music group. It is awesome. It works great, but I can't add an intro and outro in a song. Example:
Intro
[Bb} [C] [Fn7] [Bb}

Verse 1
[Bb]
My God is an awesome God.

And so on. The intro part won't be shown on the screen. Only verse 1 and further. Just like the picture "Proclaim Your awesome power" here above. I see the chords in verse 1, but see no intro and outro.

VideoPsalm link

5/31/2016 02:51:49 pm

Hi Jan,

To get your intro chords to show, please add a "." or ' on a line before the chords.
For example like so:

Intro
. or ' or -
[Bb] [C] [Fn7] [Bb]

Verse 1
[Bb]My God is an awesome God.

Chords are getting displayed on top of the lyrics, but if there are no lyrics, the chords are not displayed.
Hopefully this bug will be corrected in a next version.

Luke

10/4/2016 06:17:40 am

I have the songbook songs with chords and when I edit songs from it I can see the chords, but the chords do not display in the preview. What am I doing wrong?

VideoPsalm link

10/4/2016 07:29:33 am

Hi Luke,

There is a button in the main ribbon toolbar, at the top, that tells VideoPsalm to display the chords.
The button is located in the "Text" tab, in the "Font" group, and has an icon with "#b" on it.
Thanks to your question, the article on top (here) has been updated with a small screenshot to clarify this missing information.

Philippe

10/7/2016 07:48:12 am

It would be nice to be able to globally specify the percentage (30 to 100%) for those lines that contains only spaces (regular or non breaking).

New Beginning church link

4/10/2017 12:28:42 am

Hi,
First of all God bless you for making this useful software..

Our question is how to highlight a specific word while displaying bible scripture on the output screen..

waiting for your replay

VideoPsalm link

4/17/2017 09:40:23 am

To highlight a specific word in the Bible:

1. Add the Bible verses to the agenda.

2. Right-click on the corresponding agenda item and select "Convert the Bible verses into a song".

3. Edit the Bible passage.

New Beginning Church link

5/16/2017 12:21:12 am

Thank you very much for your replay...
you are blessed and blessing to many
God bless you..

New Beginning Ministries link

6/11/2017 04:41:10 am

in output screen we are getting highlight of specific word in one translation, but we projecting in output screen so we need highlight of the specific word in both translation..
please help us..
thank you.

New Beginning Ministries link

6/11/2017 04:44:01 am

in output screen we are getting highlight of specific word in one translation, but we are projecting in output screen in 2 translations so we need highlight of the specific word in both translations..
please help us..
thank you.

VideoPsalm link

6/11/2017 01:29:46 pm

Hello New Beginning Church,

It is possible to do what you want, however this task requires several steps.

It is easier to describe this task with screenshots in an email, or better via a TeamViewer session.
Would you mind using our contact form, to safely exchange emails from there?
This is the link to the contact form:
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/contact.html

Simply send your question there and indicate your email address, and I will contact you back. You can also directly send an email to me via gmail.

Blessings in Jesus

John Stanley

5/27/2017 09:55:56 am

Have I found a bug in the setting of the default display font in the lyrics editor?

-- Have some lyrics in the Lyrics Editor, in the default font (all formatting cleared)
-- Open the Options dialog and go to the Text Editor tab. All the following actions in the Options Dialog are in the Text Editor Tab...
-- In the Options dialog, set the font face to an arbitrary font, say Georgia.
-- The font in the Lyrics Editor immediately changes to Georgia, both in the font selector and the lyrics themselves. (Maybe this is not the expected behaviour - maybe the expected behaviour would be that this change only takes effect when "Apply" is clicked in the Options dialog. But this is not the bug I'm reporting.)
-- In the Options dialog, change the Font size to 11. The font size of the lyrics changes to 11, as expected.
-- In the Options dialog, change the Font face to Segoe UI. (Sometimes I see two or three instances of Segoe UI in the Font face selector drop-down list. But this is not the actual bug I'm reporting, and I have not sought to discover what the conditions are for this.)
-- The font in the Text Editor changes to Segoe UI in the font selector and in the actual lyrics, as expected.
-- In the Options dialog change the Font size to 10.
-- In the text editor, the font changes to Calibri !!! This is the bug. It seems that Segoe UI font + font size 10 = Calibri. And this actually affects the display on the slides, which are displayed in Calibri - overriding the font set in the Style that should be active for the verse.

I have VideoPsalm 1.16, on Windows 10.

VideoPsalm link

5/27/2017 02:02:15 pm

Hello John,

Thank you for the detailed bug description, it helped me to reproduce the problem.
I added it to the list of things to correct.
I could also reproduce the duplicated font names in the font drop-down.

Thanks again,
Marc

John Stanley

6/28/2022 05:57:31 am

VideoPsalm 1.27 beta downloaded 28-June-2022:
Yes this is better now, but there's still a bug, and I found another ..

Now it is Segoe UI at 11 pt font size in the Options/Lyrics Editor that sets the Lyrics Editor font to Calibri. It only affects the Lyrics Editor, and not the slide display, until you change the font of any text in the lyrics editor, which has the effect of overriding all the other text on the slides with Calibri.

Bug number 2 is if any text in the Lyrics Editor has been set to a different font from the cascading style and then set back to the default lyrics editor font. This has the effect of clearing the formatting on the slide, so it shows the cascading style. And of course the lyrics editor looks right as well - "default lyrics editor font = cascading style font on the slide" This is verified by changing the cascading style, and the text in question changes to the new cascading style font. But the font setting in the lyrics editor is not "cleared". It overrides the default font with the same font, so you can't see it, but it is there. I discovered that by changing the default lyrics editor font in Options/Lyrics Editor. The font changes in the lyrics editor, but not the particular text that was over-ridden by the (previous) default font. This does not affect the slide display, which has the cascading syle. So the editor is now out of step with the slide display. I believe the correct action would be that setting some text in the lyrics editor to its default font should clear the font formatting from the slide (which it does) but also from the lyrics editor (which it does not do now).

Andy Conroy

7/16/2017 12:31:37 pm

How do I insert tags like "verse 1", "chorus", "bridge" into a song without them displaying on output screen

VideoPsalm link

7/16/2017 02:22:54 pm

Hi Andy,

If you use VideoPsalm in English, VideoPsalm will not display "Verse 1", "Chorus", etc. on the output screen.
Feel free to contact VideoPsalm via email at gmail and send me a song that does not work properly.
You can also copy/paste the lyrics of such a song here. This will help me to understand what goes wrong.

Andy

7/20/2017 06:10:45 am

Hello. It isn't that anything is going wrong, and the tags are not showing up on scree; I just can't work out how to add the verse and chorus tags in the first place. Thanks.

VideoPsalm link

7/20/2017 12:01:33 pm

Hi Andy,

Leave an empty line before any new verse.

To add a verse 1 tag, type "Verse 1" in an empty line.

Similarly, to add a chorus, type "Chorus" in an empty line.
You need to skip a line between verses.
Alternatively, you can type V1 or C on an empty line, instead of "Verse 1".

Does it work for you?

Feel free to contact me via email at gmail, from where we can send screenshots.

Sebi

10/15/2017 12:34:24 pm

Hello! First of all, thank you for this great software!

Is there a way to define the chorus once and have it displayed between each verse? Currently, I have to manually copy-paste the chorus after each verse, which is not really efficient...

Thank tyou

VideoPsalm link

10/15/2017 07:51:07 pm

Hi Sebi,

What you do is correct.
Hopefully this will be improved in a future version.

David link

12/4/2017 07:20:26 pm

It looks complicated. But you made it so easy. Thanks.

Edwards

4/28/2018 08:22:40 pm

I have been using videopsalm for just over a year!!! great job on this software.

I have created some songs and used them to display notices. If it possible to insert a line and comment it out? This is necessary as the person who creates the playlist and notices isnt the one that runs it during service so notes to help the operator would be helpful.

VideoPsalm link

6/6/2018 09:20:42 am

Hi Edwards,

Thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated!
You feature request is already in the list of things to do, however I don't know when it will be implemented.

WorshipHim

7/27/2018 11:10:33 am

Hello. How do I make Videopsalm to display the chords at the end of each line? for eg..

Verse 1
You [D]take our lives
[Em]Flawed yet [Bm7]beautiful[G2] [D]

The G2 and the D after the line is not displayed by the projector.

And also the Intro or the Instrumental portion, either the entire Intro is not displayed or the last chord is not displayed.

If I place '.' or a '/' before the line then this also is displayed on the screen.

Any suggestions to do this right?

RCA

7/30/2018 05:53:03 am

I faced this same problem myself. The solution is to add a non-breaking space (Ctrl+Shift+Space) after [G2] and [D]

Worship Him

7/31/2018 03:52:36 am

Okay. Thank you so much. I had to keep trying different ways and means for that to be displayed so that everybody knows what to play... Thank you so much. This is definately a time saver... God bless you :)

Rafael Johansen

1/22/2019 03:38:32 am

Hey, I just discovered VideoPsalm, and it seems to be almost the perfect software for us to use. Wonderful work! I only would wish that it was possible to show chords only on the stage view for the song leader and the musicians. (While not showing chords on the main projection for the congregation)

We are building a podium with an integrated touch monitor. Therefore, it would be really nice if the stage view would be interactive, and showing an overview over the verses on e.g. the right hand side. This way the song leader would be able to select verses and transpose the chords directly from the podium.

Something similar is done in OpenLP: https://github.com/tomasss1024/openlp_chords

Is there any possibility that these features would come?

Kind regards and God bless you!

Jonathan Brown

2/4/2019 02:06:58 am

I was just going to ask the same - its something we need in the new system we are putting in.

VideoPsalm link

2/13/2019 02:17:18 pm

Hi Rafael,

Chords on stage view is in the list of things to do, possibly for VideoPsalm 1.25.
VideoPsalm 1.24 will have improved PowerPoint and video support.

jenn

8/13/2019 05:17:17 pm

is there any way to keep the text size from auto-adjusting from one slide to the next? Text size is set the same by me, but because of varying amount of text, videopsalm is adjusting it. I've got a header that I want to look exactly the same as far as size and position on the page (I'm just varying the color of one letter), but because of the text below, it keeps adjusting. I've worked with it for hours trying to get it right with no luck. :(

VideoPsalm link

8/14/2019 01:59:04 pm

Hi Jenn,

It seems that your VideoPsalm default text size is too big.

By default, VideoPsalm will not wrap long song lines.
If your song verse contains very long lines, VideoPsalm will reduce the font size until the longest line fits the screen.
This is probably what you experience.

Please look at following solutions:
(If no solution fits your need, feel free to send me an agenda file (a .vpagd file) containing songs with the problem, and I will send you detailed instruction about how to solve it.)

Solution 1: Reduce your VideoPsalm default font size.
By default, the font size is set to 100, but a size of 70 may be just as good, if not better.

VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level : song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.
This applies to the font size too.

To set the default font size:

1. Select the "Base" style level:

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From now on, all changes that you do will be applied to the "Base" level, meaning that all higher styles ("Songbooks", "Songbook", "song", "Song verse") will inherit from the style.

2. Adjust the font size, for example 70:

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3. Save your changes.

Solution 2: To split long lines in shorter bits, type-in new-line characters at the desired places.
This is the recommended solution.

Solution 3: Allow VideoPsalm to wrap long lines:

To adjust this setting for all song verses:

1. Select the "Songbooks" style level.
2. Set the "Automatic word wrap" setting.

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Additional read:
VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level : song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.
Please let me know if the following articles explain well enough how to make best use of cascading styles:

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

Three 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
http://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/1/post/2013/11/how-to-adjust-slide-text-margins.html

YouTube tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfK_FI1UaM&list=PL_zwcIxrt5zVNX7BuE__1GqTM1Nxgi_g1

Pearls K Mansaray

10/12/2019 05:13:20 am

Please how to permanently increase the song and bible front size

VideoPsalm link

5/27/2020 03:12:05 pm

Hi Pearls,

Please let me know if the following article describe how to permanently and consistenly set the font size to all Bible verses or song verses at once:
https://myvideopsalm.weebly.com/blog/how-to-adjust-the-bible-default-font-size

Johan

7/24/2020 07:38:41 am

Some of the Bible verses are quite long and are then quite small on the screen. Is it possible to put a 'break' in the middle of a verse to have it like verse 5a and verse 5b?

VideoPsalm link

7/27/2020 01:24:28 pm

Hi Johan,

The "Split long verses and Multiple Bible verses on one slide" feature is planned for VideoPsalm 1.27.

Blessings,
Marc

Johan

7/24/2020 07:43:11 am

We have been using VideoPsalm for years, but we have never used the chords because it displays on the main screen as well. We have a Bigscreen TV for the worshipteam and would like to take a third output from the videocard of the desktop computer to this TV. Is it possible to set it up that the chords are only displayed on the TV and not the main projectors?

VideoPsalm link

7/27/2020 01:26:35 pm

Hi Johan,

Thank you for your request.
This feature is in the list of things to do and your request adds weight to it.
It will be implemented in one of the next versions, but I don't know exactly when.

Dan

6/28/2022 03:25:31 am

Any update on the above feature being added.

Ruben

11/4/2020 09:35:03 am

Is it possible to display a four lined verse into two slides? For example instead of showing the four verses in one slide divide them into two without creating a new verse.

VideoPsalm link

11/6/2020 03:48:18 pm

Hi Ruben,

Following features will be available in VideoPsalm 1.27, available in a few months:

1. Ability to specify the maximum count of song verse lines.
Subsequent lines will appear in the following slide(s).

2. Ability to specify the maximum Bible verse characters or lines, spanning over verse boundaries.
Subsequent characters (words) will appear in the following slide(s).

3. Ability to specify several verse sequences for each song, and easily select which one to use.
For example:
Long sequence: V1 C V2 C V3 C
Short sequence V1 C V2 V3 C

John Stanley

6/28/2022 05:25:17 am

Just a hopefully helpful point about the WYSIWYG editor and the editor's default font set in the Options dialog Lyrics Editor tab.

We had the default lyrics editor font set for best legibility to a legible font (Segoe UI) which is not the same as the bold font we have set in "Layer 1" - the cascading style for the slide display. So the wysiwig editor displayed a different font from the font on the slides for pure "Layer 1" text. This caused confusion in our less tech-savvy users, who often over-rode the (Segoe UI) font in the "Layer 2" wysiwig editor with the font already set in "Layer 1".

So now we've set the default lyrics editor font to be the same as the default "Layer 1" slide display font.

And, supposing you over-rode the font in "Layer 2" but then wanted to set it back, what's also good is that setting the wysiwig font back to the default value set in Options is effectively the same as clearing the "Layer 2" font override.

John Stanley

4/20/2023 08:26:18 am

Correct font in WYSIWIG editor but different font on projection display. VideoPsalm 26 and 27 on Windows 10.

This seems to occur with fonts that are not the standard 4-style font files regular/italic/bold/bold-italic. Examples are Calibri Light, Segoe UI Black and Segoe UI Light. I've deliberately chosen fonts that are installed on Windows by Microsoft by default, but it's true for others.

(1) Using the WYSIWYG toolbar to set the font in the text editor:
- enter some text in the text editor
- highlight it and set Calibri Light font
- The highlighted text changes to Calibri Light - CORRECT
- double click the verse in the verse list to refresh the projection display
- The projection display shows the text in Calibri Light - CORRECT
- now in the text editor change the highlighted text to Italic by clicking the I button in the WYSIWIG toolbar
- The highlighted text changes to Calibri Light Italic - CORRECT
- Verify this really is rendering the actual italic font file by including lower case a which changes to the single-storey italic style. Other letters change to the italic style as well but less obviously. So this is not Videopsalm simply slanting the letters to imitate italic. The correct separate italic font file is installed and rendered in the text editor.
- now refresh the projection display, and the text does not change to italic - WRONG.

(2) The same happens using the font selector in the Text ribbon to over-ride the style for the slide. (In this case you have to Clear Formatting from the highlighted text in the text editor.)

Basically this means that you can't show the Italic variant of some fonts on the projector, even if it does show correctly in the text editor. I have some fonts that are not the standard regular/italic/bold/bold-italic which have more than just the Italic variant, and for some of them the projection display doesn't show the font-file fonts at all, even the 'regular' variant. But maybe you find the problem with just the examples I've given.

(By the way another (happy) difference betweeen the text editor and the projection display is the text editor does not support right-to-left but the projection display does! For Easter I wanted to show Hallelujah in Hebrew. Pasting from the clipboard into the text editor, the Hebrew was displayed left-to-right - I was dismayed. But then refreshing the projection display I saw the projection display was correctly right-to-left. 🙂)

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