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The size of your church’s screen depends on various factors, including the size of your church, architectural details, and the impression you want your screen to have on your congregation. Whatever your needs may be, we can create custom screens in all shapes and sizes to achieve the look you are seeking.
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Pixel pitch, which is measured in millimeters, is the center-to-center spacing between the LEDs. When the congregation is closer to the screen, you need a tighter pixel pitch offering a higher resolution screen to avoid pixelation. We determine this based on minimum viewing distance and our team can assist in getting you the correct product & pitch that stays within your budget. To learn more about pixel pitch, visit our LED University page and watch our terminology video.
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Like any technology infrastructure built into your church, it’s important to invest in quality components and workmanship. Video projection systems are vitally important to both the message deliverers (pastors, praise bands, choirs) and the message receivers (congregation). Video projection systems can be used very effectively for simple displays of text on a video screen. To the other extreme, video projection systems can be sophisticated enough to create an immersive worship experience where video, lighting and sound will virtually surround the worshiper. Regardless of your church’s need, it is extremely important that certain key considerations be addressed by a professional video projection system designer.
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Help individuals who are at your worship venue find their way around. Whether they are new or current congregation members, or just visitors, wayfinding can help individuals feel more comfortable.
Showcase your social media accounts to engage your congregation. Share social media feeds on your digital signage displays to make it easier for visitors to your place of worship to get connected.
Use a digital building directory to simplify how visitors and employees find their way. Replace paper signs with directories to save costs and modernize your building. Works well together with wayfinding.
Use digital screens to boost engagement, show announcements and other important information. Communication is possible with more than 150 apps to choose from; including social media and images.
Many churches and religious venues make use of live streaming. The service can be played in the lobby for those who needed to step out or for staff members who can"t attend in the main hall.
Another way to inform individuals of worship venue happenings. You can display the calendar for the next month, or even create individual displays for each event or activity.
Moreover, the sanctuary’s digital screens help recognize people serving the church. Therefore, you can use them to appreciate volunteers and members who play a significant role in the church. For example, you can use them to thank employees, volunteers, donors, and the church’s spokesperson.
Church digital signage also improves the service experience for your congregation. Undertaking activities like meditating and reading gets better through visual and audio elements. Also, use wall signs at your sanctuary to reach out to members of your congregation that cannot participate in the sermon conventionally.
For example, you can such sign to engage younger kids by using colorful imagery associated with your sermon. Make everyone feel a part of the service by displaying lyrics to music along with authors and song names. Also, consider visually or deaf congregation members when implementing digital signage.
One of the strategic places for pole signs in churches is at the main entrance. Avoid prohibited signs, and check the property line, utility poles, and subdivision landscaping easements when placing exterior digital signage.
Also, consider the supporting structure of your digital signs. Consult the neighboring property owners before erecting any signs at the main entrance. Nonconforming signs on arterial or collector streets may lead to trouble with the authorities. For example, signs shall not include pennants, balloons, or streamers,
As a rule of thumb, projecting signs shouldn’t project over five feet from the worship center. Additionally, it shouldn’t be less than the width of the sidewalk adjacent to the building. Ensure your signs offer wayfinding information for motorists who intend to use your church’s parking space.
In fact, one study established that churches spend a whopping$6,500 annually on printing and photocopying costs. You can curtail these expenses by installing digital screens. Directional signs at the main entrance of your worship center will help welcome visitors. This is also an ideal place to place a map, so newcomers know where to go.
Furthermore, consider an interactive directory if your church has several buildings. Ensure you use monument signs for crucial information like the name of your church, service times, and address.
Another reason to place freestanding signs at the church’s main entrance is to feature the church calendar. For example, if you want to host events and classes or need volunteers, you can display this information on the main entrance using a roof sign. A colorful calendar will give your entire congregation an idea of your church’s program.
According to a study by theUniversity of Southern Indiana, the U.S. disposes of over a billion trees worth of paper annually. A paper pamphlet has a short lifespan before it ends up in a waste bin. However, digital screens are reusable. Instead of creating pamphlets for church announcements, consider marquee digital signage.
Illuminated signs bearing present announcement information are best situated in high traffic areas like church hallways. Therefore, consider the light source when choosing where to place the signage. Artistic video wall installations help generate interest and expression.
What’s more, temporary signs are instrumental for fundraising. For instance, if you want to raise donations for someone undergoing medical treatment, consider using a short documentary to show their struggles. Real-life videos along the church’s hallways provide more gravity than pamphlets with simple text messages. Besides, you can use portable signs to thank volunteers and donors with spotlights, personalized messages, and praises.
Another excellent place for digital signage is in the prayer room. Whether you will display scripture from the bible or the Koran, it will act as a great inspiration to your congregation. Moreover, you can post suggested readings to your congregation.
In addition, digital signage attracts the youth because they prefer self-service. Therefore, you can use these in prayer rooms to foster religious learning among the youth. For example, you can use an interactive information kiosk or a video wall in the prayer room to offer thousands of information bulletins, eBooks, and virtual tours of sacred places worldwide. Your congregation can go through these resources at their own pace.
As a result, this combines religious learning and enjoyment to improve the church experience. Additionally, the placement of signs in the prayer room will make the environment more conducive for prayer. For instance, you can install video screens that play common prayers or relaxing hymns and instrumentals.
Lastly, another ideal sign location in your church is the administrative office center. Actually,47% of people in one study remember seeing a specific message or advertisement. Therefore, to attract millennials, use digital signage in your administration office center to showcase charitable works like relief donations, tree plantations, or community-building activities.
Installing digital screens at the administrative office center is essential for highlighting your church’s ideologies, meeting agendas, and do’s and don’ts within the church grounds. Moreover, you can use wall signs to show RSS feeds from your websites. Indeed, RSS feeds share fresh perspectives on the bible, discuss the Christian culture, and share inspirational stories. Use these streamers on indoor displays for your congregation to see and engage.
Another application of digital signage at the administrative office center is for showing daily updates. Use scrolling new tickers for relaying internal news like daily reminders, sermon notes, and motivational quotes. These scrolling texts will not take up much screen space; therefore, you can play them alongside other content on the screen.
When placing digital signage in your worship center, familiarize yourself with building codes and street frontage rules. Also, consider the sign structure and types of signs. For example, window signs are more effective for the interior, while billboards work best outside. Additionally, think about the purpose of your signs.
For instance, do you want the signage to display the calendar year or for traffic control? Remember the placement of your digital signage will determine whether your congregation is more informed, engaged, and entertained.
More than four years ago we wrote a short post about the free and open source alternatives to the professional, and somewhat costly, church presentation software products that were available back then. That blog post, to our surprise, immediately got a lot of attention and shares on social media. The comment section, which is still active today, was quickly filled with literal praise, questions and recommendations by our readers. It was obvious that there was a big crowd actively searching for options on how to handle the AV and multimedia content at their sermons and church services, and not many sites offering a listing of the available free alternatives.
Today, in 2022, the space has gotten a bit more crowded, with more products and offers, and the amount of web sites blogging about the Church Presentation Software space has grown significantly. However, we couldn’t find a single post that offered an up-to-date listing of all the available Church Presentation Software products. And that’s when we decided to make an effort to compose such a list and dedicate our self to keep it updated. We are going to keep adding new products as they appear on the market and move discontinued products and projects to the graveyard section (at the bottom of this post).
We urge everyone who finds or knows about other products in the Church Presentation Software space, that are not in our list, to add a comment with a link to the product(s) website and optionally a short review/recommendation. We will strive to add the missing entries as they are discovered.
At a minimum, each product will have information about its main features, price and home page. We will strive to keep these details correct and updated. Let us know in the comment section if you find any mistakes. We will also try to include at least one unique or different thing that sets the product apart from the others.
While not specifically tailored for it, SlideDog is used by more than a hundred Pastors and Church AV technicians for handling sermons and church services in the USA today. It offers great PowerPoint and media files compatibility, has an iOS/Android and web based remote, includes audience interaction features and is apparently a good enough church presentation software alternative for many people. SlideDog does not come with Bible or SongSelect integration, so content creators would have to add that to PowerPoint slides, videos or images themselves.
An impressive and well maintained open source project with PowerPoint/LibreOffice Impress and VLC (open source media player) integration. Features a web remote and dedicated Android/iOS remote control apps. Comprehensive user manual and advanced support of network connected stage monitors. Supports bible and song import from a number of formats and sources. Available for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Free and well maintained open source projection software for churches with a variety of import options, meaning you can easily migrate your existing content to Quela from other software such as EasyWorship, OpenLP and OpenSong. Multilingual user interface offering out of the box support for a separate stage/presenter view. Offers video background support in addition to static colors and images. Comprehensive manual and good support for setting up projectors. Available for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Free church presentation software with a seemingly focus on song lyrics, but with lots more to offer once you look under the hood. It has Bible, PowerPoint and video support. It includes a browser based remote control, integration with OBS Studio for live streaming and offers the possibility to store your service in the cloud via DropBox, Google Drive or similar cloud storage provider. It’s available for Windows 7 and up and has an active community forum. They offer video tutorials on their website.
Free church presentation software with a vast amount of features. Highly customizable MS Office inspired user interface with support for displaying Bibles, song lyrics, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, picture slideshows, videos, and image galleries. Allows for displaying of music chords over lyrics. Its blog has tips on how to sync songs between multiple computers using Dropbox and how to add and use video loops. Available for Windows. Has a YouTube channel with fairly new and well produced getting-started videos.
Well maintained open source software application that focuses on management of lyrics, chords, lead sheets, bible verses and scriptures. Supports timed loops of slides with text and images. Allows you to keep track of a song’s title, author, copyright, ccli #, tempo, time signature, theme, focus, capo position, user defined fields, and more. Available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems and translated into several European languages. Has a dedicated companion desktop application for song importing from various formats.
As the name indicates, this is a Bible and scripture focused church presentation software. It describes itself as “a software solution for presenting Holy Scripture verses on any video display device connected to a personal computer running Microsoft Windows”. Comes with support for many bibles in many languages and allows for much customization of themes, backgrounds, fonts and more. Supports NDI (Network Device Interface) video monitors. Has a list of useful keyboard shortcuts and tries to set itself apart from others by offering to display any scripture using at most 3-4 mouse clicks. It also boasts being able to show 4 synchronized Bible verses on the same screen.
EasySlides (formerly EasiSlides) is designed for projecting lyrics and Bible texts with a video projector. It has some multimedia support in that it allows you to play audio and video files in the background, along with the lyrics. You can also attach a live feed from a camcorder or use static or animated image backgrounds. It has a built in praise book generator, supports three-monitor output and allows you to set up alerts and notifications. The current version, v.4.0.5 is available for Windows only. They have a users forum, but it’s not very active. Development of version 5 has been in the beta phase since 2017.
This open source software focuses on editing and displaying song lyrics and passages of text along with images and videos on a second screen/projector. With Lyricue you are not restricted to setting everything up before the event as you can add, remove and change songs on the fly. You can type up notes directly to the screen or quickly display a bible verse at an instants notice. It is a networked software in its nature and requires you to set up a server on a Linux box. Hence it must be controlled by a web interface (called Precue) on the server computer or another remote device. The user interface is translated to English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish. The project has been running for quite some years and slowly but steadily releases new updates. It’s Linux only, uses a client-server architecture and requires a bit of technical insight to get up and running.
Mediashout is a feature rich church presentation software solution and comes with all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a market leader in this space. It is available for both Mac OS and Windows and the user interface has a lot of options for customization, such as layout setup, light/dark theme and interface language (French and Spanish, in addition to English, is supported). A nice feature, if you have volunteers running the show, is that you can enable “Voulenteer Mode”, which offers a simpler interface mode, hiding the settings and edit content controls. Mediashout offers an iOS app (why no Android app?) for remote control in addition to supporting USB wireless remotes. It has built in integration support for Dropbox (file sharing), Planning center (worship planning tool) and SongSelect (song database) and offers some additional tools for printing and reporting. The documentation on their website is good, with comprehensive articles and videos, and they even have a dedicated knowledge base app for iOS and Android that can help you out with common technical issues.
Proclaim is a major player in the church presentation software space. Their license model is subscription based and unlike others they will allow you to create an unlimited number of team accounts and install the software on as many Mac or Windows PCs as you want. This also means your team can edit and run several concurrent presentations using the same license. Proclaim integrates with the usual providers (SongSelect, Planning Center, Logis Bible Software and more) and any changes made to your service is saved to your teams cloud account. Their (and their partner) media library contains over 16 000 motions, stills and mini-movies, but you have to pay an extra fee to get access. Proclaim have implemented Polls & Surveys in their software, making it easier to interact and engage with your congregation. They have their own Proclaim Remote App for iOS and Android that works over local WiFi (no Internet connection required). Proclaim is probably the most complete church presentation tool out there. It has features and functionality that moves beyond the Sunday worship service, such as Digital Signage, Slide Sharing and Sermon Recording and Publishing.
ProPresenter is a cross-platform (Mac and Windows) worship and presentation software for live events. It not only targets worship gatherings, but also sporting events, conferences and trade shows. It has advanced video editing features that allows you to crop and zoom videos dynamically from right within the software. As for slides, ProPresenter offer “A multi-layered architecture allows for backgrounds, live video layers, slides, props, and masks to be controlled independently”. In addition to these multimedia features, the software can be extended with Audio Visual modules (hardware and software products) to further extend its capabilities. As for Worship-specific features, ProPresenter supports Planning Center integration, has a scripture engine which gives access to Bible translations in a variety of langues, lets you import lyrics from SongSelect and has a built in Media Store that lets you add media from their partner media library (Worship House Media). The user interface is multi-lingual and also comes with an iOS/Android remote. It has cloud integration for saving and sharing content and a built in twitter wall feature, allowing you to curate and display Twitter posts.
EasyWorship focuses on being powerful, yet simple worship presentation software. Their user interface is clean and easy with intuitive tabs for selecting Songs, Scriptures, Media, Presentations and Themes. You can select between a light and a dark theme, but their interface is in English only. It doesn’t have all the features that MediaShout or Faithlife Proclaim can offer, but contains the essentials like slide design, alerts, remote app, bible search and a media search engine powered by Skit Guys, Centerline New Media, Hyper Pixels Media and others. They have a flexible licensing solution, letting you choose between subscription and one time fee. For broadcasting, EasyWorship supports Alpha Channel, NewTek Tricaster AirSend and Blackmagic, along with NewTek NDI. EasyWorship is Windows only software.
Zion Works is a worship presentation software product for Windows designed for a dual screen setup. The user interface is simple and lets you display Songs, Media, Bible scripture and PowerPoint slides on a secondary monitor while controlling the flow from the main monitor. You create playlists of these components, which you can package and transfer to another computer. It integrates with the bibles of the BibleGateway website and you can import songs and CCLI formtatted files. As with many other worship software you can also instantly display popup alerts and notifications.
Unlike most other church presentation software products, Sharefaith Presenter isn’t a stand-alone application, it’s a PowerPoint Plugin. In their own words: “Sharefaith Presenter is not for every church. It’s custom built for the small-to-medium size church that works on a PC, has multiple campuses, and/or still believes that PowerPoint is of great use within the church.” Sharefaith Presenter requires Windows 10 and the version of PowerPoint that comes with Office 365 (2016/2019). It has a built in worship graphics library that gives you access to 90,000 media items inside PowerPoint (templates, videos, backgrounds, etc.). You also get access to SongSelect by CCLI directly from the plugin inside PowerPoint. They have a subscription based license model. The higher price tiers include more media and some additional features.
Big Screen is, unlike most others, a web based church presentation solution. That means you don’t have to install any software and you can run it on both Mac OS and Windows using a modern browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla FireFox. The downside to this is that an Internet connection is required. Big Screen is split into two sections; the admin section and the control surface. The control surface is the interface to present your media. You can add Songs, Videos, Images, Timers and Bible Scriptures to playlists and save them in your online library. When presenting, multiple new browser windows will be created for each of the screens connected to your computer. You will then have to drag the window to the correct screen.
FreeWorship, as its name states, is free, but comes in a more feature-rich paid Pro version. As it’s not completely free (but instead “Freemium”), we felt it was better to add it to the paid category of this post. The biggest differences between the Free and Pro versions is that the latter includes licensed bibles, comes with SongSelect integration and features Website Projection, Live Twitter Feed and Google Slides support. You also have some other differences that you can compare in the Pro vs. Free comparison table on their website. Both the Free and Pro versions support PowerPoint slides and can play videos, songs, images and bible scriptures. FreeWorship is compatible with Windows Vista and above. The user interface is similar to other Worship software, consisting of a playlist of media items, controls for launching and adding new items and “Preview/Up Next” and “Live” viewer panels.
Worship Extreme is a modern looking worship software product for Mac OS and Windows. It features song lyrics and slide editors as well as Google Slides integration. The software you install on your computer works in combination with the Worship Extreme cloud server, where all your media and playlists are stored in your personal Worship Extreme Media Library. PowerPoint isn’t supported natively, but you can import slide decks, which will then automatically be converted into a suitable format for Worship Extreme. The software lets you import lyrics from SongSelect, OpenLP, MediaShout and EasyWorship. Both Free and Paid bible formats can be imported. Worship Extreme also features a Remote App and a Stage Display app, both available for iOS and Android. Other features that deserves to be mentioned are: congregation/audience polls, alerts, countdown timers and their LiveSwap integration.
Presentation Manager is a Windows and Mac Worship Projection Software solution that comes with a built in media database of over 500 songs, over 500 images and over 100 videos included. The user interface looks a bit dated, but comes with the essential controls for displaying videos, images, songs and scriptures. Presentation Manager supports displaying PowerPoint natively and has built in editors for songs and image/graphic backgrounds. You can create sermon notes and view these while giving the presentation, setup looping announcement slides and toggle nursery alerts for displaying numbers, sets of numbers, or messages during worship.
WorshipCenter Pro features a built-in scripture database and support for PowerPoint, video files, images, Flash presentations and web pages. WorshipCenter Pro includes over 4,000 hymns and also includes an interface to CCLI SongSelect to import contemporary praise songs. The Full King James Version of the Bible is included and you can automatically create slides for whatever verse you need. It can play videos and supports AVI, MPEG, ASF, Windows Media, RealVideo, QuickTime and Flash. The PowerPoint support seems to be limited to PowerPoint 2000/XP/2003, indicating that this software hasn’t been updated for a while..
SongShow Plus is a fully featured worship presentation software solution. It displays songs, scripture, images, video, web pages (including YouTube & Vimeo) and allows for importing of PowerPoint slides. It has built in editors with tools for colorization, hue adjustments, blurs, hinges, reflections, image masking, overlay and more. You can sync your content to your cloud account at Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. Contentwise, SongShow directly integrates with Shift Worship where you can find over 3000 pre-produced mini-movies, motion and still backgrounds for worship environments. SongShow Plus also includes integration with Planning Center and they have their own app on Google Play for remote controlling the Windows application.
SongPro isn’t only for songs, but (according to their web page) designed to handle all the requirements for services. Their software includes support for displaying songs (of course), hymns, Bible passages, liturgical text, PowerPoints, audio, video, Web pages, YouTube clips and notices. It is a Windows only software solution and comes with more than 3000 songs and over 300 background images and videos. SongPro supports syncing to Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. It has some advanced video and graphic features such as using live camera feeds as your motion background for songs and liturgy.
Worship Him comes in a Lite and Power edition with the major difference being the Lite edition only supporting one projector feed, while the Power edition supports up to five. Worship Him is a feature rich application that supports all the media that you would expect, including PowerPoint and Impress slide decks. It has 13 included Bible versions and a large selection of video backgrounds, stills, hymns and graphics included. It supports Windows Vista and up. You can try it by downloading the free trial version of Worship Him, which is fully functional but only includes a sample of the graphics and Bible versions. Their license is Site based, meaning that customers may install Worship Him on as many computers as they want providing that it is for their use only. They don’t have any iOS or Android app, but instead offer a network remote control mode inside the application that let’s you control up to 3 other computers running Worship Him.
Sunday Worship is “Church Song Presentation Software” that allows you to project songs, scriptures, photos, videos and notices for all the congregation to see. It is not as advanced as many of their competitors in this list and only offer basic features for song, Bible and video display. Its user interface is straight forward, minimalist and without any clutter, and might be just good enough for many users. Their software isn’t updated frequently, but with a relatively simple feature set that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Screen Monkey is professional media playback and control software for Live Events, Theatre, Churches, VJ’s and Broadcast. They have a separate software package called Worship Monkey that is intended for use by churches who want to use Screen Monkey for displaying their song words. It provides a simple interface to search for songs and build a service plan that can then be imported into Screen Monkey. To use the Open Song library in Screen Monkey you must download a separate converter tool from their web page.
Ephphatha (I have no idea how to pronounce that) is a church presentation software tool made in India. Their web page isn’t very clear on what features that are included or how much the software costs, but looking at the screenshot from the application, it is definitely a Windows application. It also seems from the screenshot that they support creating playlists of Bible scriptures, hymns, prayers, liturgy and media, including PowerPoint and audio/video files. You can request a demo on their site and there’s also a phone number you can all to get more information.
Praisenter is an application that provides display of Bible verses, songs, and notifications (among other things) to a secondary display, typically a projector, monitor or television for use in a church service or event. Praisenter allows display of verses from numerous bible translations (provided by The Unbound Bible) with standard graphics for each verse. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux. Unfortunately the project seems dead as its source code repository on GitHub hasn’t been updated in many years. The last entry of the News section of its website was in January 2014.
PowerWorship enables you to create and maintain a library of worship songs and can be used to build presentation slides for Microsoft PowerPoint and Apache OpenOffice. It comes in Free, Standard and Premium versions. The software seems simple and intuitive, but isn’t maintained anymore. On August 8th, 2018 the author tweeted: “Looking for a company or qualified individual to take over future development and support.”.
LiveWorship by GeekJam, LLC is a Mac/Windows cross platform worship solution. It features a drag and drop interface and allows you to display Bible scriptures, songs, audio, video and image backgrounds. They offer a 30 day trial that you can download directly from their web page. The last update on their “What’s New” page was in May, 2011 and their “contact us” link doesn’t work anymore. Their Twitter and Facebook accounts also haven’t been updated since 2011. This is most likely a dead project.
ShowShare is a web based presentation software for Christian worship. It doesn’t require any installation and should work on any web enabled device or platform. It’s made by Delta Lights, which appears to be an AV supplier offering technical services and training. Both the company web page and the ShowShare product page haven’t been updated in quite a while and the user interface doesn’t seem to play well with modern browsers, which should be a minimum requirement if you offer a web based tool..
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LED displays are made up of different types of panels, these panel types determine the resolution or pitch of the video wall as well as the indoor or outdoor functionality. Chat us if you have any questions!
The Flex is our most versatile panel, with indoor and outdoor solutions. This panel can be taken apart and put together with ease, ask us about our traveling cases!
The Brilliant is our trademarked panel, this solution offers the best-in-class panel with a pixel pitch as low as 0.9mm perfect for conference rooms and home cinemas
At the heart of every great digital signage display is this: content. Make it look good and people will stop to look at it. Make it look bad or outdated, and chances are they won’t be looking at your screen again.
But with the flexibility of scheduling and real-time editing in ScreenCloud, all you’ve got to worry about is what you want to show. So here are 30 good examples of digital signage content to inspire.
The most obvious is social media. If you invest your efforts in social media, why not use this to bring your digital screens to life too? You can also utilize user-generated content.
Showing social media feeds on your digital signs can help pair your online reputation with your offline one, building credibility and helping customers buy into your brand.
Walls.io offers a unique feature to showcase sponsored ads from brands you partner with. This feature is called Sponsored Posts, and they are special posts on your social wall that aren’t filled with regular social content from your sources. Instead, you can upload specific images (or videos or just text) that you want to display there and have it show up on your wall in regular intervals.
The main function of Sponsored Posts is to make money by offering ad placements to sponsors. Tomorrowland, for example, made sure that their sponsors received a prominent advertisement space on the festival’s official social feed.
Customers are 10 times more likely to observe dynamic digital signage content than static messages, which makes video the perfect content form; it’s also usually screen-ready in 16:9 format. Video to share on digital signage could be your showreel, a new demo video, or a customer caught on screen talking about how great you are. Add to your screen playlist either by direct upload or through an app such as YouTube or Vimeo.
ScreenCloud supports pretty much any image formats, including JPEG, PNG and GIF, so you can upload images from company workshops, events, product showcases - anything you like really. Create your own image showreel within a Playlist simply by uploading the images, setting the duration of each one and then leaving them to play.
If you need to create a quick notice, perhaps detailing a room change or a meeting time, there are a wealth of apps to make that happen. Like Noticeboard - an app that can be found in the ScreenCloud App Store. It allows you to create a quick and easy display in seconds, and also allows for real-time edits.
Add a news app to your digital signage playlist and you’ll always be up to date with the latest headlines. Your customers will sip their coffee longer, your guests will loiter in your reception hall.
This type of content works well as ‘filler’ content in between video, ads and social media displays to stop your viewers from getting digital-overload.
Food is such a big part of our lives, it’s natural that we’re drawn to images, descriptions and menu boards showing it. Enter the digital menu board digital signage display.
This is one of the most important content displays you’ll create if you work in a restaurant, fast food chain or bar. It also works in an office cafeteria, an event setup or even as a fun noticeboard where you can swap menu items out for things you’re working on or fun descriptions of your team members. If you’re a franchise, this works especially well as you can change the price of an item across all screens and locations from one ScreenCloud login.
Add your reviews from sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp on your screen and share them with other customers. This is great for enhancing sales, and also customer engagement.
Data-driven companies are more likely to succeed – because they can easily see the areas that need attention. But most of the time this business-critical data is siloed and not seen by the teams that can make an immediate impact. Historically this data hasn’t been shown on screens due to security fears, which is why ScreenCloud developed Dashboards.
We love Slack at ScreenCloud. Like many startups, it’s how we do about 90% of our communication. So when a room’s really crucial to what we do, like our #praise room, we share it on our digital signage screens. This is made really easy with the Slack app.
Digital signage is a great canvas for all of your sales, small or large. Share real-time sales messages, promote offers and encourage customers to buy when the price is right. These can be easily created in Canvas.
How much time do you think your reception staff spend directing people to the right floor or meeting room? We love using the building directory app to share details of where everything is through our digital signage screens. The best part? If a room changes, you can update the screen easily unlike your static signs. Here are some non-obvious benefits of wayfinding in retail.
As well as advertising your own content, digital signage is a great method for selling advertising space within your building or store. Simple Playlist setup means you can schedule specific advertising slots, upload sponsored content between your own notices, or have dedicated days or areas where only advertising is shown.
If travel is essential to your customers or employees, then sharing a live travel information board is a great use of your digital signage. As you can see here, this provides up to the minute travel details on buses, trains and trams for your local area.
Adding a dedicated screen to travel information in your office by the exit is also a great addition to your internal comms and employee engagement strategy.
User generated content is a goldmine of free marketing material. This could be reviews, social media feeds or customer quotes. Tools like Walls.io and Taggbox can help pull UGC from social media platforms while giving you moderation controls and the ability to only show posts with certain hashtags or mentions.
The benefit of digital signage over static signage or printed pamphlets is that it can be updated in real-time and pushed out instantly. This gives you the power to update signs with last-minute offers or promotions on items that are low in stock.
Imagine having a method of internal communication that allowed you to broadcast to your entire company, at the click of a button… That’s exactly what ScreenCloud Broadcast can do for you. This makes it easy to share company broadcasts that go out to all screens simultaneously with news, praise or health and safety announcements. Broadcast can securely live-stream meetings or announcements to screens in your office, and also onto the mobiles or desktop screens of remote or deskless workers, making sure everyone gets the news.
Digital signage can be used in retail to show-off in-store promotions and increase the number of customers who take up offers as soon they’re available. Couple posters with reviews, user-generated social media content and ads to really drive your brand home.
In churches, sermon timetables, sermon quotes and hymns are both ways you could use digital signage to attract and retain more members to your sessions.
Everyone likes to see where they are in a leaderboard, whether that’s in sales or counting reps in the gym. Use your digital screens to show off this leaderboard and add an additional layer to your customer/employee experience. You can create it easily using Google Slides, or for something more automated, check out a tool like Bonusly, as shown below.
In the same way you might use your digital signage to share leaderboards, you could also entice employees or customers in with competitions. Promoting giveaways or asking them to submit something (like an Instagram image) for the chance to win, is a great use of your digital screens. Create a poster using Canvas and add a QR code to link through to a competition landing page.
Screens are great for all of the good stuff we like to put out into the world, but they’re also a good vehicle when you need to make an emergency notice that needs to reach a lot of people. For (planned) fire drills, you can schedule the alert to pop up on your screens, otherwise, have a template at the ready to push live should you need to display it in the moment.
Ever had a bad meeting room experience? Someone waiting awkwardly outside? Knocking before you’re finished to ask ‘how long’? Same. It’s why using small screens, iPads or tablets you have laying around is an awesome use of digital signage. We wrote more about how to set this up here.
Companies with fast growth will know the pain of getting to know employees, when there seems to be more new people arriving faster than you can say “All hands”. It’s why the Meet the Team app is a fast and easy way to upload employees, old or new, and show them off to all of your team.
If you work in an art gallery or somewhere you want to show off work, then digital signage is a great way to showcase photos, videos or actual designs of something special you’ve been working on.
Of course digital signage can always be used to create a pretty picture, but when it’s seriously useful, that’s when it makes the biggest difference. Digital signage is increasingly being used to facilitate and improve internal communication strategies. From sharing company notices, to key information and reinforcing health and safety training messages, so that they’re always seen.
High Resolution LED Signs from Signdealz turn commuters into customers. We bring together the hardware platforms that last for years with award-winning software that is easy to use.
High Resolution LED signs to offer a higher pixel pitch which will allow you to display more exciting images and text than our normal standard resolution signs. These signs are perfect for areas where your sign may be very close to the road or near a sidewalk where pedestrians have a close viewing range.
Harness the power of the most visible space you have - your screens. SongShow Plus allows you to communicate anything and everything in the most visually striking way - right out of the box.
The most visible thing in your church auditorium or sanctuary is your screen, and your ability to use this visual real estate depends upon the software used to display content.
Many churches use standard business communication tools like PowerPoint to display content, but these tools are not designed for the church environment and have serious limitations. SongShow Plus is presentation software designed specifically for churches with tools for displaying scripture, song lyrics, custom built slideshows for sermon content and much more. These tools not only allow you to display the right content, they allow you to do it quickly and on-the-go with our amazing mobile control features.
You can spend thousands of dollars on graphic design and video editing software, or you can elevate your content right inside SongShow Plus with our creative tools. Control color, overlay custom text, apply video filters - all in real time.
There are a lot of great programs available for creating content for your church but the cost required to obtain these programs is often out of reach - not to mention needing a staff member or key volunteer with the right skill set to make content.
Most of the time, you just want to do something simple, like create an announcement slide for an upcoming winter retreat or apply a color filter or a blur to an existing motion background to use behind song lyrics. SongShow Plus comes with an incredible toolset that allows you to create and elevate content.
Elevate your existing content with great tools like colorization, hue adjustments, blurs, hinges, reflections,image masking and overlay and much more. Create content through our simple builders that not only allow you to layout graphics and slideshows with the same tools found in high-priced design software, but give you the flexibility to change these graphics on the fly right in songshow with no rendering or exporting!
Many churches invest a fortune to get something as simple as overlaying text over live video. SongShow Plus handles live video throughput with multiple layers of media with ease in real time.
Many churches spend a fortune on implementing broadcast-level video production to have the ability to display image magnifying (IMAG) live video with text and graphic overlays on their screens. What if you could have this ability but avoid spending half of your operating budget to get it done?
With SongShow Plus and the help of our friends at Go Fish Media, we have a number of solutions that can give you the ability to send live video with text and graphic overlays right out of the box! Expand your ability to communicate to your church with live video of your pastor or worship team overlaid with titles, scripture references and song lyrics.
SongShow Plus, paired with the right hardware solution, handles live video throughput with ease with little or no latency, allowing you to "IMAG-inate" the best way to communicate with your congregation using live video!
The cloud has changed the way we share content and SongShow Plus provides ways for you to seemlessly share and synchronize your media files between multiple machines.
The cloud has fundamentally changed the way we approach file management and storage. In our everyday life we have replaced USB flash drives with download links and hard drives with space "in the sky". The evolution of technology has forced us to change the way we operate and worship media is no exception.
There are a lot of great content producers that are making media for churches and SongShow Plus connects you directly to this great content through our integration with Shift Worship. It"s easier than ever to find the content that you need.
Having great presentation software is half the battle, you also need great ministry content as well. Ministry is full of talented, creative people making engaging content for worship environments and one of the best places to curate that content is shiftworship.com.
Here you can find over 3000 amazing pre-produced mini-movies, motion and still backgrounds for worship environments, countdowns and more. Shift Worship has premium content for a fraction of the price compared to other content sites* - and the best part is SongShow Plus directly integrates with shiftworship.com so all this great content is at your fingertips! (* requires a separate subscription)
Any church production manager or producer will tell you that the key to a successful Sunday production is detailed planning and it"s no secret that the "industry standard" solution for worship planning is Planning Center Online Thousands of production and worship teams are synced up on a week to week basis through Planning Center, checking in on the service order, reviewing songs and video content and confirming their scheduling requests.
SongShow Plus now includes integration with Planning Center so you can deploy all those details right into your Sunday program. Now when you formulate your plans for Sunday, you won"t have to worry about duplicating all your hard work - it will simply be waiting for you!
One of the many tools available to engage people during your church services is screen presentations. Studies have shown how visual presentations impact what we experience, recall, and share with others. And this is true in the church, too. Your worship service and presentation has a powerful effect on your church attendees and you want to make sure that this impact is positive.
With a vast array of worship software options, how do you know which one to use? Based on years of talking with churches, we believe there are five factors that should play into your decision (and as a note, each church will approach each of these differently):
Churches know that they have to be good stewards of their resources. They have congregants who have given to the church and trust their leadership to make wise decisions around how that money is spent. The last thing a church wants to do is waste money. We recommend looking at the entire picture when purchasing and see if there are additional costs involved. For instance, when comparing software, look at what is included with the standard purchase. Do you need to purchase add-on modules, extra activations, Bibles, or other pieces to make the software do what you want? And don’t forget about the hardware involved. Do you have a computer that can run your software solution? This is one of the most common mistakes that churches make when it comes to purchasing presentation software. Make sure you find a solution that matches what you have (or are capable of purchasing if you need to spend additional money).
You are going to spend your limited time building your presentations and the last thing you need is for them to crash. You want a Worship Presentation Software that is solid and stable so that you don’t lose any of your hard work. Additionally, you want software that, in those rare cases when you do have an issue, auto-saves your work.
Your software should have the features you need and match your expectations. If you have a lot of experience and knowledge on the Mac platform and you choose a Mac Church Presentation Software, that software should match your expectations and experience of other software on the Mac platform. If a program has lots of features but it doesn’t make sense, then it is lacking in usability and you will become very frustrated trying to learn a different system than you are used to. Additionally, you want software that has features that focus on the church. Having tools that make building and presenting scripts easy for your service is critical. Dragging and dropping or Importing songs, video files, sermon notes, song lyrics, Bible verses and more and displaying them on the “big screen” shouldn’t require a professional. Find a system that simplifies the task.
As mentioned earlier, you don’t have a lot of time to learn your Worship Software. In our experience, we see most churches using only 30-40% of what their Worship Software can do. Most of the time, this is not because they don’t need the other features, but instead haven’t had the time to learn everything they can do with the software. Your software should be fairly simple to sit down and learn and share with others on your team. Additionally, you want to make sure you have extensive training materials in various forms to help yourself and your team. These could be in the form of written user guides, training videos, webinars, guided live training, and more.
You can have the best software in the world that matches all of the above four points, but if you don’t have the support you need, when you feel lost and frustrated when something goes wrong (or at least not like you expect). Having easy access to your Worship Software’s support team (phone, email, social media, etc.) as well as to a community of users (forums, Facebook, etc.) that are willing to help can make all the difference. Make sure you understand what your software includes.
We believe these are the core questions you should ask when choosing the right Church Presentation Software for your church. They also guide how we plan, develop, improve, and even sell MediaShout. We invite you to learn more about us and to try MediaShout yourself for free for 30 days.
Clauses (1) through (4) of section 110 deal with performances and exhibitions that are now generally exempt under the “for profit” limitation or other provisions of the copyright law, and that are specifically exempted from copyright liability under this legislation. Clauses (1) and (2) between them are intended to cover all of the various methods by which performances or displays in the course of systematic instruction take place.
Face-to-Face Teaching Activities. Clause (1) of section 110 is generally intended to set out the conditions under which performances ordisplays, in the course of instructional activities other than educational broadcasting, are to be exempted from copyright control. The clause covers all types of copyrighted works, and exempts their performance ordisplay“by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution,” where the activities take place “in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction.”
There appears to be no need for a statutory definition of “face-to-face” teaching activities to clarify the scope of the provision. “Face-to-face teaching activities” under clause (1) embrace instructional performances and displays that are not “transmitted.” The concept does not require that the teacher and students be able to see each other, although it does require their simultaneous presence in the same general place. Use of the phrase “in the course of face-to-face teaching activities” is intended to exclude broadcasting or other transmissions from an outside location into classrooms, whether radio or television and whether open or closed circuit. However, as long as the instructor and pupils are in the same building or general area, the exemption would extend to the use ofdevicesfor amplifying or reproducing sound and for projecting visual images. The “teaching activities” exempted by the clause encompass systematic instruction of a very wide variety of subjects, but they do not include performances or displays, whatever their cultural value or intellectual appeal, that are given for the recreation or entertainment of any part of their audience.
Works Affected.—Since there is no limitation on the types of works covered by the exemption, teachers or students would be free to perform or display anything in class as long as the other conditions of the clause are met. They could read aloud from copyrighted text material, act out a drama, play or sing a musical work,performa motion picture or filmstrip, or display text or pictorial material to the class by means of a projector. However, nothing in this provision is intended to sanction the unauthorized reproduction ofcopiesor phonorecords for the purpose of classroom performance ordisplay, and the clause contains a special exception dealing with performances from unlawfully madecopiesof motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to be discussed below.
Instructors or Pupils.—To come within clause (1), the performance or display must be “by instructors or pupils,” thus ruling out performances by actors, singers, or instrumentalists brought in from outside the school to put on a program. However, the term “instructors” would be broad enough to include guest lecturers if their instructional activities remain confined to classroom situations. In general, the term “pupils” refers to the enrolled members of a class.
Nonprofit Educational Institution.—Clause (1) makes clear that it applies only to the teaching activities “of a nonprofit educational institution,” thus excluding from the exemption performances or displays in profit-making institutionssuch asdance studios and language schools.
Classroom or Similar Place.—The teaching activities exempted by the clause must take place “in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction.” For example, performances in an auditorium or stadium during a school assembly, graduation ceremony, class play, or sporting event, where the audience is not confined to the members of a particular class, would fall outside the scope of clause (1), although in some cases they might be exempted by clause (4) of section 110. The “similar place” referred to in clause (1) is a place which is “devoted to instruction” in the same way a classroom is; common examples would include a studio, a workshop, a gymnasium, a training field, a library, the stage of an auditorium, or the auditorium itself, if it is actually used as a classroom for systematic instructional activities.
Motion Pictures and Other Audiovisual Works.—The final provision of clause (1) deals with the special problem of performances from unlawfully-madecopiesofmotion picturesand other audiovisual works. The exemption is lost where the copy being used for a classroom performance was “not lawfully made under this title” and the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to suspect as much. This special exception to the exemption would not apply to performances from lawfully-madecopies, even if thecopieswere acquired from someone who had stolen or converted them, or if the performances were in violation of an agreement. However, though the performance would be exempt under section 110(1) in such cases, the copyright owner might have a cause of action against the unauthorized distributor under section 106(3), or against the person responsible for the performance, for breach of contract.
Projection Devices.—As long as there is no transmission beyond the place where the copy is located, both section 109(b) and section 110(1) would permit the classroom display of a work by means of any sort of projectiondeviceorprocess.
Instructional Broadcasting.Works Affected.—The exemption for instructional broadcasting provided by section 110(2) would apply only to “performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work ordisplayof a work.” Thus, the copyright owner’s permission would be required for the performance on educational television or radio of a dramatic work, of a dramatico-musical worksuch asan opera or musical comedy, or of a motion picture. Since, as already explained,audiovisual workssuch as filmstrips are equated withmotion pictures, their sequential showing would be regarded as a performance rather than adisplayand would not be exempt under section 110(2). The clause is not intended to limit in any way the copyright owner’s exclusive right to make dramatizations, adaptations, or other derivative works under section 106(2). Thus,