Casey Stephan has been a church administrator and communicator for 15 years both in Tulsa, OK and South St. Paul, MN. Currently, she works as the Media Store Manager at EasyWorship (easyworship.com) where she enjoys connecting churches with the right worship media.
I'm hoping the DVD and Youtube things will get fixed. I doubt they will ever fix the problem with too many clicks and the problem with not being able to put bible verses or videos between images in slide shows. It's as if the designers never build sermon presentations that don't just include bible verses. If they do, they don't have the authority or ability to change it because I'm quite certain that they would after using it for any length of time.
PowerPoint requires the user to enter or copy and paste the bible passages into a slide each time the presenter wants to show a verse or passage. Worship Presentation software like EasyWorship 6 makes importing the bible text easy. It includes a database of translations and the text of each of these translations. Type the reference or point and click a few buttons and the program creates a pre-formatted slide with each verse in a beautiful way.
The person building a church presentation can add lyrics as easily as they can bible verses. Most worship presentation software comes with a database of public domain hymns. Import the text of lyrics from third-party services like Song Select.
In addition to creating simple song or bible verse slides, the user can make collections of pictures, videos and do live image magnification with a feed from a video camera. Add lower-third titles, text or images over these live video feeds as well. You can't do that easily in PowerPoint.
I am Rev. Felmor Cornella. Our church had been using Easy Worship app but since I left,
and took some rest, I handle bible studies which require singing ang I find that easy worship
is very useful. However, when I downloaded the application, it says I only had 30 days to try.
I want to use it permanently for my bible studies. How can I have a continuous use of this? Please let me know.
Commentaires :Excellent software covering all the bases - powerful and flexible, and yet easy and quick to use. Frequently updated, support requests answered quickly, requested improvements and bug fixes introduced frequently.Great value. Reliable - our church use this every week. Highly recommended. Pros - for example:Comprehensive Import facility for song lyrics (eg Songs of Fellowship, EasyWorship etc)
Backup and Restore
Display of song lyrics
Display of bible verses
Bible verse selection (or even part of verses) is completely flexible
Any font can be chosen separately for choruses and verses and bible readings
Display of PowerPoints
Inbuilt Quick Slides feature - I often use this instead of powerpoints
Can play videos and audio media, and choose a start and end point within a longer video
All above items (and more) can be added to playlist
Playlist can easily be edited and re-ordered
Themes can be freely created, edited and applied to items in the playlist
Songs can each have their own default theme.
Each item in playlist can have a different theme or background
Choose from plain backgrounds, images, motion backgrounds, videos, live videosSong Lyrics database includes license, songbook, key, tempo and theme (eg "Adoration")
Song database is searchable by keyword and phrase
Database, themes etc can be stored on Dropbox, to enable sharing across multiple computers
Various song arrangements can be created and saved
Loop option so lyrics display can loop back to the beginning of the song
Loop option can have a default setting per song, but can be over-riddenCan be controlled via keyboard, mouse or both - keyboard shortcuts can be changed
Using keyboard shortcuts it can be controlled using a presentation remote
Supports a massive range of media in many formats - all displayed without problems
Ability to display live video and on-screen alerts
Export of playlist data including song lyrics
Can create lists of songs for CCLI licensing returnsAdaptable to easily and quickly make on the fly changes during live presentation:
For example, background, fix typos, fix order of lyrics, increase or decrease font sizeCons:Not able to individual edit fonts within a verse or chorus
No options for chord charts etcNo instruction manual - however, online and e-mail support is available, along with some online instructions and Tutorial videos, as well as in-built tips and help within the application.
Commentaires :If you are planning to buy worship software, ZionWorx 2014 makes your choice a lot easier and a lot less expensive. ZionWorx costs just 110 for a Church (or team) license for up to 10 users, making ZionWorx, one of the most affordable worship applications on the market.ZionWorx has a clear interface, yet a vast range of features. It can import songs from a wide range of applications including: EasyWorship, MediaShout, as well as OpenLyrics and Text formats and PowerPoint. ZionWorx 2 users will be able to transfer their existing databases to the new version.Using its' powerful Song Editor, new songs can be easily added, and stored in the song database and shared between the PC's and ZionWorx can import most video formats without additional codecs. When it comes to Bibles, ZionWorx, can access these direct online from `Bible Gateway,' however you can also import bibles stored on your own PC, using the Zafania format.To control the design and layout of songs, ZionWorx uses `Themes,' which control how the design of the songs and bibles are displayed. It comes with a library of these to use, which can be modified using ZionWorx theme editor. Yet ZionWorx's can also `package' the whole service, and within a few minutes of arriving at Church, everything you have previously prepared, will be on screen, just as you planned it. This are no unpleasant surprises with ZionWorx.
Talking of which, you will have gathered by now, that I am really impressed by ZionWorx. It is an easy to learn, yet powerful piece of software, yet at an affordable price which will enable more churches to use it.This is all due to the hard work and dedication of the extraordinary team at Jubilate software ' Christian Boxer, Chris Clark and Edd Stonham. It is their hard work, coupled with their passionate vision for the mission of the Church, which is the secret behind this truly powerful piece of software. The whole Church owes them a great deal of gratitude.