Easyworship 2009 Display Settings
Cloris Sopha
Adding songs to EasyWorship is a simple process and can be done a few different ways. Typing them in manually or copying and pasting from another document or internet are just a couple of those ways. But, once you have your song in your database, now what? How do you add a background to it? How do you change the font? Where do you adjust the shadow and outline? Do I have to display the copyright information?
These are just some of the questions I will answer for you here. There are many options available for setting up your songs in EasyWorship. These things can be done either globally for all songs in the Options under the Edit menu, or can be accomplished per song using the Inspector in the song editor.
To get to the global song settings in EasyWorship that will change all songs using the default settings at once, go to the Edit menu in the top left corner of the main EasyWorship screen and select Options. Then, go to Live > Song. The first option available is the Song Font. When you click the drop-down menu for Song Font, you will see five tabs. Font, Outline, Shadow, Margins, and Format.
Change the default song font name, size, color, and style. At the bottom of the tab, select the vertical and horizontal alignment you would like your song slides to have. If you want to Reset all the song settings back to the global default settings, click Reset in the bottom right corner of this tab.
You can set the style, color, join, size and opacity for the default song outline. Style gives you the options for none, outer, center and inner. Join options are round, square or bevel. This means that on any corners of the text the outline will be either rounded, square or beveled. The size of the outline, or the thickness, can be set using the slider or typing in a number manually. If you want the outline to be more transparent, you can lower the opacity.
There are similar settings here as there are in the outline tab, however, there are a couple of different settings. Style and color are also available here, but for the shadow, you can set the angle, where you want the shadow to display from the text. Offset is how far away you want the shadow from the text. Blur is how crisp you want the shadow to be, and opacity is how transparent you want it.
The last option on this tab allows you to turn on or off the ability to automatically capitalize the first character of certain words that may be in the song text and were not capitalized but you want to be no matter what. There is a default list of these words like God, Jesus, Him, and You, but you can add and remove words from this list by selecting a word and deleting it or typing in a new word.
By default, EasyWorship will display the copyright info of the songs in the bottom left corner of the slides. You can turn this option off by unchecking this box. If you do want it to display the copyright info, keep the box checked. You can change the copyright font, outline, and shadow by selecting the Copyright Font drop-down menu.
Dan Willard has been helping EasyWorship customers troubleshoot since 2006. He is head of all things training and teaches a weekly webinar which helps EasyWorship newbies look like pros. Dan also loves playing music and has been a worship leader since 2000. He enjoys golfing and eating good food, but not as much as he enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons.
The Scriptures will use the Default Font settings you have set in the Live Options, but if you want to customize that and use something different, click on Scripture Font. This window has 5 different tabs; Font, Outline, Shadow, Margins and Format. The Font tab allows you to modify the font attributes like Font Name, Size, Color and Style. Set the opacity of the Scripture text from 0% to 100%. You can also change the Alignment of the text on the slides. The Text Alignment is horizontal, so you can choose Left, Center or Right. Under Vertical Align, choose Top, Center or Bottom. The Reset button will reset all your Scripture Font settings back to the Default settings.
On the Shadow tab, select whether you want it Enabled or Disabled and then choose the Shadow Color. Set the Angle by using a 360 degree wheel which will determine the direction the shadow emits from the text. You can also change the Offset, which is how far from the text the shadow displays; the Blur, which is the sharpness of the shadow; and the Opacity, which is the transparency of the shadow.
The Margins tab allows you to create text margins for your Scriptures. This will override any other margins that may be set anywhere else for your scriptures. The values for these are set by Pixels. For instance, if you set a 50 pixel margin, the text will always be at least 50 pixels from the edge of the screen.
On the Format tab, choose whether you want to use the default Auto Sizing option which is Resize Text To Fit Element, or if you want to use Do Not Auto Size Text and use a font Point Size. If you use the Auto Sizing, you can also select to Normalize The Text Size Across Slides. This means that if you add multiple verses as a group to the schedule or go live to a group of verses together, EasyWorship will keep the text size the same on all slides. If this box is unchecked, there is a possibility of having different sized text from one slide to the next in that group of slides.
When the box is checked, you will be able to select Verse Font to make changes to the verse number, like Font Name, Size, Color, Style, Opacity and whether you want it to be Underlined, Superscript or Subscript.
With Show Reference checked, Reference Font will be available to change the font settings for the reference like Font Name, Size, Color, Style, Opacity and whether you want it Underlined, Superscript or Subscript. You can also set the Alignment for the reference to be either Right, Center or Left.
After Each Passage means that if you add multiple verses as a single item into your schedule or go live to multiple slides in a single grouping, the reference will only show on the last slide of that group or passage.
To display the entire passage reference for the multiple verses that are going live, check this box. This checkbox will not be available if the Reference Location is set to After Each Passage or if Show Reference is not checked.
When selecting and adding multiple verses as one item to the schedule or going live to a group of verses at once, Break On New Verse will separate each slide by verse. For instance, if you select Genesis 1: 1-8 and add it to your schedule, you will have a single scheduled item with at least 8 slides in it. Any time EasyWorship sees that a new verse is starting, it will automatically start it on a new slide.
By deselecting this checkbox, any time you add Scripture to your schedule or go live to it, it will be on one slide no matter how many verses are selected at once. EasyWorship will shrink the text so it will all fit on one slide and will not flow to a new slide.
This setting allows you to set a minimum font size before EasyWorship will break the verse onto a new slide. Whether you have one verse or multiple verses selected, depending on your Scripture Font, if there is enough text on the slide and has to shrink to at least the minimum font size in this setting, EasyWorship will automatically break it onto a new slide.
To the left of the Label Font Button is a checkbox that says Show Verse/Chorus Label. Checking this box tells EasyWorship to display labels that have been entered into your song, e.g., Verse, Chorus, Bridge, etc.
To the left of the Copyright Info Button is a checkbox that says Display Copyright Information. Checking this box tells EasyWorship to display Copyright info on song slides when displaying to the audience.
This area of the Options menu allows you to enable/disable support for displaying scriptures (turns EasyWorship's Scripture tab on/off) and customize the default settings for scriptures, i.e., the look and feel of scripture text and margins being displayed to your audience.
At the top of the Scripture Attributes area is a checkbox that says Enable support for displaying scriptures. Checking this box tells EasyWorship to enable support for displaying scriptures (turns EasyWorship's Scripture tab on).
This area of the Options menu allows you to customize the default fonts for the Title, Subtitle, and Content slides in your Presentations, i.e., the default look and feel for fonts in the Presentation slides you create under the Presentations Tab in EasyWorship.
At the top of the Foldback Options area is a checkbox that says Enable support for display Foldback (stage display). Checking this box allows EasyWorship to take advantage of a third video output to display content for stage monitors.
The Scripture Attributes window allows you to enable/disable support for displaying scriptures (turns EasyWorship's Scripture tab on/off) and customize the default settings for scriptures, i.e., the look and feel of scripture text and margins being displayed to your audience.
The Miscellaneous Options area allows you to enable/disable and customize Next Item Information, i.e., an abbreviated preview on the bottom of the display Foldback monitor of what's coming up on the next slide.
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