Propresenter Backgrounds Free Download
Nicodemo Aidara
As technology continues to play a massive part in how we do church, it can feel overwhelming to search for all the aspects we need from software programs to motion backgrounds. Many churches have moved away from hymn books in the back of pews, and towards lyrics on an LED screen. Whether you need images or videos to display behind your preaching message or graphics that fit the worship song perfectly, there are so many options for free worship backgrounds.
Thankfully, tons of websites have made their church motion graphics free to use! This means that you can search for just the right image or video, and download it, using it within seconds. Most of these websites have extensive image libraries with search bars to find exactly what you need. Below are the top 11 websites that provide free backgrounds with an optional fee for even more content.
As well as free motion backgrounds, Church Motion Graphics provides images for socials and other areas needed such as lower thirds. Their catalog has over 12,000 still and motion graphics to choose from. You can find graphics themed for holidays such as Easter or Christmas, as well as beautiful landscape or colored graphics. The possibilities are endless with Church Motion Graphics.
Motion Worship has a limited number of free motion backgrounds, and provide additional church motion graphics for a yearly subscription. When you download anything from Motion Worship, it is yours to use forever with a one time download. Under their pricing and info tab on their website, that is where you will find their free media resources to browse.
Pro Church Media works with Sermon Series Designs to curate religious themed photos from the website Unsplash. This takes away a good portion of the search time you would spend looking for just the right image. Organized by holiday, ministry, and countless others, you will have an easy time finding free still backgrounds. They have thousands of worship backgrounds, as well as a priced option for a monthly fee of $29 per month to unlimited access to their entire catalog. Not only will you unlock thousands of more videos and images, you will get access to editable psds, streaming and web licenses, and sermon templates.
Story Loop has a great search engine, able to search for aesthetics, key words, colors, topic or even scripture. They have hundreds of free worship backgrounds to download, as well as more options for a yearly fee.
Ministry Designs not only provides hundreds of free worship backgrounds, but they offer website design services for your church. They have free still backgrounds, and motion backgrounds, and each month new designs are added. There is no subscription required, everything is always free.
There is a free option for Propresenter, but it is not to be used outside of personal use. They have a special House of Worship license fee starting at $399. This software can be used for Mac or Windows and seamlessly displays lyrics, slides, and other media. Along with their software system, they have ProContent which was mentioned above and provides thousands of backgrounds. Propresenter has a beautiful new modernized interface that is easy to understand and use. From organizing slides, announcements, and videos, Propresenter is a great option to use for churches.
Videos2Worship focuses on motion backgrounds and stills and they have several hundred to choose from. Create a free account to download their free motions or pay $99/year to download everything.
The More Beats Please YouTube channel contains a variety of free motion backgrounds. You can browse by playlist until you find the right one, then just click the download link in the description to get your free motion background.
MediaShout has an archive of free media sets, including some sets containing motion backgrounds. The archive is regularly updated with new media sets, so more motion backgrounds will likely be added in the future.
I encourage all of us to manage our background libraries on an external drive or the computer hard drive (if you have a large enough one to give you working room). Organize your background library in this hard drive by creating folders for different types of backgrounds or packs.
For example, you could have a Nature folder for backgrounds of nature. A few other examples could be Stained Glass, Flares, Bokeh effects, etc. If you have a subscription to Church Motion Graphics, Visual Media Church, or something else where they host the previous packs for you then you might not store every background on a computer of yours however, sometimes these sites can go down so it is good to keep a good library of your own.
Hi Paul,
The lions share of our motion backgrounds come from digitaljuice.com. If you subscribe to their newsletter they offer some great sales from time to time. We also have some videos from 12inchdesigns.com and a still library from awakeimages.com.
The biggest drawback is the song database and organization. You can't organize songs into different collections, nor can you see all of the songs in your database in one place in order to do organization, cleanup, etc. When you pull in a song to your service order, you are editing that song everywhere it might be used, so you have to be careful about changing verse orders, words, attribution, etc. Additionally, song titles must be globally unique within the church group. In other words, you can't have two songs named identically where one is a congregational version and the other is a choral version. You have to differentiate somehow via the name.Faithlife has indicated they are working on a major upgrade to the song organization features, so I am hoping that this gets much better in the near future.Editing backgrounds, adding images, and editing smartmedia is a little confusing at first, so it really takes some getting used to. This aspect of the product could be made better.
Proclaim is web-based so everyone on the team has access to it wherever there are. It has proved the easiest Projection System that we have ever used. Even first time users have no trouble catching on and running the program.Proclaim continues to improve with new features. It has a generous amount of images for backgrounds, it includes surveys, games, announcements, and it becomes a digital bulletin with a Connection Card.Changes can be made while 'on air', videos are easy to import, the song database is easy to use. A light board can be connected to the songs themselves.
I don't really have anything negative to say about Proclaim, but if there was one thing to pick on, it would be the lack of media options. I expected the software to come pre-loaded with default media like still/moving backgrounds, wallpapers, audio files, etc, but there hasn't been much selection. HOWEVER, there is available media for purchase... which has ended up working out when needed in a pinch.
Commentaires :Mediashout let us create a more engaging service for our guests and congregation. We were able to not only have lyrics on the screen, but give them a wide variety of backgrounds and animations. Additionally we could automate some slides like our announcements to run on a timer until we were ready to proceed.And the ease of adding multiple media sources like audio and video gave us new avenues to share more content with our live audience.
I love being able to put video backgrounds behind lyrics on slides. It's a such cool effect. MediaShout is an amazing tool for presentations. I especially appreciate the song & scripture libraries that are independent of any backgrounds.
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.