

all under the $500 price range, it is easy to see why churches will dish out the cash for a mac when they begin shopping for high-end tech rather than sticking with free programs that can't perform as well or as reliably. With programs like Logic, Mainstage, Garageband, Imovie, Final Cut, etc. However, the general consensus in the millennial worship community is that mac is the end-all for churches. There are things that I love about it, and things that I just live with, as is the case with any operating system. Build your "Sunday morning playlist" by dragging and dropping in lyrics, slides, and other media.Ĭons: I have used mac pretty much my whole life. Last thing I want to hit on is the playlist system is very easy to use. Import images and videos and pull them up easily with their "bin" system. There are numerous options to enhance your presentation experience such as Bibles you can load on there and plugging in your Twitter feed. Just import it and set it up as you want it to look on the slides. So any new song that comes in we don't have to type up. We really enjoy the lyric import tool syncing with songselect. For sermons, you can build really nice slides in propresenter, or bring in your powerpoint slides to use as well. Lyric slides are robust giving you all the options you need to manipulate font and images. It's an investment, but you don't have to commit to monthly or yearly payments, which is very nice. First, this is a rare gem to have a one-time payment software. Pros: ProPresenter gives the church just about everything it needs to put on an excellent presentation on Sunday mornings, with lyrics, slides, announcements, countdowns.anything you need for service is at your fingertips. And it's been able to do everything that we've needed to do through not only here locally but even across the network and being able to do live feeds and live videos and handle all the things has just been exceptional. We have not had near as many issues with crashes or any problems like that. We were a little hesitant at first because of the cost, but after that it's been well worth the cost. One of the recommendations I would give is to at least give ProPresenter a try. And it's just been really easy as everything is prepared and then a volunteer comes in and literally just runs it and it works really well. So we have different volunteers that like to do things different ways but it all works together well. And one of the nice things that we like about ProPresenter are sometimes there are multiple ways to do different things. It was very user-friendly, all of our volunteers learned it very quickly. ProPresenter was so simple to integrate into our church. And then also we were able to mix in audio tracks directly through ProPresenter that worked with our band as well. Also had a ProRemote feature that we use when we didn't have always the necessary volunteers.

Also, it had some features such as a stage display that we were needing to use that worked well with our band. Also, we do a lot of live video feeds and a lot of heavy graphics and videos and so ProPresenter seem to handle that a lot better. Some of the reasons that we chose ProPresenter was that we were making some changes across our network and using Mac computers and ProPresenter was a lot more friendly and works with Mac better. And we had actually used that for a little bit, but it was not as user-friendly as we were liking and we were having some issues with crashing and not being able to handle the graphics and the videos that we were needing to use. One of the other softwares that we looked at was MediaShout.

Micah S.: Hello, my name is Micah and I am a location pastor.
