Open LP - free presentation program

Empower Your Church

Your church was just given a data projector and you want to use it to display the lyrics of songs. You were thinking of using PowerPoint, but after a test found it very unwieldy. Then someone suggested that you look at certain commercial lyrics projection, but when you looked at the price tag, you knew your church could not afford that kind of money. You begin to wonder if you should just go back to hymn books and just leave projection of song words to bigger churches who can afford to do it.

Unlimited Freedom

openlp.org is free. And it's not just a below-standard freebie thing, it's a powerful, elegant open source application. What does that mean? It means that the code that the developers write is available to you. But more than that, it means that openlp.org is, and always will be, free. Free to download, free to use, free to give to all your friends. Unlimited freedom, like the freedom we find in Christ.

Some of the features you'll find in openlp.org 1.0 (from RC4):

• Add and edit songs.
  Preview songs, Bible verses and images.
  Comes with two translations of the Bible - KJV & ASV.
  Import a Powerpoint presentation (PowerPoint XP/2002 and up required).
  Present your presentation from within openlp.org.
  Show videos.
  Show images.
  Slide themes, with gradient, image and colour backgrounds, fonts & font effects.
  Import and export of themes.
  Saving and opening of Orders of Service.
  Announcement pop-ups.
  Custom slides.
  Multiple Bible verses per slide.
  Themes set either globally, per Order of Service or per song.
  Import Bibles from CSV files.
  Search through all words in every song in database for a certain word or phrase.
  Search through all words in a book of the Bible for a certain word or phrase.
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Features planned for openlp.org 1.2 and later:

OpenOffice.org integration.
Text over video.

IWORSHIP - Worship Software for your MAC

IWORSHIP

Boasting a slick and intuitive interface and rock solid stability, iWorship brings professional lyric presentation to your Mac. With an interface so simple, training volunteers to use the program is a breeze. And you don't have to sacrifice ease of use for powerful features: iWorship features built in song library management, high-definition video playback support, and much more!

Live Video Playback

Have your own simple one-camera IMAG setup, even on a low budget! Plug in any compatible USB or Firewire camera and iWorship will stream the image LIVE underneath your lyrics. Unlike other programs, iWorship's live video playback has no noticeable image lag!

Integrated DVD Player

Run clips from a DVD in your service without leaving iWorship. You can even cue up a clip before the service and turn off the playback window. When you're ready, your clip will automatically resume right where you left off!

Full High-Definition Video Playback

Press the "Media" button at the top of the window and a full media player swoops down allowing you to play back videos, pictures, DVDs and even live video. iWorship includes full high-definition support at no cost -- limited only by your hardware. Play motion backgrounds behind your lyrics to enhance your worship atmosphere or even play back sermon illustration videos without having to leave iWorship and rely on another program!

Powered by Quartz

iWorship's media functions such as live video playback and video backgrounds are powered by Apple's Quartz technology. Instead of relying on Quicktime, Quartz allows immediate access to the core layers of functionality on your graphics card and CPU. This means greater stability, better performance, and more future possibilities. Quartz is now being used in most of Apple's programs such as iMovie, iPhoto and PhotoBooth for these very reasons.

Blazing Fast Editing!

Editing your worship song on the fly is incredibly fast and easy. Simply drag and drop the slides to change their order in the song. Double click any slide to edit the contents directly in the slide. Not having to move to a different window to edit the slide means incredibly fast editing even live during a presentation. iWorship also features built in live spell check that happens as you type. Simply put, the speed at which you can edit your presentation in iWorship simply can't be beat.

Import Lyrics from Anywhere

iWorship allows you to import your song lyrics for presentation from just about any source. Found the lyrics on the web? Copy it to the clipboard and iWorship will create a song for you and automatically separate it into individual slides. You can also import from almost any text document including Word documents!

Don't Worry, It's Safe!

One more reason to have a .Mac account: iWorship will automatically backup your song and media library to your iDisk using the free plugin for Apple's Backup program. In addition, iWorship was designed to not rely on a central database containing your entire library as other programs do. This means faster access times and less risk of a "database corruption" causing you to lose

Music Masterworks - Vocal Training Software for your Music Ministry

Software that would help your church choir and singers to the highest praise of voice. Technology the could enhance our Music Ministry.

Vocal lessons couldn't be easier - just let Music MasterWorks singing software be your vocal coach. Start Music MasterWorks, load in a MIDI file, select the notes you'd like to sing (by left-clicking with the mouse and dragging over the notes, or by pressing shift and using the arrow keys), and hit the 'Check your singing' button in the lower right corner: Singing Lesson Analysis Software Program

A screen will appear that will show the general range of notes that you've selected for your singing lesson, in relation to piano keys. The notes you selected appear as blue bars for the vocal lesson. Now, start singing into your pc microphone. A graph (shown as the green line) will start to appear of the pitch you are singing (shown in relation to notes). At the end, this singing program will show another screen telling you how close your singing came to the actual notes. Training your voice has never been easier!

You may need to transpose the section of music to fit into your voice range. You can do that in Music MasterWorks by selecting 'Edit'-'Transpose' then you can enter the direction (up or down) and number of octaves and/or half steps to move the selection.

Get a singing lesson whenever you want with Music MasterWorks!

Make your own music with Music MasterWorks:
o Create and Print sheet music.
o Easy music editing & printing in either staff notation or piano roll scores.
o Point and click mouse interface to make writing music simple.
o Voice-to-Note conversion. Just sing into your microphone to create music!
o A singing lesson feature using a tune you select.
o 'Basic Mode' so you don't need to worry about the complexities of writing music.
o MIDI note & audio wave recording and playback.
o Saves to standard MIDI ('.mid' file) notational format, can be opened in almost all other music programs.
o Convert your MIDI notational song to a wave file (so you can burn your song to a CD).
o Configurable keys for the music editor, to write music quickly with the keyboard.
o Instrument Selection.
o Special Effect MIDI Controller editing (Expression, Sustain, Timbre, Brightness, etc.)
o Filtered editing and viewing.
o Chord iteration.
o Transpose and Quantize your music.
o Lyrics.
o Accidentals.
o Slurs.
o Web page music features: volume change by % and midi file append.

Easyworship 2007

Great worship software to be used in your church. Upgrade now!


EasyWorship is designed to easily display songs, scriptures, videos, and alerts to your congregation with little or no distractions. This is accomplished by utilizing a video graphics card with two outputs. One video signal is sent from the first output to the working monitor at the computer. The second output is sent to the projector and to the congregation. This allows the operator to control all aspects of the service and only show the congregation what they need to see for effective worship.

Basic EasyWorship requirements:

* Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista
* 500 MHz Pentium II Processor or equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* 100 MB free disk space
* CD-ROM Drive
* Two video cards or a dual head video card

Additional requirements for DVD/Text Over Video/Video Transitions:

* 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 Processor or equivalent
* 7200 RPM hard drive with 100 MB free disk space
* Available DVD drive and recommended codecs
* Dual output AGP or PCI Express video graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated non shared video RAM

These 64 MB cards may also give good results for text over video:

* nVidia 64 MB RAM Dual Output cards
* ATI Radion 9700 64 MB dual output card
* Intel 82855 64 MB dual output card (if you have a fast processor)

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 11

This is great for church video editing tools, a lot features that could bring your video preaching into eye opening and heart touching word of God.

Pinnacle Studio DVD format disc burning & Hi- Ultimate combines the new release of the best-selling consumer video editing software, Studio Plus Version 11, with popular professional audio and video tools. It has the latest technology such as a complete HD workflow, with native HDV and AVCHD editing and HDFi audio music capabilities. True video enthusiasts will harness the power of the latest technologies without compromising ease of use. Pinnacle Studio Ultimate includes SoundSoap audio cleaning tools, professional level special effects from ProDADVitaScene, precision Panning and Zooming with StageTool MovingPicture & a ChromaKey green screen backdrop. The BIAS SoundSoap Pinnacle Edition audio noise cleaning tools & complete Dolby Digital 5.1 audio encoding ensure your movie creations will sound as good as they look. The sleek new user interface is perfect for working on today's wide screen monitors and the new Web publishing feature makes it easy to share your movie creations publicly or privately. Scorefitter music generator creates soundtracks, with 40 source tracks & 48k audio samples Simplified Web publishing - share your video creations on the Web publicly on Yahoo! Videos or privately Improved speed and performance - installs and exports faster files Windows Vista compatible.

Media Shout V3

The best presentation program available and software of choice of notorious worship leaders such as Chris Tomlin for his concerts.


IMPORTANT: It is good to evaluate the software but if you plan to use it frequently in your local church I suggest you purchase a license, along with the church CCLI.



Features

* Total control: dual-monitor design ensures that the audience sees only what you want them to see
* Song lyrics: display the words to any song in any order
* Bible passages: select and show any passage instantly, in any of 52 versions
* Text: create and present announcements and message points ... or use a virtual blackboard for instant, live text
* Video: no tapes, play video files, DVD clips and external video feeds on their own or as backgrounds to other cues
* Graphics: display photos, illustrations, drawings, maps, and more
* Animations: play Flash files on their own or as motion backgrounds for lyrics, Bible verses and other text screens
* PowerPoint: play PPT files straight from MediaShout without switching programs
* Web pages: display web pages full-screen to the audience
* Sound: play music, sound effects, MP3, MIDI and more

Easislides - Free Worship Projection Software

EasiSlides is a FREE Song Projection Software designed for projecting lyrics and Bible texts, with a video projector, onto a large screen during Christian Worship












Easislides General Features

Dual-Lingual Lyrics
Project lyrics in two different languages at the same time, should you have such lyrics in your database, for multi-lingual services .

Multimedia Support
Play Audio File or Video Background and Live Feed from an attached Camcorder along with the lyrics. Alternatively you can use our slide backgrounds, gradients or your own images.

Praisebook Generator
Print your own Praise and Worship Books.

Three Monitors Output
Output for Operator, Congregation and Choir/Musicians .

Html Generator
Produce all the necessary files to publish the lyrics on your church website.

Notations
Add notations, such as guitar chords to the lyrics.

Auto Rotate
Let the slides rotate automatically using timers, in step with a media file.

Alerts
Run Alerts during a live praise session, for example Nursery Alerts.

Bible
Search, Integrate and Run bible verses from the bible database. Add and Remove your own Bible Translations and Versions.

Formatting
Format your text and position your lyrics

Palm Bible+

Palm Bible+ an open source project, but it is very well done.It was developed in 2003 out of an exension to the original Bible Reader by Poetry Poon and has since become one of the most famous pieces of software for users of Palm, Sony, GSL, and Handspring branded Palm OS mobile devices. In addition to providing a free Bible reader, the Bible+ website also serves as a portal for various resources and discussions towards developing and dissemenating electronic Biblical resources.














Bible+ Features

* Fast Display Engine
* Cross-references (double-tap the verse number)
* Fast book selector, completely-Graffiti Goto
* Fast (ARMlet) search engine with transliteration, stop and resume
* Notes page for fast notetaking (with export to MemoPad)
* Built-in languages: Hebrew, Accented Greek, Interlinear Greek,

"Thin" font
* Simultaneous Hebrew or accented Greek with Chinese
* Large Font option
* Copy word/verse/screen to clipboard
* Snapshots for search and navigation
* Highlighted bookmarks on color devices
* Extensive Graffiti shortcuts
* Footnote support
* Drag Scrolling
* Dual Version Display
* Browser-like operation
* Customizable Preferences
* Sony CLIE HiRes+, Landscape HiRes+, and HiRes (with FontHack123)
* Palm Dynamic Input Area (320x480 and 480x320)
* Runs on Palm OS 3.5 and up
* Dictionary lookup on double tap via Plucker Plugin Interface (PPI)
* Auto-off, and
* Auto-scroll

7 points in setting up a laptop computer and LCD projector for the Ministry

1. Begin by setting up the peripheral devices and power supply for your laptop/computer. This includes the keyboard, mouse, IR mouse and power supply. Do not turn the power to the computer on yet.

2. The picture shows a typical setup for a laptop computer. The black box and cable to the right of the computer is the power supply. The IR mouse equipment is to the left of the equipment, which includes a remote control and an IR receiver. Connect the IR mouse receiver to the 9 pin serial port of the laptop. Connect the power supply to the 9-12 VDC jack. See picture to see what jacks to plug into.

3. Use the VGA male to male cable provided to interconnect the laptop and the LCD projector. The cable looks like this:

4. Plug one end of the VGA cable into the 15 pin "monitor out" jack of the laptop. It is the blue colored jack on the right side of the computer shown in the picture .

5. Plug the other end of the VGA cable into the "RGB 1" input jack on the LCD projector. See picture below to determine the location of this jack. Most projectors have two RGB inputs. This allows the user to connect more than one computer to the projector at a time. If you wish to use this option, simply plug the monitor output of the second computer into the "RGB 2" input. Then, you can use either the monitor or the control panel on the projector to toggle between the two inputs. Remember, computer signals use the RGB inputs only! Be sure that you have the appropriate RGB input selected when projecting one or more computer images.

6. Once all connections have been made, you may proceed to power up all devices. This is accomplished by activating the power button on the laptop and the "Standby/On" button on the projector. Once you have power to the devices and the computer has booted up, the projector should automatically sense the active input and display the appropriate image. If it does not, you need to use the remote control or the control panel on the projector to select the proper input.

7. You may need to command the computer where to send the monitor signal. This is accomplished by holding the "Function" key and pressing the "F3" key. This will toggle between 3 options: Monitor, Projector, or both. If you wish to see the display on both the projector and the monitor, hold the "Function" key and then press the F3 key until the display is being projected and also is on the laptop's monitor.

"OpenSong" Free Church Presentation Software

OpenSong is a free, open-source software application created to manage lyrics, chords, lead sheets, overheads, computer projection, and more.

OpenSong releases are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux operating systems.

Download the full application for free and give it a try!

Chord/Lyric Sheets

• Automatically transpose chords to any key
• Print sheets with regular chords and capo-ed chords together
• Customize any font face, size, bold, italic, underline, etc. for any sheet elements including title, author, chords, lyrics, copyrights, and more.
• Keep track of a song’s title, author, copyright, ccli #, tempo, time signature, theme, focus, capo position, user defined fields, and more!

Live Presentations

• Present any song, specifying the order of slides, such as verse 1, then chorus, then verse 2, then the chorus again, etc.
• Present any passage of the Bible verse by verse
• Present a timed loop of slides, for use in situations such as automatically displaying announcements, verses, Q&As, etc.
• Present any combination of songs, scriptures, or loops back-to-back using sets.
• Fully customize font styles and sizes as well as shadowing and outlining for easy reading against colorful backgrounds
• Change the background color or background image to any image file

Background Packs

• Flower Set 1
• Landscapes Set 1
• Landscapes Set 2
• Nature Set 1
• Nature Set 2
• Sky Set 1
• Sky Set 2

Song Packs

• Song Pack 1.1

• bm_songs.zip About 200+ songs in Malay/Indonesian [200 lagu dalam Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia]

• iban_songs.zip Songs in Iban [Lagu dalam Bahasa Iban]

Bible Translations

Chinese

• Chinese Union Version

English

• The Amplified Bible
• Contemporary English Version (updated)
• English Standard Version (updated)
• King James Version
• The Message
• New American Standard Bible
• New International Version
• New King James Version
• New Living Translation (updated)
• Modern King James Version

Filipino/Tagalog

• Tagalog 1905

French

• French Louis Segond 1910
• French Semeur 2000
• French Darby

Romanian

• Versiunea Dumitru Cornilescu

German

• Schlachter 1951 Rev. 3a Entpackte Datei einfach in das Scripture Verzeichnis kopieren
• Elberfelder 1905 Rev. 5 Entpackte Datei einfach in das Scripture Verzeichnis kopieren
• Deutsche Einheitsübersetzung - etwas aufwendig, aber es lohnt sich.
• Grünewaldbibel 1924 - Alternativ selber erstellen. Dazu unter http://www.runge-idstein.de/OLB/index2.htm bei “Links zu Bibeln im PlainText-Format” die Grünewald-Bibel ins *.txt-Format konvertieren. Danach mit dem auf der gleichen Seite angebotenen Konverter die Bibel ins *.xml-Format konvertieren.
• Lutherbibel 1545 - die älteste deutschsprachige Bibel.
• Rev. Lutherbibel 1984 (1999) - die Luther-Bibel in verständlicherem Deutsch. Befindet sich auf der Brockhaus CD Die Bibel 2007 (ca. 4 Euro).
• Konkordantes NT 1939 - Im rechten Rahmen oben mit rechter Maustaste auf den Link ‘Text des KNT als Bibelmodul im Zephania-XML-Format...’ gehen. Dann mit ‘Link speichern unter’ die *.xml-Datei auf dem Rechner speichern.
• Hoffnung für Alle NT 1983 - Konvertierung wie bei Grünewald-Bibel
• Johann Alfred Bengel NT 1974 - Konvertierung wie bei Grünewald-Bibel
• Abraham Meister NT - Konvertierung wie bei Grünewald-Bibel
• Rev. Elberfelder 1992 - befindet sich auf der Brockhaus CD Die Bibel 2007 (ca. 4 Euro).
• Rev. Elberfelder 2006 - befindet sich auf der Brockhaus CD Die Bibel 2007 (ca. 4 Euro).
• Deutsches Bibelübersetzungs-Projekt der Universität Freiburg (*.xml-Format wird von Opensong akzeptiert und konvertiert)

Spanish

• Nueva Version Internacional

• La Biblia de Las Americas

• Biblia Reina Valera 1960

Church presentation software for your ministry

Free

OpenSong is a free, open-source software application created to manage lyrics, chords, lead sheets, overheads, computer projection, and more. OpenSong releases are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux operating systems.

qSong: Lyrics database program with multimedia features for worship musicians. Exports to ChordPro, PDF, HTML and TxT. Avaliable for Windows and Linux.

Free Worship Software: Free Worship is software for displaying lyrics on church video projection systems. It performs a similar function to well known presentation programs such as Microsoft’s Powerpoint, but has been specifically written to make lyric projection easier.

PowerWorship: Add-in Program For Powerpoint. Allows User To Maintain A Library Of Worship Songs And To Quickly Build Worship Slide Shows. Easy to use and Saves time. Great for the Church’s Praise and Worship.

PraiseBase: Store your chord charts, lyrics, midi and MP3. Create “sets” of songs as you plan your worship services. Track your contact information for team members.

Songsheet Generator: Songsheet Generator is an application which prints songsheets and songbooks for home, small group, or large group overhead use. The program now runs on Microsoft Windows (native .exe), and Mac OS X (Java-based native .app).

Paid

EasyWorship: EasyWorship is worship software designed specifically for churches to project worship songs, videos, scriptures, and PowerPoint presentations during worship service. Overlay text on video. EasyWorship was rated #1 worship software for displaying songs.

MediaShout: MediaShout is one of the simplest, most powerful [not to mention most expensive] media for ministry presentation tool available. Use in church, at youth group, at big events. Present your message with song lyrics, Bible verses, flash animations, video, and more!

Worship Assistant is affordable software designed to help church worship leaders plan services and present song lyrics using a video projector.