SundayWorship 1.2 provides two new options for searching for songs: by author(s) and by lyrics.
Searching for a song by author selects all songs that have the typed text in the Author(s) property. Searching for a song by lyrics selects all songs that have the typed text anywhere in the lyrics.
Here I’m searching for all songs with the word, “Wesley” in the author.
Note that the lyric searching may be slow when you have a 1000s of songs.
SundayWorship 1.2 can now capture live video from video cameras attached to your PC or laptop enabling you to project live video without having to leave SundayWorship.
To project live video, first select a camera from the list of video cameras on the Multimedia/Video tab. If a video camera is attached but not in the list of video cameras displayed, trying clicking the refresh (
) button. SundayWorship should be able to use any device recognised by Windows as a video camera such as DV cameras, Webcams and so on. If your camera is still not recognised, make sure it can be seen by other programs such as a video editor.
Once you’ve selected a camera the output will be displayed in the Preview View. Click the Send to live button (
) to transfer the camera to the live view.
Use the video controls to begin and end capture by clicking the Play and Stop buttons.
If your camera has a VCR mode, you can capture the playback of recorded video as well as live video.
SundayWorship 1.2 enables you to play video files, and to add them to your schedules. You do this through the new Videos tab on the Multimedia tab.
To open a video click the Open Folder icon (highlighted in red above) and select a folder containing MPEG (MPG), WMV or AVI files. The list of available video files will be displayed in the Videos list.
Select a video and it will be displayed in the Preview view along with a new set of video controls.
To preview the video before playing it to a congregation, use the controls at the bottom of the preview view. Note that by default audio will be enabled, so you may need to click the mute (
) button before clicking play (
).
In the bottom left of the display are two sets of numbers. The first shows the current playing position in hours, minutes and seconds (e.g. 01:05:12 for 1 hour, 5 minutes and 12 seconds). The second shows the total length of the video when available.
Use the slider on the right hand side to adjust the volume, and the long slider below the video to search through the video.
To show a video to the congregation, click the go live button (
).
The video will be transferred to the live view. If the projector view is showing, clicking the Play button in the live view will show the view to the congregation.
Controlling the video when live is done in the same way as for the preview.
With the preview, live and projector views it is possible to have three videos playing at once in SundayWorship. Though many modern PCs and laptops may be able to handle this kind of workload, lower powered PCs and laptops may not be able to.
If you find that video is not playing smoothly, first try stopping any video or slideshows running in the preview view.
If that doesn’t solve the problem there is a new setting that allows you to optimise playback on slower PCs. To enable this setting click Tools –> Options… then select the Multimedia tab.
Check, “Use playback performance optimisations” and then click OK.
Try playing your video again to see if the problem is resolved.
If that doesn’t work you may find that lowering the resolution of the display you are playing the video on will help.
In some circumstances it is possible that your PC or laptop is not fast enough to play video. Check whether Windows Media Player can play the same video without faults, if it can’t you will probably not be able to use SundayWorship to play that video.
In this release we don’t support using video backgrounds, or showing alerts when a video is playing.
(or does not play on the projector/second display)
Some video content – such as MPEG files – may require additional software to be able to decode them. This software, known as CODECs, is often included with DVD playing software such as PowerDVD but is not included with all versions of Windows.
You may need additional CODECs to play some video files.
A set of freeware CODECs can be found at K-Lite or DScaler.
Sometimes video may display on your secondary display when you play it in the Preview View, or may do so when the Live button is not clicked in the Live View.
This can happen when your video drivers are configured to automatically play video content on secondary displays. This is the default with some NVidia graphics drivers.
To disable this behaviour do the follow:-
For Windows 7
In Windows Vista
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of SundayWorship.
This release includes the following new features:-
You can download the latest version from here.
As with the release of v1.1 the next few blog posts will give some details of the new features.
Users of SundayWorship who have purchased a licence are entitled to a free upgrade to version 1.2.
If you find any problems with SundayWorship please send an email to our support address. You can find the address here.
SundayWorship 1.2 now supports playing video from files and connected video cameras. Video can be reviewed in the preview view and then displayed through your projector.
In addition to being able to search for songs by title, we now support searching for songs by author and lyrics.
You can now choose whether to display the reference for a scripture at all, whether to include the Bible version and where to display the reference.
The song export dialog now lists the authors of the songs in the database and can be sorted by author or title. This allows you to easily export lists of songs by author as well as by title.
In SundayWorship 1.2 we have introduced song mark up. By adding a tag to the start of a paragraph of text (e.g. a verse or chorus) you can use that tag to repeat the following block of text.
The tags are defined by the user, so you can identify any part of the song you want to be able to repeat. For example, you can identify multiple different choruses, verses that repeat or bridges.
The Romanian text we have been using has been found to have a number of issues (for example missing passages) that are being gradually corrected by a Romanian brother. We have included the latest version in this release.
During his lifetime Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley, wrote over 6000 hymns many of which have been favourites for over 300 years. Hymns such as “And can it be, that I should gain”, “Love divine, all loves excelling” and “Rejoice, the Lord is King” have been sung by Christians all over the world.
In the 1970s 120 of the hymns of Charles and John Wesley were collected in to a hymn book called, “Hymns of Eternal Truth.”
We have created a SundayWorship song database of these hymns so that they can be imported to your SundayWorship song database. Each song each labelled with its index in the Hymns of Eternal Truth so you can find it more easily.
To download the song database file click here.
To add the songs to SundayWorship follow these steps:-
SundayWorship v1.1 adds support for importing songs exported from EasiSlides.
To import your EasiSlides song database into SundayWorship you first need to export them from EasiSlides as follows.
To import the songs into SundayWorship follow these steps:-
SundayWorship v1.1 allows you to open and run Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from within SundayWorship. With this release we support PowerPoint 2003 & 2007.
To open a presentation in SundayWorship click File -> Open -> PowerPoint presentation.
The opened presentation will be added to the current schedule and the slides will be displayed in the preview view. You can look at the slides before showing them by clicking on a slide in the preview view.
To run the presentation you must first send it to the live view. To to this you can double click on the presentation file name in the schedule or click the Send to live toolbar button.
Once the presentation is in the live view, click the Live button.
The presentation will start running on the same display that songs and other items are being shown on.
You control the show as a normal PowerPoint presentation. When you close the presentation, return to SundayWorship.
SundayWorship allows you to run your presentation manually, or by using the slide show settings from the presentation. By default the slides in your presentation will be advanced when you click the mouse.
To run the presentation using the slide show settings right click on the presentation in the schedule, and click Properties. On the dialog click Use timings, if present and then click OK.
Double click the presentation to send it to the live view, and then click Live to start it running. The presentation will run use the Slide show settings from the presentation.
We are very pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of SundayWorship.
This release adds two major features to SundayWorship.
You can download the latest version from here.
The next couple of blog posts will explain how to use these new features.
We are pleased to announce that the online store is now live.
Using the online store to buy Sunday Worship is easy and safe. Visit the Buy Now page and then enter your email address in the box provided and click the “Buy Now” button. You will then be taken to PayPal to pay for the software (PayPal accepts all major credit cards). Once you have paid, your serial number and license key will be sent to your email address.
Sunday Worship costs just $46 (about £30 / €34).
We are very pleased to announce the V1.0 release of Sunday Worship.
The normal monitor shows the SundayWorship.net software which allows songs, scriptures and multimedia files to be selected, previewed and queued for displaying on the projector.
The congregation see what they need to ease worship while the operator can prepare for what is coming next.
There is a 30 day trail available on the download page and if you want to buy a copy please visit our online store.