I’ve also attached a playlist of their great video tutorials. Check out their website for a complete list of the new features in version 5. They even offer iPad apps to control your presentations. We can even display a countdown timer for a certain long-winded preacher 🙂 It also features a great text reflow feature as well as integration with Planning Center Online.

We will also have the ability to have different information displayed on the rear wall for our praise team. I’m really looking forward to using prop layers for logos and other overlays on the screen. ProPresenter has really become the market leader balancing both ease of use with tons of power. So we have chosen to go with ProPresenter 5 running on a 27″ iMac computer.

Unfortunately, Easyworship seems to have stalled in development, with the planned 2010 update still not on the market. We finally are upgrading our computer and software to allow us to do even more with our video system. We started using Easyworship running on a used PC we bought for $300 five years ago. We project song lyrics, testimonies, photos, video clips, and even occasionally live video. Video has been an integral part of our church services for the last six years.