![]() As a church worker/minister, I’ve used each one of these extensively. MediaShout for about 2 1/2 years, EasyWorship for about 2 1/2 years, and ProPresenter for about 6 months. And with each program (save Easyworship) I built it from the ground up and maintained it. right? Back to the main question – so many programs, all around the same cost, same “feature set”, which one should we use? So am I an expert? Oh I don’t know but I get paid to do it, so that makes me at least a professional. So my advice: go with MediaShout, my personal favorite.Ĭurrently at version 4.5, mediashout now offers the best value in it’s category. Native Quicktime support, countdown timers, adjustable stage displays, and even pdf cues (the ability to display pdf files) are just a view new tools it now offers. I won’t waste words telling about all the bugs, irritations, and problems with ProPresenter and EasyWorship. In a nutshell, EasyWorship is not suitable for any church over 100 people. ![]() It may be easy to set up, but it’s just not powerful enough and lacks the polish of a truly professional product. In the other corner is the mighty and acclaimed ProPresenter, who’s greatest strength is in name only. It’s reputation really gives it too much credit. For the most part, I have been quite pleased with it over the last year.It’s complicated, far too expensive (example – you must purchase the license for every Bible you want to use.), and has crashed on me numerous times. However, if you take time to learn the limitations and learn how to work within those limitations, and, if you don't expect it to do all of the things that ProPresenter can do then Proclaim is an amazingly awesome program. With that said, Proclaim is not perfect and there are limitations. However, if cost is a factor (ProPresenter is pricey itself, but is even more so when you take into account how many machines will run it, site licenses to run it in more than one location (main service, young adults service, youth) and upgrades) then I wil say that Proclaim is a great product. It's my understanding, though, that if you have the money (it's pretty pricey) and some tech-savvy people to run it, it is well worth it. I wasn't on the media team when we used MS, but those who were say they like Proclaim much better.įrom the people I know who have used ProPresenter they say it is absolutely awesome! I'm told it is very powerful, has lots of options, but has a steep learning curve. We switched to Proclaim about a year ago. This makes me want to continue to use it, but this morning I was close to uninstalling Proclaim! I also really like phone and tablet app for the audience. ![]() MediaShout does have a new app for the Ipad but not for Android tablets. Especially being able to run the software from a Tablet. There are other things too that frustrate me with Proclaim, but there are many advantages. If you use a different size background in Proclaim, you are stuck with bars. For example, in MediaShout if you have a background that is 16:9 and your output is 4:3 there are several options (including custom) to make it work. The frustrating thing about proclaim is that it has very few adjustments that you can make with the backgrounds. ![]() So proclaim is really nice - when it will sync. For some reason it would not sync files this morning - very frustrating! I really like to be able to build the script for Sunday morning without having to either be in the media office or needing to back it up to a thumb drive. Today was one of those days where Proclaim made me a little crazy. I really like parts of proclaim - I really like parts of MediaShout. But have tried out Proclaim for the last several months.
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