It worked well, and it integrated with PowerPoint well, so that enabled us to get up to speed and do professional things very quickly. But MediaShout just was a better environment for our tech team than PowerPoint.įor us, MediaShout was a great starter on worship leadership software, and it was easy to train our crew. It also did integrate with PowerPoint, so when we built PowerPoint slides around lessons and sermons, it could easily take those and operate them. It easily enabled us to build a timeline and move through those things. MediaShout enabled us to integrate scripture, song lyrics. I give MediaShout a four, and for more reviews like this, click below.īefore MediaShout, we were using Microsoft PowerPoint, and PowerPoint is a very powerful tool. There are much cheaper options out there that provide better value.David W.: My name's David, I'm the pastor of a church. You don't have to pay the support fee if you want to stay on the current version, but then you don't even get bug fixes.
It's hard to find what you're looking for, UI elements look old and pixelated, and screen real-estate is used poorly.įinally, r-technics (the company that makes SSP) seems to be making minimal updates to the software at this point, while still charging hundreds of dollars per year to keep it up to date. SSP has evolved over time to incorporate various features, but the UI has been the same for 20 years. Second, the provides an extremely poor UX. Sometimes it would recover, other times it wouldn't, thus leaving you stuck.
Once a service was running, we tried not to make any changes to the database, as that could cause the entire application to hang without warning. We've had it crash numerous times in the middle of or just before a service. There are many reasons not to choose SongShow Plus. just throwing words on a slide, which made it easy to pick any part of the song you wanted for quick display. Songs were also built using Verse/Chorus/Bridge/etc parts vs. You could also customize aspects of a song within a particular service without impacting other places it might be used. The song database organization was designed decently, in that you could have multiple collections of songs within a database, and could easily create copies, duplicates, etc when needed. The past ten years or so have been frustrating in terms of using this for our services, and thankfully we finally replaced it with Faithlife Proclaim, which has been a MUCH more pleasant experience. The entire product needs an overhaul, but it seems unlikely that such a thing will happen any time soon. There have been no major releases in recent history.
However, the company seems to have no vision as to what church presentation software should be, so they just keep making small, almost worthless updates a few times a year.
Video projection improved when we moved the database to a local drive, but then we can't share it among presentation workstations.Ĭomentarios: When we started using SongShow Plus around 20 years ago, it was a decent system-about as good as others out there, though probably not quite as good as ProPresenter. Normally the database is on a file server connected by Gigabit ethernet. We have had problems with stuttering and freeze-ups when projecting video, but we're not sure if it's the program or the network. The display is almost infinitely customizable, but finding the setting you want can be difficult. The software is reliable, the only problems we have had during a service were network or media related, not SSP itself. Updating lyrics, reordering songs and announcements, importing slideshows and videos are all fairly straightforward.
We create programs for upcoming services and use them at practice, making mods as we go. Song lyrics, picture and video backgrounds, Bible quotations, video projection, Powerpoint, multi-screen handling, we use it all. It may not always be obvious or handy, but the capability is there.
If I need it in our church service, Songshow can do it. Apart from the video issues which we are still troubleshooting, it's a workhorse. We rely on it to produce a service where technical glitches do not distract from worship. Lista completa de Programas para hacer presentacionesĬomentarios: Have used it since the mid-2000s every week. Archivos de audio y vídeo bidireccionales