Is there a way to have Audio start at a specific time of day in a Pre Service Loop?
Hi Bob
This facility is not built into Proclaim but have you looked at Windows Task Scheduler
How would that start audio that is within Proclaim, with Proclaim already open?
Oh - I think I misunderstood what you were trying to accomplish - sorry.
Actually, as an alternative to Proclaim, I think I might try this on Sunday and see if it works for us. I would prefer to do it w/Proclaim though. Thanks!
The "Proclaim way" to do this is to add the audio to the warmup service section. The warmup section will automatically begin at the right time to be finished by the service start time.
I did realize that, but what we do is let that loop repeat for a longer period before the service begins. By so doing, when we include a song as an audio file, then it replays repeatedly and some people get tired of it. We could put in multiple songs, but then they would get repeated on some future Sunday. That is why I wanted to just have the song start at a particular time, say 5 minutes before the service, while letting the loop repeat.
That then is easily done.
Put enough announcements etc into the warm up loop to use up the time between the end of the song and the start of the service. You could even use a count down video for this.
Place the start of the song before these items in the warm up section.
So..
5 minutes before service time warm up start with song and audio.
Song lasts say 3 minutes
Show 2 minutes worth of count down / welcome slide etc
Start service.
The 'Preservice' loop will play until 5 minutes before the service when the 'Warm up' section will start with the song.
Be sure to turn the audio off at on the first item after the song.
OK, good ideas. Can you please tell me how I set a start time for the warm up? I can set one for the service, but I do not see that there is a way to do that for the warm up.
You don't! The 'Warm Up' time is a sort of inverse of Parkinson's Law.
We set the time of the service, we place items into the 'Warm Up' section and the 'Warm Up' sections expands (backwards in time) to allow all the items to be played through just once.
If the developers allowed us to do the calculations then... well the forums would be awash.
OK, thanks! I'll see how it goes.
