Confidence monitor during PowerPoint

Mel

Hi All,

I have just upgraded our av system at church to include a tv on the back wall for a confidence monitor.

It's great for all service items except when transferring control to PowerPoint.

This is mainly for guest speakers who have prepared their presentation in PowerPoint and include animations, like the text appearing one line at a a time.

In this instance the congregation sees the text appearing one line at a time, but the speaker sees only a thumbnail of the slide which has all the text visible.

This has led to confusion for the guest speakers, who are constantly turning around to look at the main screen to confirm how much of the text is visible at that moment.

I can't find a way to fix this, which will mean I will have to duplicate the main display on the tv and not use the confidence monitor output al all

Is there a way to simply get the presenter view from PowerPoint to show on the confidence monitor while proclaim has transferred control to PowerPoint?

David Thomas

Mel said:

Is there a way to simply get the presenter view from PowerPoint to show on the confidence monitor

Proclaim has a "presenter view" but I personally have found it of minimal use --it has TOO MUCH info to be seen clearly from stage to back of room (if a floor confidence monitor were available closer to the stage, I could see its feasibility)

This doesn't actually mimic the "presenter view" built into PowerPoint. I believe the strategy of Proclaim is to get users to move beyond PowerPoint to the intricacies of Proclaim Presentations. In order to make things smoother for your staff (volunteers?) AND the speaker, we request any visuals from a guest to be made available to the church 48 hours in advance so that they can be imported into Proclaim (including "reveal" settings).

alternatively, we just installed an HDMI wall plate on the stage connected that allows a guest to plug a laptop/iPad through AppleTV directly to our front of house projector. Our AV guys have a remote that changes the front projector from input D to input B and the guest is in control of the projector. When the guest is done, AV guys switch back to input D and they are in control for the rest of the service.

Just the 2 ways we have incorporated this "guest speaker" challenge