Need help configuring default settings

Jesse Koay

I am coming from Presenter by WorshipTools as well as EasyWorship and am trying to configure some defaults/replicate existing behavior

1. Default Font. I have a specific font and size I want to use. I configured a saved style, but that requires me to go in and change the style manually for each song. How can I set it to always automatically select the correct font and size? I tried configuring a song to spec and setting as default song, but that didn't seem to do anything. I tried going to Settings -> Default Media and there are no options to change the default font and size.
2. Default import as 2 lines. In Presenter, you could specify how many lines it places in a slide when auto importing from SongSelect. I want it to auto split slides up by 2 lines when importing a new song
3. Background shape. I want to set a 70% opaque dark grey rectangle behind the 2 lines of text to help make the text pop and be easier to read. I tried using the rectangle shape, which works, but it doesn't fill the width of the screen and the width changes size with each slide. How can I have that rectangle stretch from end to end on every slide to be more consistent?
4. Is there a way to display the slides on air so it's text only? In Easy Worship, it's easier to just work with the text rather than seeing the entire slide when some songs have 50+ slides

Mike Binks

Jesse Koay said:

Default Media and there are no options to change the default font and size.

Hi Jesse

1. I find the best way to do this is to set up a song with all the font, size, text boxes etc that I want and then set it as default media.

The only thing I change each week is the background which I change to match the occasion.

However you will need to re-set all existing songs to as, presuming you use 'Reuse Item' they will appear the same as they were last used.

Actually doing one or two a week works through the corpus quite quickly.

2. You can ensure only two lines per slide by splitting the text up into two line chunks with a space between them. Again 'Reuse Item' ensures this needs only done once per set of lyrics. BTW remind me not to join you for worship I simply hate not being able to read on ahead when I am singing to lines at a time would drive me to distraction.

3. Sorry don't know

4. Sorry don't understand.