Blank specific monitor/projector

John-Rock Bilodeau

It would be great to have an option to blank out specific monitors tied to certain content items. For example as part of a service we have a short play and want to project the actors lines on the confidence monitor, but have the main display go to black, but for the rest of the service project to all projectors/monitors.

if we hide the text in the content slide, or set the font to black on black, it kind of works, however then the operator also can't see the slide content even though it's showing up on the confidence monitor

Tyler Rasmussen

I like this idea. We have to print a lot of leader items because there is text we don't want on the screens, but if it could show up on confidence without changing the screen, that would be amazing.


Though there is somewhat of a solution. Not exactly what you're looking for, and I find it a bit clunky because it can have the same problem you mention unless you're operator is trained to look at a second monitor whole running the screens, and I've never tested it on confidence.


What you can do is create another slide set like low thirds but name it something else, and then on certain slides you can change the text on this extra slide set. Then output the extra slides to whomever instead of confidence.


There is a weakness here however. If you have multiple slides in the main set (this is easy to test with the song or Bible slides) and your duplicate set has a different number of slides, Proclaim can't detect text patterns or be set to hold one screen at the same slide while the other changes - both screens move forward until they but the end of their set and then stay on the final slide until the other screen hits the end of its set. It would take thinking about to make to work right (either by duplicating text on one side to keep it from moving out adding in blank slides); doable but not simple.


Have you tried a non-confidence slide deck, remove background and set to black? It would be able to show its own set of text, but you would have to be careful that both sets of slides move forward at the rhythm you want.

Unknown

This is what I need right now with a play we are trying to perform. The work around I have is a bit cumbersome. I basically changed the Audience monitor display to not used when I have a portion of service that does not require the audience to see anything. Once we get through that portion of service, I change the display setting back to slides.

Unknown

I agree a more intuitive method would be nice. Like a check box or right-click menu option to not show a specific element of a content item to the congregation.

In the meantime, I'll share what I've done for this.
I created a new alternate view that mirrors the main view and send that to the screens in front of the congregation. The main view gets sent nowhere. In a song, I can put extra lyric bits like Ohs or echos and then delete those bits from the alternate view.  Or in the case of the OP's situation, I can make the text transparent, and it's still visible in the operator window as it will always show the main slide. Although you can switch the preview in the operator window to the confidence view, I assume you want to see what's on the upcoming slides too.


You have to get all your content together first because once you edit an element in the alternate view , it is forever separated from the main view. If you make significant changes to the main view , it's sometimes easier to click 'Restore Original' and delete again the content you don't want the comigration to see. 



Not related, but possibly helpful, I also have an alternate output going to our video switcher for lower thirds and other overlays (I like the little Amens to show up on stream). Some songs can't have lyrics displayed on stream, so once the band has settled their song arrangement, I then go into that alternate view and delete all the lyrics under each section heading. The headings names have to stay though.