Three Major Workflow Issue That Are Stopping Us from Switching to Proclaim
Logos Peeps: I love what you are doing, and I know that other people have mentioned similar things, but I need to point out that there are some major workflow issues that exist even in 1.0
Proclaim seems to be geared as a way of streamlining the process of presentation, but I haven't found this to be true. Right now we are sticking with Keynote over proclaim because Proclaim still has major workflow issues that kill its usefulness to our church. Maybe Proclaim is meant to be used in large churches where there are numerous support staff who can take an hour or two to work on the ppt but we can't. And until things are fixed I'm not willing to introduce a new software package to our volunteers.
Here are the three big reasons we can't go with Proclaim:
1.There are no user created presets: Unless your church uses the free defaults or buys another one, there is no way of having your own preset presentations. Presets for Songs, Bible verses and everything else. If Logos can make a preset, if one of Logos' financial partners can make a preset, then the customer needs to be able to do the same thing. Telling me I can just use last week's is not good enough. During special seasons in the church when we are doing lots of different services a lack of presets means we will have to start from scratch with each service. This is a time killer when we don't have extra time.
2. Background changes should not effect fonts. Its seriously a time killer to change the background and then have to go into the customization just to change the font colors back to what they had been.
3. Different font options for Texts, Bibles Vrs and Songs. I can use a drop shadow on a song, but not on a Bible verse. This means that sometimes I can't use the same backgrounds, and so I have to spend even more time messing with stuff.
It takes me 20 minutes to make each presentation using Keynote, I've tried to make several with Proclaim and each time it has taken me almost twice as much time. Please keep working on this, but please consider the workflow problems that exist before you guys move on to adding additional features.
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Ditto... we're still using Keynote to make our basic presentations simply because the user interface on Proclaim isn't great. Presentation is good, creation, not so much.
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Great points - we need presets....I'll go even farther and say that we really need a place within the program to set defaults for things like text layout, etc. Starting to create knowing that every single item will need to be "customized" each and every time is a workflow killer.
Also - completely agree on the background/font integration thing. It needs to stop :-)
Good thread that I already can identify with even after just starting to use the program.
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