EasyWorship vs. Proclaim?

Can anybody give inputs on pros & cons on these two from their latest update model?

I know EasyWorship is way cheaper than the Proclaim's subscription based, have been around for awhile which means better reliability.

Can you guys share your experiences..

ps: I was delegated by the church to buy Easyworship today, but I was thinking of Proclaim also in my head.

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mike

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Lynden O. Williams

Proclaim is for online, multi user use. It allows you to integrate your Logos software into it. I would recommend that you Logos. You can download it, and try it for free.

Kevin A. Purcell

I would recommend that you Logos.

I agree, everyone should Logos. [:D]

I'm not that familiar with Easy Worship. It's been a very long time since I tested it. I can say that the biggest strength of Logos is the ability to create a presentation on one computer and have it just show up on the church computer once you open the app and then open the new presentation from the Open menu.

However, this brings a drawback. One must have an Internet connection on the PC used for the church, at least long enough to download the presentation.

As for the actual tool, building a presentation can be time consuming. It takes a lot of clicks to add things, make them look the way you want due to a lack of decent templates and no user created templates.

Logos excels at presenting Bible verses, lyrics with easy Song Select integration and slide shows or power point. One can also import videos in supported formats (I use MP4 most of the time).

It does not support video clips from a DVD and using YouTube means adding the webpage and playing it like one would on a webpage, which is not ideal.

Finally, my biggest complaint is that I can't import all my sermon pictures and then add scripture or video files between them. You simply can't do that which is why it takes a much longer time to create presentations with Logos than with other worship software I've used which does allow for this.

My second biggest complaint is that it takes way too many clicks to add things. In other software they integrate a file browser and I can drag and drop. Sometimes our choir presents concerts and I get a bunch of images that go along with the themes of the songs and I do a kind of karaoke where I just grab an image based on whats being sung or said and throw it up on screen. I won't be able to do this with Proclaim, which means the next concert will require me to grab the Windows PC, hook it up to the projectors (not a simple thing) and run the old software again.

I'm hoping the DVD and Youtube things will get fixed. I doubt they will ever fix the problem with too many clicks and the problem with not being able to put bible verses or videos between images in slide shows. It's as if the designers never build sermon presentations that don't just include bible verses. If they do, they don't have the authority or ability to change it because I'm quite certain that they would after using it for any length of time.

Finally, if you plan to buy get in quick. I think the pricing is about to double. They call it an end to the introductory rates, but that's just marketing speak. It will double regardless of what you call it if you don't get in soon and commit to a long term commitment.

mike

thank you for the comments..

the thing I don't like is that you required to have WiFi connection, our church doesn't have that yet.

I guess Proclaim's features hasn't really convinced me yet to buy, plus it is too early to buy a new product like this.. too many bugs reported in the proclaim forum.

I'll stick with easyworship 2013 for now