Ok - fair warning... First post on the board
We have been raising funds for a new HD projection system and it finally was installed- on the Wednesday before Easter. The next day I decided to switch from Easy Worship 2009 to Proclaim- I really wanted to make good use of the system, and this product seemed the most capable, and it seemed to have matured A LOT since I last looked at it 3 yrs ago. Cool! Time to step up... Not the brightest move I've made as far as time to learn the system.
I'm the Sr. Pastor at an ELCA Lutheran church near Los Angeles, and am pretty techie... I sorted the software out pretty well on Friday and Saturday, except for Remote- our network had a secondary firewall that is protecting one of our network nodes... We got it running with a little Logitech hand-held remote- not pretty, but it worked.
Now, to my question... I've used projection systems almost exclusively for contemporary worship songs for a long time (I'm a guitarist, too), but sorting out how to effectively use Proclaim for a liturgical worship service (still using the LBW!) Is a challenge, and I haven't really seen it done. I have the announcement loop going well, and can use it in my message ok (really fun, actually), but using it in a way that isn't burdensome or obnoxious is a concern. I use it to announce hymns and special music, list the scripture, and page numbers in the text, and it put the Prayer of the Day up on the screen... What else do people use it for?
i tried using the on-screen Bible a bit, but just for single verses I want to focus on. i haven't sorted out Signals yet... Anyone using that in a liturgical setting?
Oh, and to report on my first full use with an iPad Air controlling things this morning- no problems at all!