Bob and Faithlife Dream Team, please do just ONE thing for me,,,,,Just ONE

I continue to be amazed with all of the features that Faithliife has rolled out. Just when you think there's nothing left to bring to the table, you guys come up with more stuff. Thank you for all the advancements you guys continue to make.

I just have one request. With all the amazing features you guys are developing, this should be very easy to do, and I know that there are many people who would be thankful...

I can't help but think that the developers of the Visual Copy feature don't use the feature much, or at least are not pastors who teach on a regular basis. I say this because, although the refresh to Visual Copy in Logo 7 is very nice, you guys left out an important feature. It would be so very nice if Visual Copy would take an entire passage and create one slide for each verse. It's a hassle to have to do this manually now. It would be nice, for example, to select all of Romans 8, click on Visual Copy, and have L7 produce a slide for each verse individually. Without this feature, Visual Copy is only partially beneficial.

I've discussed this with Bob before, and he has pointed me toward Proclaim. Our church does use Proclaim, and we enjoyed it. But I teach in a couple of colleges and universities, and other places that don't use Proclaim. I also don't use Proclaim for Sunday night teachings at my church. In all of these circumstances, I must make slides one verse at a time. Please consider adding the ability to make multiple slides with just one click in Visual Copy. I know there's probably a million reasons why this is difficult to accomplish, but it's got to be much easier than the difficulty level experienced in developing all of these amazing features that have came out of Logos 6 and L7.

So please, please put this feature enhancement into consideration and then implementation. I would forever be in your debt.

God bless!

Myke

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mike

Agree..I've been asking for the ability to change the font-size and font-color for a long time...

How could a big software like Logos not include font-adjuster for Visual Copy, when things like these are so commonly used.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840218#Comment_840218

I highlighted Acts 18 and sent to visual copy, it created slides of the first two verses.

Graham Criddle

You can get pretty close to this using the Sermon Tool.

Create a new Sermon Document and enter "Romans 8" on a blank line and press Enter.

This will automatically populate the document with the chapter and automatically create slides.

These can then be exported to Proclaim or PowerPoint.

Having just tried this it looks as though most verses are on individual slides, they are just a couple of cases with two verses per slide.

You don't get verse numbers - although you could add these if exporting to Proclaim.

Worth looking at as I think it gives you a lot of what you are asking for

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840218#Comment_840218

I've been asking for the ability to change the font-size and font-color for a long time...

In addition to this, I would like the ability to align text to my preference (center, justify, right-align etc). And it is just me, or is Visual Copy no longer showing under the Tools menu?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840230#Comment_840230

And it is just me, or is Visual Copy no longer showing under the Tools menu?

Replaced / enhanced with the Media Tool

You will still see "Visual Copy" in the right-click menu

JT (alabama24)

I can't help but think that the developers of the Visual Copy feature don't use the feature much, or at least are not pastors who teach on a regular basis.

I agree with your suggestion (it SHOULD be implemented!), but I think that is pretty harsh... Especially since not everyone who preaches or teaches would have need for the feature.

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840232#Comment_840232

And it is just me, or is Visual Copy no longer showing under the Tools menu?

Replaced / enhanced with the Media Tool

Thanks Graham - I see it now. I know about the right-click but I also used Visual Copy to create slides with my own text, so I used it from the Tools menu as well.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840228#Comment_840228

You can get pretty close to this using the Sermon Tool.

Create a new Sermon Document and enter "Romans 8" on a blank line and press Enter.

This will automatically populate the document with the chapter and automatically create slides.

These can then be exported to Proclaim or PowerPoint.

Having just tried this it looks as though most verses are on individual slides, they are just a couple of cases with two verses per slide.

You don't get verse numbers - although you could add these if exporting to Proclaim.

Worth looking at as I think it gives you a lot of what you are asking for

Thanks for the work around.

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840233#Comment_840233

I can't help but think that the developers of the Visual Copy feature don't use the feature much, or at least are not pastors who teach on a regular basis.

I think that is pretty harsh... Especially since not everyone who preaches or teaches would have need for the feature.

I sincerely apologize. I never want to come across harsh, argumentative, or condescending in these forums. It really bothers me when I see those types of attitude expressed in the forums, and I never want to be guilty of, or misunderstood as, having conveyed those attitudes in my posts.

That wasn't my intention and wasn't even a consideration when I wrote this. But this does serve as a reminder to be careful so as to write in such a way that my comments cannot be misconstrued.

My apolgies everyone.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840257#Comment_840257

That wasn't my intention and wasn't even a consideration when I wrote this.

I didn't think it was. [:)]

Eli Evans (Logos)

I can't help but think that the developers of the Visual Copy feature don't use the feature much, or at least are not pastors who teach on a regular basis.

We have had a number of bi-vocational developer/pastors. They tend to leave us to become full-time pastors, though!

t would be so very nice if Visual Copy would take an entire passage and create one slide for each verse.

Agreed! This feature is planned for 7.x incremental release, basically as soon as we can finish it. (There were a number of sub-features for the Media tool that didn't make the 7.0 cut that will appear in 7.1, 7.2, and so on. This is one of them.)

I know there's probably a million reasons why this is difficult to accomplish,

Not really difficult on its own, but has to be done in a certain order. We had to update the old VC rendering service to allow for overflow onto multiple slides first (which shipped) and rearrange the VC user interface fairly significantly to allow for previews of said overflowed renderings (which also shipped), and only then is it even possible to start on building various slide rendering styles such as one slide per verse.

Hope that helps!

Pastor Shawn D

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840257#Comment_840257

Absolutely not Myke! That was not harsh at all! FL has asked for feedback and this is a very practical way to improve their product. I am a Pastor and use "Visual Copy" every week. It is very laborious in how it works and your suggestion would speed up my work time considerably. Thank you for putting this out there and I give a heartily +1

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840279#Comment_840279

Eli, while we have your attention, may we have a template that allows us to import a photo and have it look like it came from Faithlife. Too many authors that the user may want to put in visual copy.

Eli Evans (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840279#Comment_840279

(FWIW, I heard "passion" not "harshness." We're very grateful for the feedback, as always.)

Eli Evans (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840284#Comment_840284

Eli, while we have your attention, may we have a template that allows us to import a photo and have it look like it came from Faithlife. Too many authors that the user may want to put in visual copy.

Uploading your own background images to the Media Tool is on the 7.x roadmap, but I can't say exactly when yet.

Uploading foreground images (a photo to lay on top of a template) is a feature of Proclaim today, and might be a feature of Media Tool in the future, but that's less certain. I expect foreground images to come some time after custom backgrounds.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840295#Comment_840295

Thanks Eli. It is on the road map. Hope it stays on the road and not get bumped off. Will wait. I know these things take time, and there are many irons in the fire.

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840266#Comment_840266

That wasn't my intention and wasn't even a consideration when I wrote this.

I didn't think it was.

Thanks man,,,and thanks esp for pointing that out to me. I really get discouraged with the attitudes that some (a few specific repeat offenders come to mind), and that often keeps me off the forums. People can be very rude and cruel on these forums, eps when they are lashing out at Bob or at FL employees. And when their cruelty is pointed out, they could care less. I guess Im naive, but I am of the opinion that if we offend others it should bother us and prick our hearts so that we want to make it right and correct our attitudes. IDK...like I said, maybe I am naive.

But I don't ever want to be thought of in that vein, so I will be careful about how I word my posts, even when I am frustrated (I actually wasn't here, though).

Thanks again for the gentle reminder. [:D]

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840279#Comment_840279

Absolutely not Myke! That was not harsh at all! FL has asked for feedback and this is a very practical way to improve their product. I am a Pastor and use "Visual Copy" every week. It is very laborious in how it works and your suggestion would speed up my work time considerably. Thank you for putting this out there and I give a heartily +1

Thanks for the vote of confidence brother....glad to know others can relate. :-)

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840277#Comment_840277

This feature is planned for 7.x incremental release, basically as soon as we can finish it. (There were a number of sub-features for the Media tool that didn't make the 7.0 cut that will appear in 7.1, 7.2, and so on. This is one of them.)

MAN, YOU JUST MADE MY DAY...no, my week...no, my month...no, my year! Seriously, thank you so much for the information. I am super excited. I have been praying and asking for this feature for several years (literally!). I even had it on a prayer list for a season (really!).

Can you disclose, in generalities, any other the other enhancements (sub-features) that are coming with this enhancement. And will the multi-slide sub-feature (is there a better name for this sub-feature) come first? In other words, is it highest on the priority list as far as Media Tool enhancements are concerned.

THANK YOU AGAIN! I really am super excited!

Adam Borries (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840461#Comment_840461

Please consider adding the ability to make multiple slides with just one click

Hey Myke,

I don't see that anyone else has mentioned this yet: You can make multiple slides from one selection in the new Media Tool!

They don't yet automatically break per-verse, but if you select a long quote, right-click and Visual Copy, it will automatically create as many slides as needed to fit well. If you want to manually control where the slide breaks occur, just put a -- on it's own line in the Body Text.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840532#Comment_840532

Thanks for the tip Adam.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840455#Comment_840455

Hey Myke, the bigger thing isn't not making mistakes, it's how we handle the mistakes we make--thank you for setting a good example. [:)]

mike

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/841000#Comment_841000

Adam Borries..

What about the ability to change font size or font color??

Your promotional video said that Media now has amazing editing capabilities, but i dont feel that it is true to the promise made.

Philana R. Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/841048#Comment_841048

Adam Borries..

What about the ability to change font size or font color??

Your promotional video said that Media now has amazing editing capabilities, but i dont feel that it is true to the promise made.

Mike,

The ability to change font size and color should be added in an upcoming release.

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/840532#Comment_840532

I don't see that anyone else has mentioned this yet: You can make multiple slides from one selection in the new Media Tool!

They don't yet automatically break per-verse, but if you select a long quote, right-click and Visual Copy, it will automatically create as many slides as needed to fit well. If you want to manually control where the slide breaks occur, just put a -- on it's own line in the Body Text.

VERY valuable information. Thanks for sharing it!!

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/841000#Comment_841000

Hey Myke, the bigger thing isn't not making mistakes, it's how we handle the mistakes we make--thank you for setting a good example.

[H] Thanks so much!

Myke Harbuck

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/841462#Comment_841462

The ability to change font size and color should be added in an upcoming release.

This forum just keeps getting better and better! Awesome!

Adam Borries (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/841462#Comment_841462

Adam Borries..

What about the ability to change font size or font color??

Your promotional video said that Media now has amazing editing capabilities, but i dont feel that it is true to the promise made.

Mike,

The ability to change font size and color should be added in an upcoming release.

In the meantime, here's a work-around for changing font size (cross-posted from another thread):

Media Tool in Logos 7 resizes the font of each paragraph to fit on one slide. If your selected text contains a paragraph break, the Media Tool will automatically create a new slide at that point. If you are quoting from Psalms or another passage with a lot of line breaks, simply remove those from the "body text" field in Media Tool to put it all one slide.

Conversely, if you want to split your quote into multiple slides (for larger font size), simply insert a line break (or -- on it's own line) in the body text.

Michael Lyman

Until the latest Android build I could save my visual copy pictures in Camera Zoom FX and Paper Camera, now I can't it is most inconvenient. Are there plans to repair this? Thank you.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/843504#Comment_843504

Until the latest Android build I could save my visual copy pictures in Camera Zoom FX and Paper Camera, now I can't it is most inconvenient. Are there plans to repair this? Thank you.

Best posting this in the Android forum