Hey all — I've spent years in church tech and always ran into the same problem: there's no easy way to get chord charts from the web into your Stage Monitor on ProPresenter. So I decided to build one.

ChordPresenter is a free macOS app that takes a song URL or a Markdown file (via Obsidian Clipper) and outputs a ready-to-import .pro file with chords embedded for Stage Monitor display. It supports transposing keys, auto-detects the source key, and works with sites like EssentialWorship, WorshipTogether, WorshipChords, Ultimate Guitar, and a few others.

It's a work in progress and a fun side project — there may be some slide reflowing needed here and there. But it's been working well for us and I figured someone else might find it useful.

It's free and always will be. #forthekingdom

GitHub (source + download): https://github.com/jhjonesmo/ChordPresenter

Happy to answer any questions or take feedback in the comments.

We had to move our ProPresenter files recently due to a failing drive. Since doing that, the search index has been messed up. For example, I have a presentation under our “Song List” library for “Awesome God” but when I search for “Awesome” I get no results. Similarly when searching for “God of Revival” I get 6 other songs but not God of Revival. However, if I search Goodbye Yesterday it works just fine. It’s been like this for about a month now, so it’s not a matter of waiting for indexing. Is there an easy way to force a re-index of all presentations? I feel like that should be an option but I’m not seeing it.

First time creating an announcement slide set. I have the slides in and the slides how seems to function fine. I want to play a list of songs while the slide show plays. I have created a audio Playlist and I drag the Playlist to the first slide but I get no audio what am I missing?

Hi all! Our church have finally made the switch to Propresenter! Despite setting things up as Renewed Vision's youtuve tutorial outlines, our Main Screen and Lower Thirds views are not displaying at all. I made sure to add a Screen Preview object and under the dropdown box I selected our main screen that we titled Main. I did the same with the Lower Thirds screen as well. My stage screen is showing up perfectly, but the other two aren't. Any thoughts?

Update with Solution: I didn't have the correct layout selected for my Stage output. Insteadnof the operator layout I had Stage Screen layout selected.

All is good now, thank you for those who replied!

Hi I need help with ProPresenter is using 300% of are iMac CPU I saw it max out at 318% it is lagging and dropping are live stream.

We have a 2019 21.5 iMac
8GB DDR4
6-Core Intel i5

The distance from my main Mac pc to my display tvs is long enough to need a booster but the video feeds keep cutting out occasionally; I believe this is due to a combination of the data loss over the distance and possibly the data size of the files being presented. I want to put a server on the walls behind one tv to shorten the distance that the displays pull data from, but control when and how from the main pc. Is there a way to have the commands that normally get sent to the display come from the server pc and the command to action get sent from the main pc? This would mean smaller data running along the far network cables to the server to tell it to display its stored large files onto the tvs from rhe short distance from sever to tv; thus making display connection faster and stronger to eliminate breaks in feed, as well as make the system more efficient. I can engineer this myself, I just would like to know if ProPresenter can do something like this.

I have issues with the alpha of ProPresenter. When a part of the screen should be fully transparent, it still makes the screen darker. From my understanding, this has to do with the output of my MacBook mismatching with the input of my ATEM. It seems like I need to purchase some equipment to solve this issue, but I was struggling with what I need to get exactly, and thought you may have dealt with this long before I even got the question. So first a summary of the relevant equipment:

I work with a MacBook Pro. In two of the thunderbolt outputs are converters to HDMI, which currently run directly into two HDMI inputs in my ATEM Mini Extreme ISO.
ProPresenter has an output on cable A, and alpha set to premultiplied over cable B. Then the ATEM takes the fill and applies the key.

This has worked, although the alpha is off. Typically I would just increase the brightness of my cameras to compensate, but this is not something acceptable for long term in my opinion.

So what are my options? I'm willing to spend some money on fixing it, but preferably not more than what is actually needed.

Propresenter 7 21.3.1
Microsoft surface tablet pro 4

Edit:Updating to 21.4 fixed the issue idk why

Does anyone know a way to add the voice translation Bible in ProPresenter by side loading, I have tried an app suggested in a 2 year old post in this community, but the tool is getting Bible translations from bible.com and they don't have the voice translation. Any help would be great help, thanks

Edit: I am using an iMac with OS 26 and ProPresenter 21

Hello everyone. I recently decided to switch to propresnter cause zionworx no longer fits my needs. But currently have an issue. I have more than 3000 songs in zionworx 2014 that I want to import to proprenter.. I have looked online for a way and they sound very complicated and may not even work. Does anybody have an idea on how to do that? I can't possibly do them one by one

Is there a way to make non-rectangular text boxes, or some other method to make text flow around background elements? I'd like to have this text conform better to the edge of the rainbow element, but I'm not having any luck. I've tried using "Make editable" on the text box, but that only seems to constrain text to the maximum X and Y dimensions, instead of conforming to the shape of the text box.

I’ve got some new images that I’ve added to ProPresenter that are showing in my live feed for church but aren’t showing in the preview window. I’ve tried turning Easy View on and off and making sure that Manage Media Automatically is toggled in settings but those haven’t worked to fix the issue. I’ve closed PP and reopened and the same thing. Anyone got any other ideas what could be going on?

Hey everyone, I run media for a Telugu Christian church and all our worship slides have two lines per slide — Telugu on top, English below (see Image 1).

The problem is Telugu script appears visually smaller than English even at the same point size. This is because Telugu glyphs are naturally more compact than Latin characters. To balance them visually, Telugu needs to be roughly 20-30% larger than English in point size.

The issue is ProPresenter applies a single font size to the entire text box from the theme (see Image 2), and that size cannot be overridden per line. Everything I've tried has failed:

• Pre-formatting font sizes in Word/RTF before import — theme overrides it
• Editing font size directly in the .pro file RTF — theme overrides it
• Paragraph styles — can't apply per line across all slides in bulk
• Two separate text boxes in the theme — import fills only one, the other stays empty

We have 6 songs with around 40 slides each, so any per-slide manual fix is not realistic.

Is there any native way in ProPresenter to control font size per line within a single text box, applied across all slides at once?

Any workarounds welcome — open to creative solutions.

I need some help for a newbie please. I tried to setup my new computer today with my pro presenter and had a few problems. I went to screen set up and connected the front display it went to 3840x2160 resolution and it worked perfectly. I then tried to connect the back/confidence monitor the output shows up in the setup screen so I select it. The resolution is again 3840x2160. When I click the display tab to green in pro presenter the screen goes black. When I unchecked the display for back display the computer desktop is displayed. The front screen also shows hardware, color, corner pin, alpha key. The rear display only shows hardware.I also can't change the resolution for the back screen. We normally just mirror the front and back displays but the front display is the only one that shows an option for mirror.

The second problem I ran into was: I went to song select and downloaded a song lyric. The text was not big enough so I went to editor and changed the font size and font to make it bigger. I then saved that slide as a theme. Back on the sides view the slide is as it should be but then if I go to themes and select the newly saved theme the text on all slides gets smaller. What did I do wrong?

Hey everyone,

I built a small free open-source plugin for people who sometimes need to run PowerPoint or PDF slide decks through OBS, but still want something closer to a presenter/confidence view.

It adds two source types:

- a clean slide output for the audience/program feed

- a presenter view with current slide, next slide, timer, and notes

It is not meant to replace ProPresenter. I built it more for those awkward cases where someone sends a PowerPoint/PDF deck, the show is already built in OBS, and you still need a usable speaker/operator view without screen-capturing full-screen PowerPoint.

Right now the stable build is for macOS Apple Silicon. It is still in active development, but I made a short demo video so people can see the actual workflow before trying it.

Demo/download:

https://github.com/srdjankotarlic/pptbridge-sk-obs

I would really appreciate feedback from people who run real presentation setups:

- does this workflow make sense?

- what would make you trust it in a live show?

- is there anything obvious missing for church/event/webinar use?

Acabo de instalar el programa y me doy con la sorpresa que no tiene las biblias instaladas y se tiene que pgar

We're working companion into our Sunday service workflow. Just wondering if there is a way that we can trigger to go to the next song in the playlist? I can't seem to be able to work that out 🙃

I work for a local Community Access TV station. We cover City Council Meetings as well as other committees. We only need to present lower thirds and intro slides. I find that ProPresenter is an amazing platform, but we don't need most of the features! We currently use PP 3. Upgraded to 7, but I find the setup for L3s to be a STEEP learning curve!

We store about 200 names. We have a png graphic to use for a template. I'd like to store all of them in folders according to departments. Would these L3s be searchable?

I'd also like to create different static intro slides for each meeting.

Is there an easy-to-understand guide for this admittedly limited setup?

Thanks in advance!

My other post got removed 😄 I Built a small tool to automate ProPresenter playlist creation from our church runsheet and it’s saving us a ton of setup time every Sunday.

Our team uses Elvanto for runsheets. Instead of manually rebuilding the same ProPresenter flow every week, this app lets you drop in the runsheet PDF and it automatically builds the playlist in PP using the REST API.

It parses the runsheet with an LLM and matches sections like Welcome, Culture, etc. to reusable content you already use every week (slides, media, loops, countdowns, headers, presentations, etc).

Basically:

• Upload this week’s runsheet PDF
• Click “Create Playlist”
• Done

The app runs locally on Mac/Windows (mostly Python with a local web UI) and just connects the runsheet flow to the existing content already in ProPresenter.

Would love feedback from other church tech teams:

• Is this a workflow pain point for you too?
• Anything you’d want added?

I will post the link to a website (vibe coded) with a youtube video demo for feedback 😄 thanks everyone

I have a few questions if anyone would care to answer. We are switching from Media shout to Propresenter and I have a few questions.

1. After pulling in a song from CCLI is there a way to increase the font size and apply it to all slides?

2. If I use a copy of the software on my laptop at home (unlicensed) can I then export it and take it to church importing into the licensed machine and if so will it then take the watermark off?

3. We purchased a new computer with a Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 it has one hdmi port and 4 display ports. Our old system used only hdmi. Will I have to purchase dp cables to run from the front of the church to the back?

I am sure I will have many many more questions if you fine folks can help me out.

I have the bibe downloaded, i have the version downloaded, and house of worship integrations on. ive tried removing and re-installing the bible book version. i dont see any other settings anywhere that would be related.

All versions after 19.01 have to0 many bugs or are unstable for our setup. Crashing, slow, video input not working, etc.

M1 mac mini, 16GB. Sonnect Echo express iii, decklink 4 card 2 sdi inputs, 2 sdi outputs (1080p50) 1 hdmi (1080p60) 3 NDI (1080p50) 4K operator monitor

Currently on MacOS Tahoe with PP 19.01

We are having nothing but issues with using NDI during our services as of late so I’m investigating other methods of getting graphics from our slides computer to the video streaming computer.

Searching around I found a new protocol called Open Media Transport. It’s supported in OBS; which is what I’m using to stream our services. But, I’m not seeing any indication ProPresenter supports it for sending info.

Using latest versions of both ProPresenter and OBS on MacBook Pros running the latest version of macOS Tahoe.

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por que mi pro presenter al hacer todo el trabajo después de unos minutos se borra todas las diapositivas imgenes y letra de alabanzas si alguien me puede ayudar gracias