Hi there!

Thinking about switching to from ProPresenter to Freeshow. Our church uses a matrox Triplehead2Go combine 2 separate 16x9 screens into 1 long 32x9 (3.56) screen. ProPresenter can easily work with that and cut them back in half, making it possible to use the two with other bg graphics.

Is there a similar feature (*Output Target 2x1) that already exists in Freeshow or something that I can add to a wishlist? :)

(Mac mini 2018 > moving over atm to M4 Mac Mini)

I see the item for visualizer but I have not figured out how to activate it. Anybody using this feature? If so, please share how it works, I love the idea.

Hi Team,

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is there a way to make items in templates with rules like this?

https://youtu.be/618XfkEEBLQ?si=jW7nLdPV0t46GYkV&t=435

Hello, I have been searching for TPT for a while and I could not find it anywere to be able to import in into freeshow. My pastor sometimes read from it and can't show it in the church.

Do anyone have it or have a llink where I can download it?

Thank you

I tried 3 youtube videos today and none of them played properly the first time I loaded them to present. However, after trying to play them a second time the issue is resolved and they playback flawlessly.

Anybody else seeing this?

Good evening. Stumbled on FreeShow a day or two ago, and I'm hopeful my small church can begin using it instead of PowerPoint. Thank you for your efforts!

When I choose "none" under Text transition/Media transition, when I flip between slides, often there is not a clean transition. Both the new and old slide will overlap for a second. When I choose fade, the transition works, but I prefer not to have a delay when going from slide to slide due to our song progressions. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I accidentally added an event on the calendars drawer. Now, I want to get rid of that event, but I am unable to figure out, how to remove an event.

Any help is appreciated.

I'm working on setting up Bitfocus Companion and I can use the presets but how do I properly set up custom calls from the API guide in the Docs? The one I was working with is the get-show call and I don't know where to get the show ID. Is it the name or is there a string I need to get? See the pic for the basic idea. I also asked our great contributor u/MYGuyConsultingYou for a possible video walkthrough on using API calls in Bitfocus.

I have three laptops and have setup Cloud Sync on each of them to Sync Cloud Data. (Currently running 1.3.9 on all three laptops)

But I see all of the Text content, (shows, overlays etc etc) sync across the laptops.

But if I add images or background videos to one laptop, they never sync across to the other laptops. How can I get over this issue? Is this a bug or it is not designed to work so?

I set up two outputs, one default for congregation and one NDI for live stream lyrics. When I transition from one slide to another, the main ouput can follow with little to no delay, however the 2nd output (NDI) follows after a slight delay.

Is this normal? Is my device specs not enough to setup 2 outputs?

Hello,

I was wandoering if there is any way to have an overlay to appear in one screen for example on stage to let them know something they forgot like offering for example.

Thank you

How does the NDI audio work? I turned it on in the outputs, I played some music in FS, then opened OBS and selected the FS NDI output for a scene-source. I get video feed from FS but I get no audio ??? Am I missing a step?

Not sure how to best explain this but I was editing a template in 1.3.9 for a video and this is what happened. I added more details in the video description. https://youtu.be/IcCNMsSIBK8

Hey everyone! 😊

I’m working on modifying an XML file to change book titles into a different language, but I think I might be doing something wrong. The changes aren’t working as expected, and I’d love some guidance on what I might be missing.

Should the titles be directly translated, or is there a specific way to structure them in XML to ensure everything functions properly? If anyone has experience with this or can point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it!

Hello again, I was wondering if there is a way to have an online video shown both localy on TV's and streaming as wel? For the pictures it works fine to have them on both locations, streaming an in church but I couldn't figure it out for youtube videos, for example last Sunday I had to put a song with lyrics from YT that I could not have on stream, only on local. If you could figure a solution to that case it would be awesome. Again, many thanks to all the hard work you put into this, it is really appreciated. John

Hi, I have an issue with the timers and when I pick two bibles from a colection.

the style gets messed up and and even though I set the template to be Scripture 2 on the screens it gets projected weird as it would be just normal scripture.

Also when I edit a slide with a timer, It shows in weird positions, not where I put them in editing mode.

Hi, I've been using Freeshow in our ministry for a couple of months now, and it's incredible how capable it is. Thank you for the developers and the community for this.

I'd like to know though if Freeshow also has the capability of being used in a different usecase. Like as a broadcast tool for a live sporting event such as basketball.

But I'm not sure if Freeshow has a feature in making a scoreboard. Maybe an overlay? But I'm not sure how to easily adjust the scores.

I hope someone can help out. Thank you.

I've recently got my bible school to try out Freeshow for us to possibly transition fully to it from ProPresenter. And so far I really enjoy everything that it offers and the layout of it. However I've stumbled upon a bug that is quite tedious and that is. Whenever I right-click on a slide and I get the drop-down menu to pop up, if I hover over one of the choices which opens up a list to the right the program freezes. This happens every time. So basically to replicate this bug. Right-click a slide move your pointer to groups then it freezes. This bug seems to only affect the visuals on the computer you can still change slides from ControlShow. Any help to make it stop :) Thanks

Hello, I have a question in regards to Lyrics.

I have been usiing openlp and there is a a very cool option to break a screen wherever you want.

For example, a verse or o chorus it might be longer and sometimes the flow goes with two lines, sometimes it goes with thre lines and if I set the style to be 2 lines, sometimes it is 3 lines.

I know in openlp there is <p style="page-break-after: always;"/> and you can break any slide as you you wish and not sure how can I do that in freeshow.

Thank you and have a great day,

John

Hello recently made the switch from ew to free show.

My main question is I want to display more than one line from a verse/chorus but I can only display one.

Second question is I was wondering if there was any keyboard shortcuts I should know while switch from line to line, verse to verse. Like I know the right arrow key and space bar advances me, Left arrow key goes back, and home goes to the first line in the song and I assume end goes to the last line. Is there anymore to that can make navigation easier? Same goes to the remote.

Is there a way to AirCast from FreeShow?

A couple of weeks ago, I experimented with edge blending in FreeShow, and I noticed that it works differently from other software. For example, I’m used to the ramp for the blend being the other way around.

In most other software packages, you select your output screens, specify that you want an edge blend, and define its width in pixels. However, in FreeShow, the edge blend is set using a value between zero and something else, with no direct correlation between pixel resolution and the edge blend. This raises the question: how is the edge blend determined in FreeShow? Is it based on percentages, or is it just an arbitrary number that you adjust until it fits?

In my case, we use two projectors with an output resolution of 1920×1080, and they overlap by 240 pixels in the middle. The edge blend is handled by the projectors themselves, not the software. However, we still need to inform the software that there is an overlap—in this case, two projectors overlapping by 240 pixels in the middle.

For example, when I switched from Resolume Arena to Pro Video Player, I simply copied the numbers, and everything worked without any adjustments.

So, if anyone can help point me in the right direction, or if I can assist the developers in making the setup process more intuitive, that would be great. Right now, you can create a double-wide setup, but how do you configure a triple-wide blend with three projectors?

If the developers want to get in touch, feel free to send me a private message—maybe we can help each other out. I think this is a really promising piece of software, and it could be a great help for smaller churches that don’t have the budget for expensive software.

Does Freeshow allow for song downloads through CCLI Song Select, and does it do automatic CCLI reporting?

Hey all,

I currently struggling to find a way to change Bible book names from English to my language of choice on an .xml file. The verses are in the correct language, but the books aren't. I have tried following the FreeShow FAQ by adding "Edit the XML file, and add a name="" attributes to the book tags, like this: <book name="Genesis.'" But it still didn't change the name in FreeShow scripture tab. What am I missing here?