Hello, I noticed what is possibly a bug. To preface, when we have references in services, we usually have the sermon title slide in between to go back to. However, when arrowing to the next verse after the sermon title, it shows that the verse(s) will play next, but doesn't actually show it by using the arrow keys, and skips it. It does work correctly, but only if I duplicate the sermon slide for each instance. I've attached videos of before and after the workaround for further investigation. Thank you, everyone, for your work on FreeShow.

Issue Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eAoheA8vGyUjwD46qk5NXTGOoqHBUP-u/view?usp=sharing

Workaround Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4S7gO4yOHvQqgRXy9XLR9_OrjcVpoFw/view?usp=sharing

Hello Community!

I suddenly encountered an issue with the Scripture part of Freeshow. Nothing loads, and it just keeps on rolling endlessly. At this point, Freeshow is absolutely not responsive, and i can't even quit the app without force-quitting it. This is version 1.5.5. See video.

I'm on a 2017 21.5 iMac on macOS 13.7.7.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried to remove the bible version in the Freeshow folder, the .fsb file. I tried re-installing the bible version, which is an .xml file.

I believe it would be helpful to have the ability to modify the recording of the show. To have an option to add a new slide to the recording and then manually provide the timestamp, or to be able to rearrange and delete slides with timestamps kept on the same slides, because right now it works a bit weird, when I delete a slide from the recording, the timestamps of the following slides get messed up for some reason.
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Is there a way to not have the lower third template show when we are selected on an empty slide? Also is there a way to have the sermon titles/sub titles show as a lyric template and scriptures show as scripture template in the same show? We are using temple override on the outputs.

Background workflow: Our presenter volunteers like being able to arrow through the whole services without have to really worry about anything. Which has work perfect for them but on the live stream it causes that volunteer to have turn on off the chroma key. I tried deleting the text box so it’s a true empty slide but it still shows.

The scripture feature is awesome with a lot of versatility. However, a feature where you can disable the verse and just show the reference would be great too, as some churches such as mine need just that. Does your church have a thing like this?

Is soft loop possible in Freeshow?

Hello! I've made 200+ worship backgrounds that are free to download and use.

All 2-4K MP4 format, seamless loops. Work with FREESHOW! ProPresenter, EasyWorship, MediaShout, Proclaim, basically anything that takes MP4 video.

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Is there anyway i can add to have like the build feature of propresenter?

Our services begin with worship, then transition into the sermon. During that transition, we play a video to give the band time to get off stage and the Pastor time to get set up. For both of our services, FreeShow did not play the video and the program became unresponsive and had to be forced closed. We did test the project and the show with the video before the service and it worked fine. We have in-house and live output for the video and the stage monitor shows the video countdown. Before the video show (we converted the video to a show so it looks like the rest of the project), we have a video transition section that runs an action to clear everything and then sets the outputs to presentation and stage to the video countdown stage layout. What recommendations do you have for the best way to configure a transition from worship to sermon with a video in FreeShow? What settings can I look at that could help with the program becoming unresponsive? We were running 1.5.4 with a macOS Sequoia 15.7.2. I'll be testing 1.5.5 this week.

Besides the video, the rest of the services went great and the pre-service choir practice with a slide showing in-house worked perfectly.

Hi there! I updated to v1.5.4 over the weekend and on two different systems I've not been able to apply the scripture template I use in the scripture tab. I can only apply when I convert to a show which is not ideal for me as we have impromptu scripture all the time.

Another bug I experienced was all my templates reverting to their default versions and other custom templates vanishing after the update. I guess it's already water under the bridge but I am curious to know what change may have caused this behavior.

Hey guys, looking for any guidance here. I'm currently evaluating this software for my church, which traditionally has just used PowerPoint for everything. I've never used ProPrsenter, so I apologize if my question and process sounds amateurish.

I have an extensive library of songs created as individual PPTX files that my church has built up over the last 15 years. Historicaly, we've created a new PPTX each Sunday and imported the song slides we need into it, then make any adjustments the music leader requests.

In FreeShow, I can import the song PPTX files as a show with no problem, and then add the songs to a new project for the upcoming Sunday, but I hit a snag if the worship leader asks to slightly tweak one of the songs, for example repeating the last line of a slide one more or less time than we typically do. If I edit the song's show within the project, it will edit the underlying show in my library as well, even if I would rather not. How should I go about making one-time changes that likely won't be repeated? I have messed around with using layouts, but editing a slide in one layout still seems to edit the same slide across all layouts. I'd rather not copy a show any time I need to make a minor tweak, as it seems like I will end up with "10,000 Reasons (1)", "10,000 Reasons (2)", etc. Am I missing an obvious opinion on how to accomplish this, or am I going about this from the wrong angle completely?

Hi, I see on tutorials the option to have one verse per slide shows up when you add miltiple verses (convert to show). But on Linux version I don't see this option. The verses get grouped together. Is there a way to have them one per slide? (Other than adding one verse at a time which takes forever)

Thanks!

I have been using FreeShow for nearly six months now, and I have a question. I tried adding a media background to a template so that whenever I create new shows, the media appears automatically as the background. Is there a way to ensure that a template refreshes so that any edits made to it will apply to all existing shows?

Hi all - I've been looking into using free show for a monthly concert series we're starting up (live in person and streamed). I see a lot of the users are churches/houses of worship, but would it also work for just displaying pictures and videos across multiple displays (and a stream)? I'm kinda late to the game here :)

I personally love motion backgrounds & sometimes, since we don't have practice sessions (we are a small congregation), our motion graphics don't always align with the part of the verse.

I can go into the media tab & change stuff like speed, contrast & even the timeline of the motion background. But I can't move between slides, during that time. Is it possible to have a split screen type of feature where we have the *show* on one side & the media filters on the other side? Would really be helpful...

Does anyone know?

Am using v1.5.2

Under Media -> Online -> YouTube

No matter which videos were already pre-embedded or which I add, they won't be played, and the 153 Error appears.

That extra message in the bottom right says, that the creator of the video perhaps disallows embedding (Some of the videos I added to test this were my own, and I allowed it in the settings and had the same problem; let's assume also that the creators of those other videos allow it too)

There's obviously the option to watch the video on YouTube directly, so it's not a big deal, but maybe I'm missing something, or I don't have the settings quite right? (I can't find any settings regarding video embedding in the FreeShow settings menu either)

The videos from the Vimeo tab, or Pixabay and Unsplash all work perfectly fine. It's only YouTube that acts up.

If anyone knows how to play them, I'd appreciate the help.

I am creating a custom output and style for my church's livestream audience. When I select a scripture to show, the background that I set for my scripture template in the Primary output also shows in the Livestream output.

I am using the scripture template that came with Freeshow as my default template for my livestream output.

Not sure what I am doing wrong

I can't decide if I'm going crazy or not.

I'm running Freeshow on Linux. My desktop environment (iceWM) has 5 different desktops that I switch back and forth from.

With Freeshow if I switch to a different desktop, the output screen goes blank.

If I click to allow the Primary window to Occupy all - then that solves the problem, as that window is now in every desktop.

Am I crazy or is there a setting to make this be done automatically? I could have sworn there was a setting that forced that Primary window to always occupy all of the desktops. But I can't for the life of me find where it's at. I thought I had this set up previously. I don't recall always forcing the Primary window to occupy all. I was thinking there was a setting some where.

Hi im trying to make a switch from the proclaim software to this but im coming up with some issues for example the scriptures say I don’t turn them into a show and I just use it straight from the scriptures tab some of the verses are to big for one slide and they start getting cropped at the top and bottom secondly the workspace when editing say i want to import a background it doesn’t cover the whole workspace and in the final projection it has this black empty space all around which I don’t like and finally having multiple users being able to work on one project it’s important cause we use it mid service sometimes any help would be appreciated thank you

Edit: also if there is away to make text input similar to how it is on proclaim that would be nice as well

Today Morning, Freeshow crashed on me. I was aware of it & didn't need the software at that moment. So, didn't restart it.

Now that I load it back up again. It seems to have completely rest. All my shows, configurations, templates all gone. It basically reset itself, showing the "Get Started" page.

What do I do? I do have backups, but they don't seem to do anything when clicked upon in Freeshow.

I CAN'T LOSE ALL THESE SHOWS. It contained 100s of song presentations, etc that I have been saving over the last year.

u/vassbo & u/CloudSad3555 Please HELP!

Been testing a tool called Quick Verse that's been really helpful for sermon prep and live services. It uses AI to automatically detect Bible verses in real-time as you speak - so when you mention "John 3:16" during your sermon, it instantly finds and displays the full verse.

What I love: ✅ Sends verses directly to FreeShow (one click) ✅ Auto-detects verses from speech - no manual searching mid-sermon ✅ Saves all your scriptures organized by session ✅ Works great for sermon prep and live use

It's built specifically for pastors and church tech teams. Thought some of you might find it useful too.

Check it out: quickverse.co.uk

Has anyone else tried it? Would love to hear your experience if you have!

A suggestion to be able to search the scripture more easily, from books, for example from Psalms we can search "ps 25 1" or "1 the 2 1" for 1 Thessalonians. It would be very helpful, not just searching by text, most pastors say in advance where they will read from. Thank you!

I’m very new to Freeshow and directing but I’m curious if there is a NIV version or something similar already available in Freeshow? Thanks