Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Worship Software Guide

Are you in search of the perfect worship software to replace what you are already using or is this a new experience all together? There are now over a dozen worship software companies that have sprung up over the last 5 years. I should know, my small company has been making backgrounds for these applications since 2005 when it was mostly PowerPoint. There was some early to market companies like EasyWorship and MediaShout but they had a small customer base of early adopters.

Now the choices are packed with competing features and functionality for you, the worship media team. With all these choices comes a good deal of confusion too. What worship software fits my Church? What budget am I or the Church willing to set aside for such a purchase? These two questions help to shrink the list.

Some other items to consider are:
  1. Video background support
  2. Bible verse support
  3. Messaging
  4. Text over live video camera feed
Another item is your operating system. If you are using a Windows PC machine you have choices like EasyWorship, MediaShout, SundayPlus, SongShow Plus, Presentation Manager and PowerPoint.

If you are an Apple Mac OS X user the list is shorter with really one awesome worship software from Renewed Vision called Pro Presenter.

If you are going to purchase a worship software that can support text over video ,which is every application mentioned in this post except PowerPoint, you need to consider the worship software video codec types or file type supported. These generally are Windows PC: WMV, AVI & MPEG1 and for Apple Mac OS X: MOV, MPEG4 & Divx.

Well I hope this was helpful and you can always get more information on worship software by visiting our site.

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