Propresenter is a highly rated church presentation software program from Renewed Vision (http://propresenter.com/). It's a mac only application, and yes, I've talked churches into getting a mac just to use propresenter. It's very stable (we've used it for over 2 years without a crash on Sunday mornings), smooth and it handles motion backgrounds video clips and HD without a hitch. Anyone purchasing the current version is eligible to upgrade to the soon-to-be released version 4 at no extra cost. You can see the new features at the website (click on "the road to propresenter 4" at the top of the home page). To see the current features for Propresenter 3 click on Products>Propresenter.

They have an active forum (http://www.renewedvision.com/rv_vb/index.php) with users that will jump in to answer questions and the developers are on there quite a bit too, taking feature suggestions and answering questions also. They often do minor upgrades (no charge), incorporating user feedback. There is also a helpful video tutorial library (Support>Propresenter Tutorials). You can download a full version of the program to try for an unlimited amount of time (you just have a watermark on the display screen until you purchase it).

I can't say enough about this program. I've trained another volunteer to be able to create the Sunday presentations, and it's quite easy to train people to run it on Sunday mornings. Very intuitive interface.

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Living Word in Waukesha uses Sunday Plus from Grass Roots (http://www.sundayplus.com/) but neither the software nor the website have been updated since 2005! This is unacceptable for software that cost $400-500. No updates to the text editor and it has multiple issues with copy/paste from Microsoft Word or formatting. No quicksave buttons while editing (among others) just really gets on your nerves. I'm one of the "geeks" who takes a turn at building the service for projection on the wall/screen and it's just frustrating because this software has been left in the dust. It still functions, but it's problematic and could easily be fixed or patched since it has some very basic features. The software itself really chugs when using higher res pictures. The video loop player is tricky and problematic as well. I wouldn't recommend paying for this software.

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