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On today’s “ChurchTechCast.com screencast show:” Faking the recorded output in ProPresenter 5
Hi, and welcome again to another episode of the ChurchTechCast.com Screencast show. This is the show where every week I help you by showing you some tips and tricks on some of the software we use in the church. My name is Paul Alan Clifford; I’m your host. I’d love for you to ask your questions by the way. So just do that below the video. If you’d prefer to drop me a line an e-mail that’s OK too. Paul at TrinityDigitalMedia.com You can always hit me up on Twitter as well. PaulAlanClif that’s P A U L A L A N C L I F.
So one of the cool new features that may not be immediately apparent as to why you would need this is the ability to either export presentation as pictures as stills or to record the screen output. Now you might be wondering, “Why would I ever use this?” Well, what if you needed to cut together the recorded output of a camera and what was on the screen. Well you can do that. What if everything worked perfectly. You’ve got a recorded output from the video switcher and it’s great except you missed that one slide that’s kind the important of the morning. So how ProPresenter — either way, and you will then put that into your editor and fix it. So it’s pretty straightforward but how do you get the recorded output if you’ve got ProPresenter 5 not ProPresenter 6. Well let’s head over to my computer and we’ll take a look. So here we are in ProPresenter and you might be thinking, “Well, in ProPresenter 6, I go to file>export and there would be the choice to export the presentation as something that’s usable in my video editor, but it’s not here. That’s true you’ve got to go outside of ProPresenter to do that and for recording the screen what we’re going to do is I’m going to go. I’ve already got this up. Well I thought I had it up. So apparently I just need to launch it.
So we need to get into QuickTime player now. QuickTime player for this purpose isn’t as full featured as one I’m using here. I actually hope that this doesn’t gack up my computer because I’m trying to do a couple of things here. So here let’s just click done and what we want to do is we need want to go to file>new screen recording. Now you’ll see that when I do that this comes up and that’s all fine and good but, you might be wondering how you choose the screen. Well what you do is you click here and it gives you some instructions “Click to record the full screen. Drag to record part of the screen. End recording by clicking the stop button in the menu bar” which is going to be up here. So I don’t want to record this screen. What I need to do is first is I need to make sure that in the Preferences “Display on top most layer” is unchecked. I might be remembering what it’s called a little.. not totally correctly, but then what I need to do is I need to move my mouse onto my main screen which is the one that looks like this. In this case. That’s to the right here over here so you’ll see this disappear. But I’m going to cut it in the final on the final recording here.
So here we see the this message. You’ll notice that I’m using the Demo version here at home because this isn’t my Church’s version; this is just what I use. So ProPresenter 5 logo is here during the recording and that’s perfectly acceptable for what we’re doing here. So I’m going to click here and this is going to record this screen so I click on that and now that that’s disappeared it’s recording on this screen so I’m going to go back to the other screen and I’m just going to make some changes just so that you can see that it’s doing what it needs to do. So and clear all. Now I’m going to go up to the screen here and click stop. QuickTime player we’ll show the final video. And now you can see it here and see that it did in fact do the stuff that we needed to do.
OK, so what we would do is we would just save that out.
But what if all you need is a static slide. Well that’s actually overkill for a static slide. So what I’m going to do is another trick that you can do in the Mac; on Windows this is the Print Screen button and that basically copies the screen into the clipboard then you need to paste it into an editor; it’s a big ruckus thing. Probably the easiest way to do this is command + shift + 3 command shift three will take a screenshot of all the screens. So when we do that now, I believe if I minimize this you’ll see that I got some screenshots and I’ve got three.
Now I happen to know that one tends to be my stage display so let’s see if that’s true. No, that’s actually my control screen that is my main screen that’s number two and number three is my stage display. So if I needed the pastor to have this, if I needed to cut this in, I could absolutely use this for that purpose so that makes it quick and easy and just a good way to make this work.
Well, I hope that helped. you. You can see that this is a useful feature when you need it you know when you don’t need it. You’re probably thinking oh I’ll never use that but just file this away in the back of your brain because there will be a time when the pastor will go, “Oh that was perfect except you missed that one slide. Can you fix that,” and you can now say “yes.”
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