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This allowed them to use newer songs outside the normal book publishing cycle (which was long then, and is still long today – the United Methodist Church hasn’t updated its core hymnal since 1989, and is currently updating it to a digital-only format, 30 years later). Meanwhile, many churches had started using overhead projectors in place of hymnals or other printed songbooks. This was once considered state of the art… Today, Microsoft has changed – they’re platform-neutral, and embrace the Apple ecosystem (most people on the Microsoft campus wield iPhones these days!) It was so good that Microsoft made PowerPoint its first major acquisition and rolled it into their Office suite (and it was still Mac-only until 1990). It was purpose built for making these overheads and 35mm slides. Anyone remember Harvard Graphics? Around the late 1980s, a new player entered on the scene, originally (and ironically) for Mac: an application called PowerPoint.

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Some of us old-timers remember what needed to be done for full color slides before that: Either expensive color laser printing (yes, that was actually a thing even in the late 1980s) onto overhead transparencies, or if you were particularly flush for cash, you would mail out a Zip or Jaz drive (this was before the Internet, after all) to a company that would make actual 35mm slides from your presentation. It was also in the mid-1990s that color data projectors started becoming somewhat affordable, and eventually displaced the overhead projector in meeting rooms everywhere. This is what a presentation deck used to look like…

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(I first ran PageMaker on Windows 2.0, and it was a terrifying experience, especially compared to the beauty of running Adobe Illustrator 2.5 and Quark on a Mac IIfx just a few years later).

Until about the late 1990s to the early 2000s, virtually all publishing was ultimately done on a Mac, until Windows-based tools started catching up. This led to the desktop publishing revolution that completely transformed typesetting and document layout in under a decade. Even the early Macs were designed with a display resolution of 72dpi, their dot matrix ImageWriter printer at 144dpi, and their LaserWriter printer at 288dpi – and most everything was vector based type with a few exceptions for fonts (such as Chicago) intended for display only, which were raster fonts for the simple reason of conserving processing power. This is something that Apple has been intentionally excellent at from the start. One of the fundamental features that has been the underpinning of MacOS since the very beginning in 1984 (and some might even argue that it even goes back to the Lisa), and which was eventually extended to NeXT, was type rendering. Both applications enjoy a variety of features to make the graphics operator’s life easier, while offering a variety of advanced features as well. Both applications are now available on both Mac and Windows platforms, themselves also the subject of much debate among their respective user communities.

ProPresenter is originally a Mac application, while MediaShout’s origin story hails from the Windows side.

$799 Campus (HoW only, both Mac AND Windows)Īs one might expect, the relative merits of MediaShout and ProPresenter, two of the leading worship presentation applications, are the subject of much debate among (and between) their respective user communities.

( Featured Image from Church Motion Graphics‘ excellent article, 10 Essential Rules For Projecting Lyrics) The Contenders Renewed Vision: ProPresenter v6

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I’m going to veer off the WiFi trail for a bit here and talk about presentation software that’s used predominantly in the House of Worship space, but also increasingly in corporate production.