How songs look
Song themes for your worship lyrics: background (a video too), text, margins, copyright footer and translation. Plus the default theme, your CCLI license and the usage report.
A song's theme sets how it looks: the background, the lyrics, the margins, the copyright footer and the change from one slide to the next. Each song picks its Theme in the song editor, or uses the Default theme.
Included themes
The app comes with six themes over its own backgrounds (“Sunrise”, “Ocean” with a motion background, “Night”, “Dusk”, “Forest” and “Embers”) plus “Classic”, over black. Their names stay in whatever language the app was in when they were added. On a new install, songs use “Sunrise” until you choose a different Default theme.
Create or edit a theme
At the bottom of the Songs tab, click the palette icon (Themes). The editor opens full screen.
Choose a theme from the list, or click New theme. Type the name at the top.
In the middle you'll see the song selected in the Songs tab (or a sample song) with the theme applied. Under it, First, Last and With translation choose which slide to look at.
Change the options on the right and click Save. If the theme is live, the projector updates right away.
| Section | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Background | A color, a gradient, an image or a Video from the library. Import image… or Import video… at the end of its list adds one from your computer. |
| Lyrics | Font, size and its Smallest size, color, shadow, Capitals, Letter spacing and Outline (a border around each letter, so the text reads well over a photo). |
| Spacing | Text alignment, Line spacing, the four margins and Max. lines: a slide with more lines is split into several when projected, without changing the saved lyrics. |
| Copyright footer | See below. |
| Translation | The Size (relative to the lyrics), Color and Italic for the second language. |
| Between slides | The Change between slides of the same song, Cut or Fade, with its Duration. A new song comes in with the projector's Transition. |
The ⋯ menu (More actions) has Duplicate and Delete. Songs that used a deleted theme switch to the default theme, and you can't delete the last remaining theme.
A video behind the lyrics
With a Video background, the video loops silently behind the lyrics and doesn't restart between slides. A different song starts it over. BLACK or LOGO pause it, and it picks up again when you come back. Any video the app can play works, including AVI or WMV.
Copyright footer and CCLI license
- Show on sets which slides it appears on: Never, First, Last, First and last or Every slide. The default is the last one. Its space is reserved on every slide, so the lyrics don't shift when it appears.
- Each detail can be turned on separately: Title, Authors, Copyright, CCLI number and Church license. The first four come from each song.
- You enter your church's license number just once, in Settings › Songs › Church CCLI license.
The default theme
In Settings › Songs, Default theme sets the theme for songs that don't pick their own (Theme › Default in the song editor). Changing it updates all those songs at once.
CCLI report
The app logs each song that goes live, once per day. To report them to CCLI, open Settings › Songs, click Export report… under CCLI report, pick the dates (From and To, which start out as the last six months) and click Export CSV. The file opens in Excel and lists each song with its authors, its CCLI number, how many days it was used and which days.
- Songs without a CCLI number have that column empty. Add the number to the song, and the next export includes it for the earlier days too.
- A deleted song still shows up, with the details it had.
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