Settings
Every option, section by section: projection, slides, Bible, songs, system, version, updates and help.
Click the gear at the top left to open Settings, which fills the whole window. Back closes it. The sections are on the left, and each one groups its options in boxes. Changes save automatically, right away.
Tip: If an option has a “?” next to it, hover over the “?” for more details.
Projection
| Option | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Screen › Projector screen | Which monitor to project on. If the projection is open, it moves right away. See The projector screen. |
| Screen › Projector window | Open projector (opens on BLACK) and Close projector. Use them to restart it if the projector stops responding. |
| Screen › Stage screen | A monitor for the musicians, or None. See The stage screen. |
| NDI® output | The projection as a video source on the network, for OBS, vMix or another program. See NDI® output for OBS. |
| Logo › Show | What shows on LOGO and when nothing is live. Image is your church logo (Choose file… in Logo image, as JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP or BMP, and Remove). Name over background puts the Church name over a color, a gradient or a library image. Preview shows how it looks. On a new install, it's the “Night” background with no name. |
| Live content › What is on the projector now | Take off air takes down what's live, sound included, and goes back to the logo. Overlays stay covered and come back with the next thing you send. |
| Live content › When a video ends | What the projector does when a video plays to the end: Show the logo (the default), Black screen, Loop, Hold the last frame or Go to the next schedule item. |
| Live content › When a presentation ends | When a presentation ends on its own or you advance past its last slide: Show the logo (the default), Black screen, Back to the first slide, Stay on the last slide or Go to the next schedule item. |
| Live content › When a song ends | When you advance past a song's last slide: the same options. |
| Live content › When an audio ends | What an audio file sent live does when it ends: Stop (the default), Loop or Go to the next schedule audio. See When something ends. |
| Live content › Starting volume | The volume every video, audio file or presentation's music starts at when you send it live (100% by default). You can adjust each one while it plays. |
| Transition › Style and Duration | How the projector switches from one thing to the next: Instant, Crossfade (the default) or Fade through black, at fast, normal or slow speed. |
Slides
| Option | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Text › Fallback font | The font used when a presentation calls for one this computer doesn't have and there's no other with the same measurements. By default it's The system's. Changing it also affects what's live. |
| Slide cache | The Space used by audio and video extracted from presentations, and Clear cache, which asks first. They're extracted again automatically the next time you open each presentation. |
Bible
Under Add a version, Import brings in a version from a file. Under Installed versions, grouped by language, you rename, reorder and delete versions and choose the one that opens by default. Included with Himnova Live lists the versions that come with the app that you haven't installed yet, each with Install. See Bible versions. The verse style isn't here; it's in the Bible tab (how).
Songs
Theme and license has the Default theme for songs that don't pick one, the Church CCLI license for the copyright footer, and the CCLI report of what went live (Export report…). See How songs look.
System
| Option | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Interface › Theme | Dark (made for a dark booth) or Light. It only changes the control window. |
| Interface › Language | Español, English, Italiano or Português. |
| Performance › Moving video on the Live monitor | Turn it off on a low-powered computer. The monitor then shows a still image instead of playing a second copy of the video. The projector isn't affected. |
| File folders | One row per type (Videos, Images, Audio and Presentations), setting where each tab's + opens. Choose folder… changes it and Reset goes back to the system default. It doesn't move or link any files. |
| Diagnostics | Which Graphics card the app uses, whether Hardware video decoding and GPU compositing are on, Test video (what it tests) and the Technical diagnostics, for support. |
About
| Option | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Version | The installed version. Include it when you report a problem. |
| Updates | Check for updates and, when there's a new version (New version), What's new, Download with its progress, and then Restart and update (on Mac, Open installer) or When the app closes. See Update Himnova Live. |
| Check when the app opens | Quietly checks for a new version each time you open the app (on by default). It never downloads anything unless you ask. |
| Logs | Open logs folder opens the app's data folder, where main.log and crash.log are. |
| License | GPL-3.0, free software. Source code opens the code's page. |
| Help | Under Online guide, Open in the browser opens this guide in the app's language. Under Welcome guide, Open the guide brings back the welcome. First steps brings back that checklist and starts it over (what it is). |
Something didn't work the way the guide says? Tell us on GitHub what you did, what you expected and what happened, and we'll see whether the app or the guide needs fixing. Report a problem (opens in a new tab)