More information about MediaShout V3.5

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	MediaShout V3.5 transforms your Windows PC into a complete media-for-ministry delivery console: Play any media at any time, in any order. Instantly. Buy it Now
Features Total control: dual-monitor design ensures that the audience sees only what you want them to see Song lyrics: display the words to any song in any order Bible passages: select and show any passage instantly, in any of 52 versions Text: create and present announcements and message points ... or use a virtual blackboard for instant, live text Video: no tapes, play video files, DVD clips and external video feeds on their own or as backgrounds to other cues Graphics: display photos, illustrations, drawings, maps, and more Animations: play Flash files on their own or as motion backgrounds for lyrics, Bible verses and other text screens PowerPoint: play PPT files straight from MediaShout without switching programs Web pages: display web pages full-screen to the audience Sound: play music, sound effects, MP3, MIDI and more To visit the MediaShout site and browse a wide range of screen demos for many of these features, click here.

Simple Control
MediaShout's dual-screen design gives you total control over what the audience sees. Preview and fire any cue – song, Bible passage, video, graphic, whatever – in any order, instantly. Add cues simply by dragging their media into the playlist.

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Powerful Control

Four customizable control screen layouts
Integrated song, Bible, file and cue browsers
Drag and drop media to insert as cues
open any number of preview monitors (ShoutMonitors)
Dockable/detachable feature palettes
View cue thumbnails in Script
Edit cues while a presentation is running
Keep two Scripts open at once

What the audience sees

What you see

Simple Lyrics
Drag a song from the song browser and drop it into the playlist: It’s ready to fire. Fix a typo in three clicks, even while the lyrics are live. And no need to create multiple slides for each song – MediaShout can generate each page of a Lyric cue automatically.

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Powerful Lyrics

Rich-text formatting: multiple fonts, sizes, colors within the same song
Text effects: outline, shadow, outline + shadow; adjust effect opacity
Display lyrics over a video clip, DVD, external video feed, graphic, Flash animation, or color
Display song credits in title page, header or footer
Store formatted Lyric cues in song library for instant, searchable retrieval
Display any song instantly from song browser
Song sync: automatically save changes to a Lyric cue back to its record in the song library
Import songs from a Script file
Import formats: CCLI SongSelect online lyrics, Integrity Worship Software, Tempo Service Designer, text files, ShoutSong data files (v2.5 and v3)
Export formats: ShoutSinger text files, ShoutSong data files (v2.5 and v3)
Song library comes with over 2000 hymns, songs and creeds

Lyra song browser

ShoutSinger song manager

Simple Bible Passages
Select any passage reference from the Bible browser and drag it into the playlist. It’s instantly ready for display: pages for a long passage are generated automatically.

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Powerful Bible Passages

Rich-text formatting: multiple fonts, sizes, colors within the same passage
Text effects: outline, shadow, outline + shadow; adjust effect opacity
Display passage over a video clip, DVD, external video feed, graphic, Flash animation, or color
BookBacks: auto-assign a background designed for whatever book the passage is from
Display the passage reference in header or footer
Editable display text – display just part of a verse
Bible library comes with 54 versions: v3 Bible list

Screen demo: Change the text settings of a Bible cue

Bob (Big Onscreen Bible) Bible browser

Simple Text
Type an announcement or message point into the text composer, then drag it into the playlist: It’s ready to fire. Edit the message in three clicks – even while it’s live to the audience.

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Powerful Text

Rich-text formatting: multiple fonts, sizes, colors within the same message
Text effects: outline, shadow, outline + shadow; adjust effect opacity
Display message over a video clip, DVD, external video feed, graphic, Flash animation, or color
Enter text in the cue itself, or use ShoutWriter or Microsoft Word to create a document that can be displayed from the cue
Create text builds with multiple-page Text cues
Use Ted as a virtual chalkboard to compose and fire instant text messages to the audience
Kim (Keyed Instant Messenger): superimpose nursery calls, emergency notices and other text messages onto to the display screen

Screen demo: Change the text settings of a Text cue

Ted (Text Entry and Display) text composer

Simple Video
Drag a video file from the file browser and drop it into the playlist: It’s ready to play. Preview a DVD to choose start and stop points: It’s ready to go. Select a camera or other external video feed: MediaShout’s ready to display it.

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Insert a Video DVD cue
Insert a Video Feed cue

Powerful Video

Play video files, DVD clips and external video feeds by themselves or as backgrounds to song lyrics, Bible passages and message text
Set in and out points, picture size and position
Dual-Play option: View video playback on both screens
Full-motion dissolve into and out of video
Pause, unpause and shuttle video during playback
Fire any video file instantly by double-clicking it in Philo file browser
Play High Definition Windows Media Video files
File formats: WMV, MPEG-1, AVI (plus MPEG-2 and MOV with third-party codecs)

To browse screen demos of some of these features, click here.

Simple Animations
Drag a Flash animation file from the file browser and drop it into the playlist: It’s ready to play. Or assign to the background of a Lyric, Bible or Text cue in just four clicks.

Powerful Animations

Set in and out frames, picture size and position
Pause, unpause and shuttle animation clip during playback
Fire a Flash clip instantly by double-clicking it in Philo file browser

To browse screen demos of some of these features, click here.

Simple PPT Playback
Drag a PPT file from the file browser and drop it into the playlist: It’s ready to play. Each slide appears as a page for the cue, with a thumbnail for easy identification.

MediaShout 3.0 is fully integrated with PowerPoint 2003. If you are using an older version of PowerPoint, then you may need to use the PowerPoint Viewer 97 to play your PowerPoint files.

Simple Web Pages
The whole internet is Shoutable: Enter a web address in the Annette web browser and fire it full-screen to the audience.

See for yourself: Using the Annette web browser

Annette web browser

Simple Sound
Drag a sound file from the file browser and drop it into the playlist: It’s ready to play. Or assign it as the soundtrack for a visual cue in just four clicks.

See for yourself: Assign a soundtrack to a cue

Powerful Sound

Set in and out points, fade-in, fade-out
Pause, unpause and shuttle sound clip during playback
Add a fade when pausing, unpausing or stopping playback
Sound stacking: play multiple sounds at once
Play a sound instantly by double-clicking it in Philo file browser
Create and save playlists in the Audie dual-deck audio player feature
File formats: MP3, WMA, WAV and more

Screen demo: Using the Audie dual-deck audio player

Audie audio player