Wednesday, June 20, 2007

PowerPoint Vs.MediaShout

Ahh the great debate.
Its the equivalent of Hymns Vs. Choruses only this debate takes place in the tech booth. Churches have been using PowerPoint for 20 years and they have mastered every feature and transition available. So why should churches look to something else?

Admittedly, PowerPoint can do some things very well.
  • Text Animation (bullet point Fly-ins, expand, drop, etc.)
  • Slide Transitions
  • Multiple objects on one slide (text and graphics side by side over background, multiple text Boxes)
  • Plays on other PPT PC's
  • And... ?
Let's look what PPT doesn't have:
  • The ability to play full motion backgrounds behind text
  • Insert DVD clips into your presentation
  • Song Library
    • Import text files into a searchable library
    • Import entire multiple formats of song libraries
  • Bible library
    • 52 versions of the Bible
    • Searchable Bible library
    • Quickly select and display scripture in 5 clicks
    • Book Specific backgrounds automatically displayed
  • Click,Drag,Fire (display) to screen media, text, music
  • Dual deck audio player capable of playing 2 separate play lists
  • Edit on the fly without interrupting your current presentation
  • unlimited # of program, preview, file monitors
  • quick display of html documents and web sites on the fly
  • Instant Message to display screen for Nursery pages and group announcements over presentation
  • And.... the list goes on
Here's the great news. MediaShout can accomplish these things and more. And for those of you who insist on using PowerPoint to "enhance" your multimedia presentation, go ahead. Insert your sermon notes, announcements, missionary slideshows knowing that MediaShout can incorporate and play PPT slides within your service presentation.

It's like having a good mix of contemporary and traditional songs within a worship service. You can take advantage of both programs and take your multimedia presentation to the next level and do it without a fight.

What are you waiting for?

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

MediaShout Training

This weekend I travel to Illinois to train a another group of faithful volunteers who are going to begin using MediaShout. I love going to a church and seeing how MediaShout can best meet the presentation needs and dreams of the pastor and worship leader.

Regardless of your needs, MediaShout can simplify minor presentations or it can handle all the multimedia needs for pre-service announcements - worship - Sermon notes - video clips - Scripture - responsive readings - web sites - Pre/Post service music - DVD clips and even live video.

Clearpoint Presentations offers in-depth training for you and your ministry team and it starts at your level of understanding. From beginners to advanced, training can bring great confidence and creativity to your team.

If you are interested in MediaShoutl training for your tech team, send me an email expressing your interest and we can make it happen. clearpoint@comcast.net

Monday, June 4, 2007

Asus introduces Santa Rosa notebooks

I wanted to offer a link to the official news article from the Asus website.

There is a laptop for everyone, especially MediaShout users.
I am waiting to hear from users who are running MediaShout with a Geforce 8 series video card. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Friday, June 1, 2007

New Asus G1 -Santa Rosa


Great News!! Asus is now shipping the new G1 containing the new Santa Rosa Chip from Intel. (check out this article from Gizmodo about Santa Rosa) Along with this new chip set are some new features and specs. This is one of the first laptops with the new Nvidia Geforce 8 series DirectX 10 graphics cards. Check this out!


Asus Ensemble G1S-A1 / Santa Rosa / 15.4" WSXGA+ / Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz 800FSB / NVIDIA 8600M GT 256MB with DirectX 10 & HDCP / 2GB DDR2-667 / LightScribe DVDRW / 160GB 5400RPM SATA / Wireless-N / Gigabit / Windows Vista Home Premium

Interface:

1 x Express Card
(Yay!!!)
1 x Microphone-in jack
1 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF)
1 x Line-in jack
1 x VGA port
1 x DVI-D port
1 x HDMI Port
1 x eSATA
4 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x IEEE 1394 port
1 x RJ11 Modem jack for phone line
1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert
1 x TV-out(S-Video)


There will be more details soon on the store.
www.cart.defycreative.com
Cost will be around $2G
If you are interested in purchasing send me an email
clearpoint@comcast.net