What's new in LiveWorship 1.3.65
Jan 26, 2015
- Support for Mac's 10.5 "Leopard" and Microsoft's Vista OS
New in LiveWorship 1.3.64 Beta (Jan 26, 2015)
- Bug Fix: Styled text crash
- Fixed crash that was occuring with some styled text; when slide text was added to presentation or slide was selected; app would crash
New in LiveWorship 1.3.63 Beta (Jan 26, 2015)
- Bug Fix: Audio/Video playback
- Allows video and audio playback in Microsoft's Vista
New in LiveWorship 1.3.60 Beta (Jan 26, 2015)
- Bug Fix: Audio/Video playback
New in LiveWorship 1.3.51 (Jan 26, 2015)
- Feature: Video to video transition
- Macs now have a cross-dissolve transition from playing video into playing video and text dissolve between slides with the same video motion background. Windows versions now have a cut transition between playing videos.
- Feature: Link for Online Media
- Added link in Media Library Panel to webpage for online media sources.
- Feature: Video added to Bail to Logo
- Video can now be used as the image for "bail to logo".
- Feature: UTF-8 enable/disable
- Added a checkbox to enable or disable UTF-8 capatibility in the preferences.
- Feature: "Next" tab in Screen 2 now advances slides
- Added a button functionality to the "Next" tab in the Screen 2 mode.
- Feature: Text in Edit Canvas not auto-selected
- To save users from accidentally deleting text, selecting a slide to edit will now no longer auto-select all the text on a slide.
- Feature: Warning added for database backup
- When launching LiveWorship for the first time each day, a backup of the database is made. A warning now alerts users to this delay.
- Bug Fix: International Dates/Times
- In versions 1.3.16 (and prior versions), international dates/times were not stored correctly in the database and could cause database corruption when trying to update to the newer database schema. These are now correctly stored in the database with 1.3.51, but those users with international (non-USA) date/time settings should contact LiveWorship support before updating a database used with a prior version to use with the newer database schema.
- Bug Fix: Preview Panel not updating
- Preview panel now updates correctly when in Screen 2 mode.
- Bug Fix: DVD manager icons
- Last Chapter and Rewind buttons how have the correct icons.
- Bug Fix: Slide thumbnails appear "pixelated"
- If the thumbnail image size is larger than the Preview panel, the slide thumbnails are now scaled to appear without pixelation.
- Bug Fix: Slide Show Import slide order
- Slides imported with the "create slide show" now correctly imports slides in a logical order.
- Bug Fix: Changing groups using Group View
- After changing a group, the Presentation Panel now correctly scrolls to top of group.
- Bug Fix: Using Edit arrows in Group View
- The arrow icons under the Preview Panel will no longer cause a crash when in the Group View mode.
New in LiveWorship 1.3.16 (Jan 26, 2015)
- Feature: DVD Control
- Ability to set in/out points and add a DVD queue to a slide. An icon for adding this queue as the background to a slide appears in the Slide Edit Panel.
- Feature: Custom Resolutions
- In addition to common resolution settings, LiveWorship presentations can be set to a custom resolution size. LiveWorship now scales slides (may letterbox) created in a different resolution to fit the current resolution. Slide thumbnails will also be scaled or letterboxed in the Presentation Panel if created in a different resolution than the current resolution.
- Feature: Support for camera feed
- Toggle the background of all slides to an external video feed with the "Camera On/Off" button in the Toolbar or attach this background to a particular slide using the icon in the Slide Edit Panel.
- Feature: Simulation of second screen with floating window
- Preview presentations without having a second screen (monitor or projector) attached using a floating window as the second screen.
- Feature: Present on primary screen
- Specifically for support on computers that do not support an extended desktop, LiveWorship can now present to the primary screen.
- Feature: Database file backup utility
- Once a day, LiveWorship can make a backup copy of the database file upon launching. Location of the current media library file is also displayed in the preferences along with the ability to change the location or create an empty database. This feature is disabled while using a trial/demo.
- Feature: Online version checking
- Option to have LiveWorship check online for updates. This can be turned on or off in the preferences.
- Enhancement: Slide thumbnail information
- Slide thumbnails in the Presentation Panel now include the resolution if the slide was created in a different resolution than currently selected. Icons for DVD, external video and slide text have been added to the slide indicator icon set.
- Enhancement: Background image pan control
- When a background image is set to the "custom" position. Clicking on the nine-direction pan control now snaps the background image to the edge. Right-clicking with your mouse (or with single button Macintosh mice, hold the control key while clicking with the mouse) on a directional control will nudge the background in that direction. See the Slide Edit Panel for more information on editing slide backgrounds.
- Enhancement: Preview Panel size
- The Preview Panel can be toggled between a minimum and maximum size by right-clicking on the Preview display.
- Enhancement: Speed and Transition Icons on Toolbar
- Drop down menus on toolbar now indicate the currently selected option.
- Enhancement: Database is modified
- Upon launching 1.3 for the first time, your database will be updated to allow new types media queues.
- Enhancement: QuickTime check
- Upon launch, LiveWorship will prompt user if they are not using an updated version of QuickTime. An option has been included to allow the user to proceed at their own risk despite the warning.
- Enhancement: PageUp and PageDown keys
- These keys now advance or reverse the display of a presentation.
- Enhancement: Drag and drop slide onto Preview panel
- You can now select a slide thumbnail in the Presentation Panel for editing by dragging the slide thumbnail into the Preview Panel.
- Enhancement (Mac): Text enhanced
- The text on the Macinosh has been enhanced for better display.
- Bug Fix: Cancel for Automation Delays
- After selecting a group for automated play, the cancel button will dismiss the dialog and not automate or change the slide delays.
- Bug Fix: Bail to Background after Bail to Black
- After using the Bail to Black button on the Toolbar, the Bail to Background now bails to the last background
- Bug Fix: (Windows Only) Crash using "Screen 2 Off" button in the Toolbar
- When using LiveWorship on Windows, toggling the screen 2 off may have caused an application crash.
- Bug Fix: Alerts stopping the show
- Sending an alert to the second screen does not halt an automated presentation.
- Bug Fix: CCLI import with "licence"
- Correctly imports CCLI SongSelect files that use the English spelling of "licence" instead of the American spelling, "license".
- Bug Fix: Slide group name
- Creating a slide group may have caused the group name to come up blank. This has been fixed.
- Bug Fix: Stability issues addressed
- Several stability issues have been addressed.
- Known Issues:
- Several stability issues have been addressed.
- DVD queing ability on Windows is not as stable as desired.
- DVD queues may not be imported on different computers due to industry regulations and controls.
- Minimizing the LiveWorship window on the Windows OS may result in undesirable behavior such as removing the text from a slide being presented on the second screen.
- Hiding the LiveWorship application while presenting on the second screen in the Mac OS may also hide the second screen window.
- UTF8 Compatibility is affected, contact LiveWorship support ([email protected]) for more information.
New in LiveWorship 1.2.17 (Jan 26, 2015)
- Feature: Support for international characters
- Limited support for international characters has been added.
- Enhancement: Editor Window
- Fields for song information have been added to the Editor Window for easy entry as you create songs. A drop down menu for "number of blank lines" for dividing slides has also been added to the Editor Window. This will allow easy changes and also serve as an indicator for the current setting.
- Enhancement: CCLI #
- Added an entry box for the CCLI# in the Copyright preferences that will be a global CCLI# setting for all songs.
- Feature: Up/down arrow keys
- While the "Screen 2" tab is selected, the up/down arrow keys now will advance or reverse the current slide.
- Feature: Support for .psd files
- Photoshop (.psd) files can now be imported.
- Enhancement: Location of Config file
- Config file is now created and stored in the user folder. This will reduce conflicts with permissions for users on computers with multiple user accounts. Each user account will be able to individualize their program settings.
- Bug Fix: Help button on Toolbar
- Help button now looks for main.html or index.html in help files and prompts if it can not find the help contents file.
- Bug Fix: Focus on launch
- Slide edit panel now has focus upon launching the program.
- Bug Fix: Import or link dialog
- The dialog when a file exceeds the preference setting for importing a file now correctly allows the user to select the option to link or import.
- Cosmetic: Splash screen
- A "splash screen" is displayed upon launching the program.
New in LiveWorship 1.2 (Jan 26, 2015)
- Feature: Text over video
- Video (or motion) files can now be used as background for slides with text (song lyrics, slide text or group text objects). Just drag a video file onto a slide and it will become the background image. Transitions will be cuts while using text over video. See system requirements for details on hardware requirements for using motion backgrounds. In v1.2b2, video clips that have no text on the same slide will play through once while video clips that are used with slides that have text continuously loop.
- Feature: PowerPoint Import
- Convert PowerPoint slides into LiveWorship slides. This feature requires PowerPoint be installed on the same computer. When you import a PowerPoint file, LiveWorship will launch PowerPoint to complete the import. Options include importing the presentation as flattened jpeg images (text embedded, and thus uneditable, into background image), attempting to strip the text only (gives the ability to edit the text in LiveWorship) or attempting to strip both the background image and the text (ability to edit the text and background image will be added to the LiveWorship backgrounds library) to re-create the slides in LiveWorship. See Importing for more detail on how to import files.
- Feature: SongSelect Import
- Text files downloaded from CCLI's SongSelect will be recognized when you import them into LiveWorship. See Importing for more detail on how to import files.
- Feature: Apply to Group button
- Selecting "apply to group" in the Slide Edit Panel now can be customized. Right-click on the "Apply to Group" button and you can now select whether this key will apply the following settings: Slide Delay, Background Image, Background Settings (color, size, scaling, alignment), Font Settings (font, style, size), Text Alignment (margins, positioning). These settings can be applied once to the group, once to the entire presentation or applied and saved so when you use the Apply to Group button without the right-click, it will use the last settings. The Apply to Group button is part of the Slide Edit Panel controls.
- Feature: Recording Slide Delay feature
- This is a useful feature that allows slide delays to be set while selecting slides for a group (in order, beginning to end). One use that we've found for it is to drop an audio file of a praise song onto the first slide and then use the recording feature to set the automatic timings so that the lyrics display along with the music. Click on the Record button in the Preview Panel (only displayed when you are editing the first slide in a group). See Preview Panel for more details on how to record the slide delays.
- Feature: Bail to Buttons with transitions
- The Bail to Buttons now use the global transition (Fade to...) unless you right-click on the bail button, which will "cut" to the logo/black/background. The Bail to Buttons are in the Toolbar.
- Feature: Slide Delay now supports decimals
- This change was made to help with the recording slide delays more accurate. The Slide Delay for each slide is visible in the Slide Edit Panel controls, just below the Preview Panel.
- Feature/Bug Fix: Support for curly quotes
- Files or text that is imported or copied and pasted now have better support for "curly" quotation marks. This was very noticeable in Microsoft files.
- Feature: Last Date Modified Column
- This column was added to the Library Panel window for songs, slide text and group text.
- Feature: Loop button replaces the Play button in the toolbar.
- Pressing the Loop button will begin the automated playing of the currently highlighted group in the Slide Group Panel. This automated playing of slides uses the slide delays that are associated with each slide. If no slide delay has been set (delay is zero) the user will be prompted to enter in a slide value greater than zero to adjust those slides before the automation will begin. Automated playing of the slides will continue until the Stop button on the Toolbar is pressed or another slide is selected to be displayed.
- Feature: Check for QuickTime Version 7.0.3
- If the required version of QuickTime is not detected (currently 7.0.3), LiveWorship will not run and inform the user to upgrade/install the current version of QuickTime.
- Modification: Misc Preferences: Auto Import Files Under/Check for Duplicates
- The parameters for auto-importing have been modified and Check For Duplicates was merged into this setting.
- Bug Fix: Disappearing thumbnails
- If more than 200 media items were in the library, the thumbnail images would sometimes not appear in the Library Panel. This has been fixed in v1.2.
- Bug Fix: Margins reset after adding background image
- This is now fixed in v1.2.
- Bug Fix: Screen 2 not recognized if connected after LiveWorship has started
- If you connect a second screen (monitor or projector) after LiveWorship has been started, use the "Enable Screen 2" button on the Toolbar to regain control of the second screen.