![]() ![]() ProPresenter 7 is a major upgrade, and appears to bridge much of the gap between ProVideoPlayer, and ProPresenter. While users of the most basic features may be fine staying on ProPresenter 6 for some time to come, ProPresenter 7 is a must-have upgrade for any power users – and will bring about great long-term enhancements for any user. No modules – everything comes in the one license. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to beta test ProPresenter 7 over the last month or so. I’ve put together this article as an overview of new features I’m excited about. If you want the full overview of Pro7, you may want to re-watch the keynote. Let’s start with the most obvious change – the user interface. ProPresenter has looked very similar for many versions now, and while I’m not an advocate for wholesale changes for the sake of it, I think this one will turn out to be a good long-term change. The user-interface now flows left-to-right. The video bin still sits at the bottom centre of the screen, and the audio bin sits on the bottom right. It is no longer customisable, and all the ‘Clear Layer’ buttons are now on the right side near the preview window. The clear buttons are stacked in layer order too, and active layers are highlighted red. ![]() The next biggest change, and really *the* major change the whole release is focusing on, is the way you configure outputs. In ProPresenter 6, we had a fairly limited selection of options – a main output, a stage display output, and some edge blending / multi-screen options if you bought the correct modules. ![]() You could also do SDI and NDI with add-on modules (but these were limited – want to do edge blend via SDI or NDI – not possible). ![]() Now, we have a pretty wide range of settings that can be mixed and matched however you desire. In short, you can send any type of output to any type of connection (so long as your computer is powerful enough).įor Mac users, this means you may wish to invest in an external PCI enclosure or eGPU, so you can load up your Mac with additional output cards. The keynote demo was run on a Mac mini with eGPU and DeckLink SDI card, costing about US$2300.įor Windows users – this is really your time to shine! I’ve already got various media PCs with SDI outputs and beefy graphics cards – now I can finally use all this with ProPresenter! A demo in the keynote was run on a Intel NUC running Windows 10, with an external eGPU housing a DeckLink Card – costing about US$1500.Īs well as these new output options, you can also preview any output via the preview window on the right. Additionally, new options in the Stage Display editor allow you to create advanced layouts – including multi-viewers of all your other outputs. The Stage Display editor actually has all the same features as the new slide editor – plus a few extras – which is great. LooksĪll these output options are great – but what can you do with it? Surely you won’t need more than one main output, and one stage display? Propresenter lower thirds plus# Wrong! Creating a separate Lower-Third output for video is possibly one of the most commonly requested features. Several people, including myself, have written third-party tools to enable this. Now, this functionality is native to ProPresenter. The ‘Looks’ configuration screen allows you to specify which layers are sent to each screen. Not only this, but you can also override the Presentation Theme (‘Template’ in Pro6 terminology). You could send a special lower-thirds theme to your web stream (and alpha key it), or maybe send fancy decorative lyrics to a centre screen while sending just plain old text to the side screens. This configuration is quite flexible, and can even be changed mid-event with a command attached to a slide (or the click of a button in the menu). ![]()
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