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There is some very recent news on the new EasyWorship software. Not sure if it will be named EasyWorship 2011 because SoftTouch Inc is doing a survey to find another name. I like EasyWorship 2 personally. The new features are not clear yet but it will be a multi platform product. This will work on both Apple Mac OS X and Windows systems. What a great idea given most larger Churches have several ministries and some ministries might use Windows while the main sanctuary would use Apple Macs.
Here is the most recent information from SoftTouch Inc.
Pricing Structure
1) A new EasyWorship purchase – $399.00
2) An upgrade from version 2007 or earlier – $149.00
3) An upgrade from version 2009 – $49.00
4) An upgrade from a competitive product – $249.00
Site License
When you purchase the new EasyWorship (when released) you will get a site license automatically. This means you can use the Mac OS X and Windows version on all your PCs/Macs in the Church. WOW! This is the only software developer that offers this great deal!
Where to get EasyWorship
You can purchase EasyWorship discounted from Worship Media Pro. They offer FREE backgrounds with purchase. The background collection is a $200 value and it is free with your discounted EasyWorship purchase. Click to get details.
Following the message boards and EasyWorship’s forum it is still undetermined when they will release their next revision. There is also going to be an additional platform supported in this release. EasyWorship will soon run on Mac OS X and maintain the same look and feel as the Windows version. Renewed Vision has accomplished this same multi platform ProPresenter release while maintaining look and feel.
Currently EasyWorship is solid and full of features. Don’t let the (2009) discourage you. This is an up to date powerful worship presentation software. To get a great deal and free worship motion backgrounds visit Worship Media Pro’s EasyWorship product page.
Worship Media Pro is offering a deal. Free worship backgrounds with your choice of worship presentation software. These include ProPresenter Mac & Windows, MediaShout Mac & Windows and EasyWorship.
View all worship video motion loops here.
Here are some previews:
This is an amazing deal from Worship Media Pro. If you purchase EasyWorship, MediaShout or ProPresenter they will not only discount the software but they include their entire collection of backgrounds for free. There are 100 motion background loops alone and a total of 400 backgrounds included.
Examples of Motion Loops
I have been closely watching the blogs and forum posts to see the anticipation to EasyWorship 2010 worship software. It appears there will be a PC and MAC OS X release at the same time (cross-platform). The most recent update was on 8/23/2010 regarding some small code cleanup that needs to happen before the release.
We are excited at this new release and hope to see features like native MOV H.264 and more.
The one thing I like about SoftTouch the maker of EasyWorship is they simply do not add any marketing fluff. They will just release it when it is ready and history has shown that their releases are stable at version 1. Keep up the great work SoftTouch and I can’t wait for this new cross-platform release!
If you want to purchase EasyWorship 2009 you can purchase it from Worship Media Pro and get free backgrounds included. Nice deal!
Stay tuned….
Common questions around the right motion format or size to use with your worship presentation software come my way weekly. My hope is this brief explanation will help you make the right choices when selecting your motion backgrounds to use.
Get more information on choosing backgrounds here.
Motion Background Sizes
There are two common sizes used for motion loops. These sizes have become the unwritten standard in the worship community.
Widescreen 720p
This is a newer size used in Church projection today. The format is for wider 16:9 projection screens and allows for more horizontal real-estate. This is also the HD format for mini movie clip playback as well. The resolution is 1280×720. A common encoding is MOV format to maintain resolution. However, the new features in WMV allow for 2-pass VBR to deliver high quality Windows native encoding.
Standard 480p
Still popular in Churches around the world and for more years to come. This size is more of a square design 4:3 aspect ratio. The motion video resolution is 640×480. Common encoding for this format is MOV and WMV.
Formats
MOV is native to Mac OS X and H.264 encoding. You can use K-Lite codec for MOV use on Windows operating systems. Used in ProPresenter natively. EasyWorship and MediaShout with K-Lite Codec.
Installation tutorial on installing K-lite codec here.
WMV is native to Windows and with 2-Pass VBR maintains high quality HD video. Used in EasyWorship and MediaShout.
MPEG-1 is an older interoperable encoding but lacks quality and is slowly phasing out.
If you looking to explore EasyWorship 2009 and all it has to offer I suggest you look at Worship Media Pro’s online tutorials. They cover each aspect of the worship software in small lessons. Pretty much teach yourself EasyWorship 2009 in a day if you wanted to.
View EasyWorship 2009 Tutorials
There are some new features in EasyWorship 2009 that I discussed in a previous article. Make sure to check it out.
Let me know your thoughts on EasyWorship as well.
EasyWorship has been an excellent resource for worship leaders around the world. For several years and many Windows operating systems SouftTouch has managed to maintain a stable and powerful worship software.
In September 2009 SoftTouch releases EasyWorship 2009 version of the worship software with some amazing key features. From listening to their community of EasyWorship users they have assembled the ultimate worship software tool kit for our new multimedia venues and audience.
Some new features in EasyWorship 2009
- Full 1080p video background playback
- Foldback (Stage Display)
- Video Jockey Live Background Switching
- Audio Integration
- Web Display
- Integrated Media Store
- Updated User Interface
- Back End Retooling
To get more information on what’s to come you can view the official EasyWorship 2009 announcement blog.
If you are looking to purchase EasyWorship 2009 I recommend getting it through Worship Media Pro. They have a worship software bundle that includes their entire collection of worship resources when you order EasyWorship 2009 from them. Worship Media Pro is also launching a training series on EasyWorship 2009. Should be some good stuff. You can get details and ordering information here.
EasyWorship is a powerful worship presentation application and one of my personal choices in worship software. The navigation is simple and the entire application is easy to use. EasyWorship has done a great job in making this affordable and powerful at the same time.
Key Visual Features
- Supports HD 720p with a 16:9 aspect ratio (1080p support in EasyWorship 2009)
- New version provides a broadcast quality output with alpha channeling
- Place text in a specific area over live camera feeds*
- Use video backgrounds with text overlay. The text is anti-aliased for smoothing.
If you have not acquired all your worship lyrics using other worship software you can use EasyWorship’s SongSelect. All you need to do is subscribe with CCLI and you can integrate SongSelect into EasyWorship pulling your favorite christian worship songs into EasyWorship with copyright information and header tags into your worship songs library.
PowerPoint worship slide show merging is possible with EasyWorship. If you have already used PowerPoint in the past and would like to import all your work from PowerPoint you can with EasyWorship.
To get more information about EasyWorship you can visit them here: http://www.worshipmediapro.com
EasyWorship 2009 is going to be available in the coming months so keep an eye out for this feature rich new media platform that will change worship and worship software forever.
* A side note on text overlaying live camera feeds. This is a great tool for sermons too. You can reference bible verses from EasyWorship’s Bible library and project them on a specific location over live camera feed of the sermon. Nice feature!
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