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The Beamer Project

News

2006-10-13: Version 0.9 released. This release contains a text export tool that can export all songs to a text file!

2004-09-17: Version 0.8 released. This release contains improved support for: dual-display mode, PowerPoint/OpenOffice integration, livevideo configuration. It also contains a liveeditor which allows you to modify the text of the current song or PowerPoint/OpenOffice presentation, even over the network!

2003-07-10: Version 0.7 released. This release allows to customize the text layout, has an enhanced networking protocol with autoconnect, and has experimental support for background video (requires Windows 2000 or higher). It also comes with a new installer, so please uninstall all older versions. For a complete list of new features read the release notes).

Features

• display song texts
• Playlist (list of songs for a service)
• support for PowerPoint/OpenOffice files
• support for dual display and network operation
• support for live background video
• song, playlist and layout editor
• edit song or PowerPoint/OpenOffice presentation texts of the current presentation to fix typos quickly
• song file creation assistent
• support for multilingual song texts
• customizable text layouts
• choice of navigation method (easy-to-use navigation button, keyboard or mouse)
• support for an extra serial 2 or 3-button mouse for navigation (allows longer cables for the case the operator doesn't want to sit in front of the monitor)
• a help system
• export song texts
  

Advantages of Beamer

• Beamer is very stable:

  By using the mature VB6 technology the Beamer core runs extreme stable, and everything you can do once you can do always. Errors (like segmentation faults) which appear after some time of usage can be completely avoided (except those which might be caused theoretically by the third-parties extensions on which Beamer has no influence). In other presentation programs which are written in C or C++ a single small bug can cause such errors, and you never know if a new program version allows you to present a nice segmentation fault window to your church ;-)

• Beamer is very fast and doesn't require the newest hardware for nothing:

  Beamer runs also on Pention I systems with Windows 95 at an acceptable speed.
  Even if you want to present song texts with live background video, you might notice that it uses less CPU ressources than other song presentation programs with that feature do use.

• Beamer has unique features:

  How many other presentation systems do you know that allow the operator to control the system with a three button mouse in his hand and participate in worship, instead of sitting in front of a monitor?
  Or what about fixing typos you find when you see the song text or presentation on the wall?
  And what about changing the song text language dynamically, or changing the number of currently displayed languages?

• Beamer allows flexible setups:

  You can present your songs using a single display system, a dual display system, or two single display systems connected by LAN. Who else can do that?