MBBE Church Presenter

• Left — Service, Songs, Scripture. The three tabs a service is built from.
• Middle — the slides. Every slide of whatever is selected. Clicking one sends it live.
• Right — Live and Next. What is on the projector now, what follows, and the controls.
• Top right — Media, Albums, Themes, Settings. The library opens in the middle of the window; pictures need the room.
• Along the bottom — the music. Appears as soon as a track starts and follows you between tabs.

1. Make a service. + Service at the top, and give it a name — Sunday Morning.
2. Add what is in it. From Songs, the + beside a title adds it. From Scripture, look up a reference and add that. + Blank gives you an empty screen for the sermon; + Media puts a picture or a clip in the order.
3. Put it in order. Drag the items. The × takes one out — the song stays in the library.
4. On the day, click an item. It goes live from its first slide, and its backing track starts if it has one set to.
5. Move through it with Space or →. At the end of a song the next press moves into the next item, so a whole service runs on one key.

Right-click any song — in the list or in the running order — to change that without opening the editor. It is the same song in both places, so a change in one shows in the other.

• Import from text takes pasted lyrics: blank lines separate pages, and a line like Chorus or [Verse 2] becomes that page's label.
• Title pages and lyric pages mix freely. A title page holds whatever words you type — the song's name, a dedication.
• Each page can have its own background, so a title card can sit on a photograph while the verses stay plain.
• Text sets this song apart from the rest: font, size, colour, outline, shadow. Only what you change is overridden.

1. Songs → Import PPTX…, or drop .pptx files straight onto the songs list. Several at once is fine.
2. Check what was found. The first slide becomes the song's title page, every slide after it one page of lyrics. A heading like Chorus in its own box labels the page instead of being sung.
3. Press Import. Nothing is saved until you do, and you can rename a song or leave one out first.

• Double-click a picture or clip to look at it full size, with ← and → to move through the library. Nothing in the viewer goes near the projector.
• A video opened while music is playing comes up silent, and says so — a clip checked during the prelude must not talk over it.
• Right-click for rename, tags, add to service, and remove. Renaming changes only the name it is listed under, so a track stays attached to its song and a backdrop stays on its screen.
• Files are copied in. A picture cannot go missing later because the original was moved or the memory stick came out.

• The shape above the slider is the whole track's loudness. Read it ahead of the playhead: you can see the chorus coming and reach for the volume before it lands, instead of after.
• Click or drag anywhere on it to jump to that point.
• Fade out rides the volume down and stops, rather than cutting the music dead.
• The volume shows as a percentage, because a track playing at 5% sounds exactly like one that is not playing.
• A song with no track of its own silences what is playing when it goes live. Scripture, pictures and blanks leave the music alone.

Esc cancels any of them and puts the slide back.

• Length is minutes, or hours:minutes — 10 is ten minutes, 1:30 is an hour and a half.
• With no picture behind it, the slide stays where it is, blurred and darkened, so the congregation can still see where they were.
• The clock turns amber in the last half-minute and red at zero, where it stays and pulses. A timer that vanishes at zero tells nobody anything.
• It opens with whatever you used last — same title, same length, same picture — because a church runs the same break most weeks.
• Send alert… puts a message on the screen without disturbing the slide: a scrolling line along the bottom, or a box in the corner. It stays visible even over a black screen, so a nursery call still gets through during prayer.

1. Press Lyrics, at the top right. Every song — in the list and in the running order — gets a tick box.
2. Pick them in the order you want them printed. The badge numbers them as you go, not as they happen to be listed.
3. Press the printer beside it. It wakes up as soon as something is chosen.

• Two columns of 11pt is a whole service on one sheet — what a music stand wants.
• One column of 16pt is what somebody reading from the front wants.
• The titles are bold whatever the text size is, and a title page is not printed twice under its own heading.

• Backdrops are chosen from the media library, not from a file dialog, so every one has a name and tags and travels with an export.
• The wash over a picture — colour and strength — is what keeps words readable over a photograph. The preview shows real words over the real picture, because a percentage tells you nothing.
• Outline and shadow are set per kind of page: a bright sky needs a heavy outline, an already-dark picture needs none.

• Export carries the profile in use — songs, services, media, albums, the theme, every picture and backdrop — into a folder you can put on a memory stick.
• Import brings it in on the other machine and switches to it. Every path is rewritten to that machine's own folders.
• A name that already exists asks whether to replace it or come in beside it as “name (2)”.