For replacing video: we create a presentation slide and add the macros and other stuff, then put in our weekly commands folder. But instead of doing all that you do, you can simple drag the new video from finder and drop on the slide. It will replace the video and keep everything the same until you replace it again. We do this for everything from countdown to bumper video to are worship backgrounds. Hope this helps!
8:00 I’ve been searching for something where we can apply media actions to videos, but I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who has experienced this quirk with videos. I have yet to find a better way, so this may be the most workable solution
@@ZachBrownMedia guys I believe yo can go in the video inspector and add macros directly to the videos along with Markers that you can attach macros to
@@A-yoPaul That's really helpful. In the inspector, on the add marker you drag your macro in there. What is interesting is that this now gives the option to change looks mid video as well which is fascinating. Once again not as simple as drag and drop onto the main show view, but at least the option is there now and I no longer have to essentially create extra presentation items just to cue a video.
The workaround I have done for the scheduled video / macros is add a linked playlist in my media bin that it cues up. I labeled a folder in the media bin called Macros, I have separate media playlists for each type of video in there, a countdown, beginning of service bumper, sermon bumper. So, when we have a new video for each type I just replace the old one in there.
Great video and tips! For your video and wrapping a macro around it without a lot of steps, you could simply drag the video onto the slide that contains a macro. Another option that would give you more flexibility would be to have a simple "Announcement Video" an item consisting of two slides dedicated to the video. The first slide could be used as a setup slide and would be where the macro resides. This can be a great workflow slide to ensure screens have the correct look, re-cue lights, etc. The second slide would be where you drag the video and would be the slide the operator clicks to fire the video. The second slide could also have its own macro; say to dim all the lights in the room if you have MIDI lighting.
Yeah for sure! One way or another you have to get a video inside of a presentation for ideal use. Would be nice if Pro7 automatically created a presentation with that video included upon import.
We pretty much do this every week. Just drag drop new video on the same presentation slide and it overwrites the old video. All the macro and other actions remain.
It has been a while so I'm sure you have discovered you can use the same presentation each week for the video and just drag/drop the new video on that presentation slide. If you have anything set up with inspector that won't retain, but the actions on the presentation will.
Thanks for the helpful tips! I'm definitely gonna use some of these to tweak our setup. Something we do for videos, since we have a couple that change every week but happen roughly the same time in the service, is just drag the video file straight onto the blank slide with the macro. Once the file is in the slide, it acts as media and you can right click to go to the inspector on it for tweaks or change if you want it to be a foreground media or background. Then when a new video is dragged onto it, it simply replaces the old automatically. And we have a Library called "Service Segments" for those recurring slides and objects that are just dragged into the playlist each week during setup (e.g. offering video, announcements video, etc). Question - Do your guys' Pre-service and Service End macros cue up the same announcements loop?
That's a great workflow for videos. Great idea. I'll have to play around with that some! For your question: Not really. We attach the Pre-Service Macro to the Pre Service announcement loop. Then for the end of service we actually don't go back to the Announcements.. we just play a short video that says, "thanks for joining us, see you next week!" And that video has the End of Service Macro attached to it. So if you want different macros for pre-service and post-service announcements, I would just duplicate the Announcements and drop one macro on each.
Any thoughts on sending different videos to the online audience look and main screens at the same time? I can get video to run but the audio for both run the front of house…
Yeah, Pro7 has 16 audio channels you can route audio to. You'll have to send in-house audio to channels 1-2 and then send the audio for that 2nd video to audio channels 3-4 for example. This video from Ryland Russel explains this in more detail: czcams.com/video/hj7Dt38x600/video.html
Thank you for your video! I have a question regarding the "Pre-Service Countdown Video"-Makro How is it possible to fire the countdown with a macro, when the video is not in the playlist? You said you have the video in the playlist just for backup. I did not find a action to do that.
Yeah! Didn’t mentioned this in the video I guess but if you right click on the macro.. there should be an option to “add media action” and you can then choose a video on your computer to be added to that action.
It's kind of mind blowing to me that you can't trigger a header or presentation in a macro..or am I missing something? And the fact that you can't rearrange the events in a macro is also quite odd...if you want to you have to remove all and start over..ugh PP7 is the best yet most frustrating piece of software.
Yeah, I literally tried to do trigger a header/presentation the other day and couldn't 😂 It is true.. it's the best but at times I'm scratching my head wondering why I can't do some simple things like that
@@ZachBrownMedia You said you have a calendar event that starts your timer and announcements. They'd have to be two different events, afaik. But that's not reflected in your macro list.
@@chrisw1462we don’t have a calendar event for our pre-roll announcements. Only for the countdown video and the start of service. And both this calendar events are present in the calendar window at @7:06 And the way you would set up those calendar events would be the same process I outlined at 6:51
Sorry if someone posted this. You can go to the video inspector. Click markers. Add a marker for 0:00:00 and you can add a action or macros.
Yes now you can! But this just became available in the latest update 7.10
For replacing video: we create a presentation slide and add the macros and other stuff, then put in our weekly commands folder. But instead of doing all that you do, you can simple drag the new video from finder and drop on the slide. It will replace the video and keep everything the same until you replace it again. We do this for everything from countdown to bumper video to are worship backgrounds. Hope this helps!
That pretty much what we’ve started doing.. I don’t ever “import” media files through the import button anymore haha
This was a REALLY good video! Great Content! I didn't even know the Calendaring feature existed!
Thanks! Glad it was helpful 👊
8:00 I’ve been searching for something where we can apply media actions to videos, but I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who has experienced this quirk with videos.
I have yet to find a better way, so this may be the most workable solution
Yeah, kind of tedious if you import video often. Wish there was a way to automatically create a presentation when you import a video
@@ZachBrownMedia guys I believe yo can go in the video inspector and add macros directly to the videos along with Markers that you can attach macros to
Is that only with the most recent update? That’d be a decent option.. still not as simple as drag and drop unfortunately
@@ZachBrownMedia yes I believe so…
@@A-yoPaul That's really helpful. In the inspector, on the add marker you drag your macro in there.
What is interesting is that this now gives the option to change looks mid video as well which is fascinating.
Once again not as simple as drag and drop onto the main show view, but at least the option is there now and I no longer have to essentially create extra presentation items just to cue a video.
Thank you for the Video Work-around tip - that has been frustrating for us, but ur video helped figure it out!
Awesome! Glad it helped 🙌🏼🙌🏼
The workaround I have done for the scheduled video / macros is add a linked playlist in my media bin that it cues up. I labeled a folder in the media bin called Macros, I have separate media playlists for each type of video in there, a countdown, beginning of service bumper, sermon bumper. So, when we have a new video for each type I just replace the old one in there.
Boom. Great method. I like the idea of keeping those in the Media Bin
Wow this video was really helpful, this video was just what I needed to see!
Glad it helped!! Get those macros set and you’ll be golden 👌🏼👌🏼
Great video and tips!
For your video and wrapping a macro around it without a lot of steps, you could simply drag the video onto the slide that contains a macro. Another option that would give you more flexibility would be to have a simple "Announcement Video" an item consisting of two slides dedicated to the video. The first slide could be used as a setup slide and would be where the macro resides. This can be a great workflow slide to ensure screens have the correct look, re-cue lights, etc. The second slide would be where you drag the video and would be the slide the operator clicks to fire the video. The second slide could also have its own macro; say to dim all the lights in the room if you have MIDI lighting.
Yeah for sure! One way or another you have to get a video inside of a presentation for ideal use. Would be nice if Pro7 automatically created a presentation with that video included upon import.
We pretty much do this every week. Just drag drop new video on the same presentation slide and it overwrites the old video. All the macro and other actions remain.
It has been a while so I'm sure you have discovered you can use the same presentation each week for the video and just drag/drop the new video on that presentation slide. If you have anything set up with inspector that won't retain, but the actions on the presentation will.
Yeah this is basically what we do know, though I wish you could still just bring in a video and it by default it formats to a slide haha
@@ZachBrownMedia Yes! If Renewed Vision happends to see these comments we would like a default action setting that we could toggle. :)
Great video! I learned some helpful tips for our services!
Thanks! Glad it helped 👊🏼👊🏼
Thanks Zach! Great stuff and very neat... Would like to have a look at your 'looks' and how you've organised and thought through that.
Thanks for the suggestion! Right now we pretty much have a look dedicated to each part of the service then we add it to the corresponding macro.
I replace videos with other videos all the time, and my macros stay put. The calendar is going to help me out a bit. I never have to rebuild anything.
Yeah that’s pretty much the best way to bring in new videos
High quality video as always Z!
Appreciate it dog 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thanks for the helpful tips! I'm definitely gonna use some of these to tweak our setup. Something we do for videos, since we have a couple that change every week but happen roughly the same time in the service, is just drag the video file straight onto the blank slide with the macro. Once the file is in the slide, it acts as media and you can right click to go to the inspector on it for tweaks or change if you want it to be a foreground media or background. Then when a new video is dragged onto it, it simply replaces the old automatically. And we have a Library called "Service Segments" for those recurring slides and objects that are just dragged into the playlist each week during setup (e.g. offering video, announcements video, etc).
Question - Do your guys' Pre-service and Service End macros cue up the same announcements loop?
That's a great workflow for videos. Great idea. I'll have to play around with that some!
For your question: Not really. We attach the Pre-Service Macro to the Pre Service announcement loop. Then for the end of service we actually don't go back to the Announcements.. we just play a short video that says, "thanks for joining us, see you next week!" And that video has the End of Service Macro attached to it.
So if you want different macros for pre-service and post-service announcements, I would just duplicate the Announcements and drop one macro on each.
Any thoughts on sending different videos to the online audience look and main screens at the same time? I can get video to run but the audio for both run the front of house…
Yeah, Pro7 has 16 audio channels you can route audio to. You'll have to send in-house audio to channels 1-2 and then send the audio for that 2nd video to audio channels 3-4 for example.
This video from Ryland Russel explains this in more detail: czcams.com/video/hj7Dt38x600/video.html
@@ZachBrownMedia Thanks Zach! Blessings.
Thank you for your video! I have a question regarding the "Pre-Service Countdown Video"-Makro
How is it possible to fire the countdown with a macro, when the video is not in the playlist? You said you have the video in the playlist just for backup. I did not find a action to do that.
Yeah! Didn’t mentioned this in the video I guess but if you right click on the macro.. there should be an option to “add media action” and you can then choose a video on your computer to be added to that action.
Thx a lot, even from Germany u get views xD
Ha awesome to hear! Glad you got value from it 👊
It's kind of mind blowing to me that you can't trigger a header or presentation in a macro..or am I missing something? And the fact that you can't rearrange the events in a macro is also quite odd...if you want to you have to remove all and start over..ugh PP7 is the best yet most frustrating piece of software.
Yeah, I literally tried to do trigger a header/presentation the other day and couldn't 😂 It is true.. it's the best but at times I'm scratching my head wondering why I can't do some simple things like that
@@ZachBrownMedia Yeah I have a massive love hate with it...lots of nice features but so many things broken or just oddly designed.
hit like and subcribe button due to this video.
👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
*PRO7. PP7 is like a child needing to go pee. Sheeeeeeeesh.
😂😂😂 I write out Pro7 literally all the time.. no idea why I didn’t do that here 🤦🏼♂️
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It a shame you show us the calendar and all these macros, and then never show a how a single one is set up.
Like how to create a macro? Not sure what you mean
@@ZachBrownMedia You said you have a calendar event that starts your timer and announcements. They'd have to be two different events, afaik. But that's not reflected in your macro list.
@@chrisw1462we don’t have a calendar event for our pre-roll announcements. Only for the countdown video and the start of service. And both this calendar events are present in the calendar window at @7:06
And the way you would set up those calendar events would be the same process I outlined at 6:51