This topic describes the VideoPsalm panels and how to rearrange them.

It is available as a YouTube tutorial.

VideoPsalm 1.27 introduces panel collapse (read further).

1. The "Songbooks and Bibles" panel

Songs are organized into songbooks.

From within VideoPsalm, you can add hundreds of predefined songbooks in several languages (YouTube).

Additionaly, you can create new songbooks and new songs (YouTube).

Use the "Search" box to instantly find your songs via keywords in their title and lyrics (YouTube).

Switch to the "Bibles" tab to display Bible verses:

2. The "Agenda" panel

Organize your order of service in the "Agenda" panel.

Use the songbooks and Bible "Add" button to add songs and Bible verses to the agenda (YouTube).

Drag and drop slideshow images, standalone videos, PowerPoint, Word, PDF and Excel documents to the agenda surface, or click the agenda "Add" button for this purpose.

Drag and drop agenda items with the mouse to reorder them.

Save the agenda on a USB key and open it on the church PC (YouTube).

3. The "Slide" panel

There, you will find the slides for the selected agenda item, songbooks song or Bible verses.

4. The "Preview" panel

When you click on a slide, VideoPsalm displays it in the "Preview" panel.

5. The "Lyrics editor" panel

The middle panel displays information about the last click item, and lets you edit it.

This is where you can create or edit new songs (YouTube), add announcements songs (YouTube) and edit song chords (YouTube).

6. The "Top-toolbar"

This toolbar gives access to slide font properties, background properties, and other VideoPsalm functionalities, like the import assistant and the settings.

To show or hide the "Top-toolbar", double-click one of its tabs.

It behaves like in the Microsoft Office products.

VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes

Starting with version 1.27, you can resize and collapse the panels

Hide or show the "Preview" panel

Hide or show the "Slide" panel

This is usefull for example for musicians who want to display chords over the lyrics on their laptop.

Hide or show the "Lyrics" panel

This display is similar to the "Viewer" mode, but with access to the "Top-toolbar".

The minimalistic display: Hide the "Songbook" panel:

The display of the presentation as well as the keyboard shortcuts are available in any mode, even while the "Preview" or "Slide" panels are hidden.

To activate the "One-click-collapse" button in the separators, go to:

"Top-Toolbar" -> "Edit" tab -> "Options" button -> "Display" tab -> "Show panel minimize buttons" option: