ability to take presentation off-line
have the ability to download the file to present in area where no internet is available.
Beta 7 added UI representing the cache state of the current presentation.
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T Miller commented
Our Church takes its computer to summer camp for two weeks every July. There is no internet connection in the mountains, no cell service, not even carrier pigeon. It is truly wonderful! However, when it comes to using technology for presentation, it is a bit restrictive.
We currently use an open source presentation program and Power Point. I would love to switch to Proclaim, but how limited I would be. We can not build each service ahead of camp. Rather, we meet with the camp evangelist, missionary, and song leader at the camp on Monday afternoon and begin putting together the technology end of things. We try to bring together each speaker's presentations, create things on the fly for some of them, and do the songs, announcements, pictures of campers we take daily, video, etc.
I agree that Proclaim must become totally usable in a local, or offline, situation before we can make the switch.
Tommy Miller
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Jeremy commented
Yeah, giving us the ability to vote on stuff is useless if you just reject things with lots of votes and mark things as completed that aren't done. The intent of this is that a person could "download" the presentation on one computer and take it to another computer that doesn't have Internet.
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Jeremi Bergman commented
I don't think this should have been marked "completed". This is not what was asked. We would like to export the from one machine that has internet and import it onto a machine that does not have access.
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Jim Smith commented
This would be a simple fix, the administrator should be able to download all content and either burn a master presentation disk, or save to a jump drive the night before. This way if the internet was down upon arrival to the church the show could still go on. The saved presentation would then serve as a backup, this is paramount to the success of Proclaim setting an industry standard. Also Proclaim needs to look into adding F4V or FLV formats to their accepted list.
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AdminScott Alexander (Admin, Proclaim) commented
As John mentioned this is already supported. We will be providing more information on caching progress which will enable you to know when it is safe to go offline. Additionally we will be adding the ability to add local media resources which should cover the last minute "I need to add a mission trip slideshow and I don't have an internet connection" scenario.
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John Weathersby commented
You can already do this, you have the Proclaim software locally stored on your machine - you just cannot add video and other items, however, you can give the presentation. You cannot use signals (giving, etc) however you CAN present - offline.
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agapedad commented
This is perhaps one of the few sticking points for our "tech" facilitator. It is very unlikely that we will make the full switch to Proclaim without this feature.
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rob schlegel commented
Besides taking the presentation "off-line" it might be nice to have the ability to run media live... we had this issue on Tues with our youth group. The youth pastor brought in a bunch of video's to run for the service and there was not sufficient time to import and convert all the files. Is there a reason stuff needs to be uploaded before running? It might be nice to have the capability to run some things from the flash drive...how much space do we get in the cloud?
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Kyle commented
I believe that it already downloads the set you're working on or from to the computer just in case you lose internet or you have a slow internet. It's my understanding that you just can't change anything without an internet connection.
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Derrick Sindt commented
I'd say this is a must have for every church. Granted, you may have a high speed internet connection that is constantly on, but if your ISP is down for some reason on Sunday morning, well I guess you're just out of luck.
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Tom McKean commented
This is a must have for churches with an internet connection that is slow at its best and sketchy/non-existent at its worst.