Have the ability to show Powerpoint and media content on the Confidence display
Instead of simply having text on the Confidence display to indicate what is currently being projected to the audience, display the content on the Confidence monitor so that those on the stage can see the content as well.
Just have the slides show on the monitor that those on the stage look at as well.
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Rogue_Danar commented
That would be precisely the problem this request would solve; the confidence monitor is the monitor those on stage look at; currently it does not show the slides themselves for a PowerPoint presentation, but just says that there is a PowerPoint being shown (which is really not terribly helpful).
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Chris Martin commented
I would like to second this request, but clarify our use case scenario.
The ability of the confidence monitor to have countdown timers and display the lyrics of songs in a high contrast format (especially with the ability to see the first line of the next slide!) is really handy. However, two things keep us from taking advantage of this feature. The first is that our announcement slides are created by a graphic artist and are imported as an image slideshow. Our announcer only sees something like [Image Slideshow 3/5] on the confidence monitor, and this is unhelpful. Second, our pastor creates his sermon presentations in Keynote and we likewise add them to Proclaim as an image slideshow. This presents the same problem as the announcements.
Our current solution has been to mirror the front screen to the rear screen at the OS level (since Proclaim only supports one Slides output). It would be great if the confidence monitor had a setting that allowed you to toggle content types between slides view and confidence view. You could then, for example, allow songs and content items to display in the confidence view, but keep image slideshows as images.
Some sort of solution along these lines would also be helpful when your front and rear screens operate at different resolutions (as is our case) making mirroring more difficult. Each screen could then receive a signal at its native resolution.
Thank you.