How to use TheOpenPresenter Studio for church

Studio is a free download. There's nothing to buy and no license to sign up for.

1. Go to the downloads page.
2. Under TheOpenPresenter Studio, download the Windows installer (the .exe). There's also an .msi if your church manages installs centrally.
3. On a Mac? Studio for macOS is coming soon, so check back on the downloads page.

1. Run the installer you just downloaded. When the setup window appears, click Next to begin.
2. Choose where to install it (the default location is fine for most people), then continue through the installer.
3. When you see Installation Complete, you're done. Open TheOpenPresenter Studio from your Start menu or desktop.
4. The first time you open it, give it a moment to start up. Studio runs its own private copy of TheOpenPresenter behind the scenes, so the very first launch takes a little longer.

A project is a single service or event, think of it as "this Sunday's service." You'll make a new project each week and fill it with everything you want to show: song lyrics, announcements, the sermon, and more.

1. From the Projects page, click New project.
2. Give the project a Name, such as "Sunday Service, 13 Jul". If you leave it blank, it's named with today's date.
3. Set the Service Time for the service. You can optionally add a Category and Tags to keep things organized week to week.
4. Click Save. The project opens in the editor, ready for you to add content.

Let's add the songs for your worship set. Lyrics live in the Lyrics Presenter, which shows song words on the screen one section at a time.

1. In your project's editor, click Add component and choose Lyrics Presenter from the Display section.
2. The Add song(s) window opens. You have a few ways to add a song:
   • Search, type a song title into the search box to find it in your Songbook (songs you've saved before) or import it from the online song library.
   • Create new song, click this to type or paste the lyrics in yourself.
3. Example, importing "Praise": Type Praise into the search box and pick it from the song library. The Import a song window opens with the lyrics already filled in and split into sections like Verse 1 and Chorus. Each section becomes its own slide on the screen.
4. Want to tidy the formatting? Click AI Format (the magic-wand button) and it will clean up the words into neat verses and choruses for you.
5. Tick Save to songbook if you want to reuse this song next time, then click Import to add it to your set. Repeat for each song you need.

On Sunday, present straight from Studio to your TV or projector.

1. Connect your TV or projector to the computer, and set your display to extend (so the projector is a second screen, not a mirror of your laptop).
2. Open this week's project and click the Present button.
3. In the Select monitor list, choose the display that's your TV or projector (for example, DISPLAY2). The lyrics fill that screen while you keep the controls on your laptop.
4. Click a song section to send it to the screen. Move through the set as the service goes on, and stop presenting when you're done.

Studio works completely offline, but you can connect it to the cloud whenever you want to work together as a team.

Once connected, your team can help build the service from their own devices, and you can control the show from your phone, just like the online version. If you're happy working on one machine, you can skip this entirely.