I also like that when you open MediaShout, a step by step tutorial on how to use it loads. This is real nice if you have a creative team working in these file formats – it makes for one less thing to convert. As I alluded to earlier, MediaShout also works well with Adobe files such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash. You can move your various panels around, turn off the ones you don’t use, and keep your operating space clean. This alone has spread up his productivity.Īnother one of the great things about MediaShout is how customizable the view is. He especially enjoys downloading lyrics directly from CCLI without having to re-type each song. He keeps commenting how much easier his life is than it used to be. As a matter of fact, after two weeks with the software he couldn’t imagine life without it. They were not using the more technically advanced features while testing it, but they did see the improvement over their old system (PowerPoint). Once I walked my youth pastor through the program he did well with it. The summary – technically challenged people might need some help, technical savvy people will be just fine. I simply opened the software and got him running on it. Now, it’s only fair to say that I didn’t even bother reading the tutorials. We met up, I spent about an hour going over the software with him and got him going. He went home, and successfully installed it. I brought it home, gave it to my slightly less than technical savvy youth pastor and said, “Here, use this”. Since MediaShout was touting this at the YS conference, I decided to give it the ultimate test. There is no better way to evaluate software than to give it a test drive yourself! Regardless of which presentation software you are considering I highly recommend downloading the free trial version. The great thing about MediaShout as well as the other worship presentation software companies is that you can download a trial version for no cost and see for yourself.

In exchange for complete ease of use, MediaShout offers a lot of flexibility and creativity for the end user.

However, if you are looking for flexibility, customization and the ability to easily integrate with Adobe and other similar products – MediaShout is likely to make you very happy. If you are strictly looking for easy to use out of the box – no instructions necessary – this might not be the option for you. Like everything, I find that this version has its strengths and weaknesses.

They were kind enough to pass along a version of their new release for my review. Recently I met up with the guys from MediaShout at a Youth Specialties conference.

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