Tips for using OpenLP

TravisGarza

Hello! I am exploring the world of church presentation software. I'm particularly interested in OpenLP. Can anyone share their experiences and tips for using OpenLP in worship services? Any standout features or customization options you find particularly useful?

congoblue

We find the ability to output different/custom stage views on a web browser screen is very useful - we generate a lower-third overlay for video stream, and a different view for musicians stage monitor. On other projection software you have to use separate graphics card outputs to do this (we used to have EasyWorship using 3 graphics card outputs).

abo

We are using OpenLP in our Church for several years now.
OpenLP is integrated into our live streaming system which is controlled with TouchPortal.
We selected OpenLP not only because it is a powerfull tool for churches as several other applications but because it provides a good API necessary to control it from external application (TouchPortal in our case).
Some other applications provide API but they are a lot more expensive.

Jamie Hockin

We've been using OpenLP for years. The big benefit for our small AV team is that we've loaded our full hymnary into the songs database. So with all of the hymns there and the bible version we use available, it only take a couple of minutes to create a new service (at home on my Mac) and put it in Dropbox for whoever is managing things on Sunday.

We also stream, using OBS Studio, two old iPhones with Droidcam and a third Zoomcorp camera that also picks up sound. Of course, we take most audio from our mixer.

Everything is integrated using AutoHotKey, which drives OpenLP via its API and OBS via its websocket. AHK also connects to our mixer API.