How to Set Up the TV's on Sunday Morning

Step-by-step guide for setting up ProPresenter and managing side screens for Sunday services. Learn how to control screens with a MacBook Air, troubleshoot TV inputs, and ensure graphics display correctly.

By Chris Copeland

In this guide, we'll learn how to set up and control side screens for a Sunday service using ProPresenter on a MacBook Air. We'll cover how to turn on the TVs, select the correct input, and display the right graphics for each screen. We'll also look at how to rotate graphics as needed and how to shut everything down when finished.

Let's get started

It's Sunday morning. You are setting up ProPresenter and need to get the TV screens working. First, use this MacBook Air to control the screens.

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Open the MacBook Air.
Step #1: Open the MacBook Air.

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Type the password 'Truelife301'.
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Click the password field.
Step #3: Click the password field.

While that is loading, grab the black remote from the drawer.

Now, we need to turn the TVs on.

You can't turn them on from the booth. You need to walk out here and turn them on. Sometimes you can stand this far away, other times you need to walk up fairly close to turn them on.

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Turn the TVs on.
Step #4: Turn the TVs on.

Make sure the red lights turn on.

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Repeat the process for the TVs on the other side. If one TV turns on while the other stays off, and pressing the button just makes them switch back and forth, you may need to go directly to the TVs and turn them on right at the sensor.
Step #5: Repeat the process for the TVs on the other side. If one TV turns on while the other stays off, and pressing the button just makes them switch back and forth, you may need to go directly to the TVs and turn them on right at the sensor.

These are now loading from the very beginning.

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Wait for the TVs to load the Android TV operating system.
Step #6: Wait for the TVs to load the Android TV operating system.

If they show this start-up process, hey were likely restarted at some point, probably for an update.

Sometimes it doesn't go through this cycle, but if it does, all you have to do is press the favorite button on the remote.

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Press the FAV button on the remote to switch to the HDMI input.
Step #7: Press the FAV button on the remote to switch to the HDMI input.

You would repeat that process on the other side as well, then go back to the booth.

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Click the ProPresenter icon in the dock.
Step #8: Click the ProPresenter icon in the dock.

This ProPresenter is set up a little differently than the other one. On Sunday, we run one, two, three, and four.

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For a split graphic, click on '3 and 4' in the SYSTEMS playlist on the left sidebar.
Step #9: For a split graphic, click on '3 and 4' in the SYSTEMS playlist on the left sidebar.

If it's the same graphic for every TV, upload a single file to all.

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For a single graphic across all TVs, click on 'All' in the SYSTEMS playlist.
Step #10: For a single graphic across all TVs, click on 'All' in the SYSTEMS playlist.

In the past few months, we used a single graphic for every TV. We just clicked it, and they all looked the same.

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In the past few months, we used a single graphic for every TV. We just clicked it, and they all looked the same.
Step #11: In the past few months, we used a single graphic for every TV. We just clicked it, and they all looked the same.

Now, for months where there is a split graphic, we have to load 2 separate graphics.

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First, click 1 and 2.
Step #12: First, click 1 and 2.

This will be the next one. If you drag it up and it looks like this, it will not appear correctly on the screen. That's what it will look like.

That will not work. How do we fix that? Down here in this pane, click it to highlight.

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Right-click the slide in the media pane.
Step #13: Right-click the slide in the media pane.

Go to Inspector. In Inspector, select the second option here.

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Click Inspector.
Step #14: Click Inspector.
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In the Inspector window, click the second icon from the left.
Step #15: In the Inspector window, click the second icon from the left.

This is how you scale to fit items, but we are focusing on rotation.

These graphics need to be rotated 270 degrees to fit properly on these screens.

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Click the Rotation dropdown menu.
Step #16: Click the Rotation dropdown menu.
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Select 270° from the dropdown menu.
Step #17: Select 270° from the dropdown menu.

Now that it is rotated 270 degrees, click and drag the graphic into place.

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Click and drag the graphic into the playlist.
Step #18: Click and drag the graphic into the playlist.

You can see where it looks correct. The question is, does it look correct on those screens as well?

For the most part, there is little troubleshooting involved. The main challenge is ensuring the graphics are in the correct place and in the correct orientation. Otherwise, it's pretty simple.

When it's time to shut down, I always turn off the TVs first.

Go to the same place where you turned them on and turn them off. When I return to the booth, I go to my Apple device and shut it down.

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Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner.
Step #19: Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner.
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Click 'Shut Down...'.
Step #20: Click 'Shut Down...'.

It will ask, "Do you want to shut down?" I select "Yes." Then ProPresenter asks, "Do you want to quit?" I confirm, and that's it.

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Click the 'Shut Down' button.
Step #21: Click the 'Shut Down' button.
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Click the 'Quit' button.
Step #22: Click the 'Quit' button.
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Close the laptop lid.
Step #23: Close the laptop lid.

That covers the side screens. It's easy. This is probably the simplest task in this booth.