What is the crowd's opinion of ProPresenter?

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It worked instantly! I was hesitate at first, but it caches the file and loads without lag. The other solution was running audio files on ProPresenter. However, it was a nightmare. Shortcuts, surprisingly, was far better.

Check again. Windows Pro Presenter has been around for a long time, and with 7 many are ditches their Mac’s for PCs with actual graphics hardware that’s at an affordable price

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So, PowerPoint probably works well for your use case, but maybe check out some other presentation softwares. If you just want to plug your laptop into the projector and show slides in the board room, it works well. But it's a pain in the butt for pros.

Talk to the AV guys in your company, or the guys behind the scenes at the next big corporate event you're at. PowerPoint isn't great, but it's just something that needs to be accommodated for, because lots of speakers use it. If you hand me a PowerPoint presentation, the first thing I'll do is import it into ProPresenter (which does everything that I have a beef with PowerPoint over), and is used by pros.

PowerPoint doesn't talk to any other hardware or software, it doesn't have professional video outputs (SDI or NDI), it can't do live inputs, the layering isn't great, the video controls are minimal, the audio controls are minimal, and trying to combine the 2 will leave you frustrated. It doesn't support multiple outputs, it doesn't even work great if you want to use the presenter display with a stage display (a TV for the stage so the speaker can see his notes). You can't edit a typo when it's live, moving between slides is a nuisance if you need anything more than forward/back, and it's Microsoft so it doesn't play nice with anything that isn't an MS product.

If you're trying to do something more advanced than scrolling through text and pictures, PowerPoint hits limits pretty quickly.

PowerPoint is really well known because they made a great product 25 years ago and got dominant market share. But it hasn't meaningfully changed in 25 years, watches innovation opportunities slip past, and certainly isn't the best. It's just something everyone knows and we have to work with.

Hey Danny.

I would recommend you start by guiding your friend to this link first.

I think this is the software you were referring too. https://renewedvision.com/propresenter/system-requirements/

In this link are two example use cases and recommended hardware requirements. I do not have the technical knowledge to give exact advice for her requirements.

It suggests for 4k 60fps to have 16gb memory and a dedicated gpu with 4gb onboard memory.

Both of these can be done of course but memory is cheaper at $50-80 for 16gb.

Your friend could shop for a gpu but the market will be against them due to gpu shortages.

There a ton. What type of items do you want to present? You're falling in more of an AV realm question. I've used these guys for church services and works in business also: https://renewedvision.com/propresenter/

The system requirements for PC seem pretty vague. It's unfortunate that a Mac isn't an option. As much as I personally don't like Macs, this program was definitely designed for Mac first, and the PC version feels very slapped-together.