Using a confidence screen

A confidence screen is a monitor your worship team can see — usually on the floor facing the platform, or on a stand beside the musicians. Instead of showing what the congregation sees, it shows the words they are singing now plus a preview of what is coming next, so nobody has to turn around and read the main screen.

Projector Classic can drive one alongside your normal output.

What it shows

The current slide’s lyrics fill the screen. Below them, Projector Classic previews the first line of the next stanza, so your team knows what is coming before you get there.

That preview is deliberately just one line. It is a cue, not a second slide.

Two rules are worth knowing, because they explain what looks like missing text:

• The preview only appears for songs. Announcements, scripture slides and other non-song items are shown exactly as they appear on the main screen. There is nothing to preview on an announcement.
• The preview stops at the end of a song. On the last slide of a song, or when the next slide belongs to a different item, there is no next line — because the next thing is not part of what they are singing.

Opening it

Open the confidence window from the plan screen, or with ⇧⌘C if you have a keyboard attached.

Using a second device instead

If you do not have a spare screen to plug in, you can run Projector Classic on a second device and have it act as the confidence display.

Start a Session on your presenting device, join it from the second one, and set that device’s display mode to Confidence. It then follows along showing the confidence view — an iPad on a music stand is a common setup.

Alerts and the countdown

On-screen alerts and the service countdown appear on the confidence screen as well as the main output, so your team sees them too. That is usually what you want — an alert about a child needing a parent is often meant for someone on the platform.