Digital Signage is like having customizable, miniature billboards all throughout your church building! And using Proclaim, you can create and schedule your announcements so your content will always be up-to-date.
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If you don’t have Proclaim, download it here. Use your Logos credentials to sign in or create an account.
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Note: Setting up a presentation team will start a 14-day free trial. While you’ll only be able to use Proclaim in your services without watermarks during the trial period, Digital Signage is free to use beyond the trial period.
Each presentation team comes with its own sign feed set up. Go to File > Open Sign Feed > and select a feed to access it.
To create a brand new feed, navigate to File > New > Sign Feed.
To adjust the settings for any feed, click the Settings icon .
By default, your first feed is called “Main.” If you plan to have more than one sign feed, provide an identifying title for this feed (e.g., “Lobby TVs”) in the title field.
Digital Signage provides several content items you can show in your feed.
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Bible Art: You can display a little, some, or mostly professionally-designed Bible Art in English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Korean, Simplified or Traditional Chinese or Spanish.
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Display Bible trivia: rotate free Bible Trivia questions in your sign feed. Learn how to engage with Trivia.
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Show On Air Presentations: If your church uses Proclaim in its services, you can have your presentation take over your sign feed while you’re On Air. Learn more about showing On Air presentations.
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Bible App Download Slides you can show slides with QR Codes to the Logos Bible and/or Faithlife Study Bible apps.
The information bars adds customizable content around your sign feed—like the local weather, time, date, your church logo, and more. Check Show information bars to make the bars visible.
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Add a fill color: Choose a color for the info pane by clicking the colored swatch and selecting a new color. You can choose from predefined colors or select the multicolor swatch to add a custom color.
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Fill slots: You can customize the sidebar and 5 slots.
Click Done or Create Sign Feed to save your settings.
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Note: Learn more about the information bars.
Drag and drop images from your computer into the panel on the left to add custom slides to your sign feed. You can also use media that your group has already uploaded by navigating to Media > Browse Media.
You can also skip this step and just run Bible Art and Trivia on your signs. Learn more about Creating Custom Slides.
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Note: Video and trivia content are not available in Preview, but are fully supported on all major web browsers. Click View in Browser to preview your feed in your default web browser.
Now that your sign feed is configured, it's time to get your feed on your church's devices.
Under your sign feed's Share settings, copy the URL to show on a smart TV or web browser, or the embed code to use on your church website.
Digital Signage also includes free apps for both FireTV and Apple TV. For either app:
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Download the app from the device store.
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Login using your account you used to create the Digital Signage feed.
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Select a feed to show.