Video/Image Bin
The Video/Image Bin is the location for managing your media within ProPresenter.
To access the Video/Image Bin, click on the Video/Image icon in the toolbar, use the keyboard shortcut (Control-V for Mac, Control-Shift-V for PC), or select it from the View menu. Once the bin is open, you will find it below the slide area. The first time you open this, it will be empty, but once you have started adding content it will begin to look like the image below.
The Video/Image Bin is made up of two parts: the left column contains all of your playlists, folders, and tags; the right column contains all of your media cues.
All of your media files will be either a Background or Foreground. You can quickly identify the media type within documents by looking in the upper left corner of the thumbnail to see if it has the icon used by the Background or Foreground playlist.
The chart below highlights three main difference between the two types of media. There are other differences that are covered in other sections of the user guide.
| Backgrounds | Foregrounds |
|---|---|
| Plays behind slide content. | Plays in front of (replaces) slides and media. |
| Stretches to fill the screen. | Scaled to maintain the cue’s aspect ratio. |
| Automatically loops at the end. | Automatically stops at the end. |
You can add media to the Video/Image Bin from your hard drive by dragging the files into ProPresenter or by clicking on the plus button below the thumbnail section. Dragging files in is the quickest way to add your files. You can also purchase media through the Worship House Media store by clicking on the Store button in the toolbar.
If you want to allow ProPresenter to manage the organization of your files behind-the-scenes, enable Manage Media Automatically in Preferences on the General tab. This will move or copy files (depending on the original location of the file) into the directly you’ve selected in Preferences. Refer to the Preferences section for more information on this.
In ProPresenter 6 you can now tag media to help you filter your content the way you want. There are some default tags, but they can all be renamed and have the colors changed. You can also add your own custom tags.
In order to see the Tags, you will need to make sure they are enabled in Preferences on the Label tab.
To add an existing or custom tag, right-click on the thumbnail and choose the tag. When you select the Custom Tag option you will be able to name it and set a color.
You’ll notice in the image above that there are four playback behaviors. Loop and Stop have already been covered as the default settings for Backgrounds and Foregrounds. Next will advance the cue to the Video/Image Bin playlist that you have loaded. This playback behavior does not have any effect when you add a media cue to to a presentation. Soft Loop will smooth out the loop point for videos that don’t loop properly. It blends the first and last frames together to hide the jump that can happen when video loops aren’t created properly.
Similar to Next, the Go to Cue option only applies within the Video/Image Bin. You can select the next cue to go to in the current playlist and works with Foregrounds or Backgrounds.
Media Properties will open the Media Cue Inspector; see the Media Properties page for more information.
Transitions can be set globally for the Video/Image Bin, or on individual cues. To set the transition on individual cues, right click on a cue and select Transition.
Click the Transition menu at the bottom of the Video/Image Bin to set the global transition. This transition will effect all media cues in the Video/Image Bin. It will only effect Backgrounds in presentations. Foregrounds that have been added to a document will use the Document Transition instead. This is the only time the global transition for media is not used.
At the top of the Video/Image Bin you can search and sort your media. In the bottom-right you can change the view from Thumbnails to List View and adjust the size of the thumbnails.