Harmony is a two display (or monitor) application. On your main display (the one with the menu bar) Harmony's main window is displayed. On your secondary display, which is usually a projector, the presentation is displayed. Because Harmony is designed for spontaneity, there is no distinction between editing and presentation modes. This is unlike Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. Harmony is always presenting.
If you use video mirroring, in which the same image is displayed on both your main display and your presentation display, Harmony cannot detect your secondary display, and will offer to turn video mirroring off.
After detecting your secondary display, Harmony will automatically scale every presentation element (such as text and media) based on the height and aspect ratio of the presentation display.
If your computer is not connected to a secondary display, Harmony will present in a Preview Window.
When presenting at a church service or other event, Harmony works best being run by a dedicated operator. If you don't have a dedicated operator, look at the Remote and Single Display modes.
While it is possible to use Harmony without ever creating a service, services make it easy to gather the songs, scripture and media for a given worship meeting. Before you create your first service, you'll want to set the default service day and time to save your setup time in the future. Each new service will use the default service day and time as it's default value.
Having set your defaults, you can proceed to creating your first service.
That's it! We have a service. You should see that Harmony used the default service day and time you just set.
There's one other way to create to a new service. Select New Service from the service menu, located next to the service drop down.
Lastly, a service can optionally have a name to help distinguish special services or events.
Now that you have a service, adding items to it is as easy as dragging and dropping.
As an exercise, drag a song from the song table on the left side of the Harmony main window and drop it in your service outline below the service name.
Every item in a service has a play button. Clicking it displays the item on the presentation display. Each item has a slightly different behavior.
Song section | Displays the lyrics with the selected theme's background or custom background |
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Song title | Displays the song credits with an animation |
Media (movie/image) | Clears any text and plays the media item |
Scripture verse(s) | Displays the verse(s) with the selected theme's background |
Using Scripture
Using Media
Using Themes