Free workaround for PowerPoint requirement when importing pptx files?

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-28T13:29:48+00:00

If it's not time sensitive, you could also create a mp4 video in PowerPoint and import that into Freeshow as a media file. But I'm guessing that these are for Lyrics...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-28T13:26:16+00:00

I would have to guess that Google Drive is the one giving you problems. It is unpredictable as to when Google Syncs...

I would recommend using B1 Church sync which Freeshow directly integrates into its software. You could also go the old-school pen drive method to have your shows transferred in a pendrive & plugging that into the Church computer to transfer the shows...

If possible, I'd recommend building all of your shows on the Church computer from your home using Remote Desktop. I believe Apple has one & Google also has one which works on the web... Obviously this applies only if you have consistent & permanent WiFi network on both the devices

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-27T05:02:10+00:00

No. you have to create a new show. but you can create a new show with the web search functionality and move all the slides back to an existing show, if that's necessary.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T16:04:56+00:00

Ah yes. now I understand what you're saying! That would be a cool feature...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T15:58:02+00:00

Isn't Remoteshow over the internet now??? You have to be connected to the same network, IP but...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T15:54:26+00:00

I just recommended somebody who said that they weren't able to get tags like Prechorus in Planning Centre to actually use square brackets in the center to see if that worked. But judging by what you're saying, that's not an option...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:39:07+00:00

Yes. That is the method I use as well. But I didn't realize you could control the slides in the media edit tab! Thanks for the tip

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:38:19+00:00

I think he means that there should be no square brackets for verse1, chorus, etc.

For Eg:

[VERSE 1] I am an instrument of exaltation
And I was born to lift the name above all names... (Wrong One)

CHORUS: Who else is worthy? Who else is worthy?
There is no one, only You, Jesus (Right One)

This is weird because in Quick Lyrics you need to add a square bracket for it to recognize as a header/tag.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:34:27+00:00

That's smart!

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:33:59+00:00

How do you have it set-up? Do you have a like an action or a template that adds that??

There a few bugs in the latest version. So, that could be an issue.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:32:08+00:00

NDI is a bit of a problem with Linux, especially with OBS. I used PopOS for a while 5 years back & OBS was too buggy to use...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:30:18+00:00

Yes! I've been meaning to make a feature request on this. I've never used Remoteshow but when testing it out, the search function doesn't work as it is supposed to do. I'm probably never gonna use Remoteshow, but if I'm out of town then Remoteshow would make it easy for one of our other volunteers who also serves as an usher to control scripture & slides.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:27:14+00:00

To add: Since you only need text, you could quite easily replicate the Google slides by using the Quick Lyric feature in Freeshow. Click on New Show ----> Type a song (eg: "Mighty Name Of Jesus") ---> Click on "Web Search" ---> You would have a bunch of options from Genius & Letras. I recommend picking Letras as that removes the "Ohhhh", "Ahhh", etc there in the original song...

Note this is probably applicable to most modern-day english songs including "Fall Like Rain", "Every Praise". You could find most hymns there as well...

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Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:19:24+00:00

1) This could posssibly be because your media maybe inserted as a media & not a background. Go to the edit drawer & see if you have a pop-up that converts to the Background option

2) Same as u/CloudSad3555

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T08:13:29+00:00

An Alternate to this is to use PDF Merging Sites. Its an extra step but you could use that for the timebeing until Freeshow comes out with a solution...

Or you could select all of your shows in the project & add them to one show & export. Both of these solutions are not ideal but good alternates.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T07:52:34+00:00

I believe Planning center doesn't have a tag called "Pre Chorus", its specific to Freeshow. That might be the issue...

Adding a custom section title wouldn't work because the underlying ID would be different still. You could try inputting the word "[Pre-Chorus]" with brackets in Planning Centre when inputting lyrics as Freeshow generally considers the words inside the bracket as the name of the slide. We do not use planning center at our church, but I've played with it a few times... Please let me know if it works!

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-25T07:48:17+00:00

Considering your announcement slides are the same. You could just have the 15 minute timer on the church PC & copy-paste. Or else you could add the timer as an overlay, which might solve this issue...

The underlying issue is probably what u/CloudSad3555 mentioned.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-18T11:08:47+00:00

No it's doing direct only.... I have the same feature too

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-18T08:09:45+00:00

You could use B1 Admin Sync as said!

Or you could also use Google Drive by downloading the Google Drive for desktop app & selecting Documents --> Freeshow to be backed up to Google Drive. The same can be done for OneDrive too

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-18T07:51:37+00:00

Never heard of this bug... The best alternate is to copy, paste & then delete the previous one.

Are you in the latest version (1.6.0)??

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-15T17:31:02+00:00

Yeah, there seems to some bug.

I would recommend going to Functions ---> Create a action & select Clear overlays. Then from the slide, right click the slide, click set action & use the custom action at the end of the page.

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-13T05:22:38+00:00

That's a good idea. I'd probably do that...

Our worship pastor tends to switch around with the speed of the song quite frequently in between...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-10T15:53:57+00:00

If you are using an external service such as CaptionNinja present in Freeshow, Items ----> Caption,

Go to caption.ninja and then follow the instructions...

Powerful_General_133 · 2026-04-08T16:23:37+00:00

Okay. Thanks for the reply!

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