will, I’m glad the Apple update fixed your problems, and glad you’re enjoying the software. We’re humbled at the opportunity to serve the church market, and are glad to be a small part of His story.

Mark, I was using their forum because they were quickly posting replies to try and help us and others solve our issues.

Everyone else, let’s be friends and know we are in this together even if you still use powerpoint.

Thanks for the encouragement

I just checked Will’s posts on our forum, and it took us about 11 minutes on average to answer his posts. I’m sorry we were not able to get to them quicker, but we do our best.

Hope you’re doing well. Stumbled upon your blog today, and recognize you from our forums.

One point of correction here. This is kind of a sensitive subject, as we’re constantly reading/hearing how Granger got fed up with Pro.

Well, they don’t own ProPresenter 3–never have. All of the marketing materials etc that reference Pro are referring to Pro 2, which was replaced in 2006. Pro3 does not share a line of code with Pro2. The comparison is a bit disingenuous, and we aren’t too sure why they constantly feel the need, but that is another story. We’re glad to sell ProPresenter on its own merits, and have great relationships with most of our competitors who do the same.

A quick review of their support forum will show that all software has crashing problems. The goal for developers is to minimize this, and the fact that we have a full development team in house positions us well to do this.

As for Quicktime/Quartz–Quartz actually relies on Quicktime for video playback, so there really is no way to get around the QT engine. QT renders the frames of a video and passes it to Quartz which handles the display to a window. Pro3 uses quartz, as a matter of fact.

Given this, any developer developing for Apple is at the mercy of OS updates/problems. An app will not behave the same in Tiger as Leopard, etc.

In fact, many of the things that sets ProPresenter apart and gives us the powerful render engine we have is that we are doing a lot of our work in OpenGL. We are able to do unique things such as output to a component graphics card for SDI out, for example.

That said, we are working hard to continue to develop the most stable, feature rich software in the market. Our user base speaks for itself, and we are humbled to have the endorsements of some of the largest, most influential churches and worship leaders in the world. The thing they love is that they find ProPresenter 3 to be the most volunteer friendly worship software on the market, we are proud that Apple computer themselves named both Pro and PVP as a “Staff Pick.”