Presentations and hymnals

Lumina Live opens PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx), Impress (.odp) and PDF presentations. You'll find them in Media › Presentations.

The conversion#

The first time you open a presentation, the app converts it into images, one per slide (“Converting slides…”). It happens only once per file: after that it opens instantly, even if you move it to another folder. If you edit the file, it converts again by itself the next time you open it.

• PowerPoint and .odp files need LibreOffice to be converted; PDFs don't.
• A presentation that's already converted can be projected even without LibreOffice.
• If you send it live before it finishes, the projector keeps what it had and switches as soon as it's ready.

Convert everything ahead of time#

1. 1

   Open Media › Presentations.

2. 2

   Click Prepare folder, at the bottom. It only appears if some presentations aren't converted yet.

3. 3

   Confirm with Prepare. They're converted one at a time, in the background, and you can keep using the app.

What's kept and what isn't#

Move through the slides#

• → and ←, or Next and Previous under the Live monitor.
• A click on a slide in the Live grid jumps there instantly.
• A double-click on a slide in Preview sends the presentation live from that slide.

Auto-advance and music#

If the presentation has timings, Auto-advance appears under Preview and, once it's live, it advances by itself. With music, the slides follow the music.

• Space, or Pause and Play on its bar, stop and resume the advance (and the music).
• Restart goes back to the first slide and plays the music from the beginning.
• If you move through slides by hand, the advance carries on from there; Resync goes back to the slide that matches the music.
• BLACK and LOGO pause the music and freeze the advance; when you come back, it carries on where it was.
• When the last slide, or the music, ends, the presentation goes off the air and the logo stays. A presentation without timings never goes off by itself.

Add music to a presentation#

If the presentation has no music of its own, the app looks for an audio file with the same name in its folder. You can also choose one: on the audio strip in Preview, click Add audio (mp3, wav, ogg, m4a, aac, flac or opus). Later you can Change or Remove it. Music that comes inside the file can't be changed.

If something doesn't work, see A presentation won't open or looks different.