February 27th, 2008
Back From Tulsa
Posted by Church Video Ideas under Companies, Consulting, Greg's Favorites, Intros and Announcements, Products, Software, Worship resourcesI must say I enjoyed my first visit to the city of Tulsa, OK, though I didn’t get to see much of the city. I went from the airport to the EasyWorship offices, was in a meeting all day - left there and had a great dinner at the Cheesecake Factory with Jeff Taylor (owner and creator of EasyWorship), then headed back to the airport and flew home.
What’s the word? The word (unofficially - this is just Greg talking) is that EasyWorship is working on a new and improved cross-platform software. That’s right - can you say “EasyWorship for Mac”? Jeff has assembled a very gifted and talented team and they have been hard at work on a forthcoming version of EW that incorporates many new features based on comments and suggestions from their customers. The design is sharp and intuitive, the features are exciting and will better equip your church.
I’m especially excited about one feature, but am not at liberty to talk about it. I was blindfolded when I was led into their office and kept in a dark room all day. My cell phone (which has a camera) was taken from me and I was sworn to secrecy. Okay - I exaggerate, but I really can’t talk about what I saw.
I’m back to work at the church today, have a few meetings and our weekly rehearsal tonight. More later.
PERSONAL:
Just to update you all: I’m still extremely sore from riding that horse the other day. I used muscles that haven’t been used in years. It hurts to move!
February 27th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Well, it’s about time EasyWorship realizes that they’re losing customers (even alienating them) by not offering a Mac version. Two years ago, I was in your session @ NAB when the EW guy said that Apple “did them a favor” by going Intel and letting Macs run windows. I mean, really, what Mac user (unless completely forced by a software company) wants to run his/her beautiful OSX machine on Windows?
That session has left a bad taste in my mouth ever since. And we were an EasyWorship user at that time (and really liked it), but I was making the switch to Macs for presentation. We now use ProPresenter and love it. EW’s cross-platform system better be killer to sway me now.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:39 am
BTW, I lived in Tulsa for six years. I love that city!
February 27th, 2008 at 10:48 am
We use EasyWorship and I’m excited to see what this new mystery feature is! It’s pretty cool you got a sneak-peek!
February 27th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Are you allowed to say anything about WHEN the Mac version may be released? Or is it still way too early to even speculate?
February 28th, 2008 at 9:52 am
We used to use Easy worship and then switched to Live worship. Before changing your whole church system over to easy worship…did you research other options like Live worship or propresenter which are compatable with macs?I Im curious as to why easy worship is the one you chose..can you explain?
February 29th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Hi, Bethany. Yes, I have thoroughly researched every presentation software and personally know the creators of each. I teach on worship presentation software at conferences around the country and have led classes where companies like EasyWorship, LiveWorship, ProPresenter and MediaShout have gone head-to-head.
I’m teaching the same class again twice this year: once at NAB in April and once at ECHO in August. After years of research, feedback, countless conversations at conferences, via phone, email and in person, I chose EasyWorship.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am
So are there any updates for when EW might be released for Macs? We are in the midst of upgrading computers and would love to toss a mac in as an option, but wasn’t sure if it was going to be a much longer time?