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Welcome to InspiredCode®'s
Home Group
Overhead (HGO).
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Welcome.
Despite its powerful feature set, this program is
simple to use.
It has two places of great usefulness:
Worship in the home (private,
family and Home Group).
Worship in the
church (public as the main overhead
program).
This manual contains two parts:
1. General description
This gives the main idea so you can
start right away.
2. Appendix
This describes in detail all the
goodies (like menus and formats),
as well as the credits and other
necessary documentation.
The Appendix has a link to the HGO End User
Licensing Agreement,
(EULA), then some fairly extensive
documentation. Finally, the
Appendix ends with the Table of Contents for this
whole manual.
NOTE: Any time you want the table of
contents,
click one of the o things at the left.
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GENERAL
DESCRIPTION:
By its many talents, this program helps you joyfully
answer the
following two questions:
1. Is your home a house of
worship?
(for instructions on home use,
see this question below)
2. Is your house of
worship a home?
(for instructions on church use,
see this question below)
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Is
your home a house of
worship? (Home Use:)
Now you can play many of the same CDs you play in
your stereo,
while seeing the words in time to sing them.
This
adds an interactive,
musical dimension to your personal and family
devotions to usher
you on wings of praise into the very throne room of
God.
Also, you may now download ShareWareMusic worship
albums
and enjoy a multimedia, interactive worship
experience.
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Personal, Family, Home
Group
It works great for your personal and family
devotions, and guess
what: it is ideal for worship at your home group!
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Many CDs and ShareWareMusic Albm
Downloads
Many worship CDs have already been accommodated and
many more
are quickly on the way. A good place to start
is the "Seasons
of Worship" series from Vineyard Music Group.
I particularly
recommend that series as it spans what many call the
"golden
years" of Vineyard worship, comprising so many of
the praise
songs used in countless denominations and churches
throughout
the world today. If you lead a home group, a
great place to start
would be to order all four sets in that
series. To
find them, go here:
http://www.vineyardresources.com/equip/node/207
http://www.vineyardresources.com/equip/node/208
http://www.vineyardresources.com/equip/node/209
http://www.vineyardresources.com/equip/node/217
We have found one (217) already out of print, but
still available
as an MP3 album download (it's actually my favorite).
You can burn that MP3 album to CD using Nero, then
run the CD
with HGO.
Check the InspiredCode.net website for a growing
list of worship
recordings for which HGO presentations have been
prepared.
Also, you can use the ShareWareMusic menu to find
ShareWareMusic
worship albums.
If your favorite worship band hasn't yet created
ShareWareMusic
packages or put HGO on
their CDs, you could urge them to do so.
You can also encourage them to offer packages for
download that
will provide multimedia support to those CDs they
have already
made.
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Demo Button
To get an idea of what this looks like, you can
remove any CD you
have in the drive and play the demo song that comes
with HGO. Go
to the Help menu and select "Demo Button" to see and
hear it.
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Like a CD
Player.
This program in its simplest usage runs just like a
CD Player.
When you put in a CD it knows, if HGO is running it
plays
it. Simple.
Easy Mode.
This program is great for beginners and
experts. It runs in easy
mode unless you tell it otherwise. In easy
mode, it is perfect for
playing back CDs, words (txt files) or Words with
music (HGO files).
Easy Controls.
If you're running a CD, you already know about
this. HGO has a
simple CD Control Panel that you can use like any
other CD Player.
You can click the screen at any time (in easy mode)
to bring it up.
The "Try This CD" button tries out a CD, if it's not
already going.
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Playing Disc
Jockey.
You can pop CDs in and out like a DJ. Many CDs
now come with some
extra visual content. To keep that stuff from
getting in the way:
1. Hold the shift key while you put in a CD.
(a "Play" button will appear.)
2. Wait a few seconds for the screen to change.
3. Release the shift key and hit "Play" if need be.
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Is
your house of worship a home? (Church Use:)
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Benefits
(what's it good for?):
(Click here to skip the promo)
Question:
"What are the first words in each verse of every
praise song?"
Answer:
"Mwuh luh luh lmmm mm mmmm uh mla mmmmm" (indistinct
mumbling).
This joke makes no sense until you listen for it on
any Sunday
morning, then it's hilarious: The projector is
always late!
For we know in part, and we prophecy in part.
We can't depend
on the congregation always knowing the first line of
each verse
of praise music by their own natural and
supernatural means.
We can see that the projectionist really is a vital
member of the
worship team. Now all we need is one
projectionist who knows the
future, and who can instantly load lyrics on the
screen without
having to look for them. Tag, you're it.
Yes; you can do all
these things and more, with the help of this program.
Now there will be true unity in worship.
Nobody will feel dumb
or left out for not knowing the words. In fact
there are several
things about this program to remove distractions,
disturbances
and difficulties; to usher the congregation together
away from
the cares of this world and into a more total focus
upon the
Lord, through the elements of the service that are
so carefully
prepared. We can feel more at home in our
house of worship.
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Here
are a
few highlights of such benefits:
Distraction is prevented by minimizing delays
between portions of
the service; advancing to the next song or sermon is
a click away.
Distraction is prevented by facilitating instant
loading of song
portions in time to take a breath and then sing
them... no more
guessing and mumbling. Just hit the "next"
button when we start
to sing the last word on the screen.
Distraction is minimized if the pastor ever gets
lost in power
point slides, by offering a fast method of getting
unlost, by just
using his "clicker" and the main screen.
Mind wandering and distracting "self talk" is
reduced by more
fully engaging more of the senses. Beautiful
movies and pictures
are shown behind the worship lyrics, and behind any
sermon notes
or announcement texts that are not already
beautified by power
point slides.
Distractions from unexpected necessary announcements
are minimized
by a tasteful and unobtrusive "news ticker" window
atop the main
display to show what you typed in: "will the parents
of..." or
"...you left your lights on".
Of course it goes without saying that HGO supports
standard power
point and standard clickers that your pastor may
already be using.
The world and its flashy shows do a fantastic job of
capturing
and maintaining our attention. They do it by
what they call high
production values. It really amounts to
preparing all of the
show's details ahead of time so that when the show
goes on there
is nothing to detract or distract from the whole
point of their
presentation.
If we in the church devote just a small portion of
that kind of
attention to detail in an attitude of respect for
those we serve
and an attitude regarding production values that
nothing is too
good for Jesus, we can help our fellow worshipers to
much more
easily maintain focus on the whole point of the
service.
If the world uses the tools at its disposal to pour
work ahead of
time into captivating and powerful presentations,
let us use the
tools at our disposal to pour a small amount of work
ahead of time
into our own group worship experiences!
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Methods
(how do we use it?):
Ok, this is exactly what our church needs... so how
do we use it?
There are two answers, depending on who you
are:
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The first
answer is
really easy because someone else prepared
everything for you. In that case you just show
up for church,
start the program, hit the "next song" button to
move from one
song (or part of the service) to the next, and then
during each song
just hit the "next" button whenever you are about to
sing the last
word on the screen. The program will know what
to load, and it
will find it and show it. And for the sermon
you let the pastor do
the "next" button using his "clicker".
This is much easier than power point alone because
somebody has
already done the thinking for you in advance.
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The second
answer is
pretty easy too, but it assumes that you
know how to type; how to copy, move, load and save
files; and how
to create an occasional directory. Not rocket
science, just your
basic rudimentary computer usage. If this is
you, then you can
easily set things up for the person mentioned above
who just
shows up and knows how to push buttons.
The rest of this talk about how to do it is for you,
the basic
non-rocket-science computer user. When we are
done here you will
be able to set things up and show a computer-phobic
person how to
run the projector.
The thing that makes this possible is the whole idea
of having
those who CAN prepare things in advance do so WHEN
they can.
Before going any further, we need to cover a simple
matter. You
are about to start making files to use. Please
do not begin your
package with "ID#" unless you are a
Studio Licensed user and the
ID# you are using happens to be your unique Studio
ID. (See license
agreement regarding ID#).
Here is a brief outline of how you prepare things:
1. Get the songs ready
a. Import
or type in the lyrics.
b. Make sure the copyright and
CCLI info is correct.
c. Add the verse and chorus markings
into your lyrics.
There is a "mentor" to help you
through the process of making
or importing your songs.
If you click on Help, Mentors,
you will see the Lyrics Mentor.
That can help you create your own
lyrics files. You will also
see the Import mentor and the
SongList mentor. After you get
done with the Lyrics Mentor it
will launch the Import Mentor.
If you put some lyrics file(s)
into the Import directory without
using the Lyrics mentor, you can
import it by launching the
Import mentor yourself.
2. Get the songlist ready
a. Create
your SongList
b. Determine your
sequences of parts within each song.
c. Add or adjust the sequence at
the end of each line of your
songlist.
There is a "mentor" to help you
through the process of making
or adjusting your SongList.
(You will find it under help menu.)
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I
will now introduce the basic building blocks (and members)
of any service.
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Song List:
If you attend a spring concert at a school, they
hand you a
program when you walk in the door. "Program"
is just their
fancy word for a list of songs, or a "song
list". It is the
list of songs you can expect them to play.
Many churches also have a song list in their
bulletins. And in
church, the sermon and announcements are just songs
on the list.
They may call it an "order of service", but it's
basically just
a song list.
Somebody at your church is in charge of determining
the order of
service. That person will be the one who gives
the song list to
the projectionist some time before the first song
begins. Let's
suppose that person is you.
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Person
in charge of "Order of Service":
You will get a list of songs from the main worship
leader in the
form of a simple text file... their tentative song
list.
All you have to do is edit that simple file to
include the
announcements and sermon, as well as any missions
talk, finance
report or anything else that will be in the service
that day.
Of course, if some part of the service needs no
graphic overhead
support then you don't need to put it in the
list. This list is
just for things you want the projectionist to help
in doing.
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The
format for a song list is brutally simple. It is a list of
files. Each file listed is the file that goes
with the song or
part of the service. For instance, "sermon
notes.txt" is a file.
One file name goes on each line of the list.
(Duh.) Both this
list and all the files it names are simple text
files.
You can use NotePad to make all your files.
Notepad saves your
work as a simple text file whose name normally ends
with ".txt".
You may see a ".hgo" file on the list; that is a
simple text
file too, but the song leader did something special
with it. You
just treat an hgo file like any other song file on
the list.
There is one other thing you're likely to see in the
song list
you get from the worship leader. There is a
funny thing that
follows each song name. The worship leader
knows all about it,
and it's there to tell this program the order of all
the little
portions inside each song. You don't need to
change that stuff.
To move a song in the order, just cut and paste
(move) the whole
line and you'll do fine. That keeps each line
just the way the
worship leader made it.
And last but not least, if you got a bunch of files
from the
worship leader (and from the pastor and from
whomever else),
you should pass all those files along to the
projectionist,
along with your final modified version of the song
list. They
should have sent those things directly to the
projectionist
but just in case you should pass along what you got
from them.
Whenever you send files, make sure they let you know
that they
got it. There has been such a spam problem
that now people
often miss receiving important mail.
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An Easy way to
go:
If you want to make it easy, just put the main
projectionist
in charge of the order of service, and give them
guidelines.
That way everything gets sent to just one person.
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Main Worship
Leader:
If you are the main worship leader then you have
already been
responsible for selecting the songs, and determining
the order
of these songs, as well as the order of the little
parts within
each song. You had to do this to keep your
worship team together
with you. Now is the time for you to spread
the joy. Now you
can give this information to the projectionist, who
won't even
have to remember it in order to use it.
You give this information by making your tentative
"song list"
file (in NotePad). (Just about every elite
person with a Mac
owns at least one windows machine. You need it
anyway to test
your preparations, so you can use that machine to
write your
simple text files as well.)
If you are supposed to send your song list to a
person who is
in charge of the order of service then you should
send your
tentative song list to that person, then send
everything else
directly to the projectionist.
Whenever you send files, make sure they let you know
that they
got it. There has been such a spam problem
that now people
often miss receiving important mail.
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Song
Sequence:
The "song sequence" is the sequence, or order, of
the parts of
each song you want to sing. This is the
information you are
already giving to your band. The best way to
describe how to
write it is to give an example. Suppose you
want to sing the
intro, then verse 1, then chorus, then verse 3 then
chorus.
In that case the sequence is written as:
<<Sequence:i.v1.c.v3.c>>
You probably noticed that the << >>
surrounds the sequence.
Big deal; that's easy enough to type. Now to
finish the idea
here, you place this funny sequence thing right
after the song
lyric text file's name on the same line. For
example:
Amazing Grace.txt
<<Sequence:v1.v2.v3.v5>>
You make a simple text file having lines that look
like this,
and you have built your song list. (In the
appendix you will
find the full format for songlists.)
Using the mouse does not always make everything
easy; but we
are so in the habit of "mousing" everything that
someone may
say "you mean I have to type something?" (after
spending an
hour text messaging or emailing a friend).
An attempt has been made here to put all
preconceptions aside
and reevaluate everything. I am confident that
after you have
prepared and run your first service this will be
your favorite
way of doing things.
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Instant
SongList:
When HGO first loads, it looks for a directory whose
name is
the date of the service (or at least the soonest
date it finds
that has not happened yet). When it finds such
a directory it
loads the song list it finds there. Then if it
finds any songs
in that directory that are not listed in the song
list it will
add those songs to the songlist and save the
songlist file, so
that any time it loads it will have those orphan
songs tacked
onto the end.
This feature is useful in cases where people are not
prepared.
You would get the song list directly from the main
worship
leader, and you would get the song files from anyone
else such
as the pastor (for sermon) and one who does
announcements.
You just dump all that stuff into the directory for
that day
and tell HGO to reload today's service. Thus
you have a worst
case scenario that's actually pretty good.
To go to the next song in the list takes one
click. To go to
any particular song in the list takes two
clicks. (A "click"
may be a click or a keystroke). So the slapped
together order
of the last parts in the "instant song list" would
not result
in any disruption of the service.
And you can also use this feature to include the
files you get
from others, then put them in order, making it
really easy to
prepare the "order of service" (final version of
songlist).
If HGO finds no song list in the dated directory
then it will
build a song list out of all the files it finds, but
I would
only recommend this as a way of making
preparations. I would
then expect you to edit it to adjust the order and
to add on
the <<sequences>> to the end of each
song file name listed.
Otherwise it sort of defeats the whole purpose,
doesn't it!
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Song Lyric
Files:
When HGO loads a songlist it starts up with the
first song on
the list. When that happens or when you hit
"next song" it
loads a song file. But what is a song
file? Well, a song
file can be either an "hgo" file or a "txt"
file. A "txt"
file is what actually holds the song lyrics.
An "hgo" file
is a special creation that itself launches a "txt"
lyric file.
An hgo file can be used to set up graphics and other
stuff,
and an hgo file can also play a soundfile or CD
track and
put words up on the screen automatically in time to
the
music. This makes a handy way to launch
karaoke "special"
music background tracks, and even have the words
show on the
big screen while the soloist sings, if
desired. But you
don't have to know anything about hgo files just to
use this
program in a normal church way. Nonetheless,
the full format
for hgo files can be found in the appendix.
Normally, a song file you load is a "txt" file that
contains
all the lyrics to the worship song. It also
contains the
CCLI, copyright, authorship and other information
that should
be displayed in the bottom strip on the
screen. The full
format of song lyric "txt" files can be found in the
appendix.
Even so, I should mention certain features of the
format.
You recall how the song list has a
<<sequence>> that tells
the HGO program the order of the various little
parts within
each song. How do you think HGO knows where to
find each of
these little pieces of songs inside the "txt" file?
You get to put that stuff in yourself. On the
same line as
the first line of any verse or chorus (or other
part) you put
a simple indication of what that part is as far as
you are
concerned.
For example, the first line of the first verse of
Amazing grace would look like this:
v1.Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
See, that's not rocket science or brain surgery
either. In
fact, you probably would already write it that way
in your
song notebook.
HGO looks for those little indications and memorizes
all the
words in each part, so that when you hit the "next"
button,
it can look up the next part from the sequence you
wrote,
then look up and show all the words in that part.
By such simple preparations on your part, the time
when it
all comes together comes off without a hitch, and
everyone
gets to see every line of the words well in time to
take a
breath and start singing them.
And here is an added advantage: a teleprompter!
Simply by asking the projectionist to set a monitor
facing
you, you will always have the words in front of you,
and no
matter how swept up in passionate praise you are,
you can
always see and know the next words to be sung.
What a comfort!
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Projectionist:
Before going any further let me put in a good word
here:
This program supports dual display graphic cards and
systems.
In English that means you can see one thing on a
private screen
and let the public see something else on the
projector screen.
Although you can use this program with a single
monitor system,
it is strongly advised that you invest less than a
hundred bucks
and get a good dual monitor graphic card. This
will make things
at church so much easier than you've ever known them
to be!
If you do have a dual monitor system then for public
display
you should use the mode menu and set HGO to split
screen mode.
Now suppose it is your job to do the overhead
display in
church. You have been given all the files
needed for each
person's job: the song list (order of worship), the
songs,
the sermon notes, the announcement notes and even
the notes
prepared by the person giving his testimony that
day. In
addition to these files, you have also been given by
each
person any power point web or graphic files needed
by each
person's presentation.
You make a special directory whose name is the date
of the
service. You make that directory within the
"dates" sub
directory of the HomeGroupOverhead directory.
You put all
those files you got into there. Then you start
HGO.
It adds any "orphan" song files to the end of the
song list
you got, and saves it if need be. If that
happened, and if
you are the one in charge of the order of service,
then you
can quit from HGO and edit the song list file in
there to
put all the lines (songs) in the correct order of
service.
When you restart HGO it will have the correct order
ready.
At this point you could quit HGO and know that it is
ready
for a less experienced operator to run the projector
during
the church service.
Run the Projector for the Church Service:
The first thing HGO does is to run the first
"song". You
have a few options regarding the church welcome
screen, and
the full use of that can be found in the
appendix. But for
now, we will just assume that the song displays the
church
welcome screen instead of the song title when you
start
any new song.
Now that you have the welcome screen showing, the
next
step is to let the person doing the announcements
run the
"clicker". The "clicker" is a remote control
device that
hits the "next" button for you. If you have no
clicker
then you could simply ask them to point to the
projector
or make some other preagreed high sign any time they
want
you to hit the "next" button for them. This
same goes for
the sermon and testimony notes as well.
If the "song" you launch really is a worship song
(rather
than just overhead notes) then you should wait until
a full
3 seconds before the time the singing should
start. If the
singing starts at the very beginning of the song
(like if
there is no intro section) then you should hit the
"next"
button once to begin displaying the first line of
lyrics
during their "count off" to begin the song.
From then on, whenever you start to sing the last
word of
each screen-full, that is when you should hit the
"next"
button, because everybody has already read the last
word.
If the last word is sung really quickly and you
would need
more time to get ready to sing the next line, then
hit the
"next" button a few words before the end of the last
line
on the screen, because chances are that everyone has
read
them already. You can look at the full listing
of the
lyrics on your private screen to know how busy
things are
at that point; that way you will always be able to
know
just how soon before the end of the line to hit
"next".
When the song is over you can hit the "b" key to
blank
out the screen, just like you would on any power
point,
or better yet, just hit the "next song" button to
get the
welcome screen back up there and have all ready for
the
next song.
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Special
"baseball" signs:
There is a useful purpose in being able to just "sit
and
veg" on a certain place in the music, or to just
keep
repeating the same one or two lines (or chorus) again
and again. When this happens, the normal flow
of the
sequence within a song is temporarily suspended, and
the
words should not change then. To make getting
into and
out of these special times as smooth as possible,
your
worship leader and you should prearrange some special
signs he can make to let you know when he is getting
in
and out of these special times. This is human
and
personal between you and him, and you guys need to
work
that out together.
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HGO
file karaoke solos ("special music"):
If the soloist gives you some files including a
sound file
such as OGG or WAV, (or if he hands you a CD to
use), you
will need to be careful that you don't start the
song
before he is ready to start singing. To make
the process
smooth, it is a good idea to add a song in the
songlist
called "introduce the solo.txt" that is there just
to blank
out the last words of the previous song (and perhaps
set
title screen or other graphic). Then when the
soloist is
ready you can hit the "next song" button again to
actually
start the special music.
Or else you could use the menu features designed to
set
the system "poised" and ready to play a song after
loading
the next song. Those menu items are fairly
self explanatory.
Once his special song starts, if it is a CD you will
be
instructed to insert the CD in the drive. If
it is a sound
file it will start right away. In either case,
once the
music starts you will not be expected to hit the
"next"
button; the hgo file will do that for you. But
if they ask
you to run the "next" button then the hgo file is
really
doing nothing but launching the music, so you will
treat
that like any other worship song, hitting the "next"
button
when appropriate.
If the soloist has no hgo file but gives you a sound
file or
CD well before the service, you can make an hgo file
to
accommodate it. If he gives that stuff to you
right at the
start of or during the service then your best bet is
to browse
to that CD or file using media player and play it
from media
player. No need to shove everything through
the software
at the last minute.
If you have a separate CD player that is not part of
the
overhead computer, of course you can play it on that
and if
he gave you a lyrics file just run that as if he
were any
other worship leader playing a song.
You know, you can always simply blank out the
display (by
hitting "b") and use other equipment without even
trying to
involve HGO, just like before.
But if you want a real techno-phobe to run the
system you
might want to insist that the soloist (as well as
everyone
else) gives you everything days in advance so you
can prepare
things for such a "button pusher".
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Graphic Files:
Normally you don't need to do anything about graphic
files used
during worship. Either someone preparing txt
or hgo files will
embed special graphic commands into his files to
load graphics
as he wants, or else the HGO program itself will
periodically
update the background graphic with a fresh picture
or movie.
Nonetheless, you still have the ability to instantly
load one
of up to 9 preset graphics files. You can
pre-program each of
those 9 presets at another time using the HGO
menu. A full
description of menu items can be found in the
appendix. You
can also hit the F9 button at any time to change the
background
to a randomly selected compatible picture or movie
file.
If you don't want the graphics changing
automatically you can
turn off the "One Minute Timer" from the menu.
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APPENDIX:
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Please
click here for the Home Group Overhead End User
License Agreement (HGO
EULA).
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Home
Group
Overhead Directory Structure (File Folders):
Home Group Overhead always installs into just one
place:
C:\HomeGroupOverhead
Since there is no option for changing that, everyone
will
always know where to put things and where to look
for them.
The main directory (folder) is not the only standard
I have
introduced here. There are also standard
subdirectories
(folders inside of the main folder) with certain
purposes.
Here is a brief description of each subdirectory
within
C:\HomeGroupOverhead and a word on how they are
supposed to be used by you.
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SPECIAL PLACES (FOLDERS) TO USE:
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Custom:
Use this directory how you like, if you know what
you are
doing. HGO is willing to search this directory
for needed
files. But before you just throw everything in
here please
read about the whole directory structure
below. I am certain
you will find that it helps you and makes things
easier.
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Import:
Use this directory to hold all the media files
(music, pictures
and movies) you want to import into HGO. Then
Click on
"Import" from the program menu. HGO will
process all the
files it finds here, moving them to the "OutBasket"
folder.
And all the files it is able to import it will put
in their correct
locations within the directory structure. At
the end of the
import operation you will be presented with a report
detailing
how the operation went, what files are available for
use and
what (if any) files never made it and why.
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OutBasket:
You will find here (after the import operation is
done) the
original files you placed into the Import
folder. HGO does
not delete them in case you mistakenly moved instead
of
copied your files into the Import folder.
After a successful
import operation you ought to empty this folder to
reduce
the clutter.
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PLACES WHERE YOU
FIND SONG FILES:
Lyrics
(txt) and Hgo files can be found in SongPool and Hymns:
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SongPool:
This is the directory where you put all
your HGO
and TXT
(lyrics) files, whether for live worship
or AudioFiles or CD.
Whenever you go looking for a song to play, here is
where you
will find it. Whenever you go
looking for a lyric for live worship,
here is where you will find it. Whenever
you go looking for a
song or lyric to add to a songlist, here is where
you will find it.
Whenever you get done importing a PowerPoint lyric
slide into
HGO, here is where it will be added as a lyrics TXT
file.
There are some lyrics and HGO files already built-in
that come
with HGO, and are licensed for public use as
"PowerPacks".
They are designed to work with CDs that HGO knows,
which I
enthusiastically recommend to you as good CDs to buy.
Those song resources are hidden away in a special
folder called
VMGPP, but the first time you play one of those CDs
the song
files that respond to it are copied into SongPool so
you can use
them in your own songlists. But until then,
they will not clutter
up your SongPool directory.
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Hymns:
There is no valid distinction between worship songs
and hymns.
But because there is such a vast number of hymns, I
have placed
them in their own special directory. If you
feel that your favorite
hymns are getting lonely in there you can copy them
to SongPool.
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PLACES FOR GRAPHICS, WEB AND
POWERPOINT:
Pictures and Movies, Web Page files and PowerPoint
SlideShows
are the files that dress up the screen.
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Pix:
This is the folder that contains all the graphic
image and
movie files used by this program. Pictures
must be in the
form of .jpg files. Movies must be in the form
of VP3
compressed .avi files. That means it is an avi
file, whose
name ends in ".avi", but inside that avi file it has
a VP3
compression method at work. You can get
an excellent
converter to convert any movies you have into this
format
for just under 30 bucks from alivemedia.net.
It is called
the Alive Video Converter.
There is one other format you will see in the Pix
folder.
That format is the dolly shot file (".dly").
The dolly
file is my own standard for how to describe a dolly
shot
that pans across a still picture while changing the
zoom
level. You can find the format for a dolly
file here in
the appendix.
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WebPages:
Use this directory to store general use Html (*.htm
or
*.html) pages that you use in your "songs".
Because a
song can actually be the sermon, the announcements
or
the visuals for a testimony or teaching, you can use
HTM
(WebPage) and PPS (PowerPoint) files. The
advantage of
using html pages in certain times is that you can use
all of the fancy graphics that come with a web page,
even
flash presentations and animated gifs. You can
of course
also put html files in other directories.
Whatever capabilities you have installed for Internet
Explorer will be available, such as flash etc...
You can create fairly decent web pages for viewing
by
using Mozilla 1.7 from Mozilla.org.
Home Group Overhead is willing to search this
directory
to find files.
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PowerPoint:
This is the directory where you can put general use
PowerPoint shows. You can also put PowerPoint
shows in
other directories too.
Home Group Overhead is willing to search this
directory to
find files.
PowerPoint support requires that you have a
legitimate copy
of Microsoft Office installed. HGO works in
cooperation with,
not in competition to, the Microsoft Powerpoint
program. Also
the PowerPoint support works only with HGO license
levels Pro
and above (Studio).
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PLACES WHERE YOU
FIND SONGLISTS:
SongLists
can be found in Albums, Services,
PlayLists and Dates:
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Albums:
This is the directory where you put your
SongList
files for
albums (CDs). This directory is
just for albums you personally
own.
And remember, this Albums directory is just for
songlists of
albums; you put the HGO files and the TXT (lyrics)
files in
SongPool, where all such song files go.
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Services:
This is a directory where you could keep SongLists
for your
own services,
but where they are not named according to
the
date. You might keep standard wedding or funeral
SongLists
here, or some standard service that you tend to use
again and again.
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PlayLists:
This is a directory where you could keep SongLists
for your
own general purposes. These do not have to be
for any special
occasion; you can use these just like any playlist
you might use
on your computer desktop player. A songlist is
a songlist, but
how you use them can differ. And how HGO uses
them can be
different, so these different directories ought to
simplify the task
of knowing where things are for which purposes.
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Dates:
This is another directory where you can put your
SongList
files, for services. Now the freaky thing
about this
directory is
that you have to name the SongList for
the date of the service.
The name should be in
this format:
MM-DD-YY.sls
where MM is month, such as January being 01
where DD is day, such as the first being 01
where YY is year, such as 2006 being 06
Make one songlist for each service, whose name is
the date
of the service. If you have more than one
service on that
day you can make any number of numbered songlists:
MM-DD-YY#1.sls
MM-DD-YY#2.sls
MM-DD-YY#3.sls
or else you could use:
MM-DD-YY#early_morning.sls
MM-DD-YY#mid_morning.sls
MM-DD-YY#wedding.sls
MM-DD-YY#reception_party.sls
MM-DD-YY#evening.sls
Anything you put after the # is ok, just as long as
there are no
spaces in the name.
When HGO wakes up it will ask you which
one you want.
That way HGO will find everything. When
HGO
loads, it will
search for the soonest date that has not happened
yet. If it
finds one then it will automatically load that song
list. If there are
more than one for that day it will list them and ask
you which you
want.
To keep HGO from loading such a date SLS when it
starts, simply
don't create one here.
Remember, you can always use the menu to load
anything you
want. This feature is designed to make a
no-brainer easy
method that you can set up for your volunteer help
to use.
And remember, only songlists go here; all your songs
go into the
songpool directory.
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PLACES WHERE YOU
FIND SOUNDFILES:
SoundFiles can be found in SoundFiles
and CD2Audio:
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SoundFiles:
This directory is where you put OGGs that are on
their own; they
are not a part of a CD. These sound files are
available for use by
any HGO file that wants to use them.
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CD2Audio:
This directory is where you put OGGs of your
CDs. Once you
place them here, these sound files will act just
like CD tracks.
In other words, they will be played instead of the
CD tracks for
any HGO files that call for a certain track on a
certain CD.
You don't need to go looking in here to find files,
though, because
HGO will find them for you any time you play an HGO
file that
asks for the CD track, and if you already played the
CD HGO has
saved a copy of all its HGO files in SongPool for
your ease of use.
Make one directory for each CD disc, whose name is
the name
of the CD expected by HGO when it plays an HGO
file.
You
will know that name when you play the song list for
that CD
and
it asks you to insert that CD. When it does
that, copy
down the
name it uses to talk about that particular CD
disc.
Then you make
your directory name the same as what you wrote
down. This will
be a directory you create within the CD2Audio
directory.
After you have made that directory for that certain
CD disc,
you can copy into that directory the OGG files made
by CDEX
when you "ripped" your CD disc. You must use
CDEX to "rip"
the CDs you put in here. CDEX is free and you can
find it on
www.sourceforge.net.
That way HGO will find everything.
And please, do not receive from or give to others
any OGG
files without permission from the owner of that
music. This
OGG feature exists so that if you legitimately have
a CD you
can make a convenient copy to put in your
computer. This will
speed up things when you make custom song lists for
parties
and or automated worship situations.
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SECRET PLACES WHERE HGO HIDES THINGS:
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Boiler:
Do not do anything in this directory. It is
for system use.
Boiler is the boiler room of Home Group
Overhead. It is
essential to HGO's operation but it contains no user-
serviceable parts. It is where I hide all the
technical
guts that make things work so simple for you.
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PP1-99:
This directory is used by "PowerPacks" made that
have a
PowerPack number of 1 through 99. PowerPacks
are made in
cooperation with and registered with
InspiredCode. They
consist of the .txt and .hgo files needed to convey
the
real-time lyrics while a CD is playing. You
really don't
need to mess with this folder unless you are
creating a
PowerPack for InspiredCode. I am always
looking for those
who would be willing to create PowerPacks for the
older
Classic Vineyard CDs such as the Father's Heart
series or
the Winds of Worship series. I would help such
an effort
by donating a copy of Home Group Overhead Studio (a
$250
value) in return for the finished PowerPacks.
If you have
a certain number of those CDs and the time and
desire to
do so, (along with a fairly decent sense of rhythm)
this
would be a nice way to get your own free copy of Home
Group Overhead Studio that you could use to do your
own
music in a multimedia way.
Now it is worth noting that this secret
little directory holds
both songfiles and songlists pertaining to the
powerpacks.
Although HGO keeps both together in its own private
places
you can be assured that as far as your own use is
concerned,
HGO still keeps all the song files in SongPool and
in Hymns.
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PP100-:
This directory is used by PowerPacks made that have
a
PowerPack number higher 100 or higher.
Now it is worth noting that this secret
little directory holds
both songfiles and songlists pertaining to the
powerpacks.
Although HGO keeps both together in its own private
places
you can be assured that as far as your own use is
concerned,
HGO still keeps all the song files in SongPool and
in Hymns.
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VMGPP:
This is where HGO keeps the PowerPacks pertinent to
the
VMG (Vineyard Music Group) CDs. The
directories above
would be used in the case of non-VMG
PowerPacks.
The first time HGO plays one of
the special CDs mentioned
above it will copy the songlist for
that CD into your Albums
directory so you can find it.
But until then, the song files and
songlists for CDs you don't own will not clutter up
your
Albums
directory.
Now it is worth noting that this secret
little directory holds
both songfiles and songlists pertaining to the
powerpacks.
Although HGO keeps both together in its own private
places
you can be assured that as far as your own use is
concerned,
HGO still keeps all the song files in SongPool and
in Hymns.
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File Formats:
HGO uses simple file to get things done. Why
so simple?
So you can change them around and make them how you
want.
These files are basic text files, the kind you make
when
you type stuff into NotePad and save it. I
personally like
to use Wordpad, but I still save my files as plain
text.
When in doubt just use Notepad. It saves it
right.
Each of the files has certain special things you can
say
to get certain things to happen. These special
things to
say, along with where you type them, is called the
format.
Now there are other files, too, like music and
graphics
files, but those are not plain text files.
They have different
formats that are not the same thing as the simple
text
formats, but you can simply use them without having
to
look inside of those files.
So in a nutshell, there are two basic types of
formats:
1. The simple text files where you say what
you want done.
2. The music or graphics formats of your media
files.
Here are descriptions of the file formats used in
HGO.
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Audio
Files:
There are two basic ways to use audio in HGO.
You can
have your HGO file ask for a CD track or a Sound
File.
(There is a special way to dress up sound
files to act like
CD tracks but we'll talk about that later.)
Your sound file can be in one of two
formats: WAV or
OGG. There are no MP3s allowed, to avoid
worries about
being sued by the dudes that own the patents on the
MP3
method. You can use a great FreeWare program
called
CDEX to convert your music into WAV or OGG
(OggVorbis). It is far better to use OGG than
WAV
because WAV takes up way too much hard drive space.
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Graphic
Files:
There are three types of graphic file that HGO
recognizes.
You can load .jpg (picture) files, .avi (AVI Movie)
files and
an odd thing called a "dolly file" (.dly).
Movies must be in the form of VP3 compressed .avi
files.
That means it is an avi file, whose name ends in
".avi",
but inside that avi file it has a VP3 compression
method
at work. You can get an excellent converter to
convert any
movies you have into this format for just under 30
bucks
from alivemedia.net.
It is called the Alive
Video Converter.
Note: To get VP3 ("VP31") to come up as an option in
Alive
you should first install HGO, which will make sure
that your
computer understands VP3 files. (Just make
sure you have
HGO installed before you install the Alive Video
Converter.)
If you don't
care to mess with making your own movies, check
the inspiredcode
site for ready-made VP3 AVI movies you can
download. The reason for using VP3 instead of
MPG is to avoid
worries about stiff royalties or getting sued by the
Mpeg patent
holders just for distributing your own artwork
(movies or pix).
You can see more about importing files in
the part of the
help
entitled "Importing your own
files".
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Dolly File:
(.dly)
This last kind of file is really a text
file that describes
what
picture file to load and how to view it as time
passes.
That format is the dolly shot file (".dly").
The dolly
file is my own standard for how to describe a dolly
shot
that pans across a still picture while changing the
zoom
level.
The Dolly File is a simple text file that
has 8
lines. Here
is what you put on each of the 8 lines:
Line1: Name of jpg file to load (can include
full path)
Line2: Number of seconds the dolly movement
will take to
complete. Once it is done the ending position and
zoom
scale will remain on the screen.
Line3: Starting Zoom Magnification
Factor. The mag factor
tells HGO
how many times the normal size it expands
the
image, as compared to how big it would be if it
just
exactly filled the screen.
Line4: Ending Zoom Magnification Factor.
Line5: Start Center Pixel X
Line6: Start Center Pixel Y
These two
lines (X and Y) specify a certain point
(pixel)
on the original picture that will serve as
the
center point for this zoomed in display on screen.
The
starting center point is the center point used at
the
beginning of the dolly shot.
Line7: Ending Center Pixel X
Line8: Ending Center Pixel Y
These two
lines specify the ending center point. When
the dolly
shot is performed, the "camera" takes exactly
the
number of seconds to perform the dolly shot, and
what it
does is to zoom in or out from the starting
zoom
factor to the ending zoom factor. At the same
time that
this process takes place, the "camera" also
pans
across from the starting center point to the
ending
center point. The dolly shot breaks up the
number of
seconds you tell it into the number of frames
required
at your present maximum frame rate to perform
the zoom
and panning movements as smoothly as possible.
By using the Dolly shot you can use a still picture
and make it
look like a movie. But be sure that if you
zoom in very far
you still have sufficient resolution in your still
picture so it
doesn't get too "grainy", unless you want that
effect.
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General
Commands in Files:
There are three main types of text file you can make
for HGO.
They are SongList (.sls), HGO (.hgo) and Lyrics
(.txt) files.
These files serve different purposes. In order
to do these
different things each has its own format and
commands.
But they also have one thing in common (besides the
fact that
anyone can write them): They can perform "General
Commands".
A general command is a command that is generally
useful for
making temporary changes to the way HGO shows
graphics and
words. The advantage to making such changes in
a file is
that whomever prepares the file can have greater
control over
the presentation and how it will look, without
making permanent
changes to how HGO will think after the file is done
playing.
The decisions you make using the menu are the
climate; they
are what HGO does by default. But the general
commands can
do whatever they want to do in spite of the menu
setting.
Then when the file that had the general command is
done, things
go back to normal and the menu settings are once
again what
is obeyed.
A General Command can be added as its own line or it
can be
added to the end of any line. If it is on its
own line in
either a Songlist (.sls) or a Lyric (.txt) file, it
will be
performed whenever you get to that line.
Because an HGO file is essentially a list of timing
events,
if you put a General Command on a line by itself in
an HGO
file it will just be performed when the HGO file
loads.
Every General Command is surrounded by << and
>>. This tells
HGO to perform the command and not to show it as
words. If
you want to put a comment into a file that will not
be shown
on the screen, you can enclose it like a General
Command.
When HGO tries to perform it, it will not recognize
it and
will assume that it is merely a comment for your own
benefit.
Here are the General Commands:
(In regard to the one minute timer that
changes backgrounds:)
<<AutoBackGround
Off>> (turns off the one minute timer)
<<AutoBackGround
On>> (turns on the one minute timer)
(When a song starts, what is shown?:)
<<StartSongShow
Nothing>> (shows nothing)
<<StartSongShow
SongTitle>> (shows the Song's Title)
<<StartSongShow
WelcomeScreen>> (shows the welcome screen)
(When showing words, at each place, show how
many lines?:)
<<VerseMode
Off>> (show one line at a time really big on screen)
<<VerseMode
Block>> (show whole block or block segment at a time)
<<VerseModeBlockLines
XX>> (# of lines of verse shown at a time)
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Lyrics
File: (.txt)
Lyrics files are the meat and potatoes of HGO.
It is all about
showing you the words, and HGO uses simple text
files to do it,
how appropriate for a text (words) oriented purpose!
The gifts are for the whole body, yet we do not
muzzle the ox.
In other words, the guys who write the songs get
paid too. The
way that works out is by our respecting the
copyrights of those
who write these wonderful songs that we all sing
together.
Therefore, you have at your disposal a way of
including all the
important information about the song, such as CCLI#,
song title,
song author, copyright information and so on.
Furthermore, this
information is inconspicuous across the bottom, in
plain sight
but not distracting from the process of engaging in
worship.
Anyone who would do wrong is able to hack things
anyway, so the
best way to have copyrights honored is to make it
extremely easy
and convenient to do what is right.
The top part of a Lyric file is the header.
You get to choose
when the header ends, and even if there IS a
header. Commands
that you put into the header (including any General
Commands)
will be performed in the header, in other words,
when the file
first loads. Some commands just state a fact,
like what is the
title of the song. In such a case the way that
fact gets shown
depends upon menu options and possibly on a General
Command.
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In the Header:
The header is just the stuff that gets done when the
Lyric file
loads and before any of the words get shown.
Here are the
commands in the header. NOTE that you may see
certain header
commands in a Lyric file that have no
<<>> around it. Certain
header commands don't need the <<>> but
to play it safe you can
the <<>> around all commands anyway, if
you want. But if you
show them the way I have them here that's OK too.
Loop XX Shows the
lines in the Lyrics file one after the
other, over and over again. The time it shows
each line before moving on to the next is set by
the number you type in place of XX, in seconds.
An example would be <<Loop 30>>
Song Title This tells HGO that the
contents of the very next
line is the Song title.
Author This
tells HGO that the contents of the very next
line is the Song's Author.
Composer This means the same
thing as Author.
Written By This means the same thing as
Author.
Copyright Year This tells HGO that the
contents of the very
next line is the Copyright Year.
Publisher This tells HGO that the
contents of the very next
line is the Song's Publisher.
CCLI# This
tells HGO that the contents of the very next
line is the Song's CCLI Number.
----- This
series of dashes tells HGO the header is done
After the header is done, the lyrics can be typed
in. Although
HGO can guess where the verses are, you should
probably tell it
anyway. Although HGO may try to understand
whatever you throw
at it (and although you may see some odd things
being used), it
is best to use one simple way of indicating parts of
songs, and
here is that way:
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Sequence
Indicators in Lyrics:
Put a letter, possibly followed by a number, then a
period, at
the start of any verse, chorus, hook, intro or
bridge. Don't
worry about what is really a hook, or a chorus, or a
bridge.
These terms are there for your own benefit, not the
other way
around. So decide for your own satisfaction
what labels best
apply to what parts of the song. The labels
you get to work
with are:
v. (this indicates that it is a verse)
c. (this indicates that it is a chorus)
h. (this indicates that it is a hook)
b. (this indicates that it is a bridge)
i. (this indicates that it is an intro)
You put this right before the first line of the part
of the
song that you are giving that label.
Here are two examples of the same thing:
v.Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound,
v1.Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound,
As you can see, when it is the first occurrence of
that kind
of label, the number is optional. If it is the
2nd or more
then you have to use the number, of course.
It is also customary to put a space in between the
parts of
a song. Those blank lines make it easy to
visually find it
and click there when the worship leader gets lost
and jumps
to a surprising location.
If you are planning to repeat the last two lines of
a chorus
or verse over and over for a while, you really
should write
those two lines as a separate hook, in addition to
the way
you have them included in the verse or chorus.
That way
when you display a song portion, the people will
know it is
ok to sing the whole block that you are showing,
rather than
their having to guess which part of the displayed
words they
are supposed to sing. This little attention to
detail on
your part will reduce their difficulty and
distraction.
When we get to the format of the songlist you will
see how
important those labels are!
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HGO File:
This file consists mainly of a series of timing
events.
Each event is on a separate line. Each event
has two parts,
the time the event happens and the event that is
supposed
to happen at that time. Normally you don't
write an HGO
file yourself. When you record an HGO file in
time to the
music of a CD or sound file then HGO writes the file
in
response to your easy actions. But you might
someday need
or want to modify an HGO file. For instance,
you might want
to add a General Command at the end of one event
line to
tell HGO to load a certain background graphic
file. To see
where you could put it, just think of the normal
order in
which you sing the lines. You can see that the
line number
of the words you sing are in the right hand portion
of the
HGO file line. So you can observe from line to
line (while
ignoring the timing information), following along as
the
lyrics get sung from line to line. Then when
it gets to
just the right place, you can add your General
Command.
There are other things too that you may want to do
by hand
with HGO files, so the format is shown here so you
can.
The HGO File Header:
The HGO header consists of 6 lines that have no
labels.
Only the information is there (no labels!). To
know what
each of the first 6 lines is saying you need to
consider
which line it is.
Line1: (Sound File Extension) WAV, OGG
Line2: (Sound Type) File, CD or Live
Line3: (Sound File Name) Name of Sound File or
"None"
Line4: (CD Name) Name of CD or "None".
This needs to be
the
friendly name for the CD, as it is this name
that HGO will use to request that CD be inserted.
Line5: (CD Track #) The
Track # on the CD or "None"
Line6: (CD Fudge Offset) This number can be
used to slide
the
timing of every event in the HGO file. You
normally would not use this, but it's nice to know
this capability is there.
That's it for the HGO header. After that line,
you can have
as many General Commands as you like. Because
they would
be on a line by themselves, they would have no
timing info
to tell HGO when to perform them. Therefore
HGO considers
that all of such are a part of the header and
performs them
right away first thing when the HGO file loads.
Next come all the timing events. Here is an
example:
65155 TickCount: Line#11
As you can see, this has two parts:
65155 TickCount: (means it happens 65155
milliseconds
after the start of the music)
Line#11
(means that what happens is the display
of the 11th line of lyrics)
Lyrics are stored in a big list of lines, and if you
go to
Split Screen Mode and load some lyrics you will see
the list.
When you click on a line in split screen mode, the
private
display highlights that line on the list, and the
words of
that line show up on the big screen in public.
When a timing
event happens in HGO, the similar thing
happens. As soon as
the master clock knows that the moment spelled out
in the
first part of the line has been reached, it is as if
you had
clicked on the line indicated by the Line#.
In fact, when you record your own HGO files, you do
so by
clicking on those very same lines in the list.
Small world,
isn't it.
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SongList:
The songlist format is at heart brutally
simple. It is a
list of songs. In this list, each song is
represented by
the name of a file that displays the stuff needed by
that
song. A song file listed in the song list can
be either
a Lyric (.txt) file or an HGO (.hgo) file. The
lyric file
has the words in it. The HGO file points to a
lyric file
but also contains other instructions such as timing
events.
In the songlist, each song goes on its own
line. You can
also have a line that just contains a General
Command. The
command gets performed when you get to that line,
just like
a song would be performed when you get to its own
line.
The format you use to talk about the song file is a
simple
file name, or a path and file name.
Here are examples:
MySong.txt
MySong.hgo
C:\MyDirectory\MySong.txt
C:\MyDirectory\MySong.hgo
\MyDirectory\MySong.txt
\MyDirectory\MySong.hgo
Easy to make OGG CD or OGG DVD for HGO
In the last two examples something very useful is
going on.
HGO will look in the same directory as the song
list, then
go further deep into the \MyDirectory subfolder of
that
directory and look for the song MySong.txt or
MySong.hgo
at that location. This format is VERY useful
for making
an OGG CD (or OGG DVD) that has a song list on it as
well
as a subfolder(s) on the disc that contain(s) all
the OGG
sound files, as well as all the .txt and .hgo files
and
furthermore all the graphic files needed for a
fabulous
multimedia presentation that loads directly off of
the CD
(or DVD) without having to install all those files
to the
computer playing them!
In such a case you would have the autorun feature of
the
CD call:
C:\HomeGroupOverhead\HomeGroupOverhead.exe
Z:\MyList.sls
HGO will look on all drives until it finds the
songlist
you mentioned in the "command line argument" (the
part
of the command that comes after the name of the
program
to run). Once it finds your songlist it will
then know
the directory where it found it (including the drive
letter) and then use that directory as a starting
place
to find any song your songlist mentions, along with
any
any file needed by your songs mentioned.
In this way all your .txt .hgo .jpg .dly .avi and
.ogg
files will be easily found on the CD (or DVD) and
your
whole presentation will work right away, no matter
what
drive letter the CD drive really is on that computer.
(When you call up a song list, using a drive letter
that
is not C, HGO will search ALL drive letter including
C.)
General Commands Following the Song File Name
In a song list, you can put a line with just a
General
Command (we covered that). You can also put a
General
Command following the song file name (.txt or .hgo).
Like all General Commands tacked onto any line, you
surround the General Command with <<>>.
Here is an example:
MyAnnouncements.txt<<Loop30>>
That example sets into action a "song" consisting of
a
series of announcements, where each line (or block of
lines, depending on the verse mode you have set) is
shown for 30 seconds before moving on to the next,
and
after the last line it starts with the first line
again.
I showed this as an example, but a better way of
doing
the announcements would be to simply call a .txt
file
of announcements and ten have more General Commands
to
set the graphics behind the announcements (or behind
each announcement) and to set the verse mode to show
a
whole block (no matter what the menu said) and to set
a unique loop time for each block that is about how
long you'd expect people to take to read each screen.
You could even have the announcements kicked off by
an
hgo file that would launch OGG music we hear when the
announcements are playing.
Specific Commands Following the Song File Name
Sequence (Song Sequence, aka sequence within a
song)
This command lets you specify the order in which HGO
performs the various parts within a song.
Because you
have set this option, all the projectionist has to do
is hit the "next" button and the song display will
automatically move from one part of the song to the
next, in the exact order you prescribed. If
you said
it will go from verse to chorus to another verse, it
will display these parts in that order. If you
choose
not to sing a certain verse that day, simply leave
that
verse out of the sequence that you specify.
As an example of the way you specify the sequence,
here
is a sample line from a Songlist:
MySong.hgo<<Sequence:v.c.v2.c.v3.c2.h.h.h.>>
As you can see, what you do is put the word
"Sequence"
then a colon, then the intended sequence as a series
of
letters or letters with numbers, separated by
periods.
HGO tries to understand whatever you throw at it,
but it
is best to use exactly the format above.
To get a full understanding of the letters and
numbers
you can use to describe the parts of the song, please
see the section above on the Lyric (.txt) file
format.
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Importing Your Own Files:
HGO has undergone some improvements to make it
even easier
to use. Among those is the ability to
import various files into HGO.
To import files:
1. Make sure your files are in the
formats HGO wants to see.
a.
JPG picture (see note)
b.
VP3 AVI (you can convert your movies with "Alive".)
c. Ogg Vorbis
(like MP3 but better, use CDEX to convert)
d.
PPS (PowerPoint slide shows) of either songs or sermons.
2. Copy your files into the
C:\HomeGroupOverhead\Import folder.
3. Click on "Import" from the
program menu.
4. Answer any questions asked.
5. Participate in any creative dialogs
(like when you import Power
Point slides of
songs).
5. When HGO is done with your InBasket
files it will move them to
the C:\HomeGroupOverhead\OutBasket
folder.
Patent
Note: My Jpg pictures were converted from jpg to bmp and
back to jpg in November of 2006. Thus no product of conversion
performed during the life of the JPEG patent is being distributed.
You can do the same thing if you wish,
so you can't be sued for any
future profits from "past infringement" of US 4,698,672.
6. Where HGO will place files for use:
a. All
Song Lyrics text files go into SongPool.
b. All HGO
Files also go into SongPool.
c. All
Pictures or Movies go into Pix.
d. All
PowerPoint (Sermon / Lecture) Notes go into PowerPoint.
e. All
Audio Files (Ogg) go into SoundFiles. From there you can move
them into the appropriate subdirectory of CD2Audio. Before
you move any audio files to a CD folder, please make sure you
have a working Songlist for that CD first, because HGO will
create your special subdirectory of CD2Audio based
upon what
you call that particular CD.
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Making Your Own Song Lists:
This section will soon have instructions on new
convenient features.
In the mean time, please see discussion
of song lists elsewhere herein.
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Menu
Structure And Push Buttons:
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Menu Structure:
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File: (drops down to the
menu
selections below:)
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Load Today's
Service:
This menu selection does a reload of the same dated
service that
would get loaded when HGO starts. If there is
a dated songlist
within the Dates directory whose name is a date that
is today or
has not happened yet,
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Load Song List:
This loads a whole list of songs that you can
play. When it
loads a song list, it also loads the first song on
the list.
As long as it is playing the song list, when one
song ends it
plays the next, just like a CD. If a word-only
(live worship)
song is used, it can't read your mind, so when
you're done with
the words-only song, you can click on the screen and
hit the >|
("next song") button. This way you can play
back a whole set
of songs containing any mix of live worship, CD and
sound files!
What a great way to be prepared for a worship
service!
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Load HGO File:
This Loads a Word and Music presentation someone has
made. These
combined presentations are called HGO files.
The HGO file will
take care of everything; it will start the music and
show you the
words at the right time. As an alternative, it
is also possible
for an HGO file to set up a few things without
playing music. It
all depends on the one who made the HGO file.
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Load
Lyrics Only (for live worship):
This loads just the words, so you can display them
during live
worship. It works just like a slide projector
or presentation.
It's easy to advance the words for live
worship. Hit the down
arrow (cursor) key to go forward one
line (or block). Hit the
up arrow (cursor) key to go back one line (or
block). Hit a
number key to jump to that verse. Hit the C
key to jump to
chorus. If you have more than one chorus you
can hit the D key
to go to the second chorus and so on.
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Edit
Existing
SongList:
You get to browse and edit a songlist. Please
see the SongList
format in this appendix.
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Make New
Songlist:
You get to make and name a new songlist.
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Save HGO File:
After you have recorded an HGO file you can save it.
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Change
Program Name on Blue Stripe:
Most programs have a blue stripe at the top that
shows the name of
the program. HGO does too, but with a couple
variations. The
blue stripe on HGO is personalized with your name,
the kind of
user, the town in which it is used and the nature of
the location.
This menu option selects between the phrases:
Home Group Overhead
Worship Service Overhead
HyperGraphic Overhead
The purposes of these nicknames for the program is
to provide a
form caption appropriate to each environment in
which it is to be
used.
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Change
Running Location on Blue Stripe:
This also helps set the tone for the right
place. It actually
comes into play after one has registered the
program, and is
intended to be used in the case of a personal
license.
This menu option selects between the phrases:
at Person's Home
of Person's Home Group
at Person's Office
(where "Person" is replaced by a name.
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Register
Home Group Overhead:
I was hoping you'd be interested in this!
(grin). HGO has a
generous demo period and when that finally expires,
you can
register the program for a very reasonable
fee. (Exactly how
much depends on what you want the program to do; the
various
license levels have various degrees of capability).
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Change
Registration of Home Group Overhead:
This makes it possible to change the registration
details of
the program once it has already been licensed.
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Registering
PowerPacks:
This is not a menu option, but it will likely come
up. HGO
shows you words that belong to various people.
We honor the
rights of those song authors! So if you are
prompted to order
a PowerPack that contains the words to a song you
want to show
in public, you can say yes and you will be helped
through the
process. Some of the money goes for the work
of creating the
HGO slides, and some goes to the owner of the words.
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Exit:
This is a sign over doors in many buildings.
Have you ever
noticed that some are red and some are green?
Why is that?
Seriously, this lets you quit from the HGO program.
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Try This CD!:
The "Try This CD" menu tries out a CD, if it's not
already going,
but you might not need it, since HGO notices when
you put in a CD!
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Eject CD:
This menu item ejects the CD and is easier to reach
than the CD
drive's eject button in many cases.
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SongList: (drops down
to the
menu selections below:)
Notice the HotKeys for the items under this section!
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Load SongList:
(F12)
(Same as it works under the File Menu.)
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Jump To
Song
Number: (F2)
This brings up the SongList in front of you and lets
you click on
any song you want to launch it.
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Play SongList:
(F3)
This launches a songlist after you had hit stop or
if you have
poised mode turned on when you load a songlist or
songlist item.
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Stop
Playing
SongList: (F4)
This is the same as hitting the Stop Easy CD Button.
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Jump To
First
Song: (F5)
This jumps to the first song. But if HGO is
sitting in poised
mode with a song loaded and ready to play it then
this command
will simply play the song that is cued up, not
necessarily the
first song in the song list. Please keep this
in mind when you
use poised mode.
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Jump To
Previous Song: (F6)
This jumps to the previous song in the
songlist. It acts like
the <- button on a CD Player.
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Jump To
Next
Song: (F7)
This jumps to the next song in the songlist.
It acts like the
<- button on a CD Player.
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Jump To the
Last
Song: (F8)
This jumps to the last song in the songlist.
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Help: (drops down to the
menu
selections below:)
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Help/Instructions:
This menu item shows you this file that you are
reading right now.
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Help/About:
This shows copyright & version info, and asks if
you want to see
the program author's website.
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Read the User License:
This shows the user license to HGO.
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Demo Button:
Plays the demo song that comes with HGO.
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Mode: (drops down to the
menu
selections below:)
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Easy:
This lets you choose Easy Mode. If you just
want to play back stuff
then let's keep it on easy mode.
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Advanced:
If you want to make your own stuff to play back,
then the advanced
mode is for you. Once you turn on advanced
mode you will see other
menu options. You will notice that in advanced
mode, all the fancy
graphics are replaced by simple black and
white. This is to keep
the system focused tightly upon learning your timing
commands that
you will teach it.
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SplitScreen:
This lets you choose Split Screen Mode. To use
this mode you will
need two graphic cards or a dual graphic card, and
your graphic
drivers will have to allow you to show one thing on
one screen and
something totally different on the other
screen. This is the mode
you should use when you are running a projector in
church. This
will allow you to use the features whose job is to
enable you to
eliminate delays and distractions in the
service. If you do not
have a dual display system you should invest in
getting the graphic
card necessary. It costs under a hundred bucks
to get one.
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Preset
your 9 Graphic HotKeys:
This lets you place any picture or movie under each
of the nine
hotkeys that will instantly load such graphic during
a service.
It is available if you have the Pro Level License.
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Welcome
Screen, Title and Idle Mode:
This lets you determine HGO's behavior regarding
what to show when
no song list is loaded, when a song is loaded but
not launched, and
when a song is launched but the first lyric has not
shown yet. It
is available if you have the Pro Level License.
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Keyboard
Shortcuts:
This lets you determine how HGO will respond to
keyboard shortcuts.
You can choose which keys will cause HGO to go
forward one line,
back one line, forward one block and backward one
block. (If you
are in block mode anyway then going one line will
actually go a
whole block segment, whatever fits on the screen.)
This menu option
is available if you have the Pro Level License.
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Mode/Visual: (drops down
to the
menu selections below:)
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Movie Max
Frame
Rate:
With this you can choose the fastest you allow a
movie to play.
Normally a movie will play as fast as the speed at
which it was
recorded, but some machines are not fast enough to
play movies at
full speed in large size while cutting out and
pasting the words
onto each and every frame. Therefore you may
wish to set a maximum
frame rate. In fact, this program has an
automatic adaptive feature
that will set the Max Frame Rate for you if the
computer gets so
busy with the movie that words are coming out late
to the screen.
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Movie
Min Auto
Frame Rate:
This tells the program not to slow automatically
slow the movie
down any slower than a certain point you decide.
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Switch
to Pictures If Movie Too Slow:
This (on by default) tells HGO to switch to using
pictures behind
the words if the minimum auto frame rate has been
reached and the
words are still coming out too late to the screen.
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One Minute
Timer:
By default, HGO will change the background every
minute or so for
the sake of variety. You can change that by
unselecting this menu
option, turning of that feature. In the case
of VMG music there is
a random aspect to this timer making it impossible
to plan any
coordination or synchronization between the graphics
and the music
and words. This is by design, and comes into
play when playing VMG
lyrics power packs. You WILL be able to
synchronize your own music,
just not theirs.
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XXXX
Words on YYYY background:
These are the options for the basic Default Visual
Mode. This is
the setting that will be used when the Welcome
Screen, Title and
Idle Mode settings and corresponding situation call
for the Default
Visual Mode.
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Check
For
New Movies and Pix:
When HGO loads, it makes a list of the graphics
files it finds in
the Pix directory. If the name of the graphic
file does not have
special characters to tell it what list(s) to put it
in, it will
ignore it. (See the format for Graphic
Files.) But what if you
have put new graphic files into the Pix directory
and want to see
how they could best be used? Then you hit this
menu option and it
give you the chance to categorize each file; and it
will even put
the right stuff on the name of the graphic file for
next time.
This is better than making and saving a list of
graphics, because
you can omit a graphic file from general use by
moving it to any
other directory, even if it is one of the graphic
files that came
with the program in the first place.
Furthermore, you will always
know by the name of the file what its best uses are.
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Verse Mode:
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Special
Verse
Display Mode Off:
This sets the Verse Mode to Off, which causes HGO to
show just one
line at a time on the screen, really big, so anyone
can read it
from anywhere in the room.
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Verse Mode Show a
Whole
Block at once:
This sets verse mode to block mode, which shows a
whole block of
words at a time. It will show as large a
section of the verse (or
other type of block) as it can show. When you
tell HGO to go to the
next line it will then show the remaining section of
the verse, or
if it had already been showing the end of the verse
it will show the
next. For a better understanding of how block
mode operates, see
the sections about Song Sequences, or sequences
within each song.
This will be covered in the SongList Format.
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Set
Block
Mode Max Lines:
This lets you set approximately how many lines from
the original
words will show on the screen at a time when you are
in block mode.
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Elapsed Time
Menu
Clock:
You do not get to tell this anything. It tells
you. But when you
are in Split Screen Mode you can click on it to
bring up the CD-
like control panel.
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Push Buttons:
This is the Easy to use, CD-like control
panel. In easy mode you
bring up this control panel by clicking on the
screen. In Split
Screen Mode you bring up this control panel by
clicking on the
Elapsed Time Menu Clock.
These buttons do what you expect, just like on a CD
Player.
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|< Previous:
This plays the previous song in the songlist.
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>| Next:
This plays the next song in the songlist.
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<< Rewind:
This rewinds the CD or sound file a little each time.
(If the file is an OGG file it restarts at the top
of the file.)
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>> FF:
This fast forwards the CD or sound file a little
each time.
(If the file is an OGG file it starts the
next file.)
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Stop:
This Stops the song list from playing.
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Play:
This starts the songlist playing (or pauses it if
playing).
(If the file is an OGG then unpause restarts the
present song.)
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Smaller Words:
Although the font size is under direct control by
HGO in response
to visual mode, line length and block lines, these
latter values
can to some extent be manipulated to accomplish a
resulting change
in font size. This does whatever it has to do
to these other
settings to see that the font size ends up a little
smaller.
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Larger Words:
Although the font size is under direct control by
HGO in response
to visual mode, line length and block lines, these
latter values
can to some extent be manipulated to accomplish a
resulting change
in font size. This does whatever it has to do
to these other
settings to see that the font size ends up a little
larger.
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Hide CD
Controls:
This puts away the CD Control Panel until next time
you need it.
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Advanced Mode:
Ok, so now you're an expert. What next?
I bet you'd like to make
your own song lists and maybe even your own HGO
files. To do the
following things, you will need to Click on the
Mode/Advanced menu.
Don't worry; you can click on Mode/Easy any time, to
get back to the
normal easy mode.
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Making
Your Own Real Time HGO MultiMedia Presentations
NOTE: You DO need a HGO Studio License to prepare a
media package
that includes
the HGO program (shareware distribution) but you do NOT
need a HGO Studio License just to make download
packages that simply
work with
Home Group Overhead! Then you can provide a link to the
HGO program at InspiredCode.net on the net. As
long as you are not
actually including the HGO program itself within
your package then you
do not have to have the HGO Studio License.
There are still some limits
of good taste and such that pertain to what HGO
compatible materials can
be published. Please see the "No Hacking" section in EULA for details.
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Make a Song
List:
Use the File/Make New Song List menu option.
It will help you to make
a song list. If you want to edit an existing
song list, you can use
the File/Edit Existing Song List menu option.
Using wordpad, you get to create a list of
songs. It can contain both
words-only (text files) and HGO files, if you like.
Example:
HarkTheHeraldAndelsSing.txt
AngelsWeHaveHeardOnHigh.hgo
OLittleTownOfBethleham.hgo
SilentNight.txt
WeThreeKings.hgo
Then exit from wordpad, and say yes to save.
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Make an HGO
File:
This is the most impressive thing you can do with
Home Group Overhead.
You can make your own HGO files to play back words
in time to music.
You will need a certain familiarity with your
computer to do so, but
you will find that it is well worth it, and not
really too difficult.
To assure versatility in the process, I am not
making a mentor for
this.
Instead, here is a procedure that you can use, and
please feel free to
go back and change things or take as many tries at
any certain part of
the process as you may desire.
NOTE: For a live worship song, you don't need to
make an HGO file. For
that song you can put the txt file in the song list
instead of an HGO
file (see above regarding Make a Song List).
To Make an HGO file, use the following menu options
in the order shown:
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Record/Select
Music Source:
This menu option guides you in selecting a sound
source.
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File/Select
Lyrics File:
This menu option guides you in selecting a lyrics
file. If you need to
create a lyrics file you can do so in WordPad, then
save it as Lyric.txt
with a "Save-As Type" of "Text Document - MS-DOS
Format". (You should
actually save it as your own file name, that ends in
".txt". I just used
Lyric.txt as an example of that.) Then please
make sure to place that
lyrics text file in your HomeGroupOverhead
directory. After that, you
can use the Select Lyrics File menu option to choose
it.
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Record/Start
Recording:
This menu option lets you start recording the lyric
timing in your HGO
presentation. You can stop recording and start
recording again as you
may need to do. If you mess up, there are some
special features to help
you easily create a perfect presentation anyway.
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Record/Stop
Recording:
This menu option lets you stop recording. Be
aware that this is not
your only option if you mess up. You can also
use the special features
listed below to help you create a perfect
presentation.
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Record/Stop
and Record an Ending:
This menu option lets you stop recording, and it
also puts a special
command into your presentation to stop the sound
from playing back.
This may be useful if you want to use only the first
portion of a sound
recording as your music.
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Record/Remove
any Recorded Ending:
This menu option lets you undo the Recorded Ending
in case you messed
that up.
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Record/Jump
Back 20 Seconds And...:
This menu option lets you jump back while recording,
and you can then do
a certain number of possible things to fix a mistake
you may have made in
recording your HGO file. Please notice the hot
keys associated with the
options under this menu. You can use those hot
keys instead of using the
mouse. I use this special feature a lot!
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File/Save HGO
File:
This menu option lets you save the HGO file you have
recorded. After you
have recorded your HGO file, and you are happy with it,
please save it!
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Q&A.
Q: When will HGO be finished?
A: Never. Without charging for updates per se, HGO
will continue to get
better and better. New features
will be added, convenient new ways of
getting your own stuff done will be
made, so that more and more people
who have less and less computer savvy
may
use this tool to enhance worship
in greater and greater ways.
Q: How do I update my copy of HGO to the most recent version?
A: 1. Make sure you are able to access your
license account
on the net.
2. Download and install the
latest
version.
3. Run your licensing account to
re-license
your copy of HGO.
Q: Why the odd formats like Ogg Vorbis and VP3?
A: Because of software patents on MPEG4 movies and MP3 music
formats,
you could get sued for distributing your
own artwork via MPEG4 or MP3.
These Ogg Vorbis and VP3 formats
are used for the sake of your liberty.
Q: Why does HGO perform a self test when it first runs?
A: Every computer is different. HGO is finding out the best
way to talk to
your own graphic card, to deliver the
best viewing experience available
on your particular machine.
Q: I have a Christian Band. Can I put HGO on my CD for sale?
A: I was hoping you would ask that. If you have the
Studio License, please
contact us about getting your own
StudioID!
Q: Why is the movie slow and choppy when I have HGO running with
a
video
game, another movie playing in winamp and
mozilla running an
internet movie in the background?
A: You're kidding, right? OK, here's the deal. Your
graphic card only has
so much memory and your computer only
has so much time (speed).
The more stuff your computer has to do
at the same time, the slower
everything will be. HGO does a lot
more than merely play a movie. It
has to put halos or shadows around the
words, and put the words on top
of the movie. That is the
equivalent work of showing a few movies at
once already. Add to that all the
stuff you have going on in the
background, and you can slow down any
machine to a crawl.
Furthermore your graphic card having less
free space means less room
for HGO to work in. HGO does what
it has to do to work within the
graphic card space you give it. It
has to make tradeoffs between the
amount of space it uses and how fast it
can perform. All this happens
in the self-test that begins each
session. But you don't have to worry
about all that; just give it an
undistracted computer and it will be happy.
Q: I don't run all that stuff, but I do have lots of icons on the
bottom right
of my screen, and occasionally the movie
stops for a very brief moment.
A: I bet your hard drive light comes on then, too. Your
computer is never
really idle. In addition to the
applications running in the background
such as antivirus, firewall, quickstart
menus, hotkeys and the like, your
computer also has many services running
in the background as well. One
of those services is an indexing service
that makes it a little quicker to
search your hard drive for files.
Turning off that service helps a little,
and results in not much more search time
when you use the Start Menu
search feature. You can turn off
indexing service by clicking Start,
Search, For Files or Folders, (Change
Preferences), Indexing
Service.
No do not enable, OK, File, Close.
This is
the service that interferes
with smooth operation of other programs
most often.
There are others.
If you will be running this computer as
primary display
software for your
church, you may want to have a computer
geek come and turn
off as
many of the unnecessary services and
background programs as
possible.
Most groups have at least one computer
geek
as a member these days.
He should make a list of those services
he
turns on and off, so if he turns
off a necessary one he can retrace his
steps. (NEVER turn off RPC!).
As always, anything you decide to do
with your computer is your own
responsibility and I will not be held
accountable for your actions.
You may also want to check out the "Make
Action Smoother" menu in
HGO's program menu. (Your mileage
may vary.)
Q: I think I found a bug. When I do such
and such, it does thus and so.
A: It would be shocking for ANY program over 36 thousand
lines of code
to have no surprises whatsoever.
Nonetheless, we take seriously any and
all bug reports. To make yours as
useful as possible, please do the
following:
1. Check to make sure you have the
latest version.
2. Update to the latest
version if
need be and recheck the bug.
3. Tell us step by step how to
reproduce the problem so we can
catch it
in the act. Tell us what it does and how that differs from
what you
expect it to do. Some behavior might be what we intend
but we did
a bad job of describing what we were trying to achieve.
4. Check your junk folders for our
reply over the next several weeks.
If we
never respond, please write again to include your phone number.
Remember, this is a work in
progress, and our goal is to make something
useful. Perfection may
elude everyone but that won't stop us from trying.
Q: I found a feature described in the manual that is
not implemented yet in
the program. How soon can I expect
it to be put in so that I can use it?
A: Very soon. The manual serves as the specification
for HGO's on-going
development, but the lag time from spec to
inclusion is very short. I
have plenty of really cool things in
mind for the near future, but those
are not even mentioned yet. The
things I do mention are being worked
on right now even as we speak. The
updated manual and program are
usually released together, but on rare
occasions the manual may reveal
something that is about to be
updated in the program.
Q: Why does your software cooperate with free
software (and codecs),
yet it
is not itself free?
A: The same thing drives both the Free Software Movement and the
HGO
ShareWareMusic
Paradigm:
respect for liberty.
HGO seeks to
support the rights of worship artists to ask a fair wage for
their work.
Some folks are very generous to make things for free (and
I've done it
too). But working for free should never be forced on anyone.
I have worked for
years to provide an option for paying the artist, not just
the big
companies. HGO's proprietary license and closed source are
designed to make
it harder for artists' rights to be stolen by mean spirited
hackers. This
is our own way of working for freedom.
o
Final Comments.
o
You can
use this program in several different ways:
1. Play CDs that HGO knows. Some CDs will come
with HGO on it, and
there are HGO packages you can
download for other CDs. Let your
favorite worship band know about
HGO and ask them to make a
download package to cover their
own CDs.
2. Load Live Worship Text Files and advance the
words yourself.
Over 300 hymns and carols are
included with the program. You can
copy and paste simple text files
of lyrics and edit them to label
the verses and choruses. (If
you make packages for others you
ought to make sure you have
permission from the song authors or
the folks who own or license the
song lyrics.)
3. Load Words with Music presentations called HGO
files. HGO files
show you the words in time to the music, while
music plays.
Each HGO file launches its own matching CD song or
sound file.
Several Vineyard CDs are already
covered by this, and the list
of CDs covered is growing. Most HGO files
come with CDs so you
can just play the CDs and enjoy them.
4. Load Song List files that you can control just
like a CD player.
The Song List has a group of HGO
files you can select to run
or just let it keep playing like a
CD. You can "rip" all your
CDs into the CD2Audio folder and then create one
really HUGE
songlist that can play for days, like some
multimedia radio
station showing nothing but your favorite worship
music!
5. Create and use your own Worship Text Files for
live worship.
This way you can add lots of songs
of your own.
6. Record HGO files to fit your own CD songs (or
sound files).
To do this, first either have the
sound file or CD present.
(The sound file can be various
things like Wave, OGG or Ogg.)
7. Create your own song list that contains HGO
files, text files
or both. You can make a song
list to go with Sunday morning's
worship set, a certain CD or
various choice selections for your
next anointed sing along party!
It's easy to advance the words for
live worship. Hit the down
page key to go forward one line.
Hit the up page key to go back
one line. Hit a number key
to jump to that verse. Hit the C
key to jump to chorus. If
you have more than one chorus you
can hit the D key to go to the
second chorus and so on.
You don't have to make an HGO file just
to do live music. But
for prerecorded music you'll find
out how easy it is! You pick
your music and start. You
get to see the whole song in front of
you and you click on the line
that's about to be sung. When it's
played back, just that line will
be seen really big on the screen
so everyone can see it from
wherever they are in the room. The
program will help you through that
process.
So, please explore the menu and have
fun. You've got 40 days to
play with it for free.
And after that it's not that expensive
to register!
Please check http://InspiredCode for
updates and other HGO files!
I may be the first but I certainly
won't be the last to create HGO
files. If your favorite music
group doesn't already have HGO files
that you can download to go with
their CDs, please write to them
and let them know you want
them! You can tell them about the
wonderful resources available to them
with a Studio License, and
also about how they could actually
encode their CD using less of a
license.
o
I
invite your comments: OverTheTop at inspired
code dot net.
(Replace the word dot with a period,
replace at with the at sign and
smoosh everything together
into one word.)
o
Here are some
Credits for this software package:
Many
thanks...
To Jesus for giving me life, twice, and
making this all worth while.
To Claire my wonderful help mate for
sharing this dream with me.
To the brothers of thunder, Ken and
Brian Slezak, for so much.
To everyone at my three home churches
(you know who you are).
Credits
for open source software:
This
package commands (invokes from a distance by command line) the
following open source
packages:
Cd2OggPc:
(This package is also documented within its
installation file).
This package uses AkRip, which may not always work with all
kinds of optical drives, so you may need to use CDEX instead.
7zip (http://7-zip.org):
(1) I used parts of the 7-Zip program
(2) 7-Zip is licensed under the GNU LGPL license
(3) Link: www.7-zip.org, where the
source code can be found.
The two programs above are
merely bundled with HGO,
included for free,
for your convenience, so you
don't have to go fetch them to use them
with HGO.
You can find all source code and
binaries via the sites. If you
ever must delete
HGO for any legal reasons, you
may copy these two utilities to a safe
place, or
better yet, simply log on to the
specified source sites and fetch them
afresh.
CDEX is now the best method of ripping CDs and
converting
audio formats. This program is not actually bundled with HGO,
but HGO does call out to it (via command line), and also
provides you a web link to find it if you don't yet have it.
Credits
for media:
Here are the credits and attributions
for the main pictures found
in C:\HomeGroupOverhead\Pix
Images
used by permission:
(Use only with this software program):
afterwards50_n: "Afterwards", a
painting by Roberta
McFarland
boots.jpg: a photo I took of Ken
Dugan's HD bike and boots.
Copyrighted Compilations of Images from
the Public Domain:
(Use only with this software program):
I created a derivative work called
"faces" (faces.jpg) from the
following public domain images
that I list below:
Face of
God from "Creation of Adam", Sistine Chapel
ceiling (I also touched it up to remove some cracks)
"The Good Shepherd" by Bernhard
Plockhorst
"Suffer the Little Children to come unto Me"
by Bernhard Plockhorst
"The return of the Prodigal Son"
by Bartolome Esteban Murillo
"Clouds" from: Copyright Free Photos.com
I do claim and reserve all
rights for this derivative work.
Images in the Public Domain: (use at your own risk):
I got the following
images from the public domain and have done
a little formatting and in some
cases some touch up; these images
(as provided separately herein)
are in the Public Domain:
001x thru 066x (jpgs); Hubbel
telescope images via NASA
Earthx (jpg); doctored up Earth from
space via NASA / STScl
line0394.jpg: from NOAA
(NOAA = US
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration)
"heart": Sacred Heart of Jesus,
traditional 19th century.
line0037.jpg: from NOAA
noaa6222.jpg: from NOAA
seed.jpg: (CRCH1_fr.jpg) US Fish and
Wildlife Service
flynight: (fly00077): NOAA
city: (line0057): NOAA
doves: (anim0437): NOAA
dore: (Empyrean illustration from
Divine Comedy)
by Gustave Dore
(before 1889)
vine: (Image%20Grape-vine.jpg.htm):
Wikimedia Commons
muriprod: "The return of the
Prodigal Son"
by Bartolome Esteban
Murillo
ZoomBow: (Line2111): NOAA
EyeOfGod: NASA Hubbel
BlocResu: "The Resurrection" by
Carl Bloch
DeerFire.jpg: US Forest Service
frngcros: "Christ under the cross" by
Nicolo Frangipane
dykecros: "Christ on the cross" by
Anthony Van Dyke
murihold: "Behold the man"
by
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
All other images not listed herein are
either used by permission or
else I have created them. In
either case you may NOT use them
with anything but this software
program. (That pertains especially
to the movie files contained
within this software product). Such
media files not listed herein are
copyrighted, all rights reserved!
The song "The Face" is by Robison
Bryan aka InspiredCode.net
and it is copyrighted; all rights
are reserved. Neither its performance
nor the multimedia sequenced
performance thereof may be recorded
or distributed without
author's prior written permission.
(Please note the nature and limits of
written permission already
given above for
distributing the shareware distribution.)
Here are the Credits and Attributions
and Licensing Details for the
Christmas Photos found in
C:\HomeGroupOverhead\Pix\Xmas
Each
of the following images is
licensed under
Creative Commons
Attribution 2.0 to 2.5 License
(and on the net at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)
(You can verify
each status for
yourself by
visiting links in WikiPedia Commons).
CM15_d = Christmas_bauble.jpg
Description: Christmas bauble
Source: This image was originally posted to Flickr as [1]
Date: 2004-12-05 19:07:57
Author: rdesai
CM13_d
=
Christmas_Decoration_Outdoors.jpg
Photographer:
Kevin
Wen from Dallas, United States
Title: Outdoor
Christmas decorations
Taken on: 2004-12-08
20:09:38
CM12_d = Christmas_tree_at_night.jpg
& Christmas_tree_with_candles.jpg
This picture is used
in a composite,
the other half of which is for any public use.
To use this
composite or this
portion of it you must follow the attribution license.
Christmas_tree_at_night.jpg
Description: Our
Christmas tree at
night.
Source: This image
was originally
posted to Flickr as tree
Date: 2004-12-18
01:15:13
Author: Dean Beeler
CM10_d =
Clifton_Mill_Christmas_2005.JPG
Clifton Mill in
Clifton,
Ohio is the site of
this Christmas
display with over 3.5 million lights.
The water source is
the Little Miami
River.
Photographer: Matt
Kozlowski
CM06_b = Iced-tree-limbs-in-sun.jpg
Two apple trees,
frozen by a snow
storm that occurred on the night
of February 16,
2006. Self-made
photo, licensed under CC-By-2.5.
Credit: Jake N.
CM03_d = Miniature_December.jpg
Description/Source:
This image was
originally posted to Flickr as 100_1520
Date: 2003-12-24
16:37:06
Author: Joseph Zollo
from Marietta,
GA, United States of America
CM01_b = White-Christmas-1775.jpg
Photographer: Jacob
Windham from
Mobile, USA
Title:
White-Christmas-1775
Taken on: 2004-12-09
04:39:33
Original source:
Flickr.com
CM16_d = Christmas_Arizona_USA.jpg
Description:
HonankiSite_Sinegua_Arizona_USA
Source: This image
was originally
posted to Flickr as Christmas Reflexions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxicat/2474742/
Date: 2005-12-20
Author: foxicat
Each of the
following images is
given to be
used freely for any purpose by copyright holder.
(You can verify
each status for
yourself by
visiting links in WikiPedia Commons).
CM14_b = Christmas_Decoration.jpg
Description:
Christmas decoration
Photographer:
saflora a.k.a Sabine
Simon
Source: stock.xchng
*** Christmas_tree_with_candles.jpg
This picture is used
in a composite,
the other half of which is
licensed under
Creative Commons
Attribution license.
To use this portion
without
attribution you must remove
the other portion
from this portion.
Christmastree
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=233403
Uploaded by: baikahl
(|)
on Jan 1, 2005
Usage: Royalty free,
no restrictions
CM02_d = Snowstorm.jpg
Image of a snowstorm
in Cleveland,
Ohio
Copyright Yvette
Cendes, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andromeda321
The copyright holder
allows anyone
to use it for any purpose.
CM07_b = Gold_Christmas_tree_decoration.jpg
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=233605
ornament detail
detail of christmas
ornament
Uploaded by: kmac (|)
on Dec 29, 2004
Usage: Royalty free
Each
of the following images is in
the public
domain because its copyright has expired.
(or because
the author has expressly
donated it to the public domain).
(You can verify
each status for
yourself by
visiting links in WikiPedia Commons).
CM18_b
= Carl_Larsson_Brita_as_Iduna.jpg
& Carl_Larsson_Christmas_Morning_1894.jpg
*Carl_Larsson_Brita_as_Iduna.jpg
Creator Name: Carl
Larsson
Date of birth:
1853-05-28
Location of birth:
Stockholm
Date of death:
1919-01-22
Location of death:
Falun
(expired into PD)
*Carl_Larsson_Christmas_Morning_1894.jpg
Creator Name: Carl
Larsson
Date of birth:
1853-05-28
Location of birth:
Stockholm
Date of death:
1919-01-22
Location of death:
Falun
(expired into PD)
CM17_b = Christmarkt.jpg
Christmas Market in
Nürnberg,
Germany
Lithography from the
19th century.
Germanisches
Nationalmuseum,
Nürnberg, Germany
(expired into PD)
CM09_d = Esaias_van_de_Velde_001.jpg
Creator Name: Velde,
Esaias van de
Date of birth: 1590
Location of birth:
Amsterdam
Date of death:
1630-11-18
Location of death:
Den Haag
Work location:
Haarlem, Den Haag
CM08_d =
Franz_Skarbina_Weihnachtsmarkt_Berlin.jpg
Creator Name:
Skarbina, Franz
Date of birth:
1849-02-24
Location of birth:
Berlin
Date of death:
1910-05-18
Location of death:
Berlin
CM04_b =
Julaftonen_av_Carl_Larsson_1904.jpg
Creator Name: Carl
Larsson
Date of birth:
1853-05-28
Location of birth:
Stockholm
Date of death:
1919-01-22
Location of death:
Falun
CM11_b =
Christmas_tree_in_Texas.jpg
&
Weihnachtsbaum_und_Geschenke_1970er.jpg
*Christmas_tree_in_Texas.jpg
A Christmas tree in
a home in Texas.
Photograph taken by
User:Angr in
December 1997.
(released into PD)
*Weihnachtsbaum_und_Geschenke_1970er.jpg
Weihnachtsbaum und
Geschenke (mit
Bobbycar),
Deutschland, Mitte
der 1970er Jahre
Weihnachtsbaum_und_Geschenke_1970er.jpg.htm
(released into PD)
CM05_d =
Johansen_Viggo_-_Radosne_Boze_Narodzenie.jpg
Happy Christmas,
paint by Johansen
Viggo;
Radosne Boże
Narodzenie, obraz
Johansena Viggo
Author: Johansen
Viggo
The Top
Welcome
GENERAL
DESCRIPTION
Home
Use: Is
your Home a House
of Worship?
Personal,
Family, Home Group
Many
CDs
Demo
Button
Like a CD
Player
Playing
Disc Jockey
Church
Use: Is your House
of Worship a Home?
Benefits...
What's it good for?
Here are a few Highlights
Methods
(how do we use it?)
First
Answer
Second
Answer
Basic
Building Blocks (and members) of a
Service
Song List
Person in
Charge of the Order of Service
Format of SongList is simple
An
Easy way to
go
Main
Worship Leader
Song
Sequence
Instant
SongList
Song Lyric
Files (.txt)
Projectionist
Special
Baseball Signs
HGO
File
Karaoke "Special Music"
Graphics
Files
APPENDIX
User
License (End User
License Agreement)
Home
Group Overhead Directory Structure
SPECIAL PLACES (FOLDERS) TO USE:
Custom
Import
OutBasket
PLACES WHERE YOU FIND SONG FILES:
SongPool
Hymns
PLACES FOR GRAPHICS, WEB AND
POWERPOINT:
Pix
Web
Pages
PowerPoint
PLACES
WHERE YOU
FIND SONGLISTS:
Albums
Services
PlayLists
Dates
PLACES
WHERE YOU
FIND SOUNDFILES:
SoundFiles
CD2Audio
SECRET
PLACES WHERE HGO HIDES THINGS:
Boiler
PP1-99
(PowerPacks 1 - 99)
PP100-
VMGPP
File
Formats
Audio
File Formats
Graphic
File Formats
Dolly
File Format
General Commands
within Files
Lyrics File Format
In the Header
Sequence
Indicators in the
Lyrics
HGO
File Format
SongList File
Format
Importing
Your Own Files
Patent Note
Making Your
Own SongLists
Menu
Structure and PushButtons
Menu
Structure
File
Load
Today's
Service
Load SongList
Load HGO File
Load
Lyrics
File (.txt For Live Worship)
Edit Existing
SongList
Make
New
SongList
Save HGO File
Change
Program Name on Blue Stripe
Change
Running Location on Blue Stripe
Register Home
Group Overhead
Change
Registration of Home Group Overhead
Register
PowerPacks
Exit
Try
This CD!
Eject CD
SongList
Load
Song
List ( F12 )
Jump To Song
Number ( F2 )
Play Song
List ( F3 )
Stop Playing
Song List ( F4 )
Jump
To First
Song ( F5 )
Jump To
Previous Song ( F6 )
Jump
To Next
Song ( F7 )
Jump
To Last
Song ( F8 )
Help
Instructions
(This Manual)
About
The
HGO EULA (HGO End User License Agreement)
Demo
Button (This plays the demo song that came with HGO program)
Mode
Easy
Advanced
SplitScreen
Preset Your
Nine Graphic HotKeys
Welcome
Screen, Title and Idle Mode
Keyboard
Shortcuts
Visual
Movie
Max Frame Rate
Movie
Min Auto
Frame Rate
Switch
to Pictures If Movie Too Slow
One
Minute Timer
XXXX Words
on YYYY BackGround
Check For
New Movies and Pix
Verse
Mode
Special
Verse Mode OFF
Block
at Once (show a whole block
or block segment)
Set
BlockMode MaxLines (how many lines shown
in block segment)
Elapsed
Time Clock
Push
Buttons
Previous
Next
Rewind
Fast Forward
Stop
Play
Smaller Words
Larger Words
Hide CD
Controls
Advanced
Mode
Making
Your Own
Real-Time HGO MultiMedia Presentations
Make a
Song List
Make an
HGO File
Record/Select
Music Source
File/Select
Lyrics File
Record/Start
Recording
Record/Stop
Recording
Record/Stop
and Record an Ending
Record/Remove
any Recorded Ending
Record/Jump
Back 20 Seconds And...
File/Save
HGO File
Q&A
Final
Comments
You
can use
this Program in
several different ways
Not
4 Potted Meat Products
Some
Credits