I hear you on those reasons WorshipTrench. You have exercised the features of PPoint that few have dared go near.
We still use PPoint for our sermon notes each week. We may be going to Keynote soon, its the Apple "equivalent." I like the presenter mode in PPoint better than Keynote '05 so I am sticking with it for now.
We use two cmputers for CG source on a normal Sunday for now. We have the ability to do the same thigns on both for redundancy, although, fortunately so far, we haven't had to go there. Normally we use one for worship and the sermon notes in ProPresenter and PPoint respectively. We use the other computer for ProVideoPlayer and iTunes.
All images and video content come from PVP. I highly reccomend it, it is also made by Renewed Vision. It allows the click whereever and fire whenever interface like Pro. The real icing on the cake for it is its live editing mode though. You can force transitions & mixes, sort by playlist, change play rate, set videos to loop, palindrome, stop on end, or fire the next at the endpoint. All those features are nice, although not exclusive. What sets it apart is its 'live edit' mode. While a video is live on playback creens you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and cycle through the color spectrum in turn tinting ur video output. When used right it can make for great integration of video and still image content. (Not to mention it works great as an audio player at the same time.)
Well, I am falling asleep, more on this later,
Travis
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