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Four things before the band arrives, one button during, two after. That is the whole job. Everything happens on the Control Panel, the small bar sitting on top of whatever else is on your screen. The Control Panel: a small bar with a Start button, a microphone level meter, and a green Ready button The Control Panel: a small bar with a Start button, a microphone level meter, and a green Ready button

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Before the band arrives

1

Open ScreenShepherd

It may already be open. Look for the Control Panel, or for the ScreenShepherd icon in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
2

Open ProPresenter and put your first song up

ScreenShepherd follows whatever is on screen, so it needs something to follow.
3

Check the Control Panel says Ready

Ready, in green, at the right-hand end of the bar.If it says Starting, give it a moment. If it says Needs attention, click it. A short list appears saying which of Audio input, ProPresenter and Listening is the problem. Take that to When something looks wrong.
4

Try one line

Press Start. Sing or say a line into the vocal microphone and watch the slide move.Press Stop, put the slide back to the beginning, and you are ready.

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During the service

Press Start on the Control Panel when the band is ready. It becomes Stop. That is how you know it is on. Now drive ProPresenter exactly as you always have. Anything you do there is respected straight away, and you never have to tell ScreenShepherd first. Press Stop at the end of the last song.
You can start and stop without leaving ProPresenter. The ScreenShepherd icon in the menu bar has Start / Stop Listening in it.

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If it changes song on its own

If it picked the wrong song, choose the right one in ProPresenter. It follows you straight away, and it will leave that song alone for a while.

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After the service

1

Press Stop

On the Control Panel. This is the one that matters.
2

Quit ScreenShepherd

Menu bar icon → Quit ScreenShepherd.Worth doing rather than leaving it open all week. It keeps recording while it is open, and that builds up on the computer.
If anything odd happened, write down roughly what time it was. That timestamp is what lets someone find the moment afterwards and put it right.

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What gets kept

Each service is saved on the computer as a record of what happened: which songs, how long, how many times the slide moved. None of your lyrics are in it, and neither is anything said in the talk. There is nothing to save or send: a copy goes to your church’s account by itself once the service is over. There is more detail in Privacy.