ProPresenter Stream Output: Dedicated Live Stream Graphics & Audio

If your church live streams while running ProPresenter for worship, here’s a goal worth chasing: the stream should get its own version of every graphic — lower-third lyrics instead of full-screen, clean scripture references, no motion background muddying the shot — without anyone doing double work.

ProPresenter 7 can generate exactly that. While your operator clicks through songs and sermon notes once, a dedicated stream output produces the stream-friendly version of everything automatically. No second operator re-clicking slides. One click, two outputs, both right.

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One Machine, Two Versions of Every Graphic

The model looks like this: the main ProPresenter machine generates the audience graphics and the stream graphics. The stream layer travels to wherever your stream is assembled — a video switcher over a physical output, or another computer over NDI — and stays active the whole service. When it’s set up correctly, the right content simply appears: lyrics as lower thirds, scriptures as clean references, or nothing at all when the stream should be graphics-free.

You might still want a person watching the stream and firing stream-specific content — announcements, pre-service loops. But that’s a monitoring job, not a re-clicking-every-lyric job. It can even be triggered from a Stream Deck by your main operator.

Create the Stream Output Screen

Head to Screens → Configure Screens. You’ll see your main output and stage display already there; click the plus to add a new screen and name it Stream Output. Use the identify button liberally — it flashes each screen so you know exactly which physical display is which.

That new screen needs a destination: either a physical output (HDMI to your switcher) or NDI, which sends the video over your network to the streaming computer. We’ll come back to which one in a minute, because there’s a transparency wrinkle.

Looks Do the Heavy Lifting

The magic is in Screens → Edit Looks. A Look decides what each screen shows: my worship look sends full lyrics to the main screen but a lower third to the stream output — with media disabled, so the motion background never reaches the stream. For sermon content I run three looks — full-screen graphics, notes, and scriptures (the scripture reference as a lower-third label).

Then macros apply the right look automatically: drag the worship macro onto the first slide of every song, the sermon macros onto the teaching slides, and the operator never thinks about it again. Click the song — everything switches.

This is exactly the system that ships pre-built in my ProPresenter Quick Start Template — the multiview layouts, the looks, and the macros for worship, sermon notes, and stream content, ready to install into your Documents folder ($65.99). It’s the fastest way to have this working by Sunday, though I’d still watch the video so you understand why it works, not just that it works.

NDI, Alpha Key, and the HDMI Chroma Trick

If your stream output goes over NDI, enable Alpha Key on it — the graphics layer becomes genuinely transparent, so your streaming computer or switcher overlays it on the camera shot cleanly.

If the alpha key option isn’t showing up, that’s your clue: the output is probably assigned to HDMI, and HDMI can’t carry an alpha channel. For a physical output you use the classic trick instead — a chroma key. ProPresenter sends the graphics over a green background, and the switcher keys the green out.

The Audio Side: Don’t Loop Back Into Your Console

Graphics are half the job. If the same computer runs your lyrics and your stream, the audio path needs one rule enforced: audio coming into the computer from your console must not go back out to that console when you play a video.

The full audio walkthrough: Setup LIVE Stream Audio IN and OUT of ProPresenter.

Open ProPresenter Settings → Audio and the page splits into three sections:

• Inspector — where preview audio plays when you’re setting in/out points on a file. Point it at your built-in speakers so previewing never blasts the sound system.
• Main — where videos and music actually go. Skip “system settings” and assign your interface directly (an X32 shows up as X-USB, with all 32 channels available in the routing matrix). Sources on the left, destination channels on top — send ProPresenter’s channels exactly where your console expects them.
• SDI/NDI — audio embedded in those outputs, if you’re using a DeckLink or sending audio over NDI.

Two extras live in the Main section that solve real Sunday problems: a volume control, and a delay of up to 1,500 milliseconds — which is how you fix audio arriving ahead of video on the stream.

The Recap

Create a dedicated stream output screen, let looks generate the stream version of every graphic automatically, send it over NDI with alpha key (or HDMI with chroma), and route your audio so the stream gets a clean feed that never loops back to the console. One operator, one click, every output right.

Related

• Why Your Church Live Stream Audio Sounds Bad (and How to Fix It)
• ProPresenter Screen Setup for Church: Get Your Displays Working Right
• ATEM Switchers for Church Live Streaming: The Complete Guide

More ProPresenter and streaming training on my YouTube channel: Youtube.com/@CrazyAmazingDesigns.