ProPresenter comes with the powerful ability to output to multiple screens at once. In a large production setup, these outputs would normally go through a video system that is connected to a dedicated multiviewer for the video director to see and monitor. However, a multiviewer isn't always available to the ProPresenter operator, or you may only want to see the outputs from ProPresenter and none of the other sources. You may also not even have a multiviewer available, depending on how your system is setup.

Luckily, ProPresenter makes this really easy to setup! You will be able to assign the Multiview to any available output by the end of this article.

To get started, open the Screen Configuration window by selecting Screens > Configure Screens from the top menu bar. If you have any other questions about screen configuration, click here to take a look at the Screen Configuration section of the User Guide.

Click the + next to Stage to add a new Stage screen. When you click the plus button, you will be prompted to choose an output. You can choose New Placeholder or any other available output. You do not want to choose one of the outputs that you're already using for a different screen. You can choose any size output that you want, but we recommend keeping it at 1920x1080, unless you are going to be outputting to a monitor with a higher resolution.

After you have added the new screen, you can change the name by double clicking on the screen title at the top of this window, or you can right click on the screen name from the left hand side, right click and select Rename. In the example below, the name has been changed to "Multiview", so that it is easy to identify in other areas of the program. Once the stage screen is created, you can close the Screen Configuration window.

To create the actual Multiview, you will be creating a new Stage Layout. Click the More button in the toolbar and select Stage Editor.

Click the + at the top of the Stage Layouts thumbnails on the left side of the Editor to add a new layout and select Blank.

With the Blank layout selected, you can rename it by clicking twice on the label under the thumbnail on the left, or from the Layout properties column on the right.

Now that you have a blank layout, you can create the actual multiview of all of your outputs. Click on the Add Object button and choose Screen Preview. You will see all of your available Screens listed here. Select the first screen that you want to add to the multiview.

After you add a Screen Preview object, you will need to resize the object and place it on your screen. Once you have all the desired Screen Preview objects added to the layout, you can customize the layout to best suit your workflow. Multiviews typically have a white grid to help separate all of the inputs and make it easier to see the sources. In ProPresenter, you can achieve a similar result by adding a Stroke around the Screen Preview objects. Repeat this step for each screen that you want to place on the Multiview layout. You can size each Screen Preview and place it anywhere on the layout.

The image below shows a completed layout with four screen previews all set to equally divide a 1920x1080 screen. Each preview is 960x540 and has a 10 point white Stroke applied. The alignment tool was used to align each preview to the correct edges. You may also want to add a Text object and place it somewhere over each Screen View, so that you have the name of each output when you're viewing the layout. Traditionally, the label is centered along the bottom edge of the preview on a Multiviewer and uses white text on a semi-transparent background. However, you can create the label in any way you want.

In order to see your Multiview layout, you need to assign it to the Stage screen you wish to view this layout on. Click on the Screens menu in the menu bar, choose your Stage screen, then choose the layout you created.

You're ready to take a look at your Multiview! To preview the stage screen output with your multiview, exit the Stage Editor by clicking on the Show button in the toolbar. Click on the menu below the Preview window to switch to your Multiview screen. If you have assigned Multiview to an external display or an NDI output, you should be able to see the layout on that output, as long as the Stage output has been enabled (it should have a green dot above it).

This image below shows the Multiview as an NDI output. Labels have been added to each view, as well. As you can see, the labels on the Multiview overlap what is being shown on each Screen Preview. If you don't want this to happen, you can change the size of your Screen Preview objects or place your labels at the top.

The top-left is showing the Audience screen. This shows what is being shown on the main audience screens. The top-right is showing the Live Stream output with the alternate Theme that has been applied in the Looks window. The bottom-left shows the Stage Screen with a Current + Next stage layout for the band to see. The bottom-right is showing the System Clock.

Since you can generate multiple Stage Layouts, you can create more than one Multiview! If you need to setup different views for other people to see, just repeat this process as many times as necessary. Keep in mind that each additional screen requires additional processing power, so while ProPresenter doesn't limit the number of screens you can use, your hardware may limit this.