This article is Part Three of a series of articles on using timers on Audience Screens and Stage Screens. Since all of these features are connected to each other, each article makes references to things covered in other articles. Use the links below to navigate between each part of this series.

Part One: Setting up Timers in ProPresenter 7

Part Two: How to Create a Countdown for an Audience Screen

Part Three: You're reading it!

The final part of the series is adding timers to your stage screen. These timers may be independent of the ones shown on your audience screens, or they may run simultaneously.
 

Timers on a stage layout use Linked Text, so you already know how to add these timers. This article will cover a few additional options for how timers are shown that we haven't discussed yet, which are more useful for the stage screen than the audience screen; however, you can still use these options for audience screens.

To get started, click on the More menu (with the three dots) and click on Stage Editor.
 

Select an existing stage layout or create a new blank layout. We make adding timers a little bit easier on stage layouts by pre-building Timer objects, but they are still created with a text box and linked text, so you can edit them the same way after adding them. System Clock uses your computer's clock to display the current time, and Video Countdown runs while a video is playing.
 

There aren't any new Timer options in the Stage Editor, so we won't spend any more time on them. Refer back to Part 2 of this series if you need more info on how the Timers options work.

One setting for Timers that we didn't cover in Part 2 is Color Triggers. This setting lets you have your timer change colors at specific times. If you are using a Countdown or Countdown To Time timer, then the colors will change as the time goes down to zero. If you are using an Elapsed Time timer, then the colors will change as the time increases for each selected time.

Click the + button next to Color Triggers. The values are in minutes:seconds.milliseconds by default. However, you can add hours to the triggers by adding an additional number followed by a colon. 1:00.00 would become 1:01:00.00 if you need to add an hour to the timer.

In the example below, the timer will change to orange at 1 minute, yellow at 30 seconds, and red for the final 10 seconds. If the timer is set to allow overrun, the final color (in this case, red) will remain the timer's color. If you set a color trigger for 0:00.00, the time would change colors at that point and remain that color while the overrun timer is still running.

The System Clock lets you include the date, change the time format, and switch to a 24-hour clock.

The Video Countdown will only run when a video is playing. There are no additional unique settings for this timer, so everything you already know about Format and Color Triggers applies here.

However, we will use the Video Countdown to cover Visibility. You can use Visibility throughout the program for audience or stage screen content. We'll look at it specifically in terms of now having the Video Countdown on the stage layout the entire time, since it may only be used once or twice during a service or event.

With the Video Countdown object selected, click on the Shape tab. Check the box next to Visibility. For our purposes, there's no need to change the object shown when the value. We're only adding one value, and we want the Video Countdown to be shown when the condition is met. From the first menu, select Video Countdown. From the second, select Is playing. This will show or hide the Video Countdown object from the stage screen output, depending on whether a Video Countdown is active. This can be useful when you want to overlap some objects on a layout to make better use of the screen. You can use Visibility in a variety of ways to control what objects are shown based on various conditions being met.