Preparing a sermon presentation

Once logged in to Deepen Studio, you can begin preparing a sermon via the New Sermon button.

The sermon editor screen will appear with a new blank sermon. To prepare your sermon, you have the following options:

Top left menu

Go back - Click the Deepen icon to go back to the dashboard. Your changes are auto-saved.
Select Date - Choose the date and time of your service/event from regular weekly services or set a custom date.
Select Series - Choose which sermon series this sermon is part of. Learn more about categorising sermons.
Status - Sermon stats will default to draft status, this means only you can see it and it will not appear in the Deepen mobile app. You’ll change the status when you’re ready to publish your sermon, or if you ever want to archive it.

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Select speaker - Who will be preaching? You can select an existing speaker or add a new speaker from the dropdown list. This information is displayed in the Deepen mobile app.
YouTube Live - Connect your YouTube Live Stream.
Slide Sync - This feature is coming soon! Presently, all slides become visible in the Deepen mobile app at the time the sermon is scheduled to go live.

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Branding Theme - Either use your organisation’s master settings (you can set these up in Dashboard > Settings), or select Custom Settings for this sermon only.
Highlight Colour - Choose a colour that is used for highlights on your slides
Heading font - Select from a list of curated fonts for the headings on your slides
Body text font - Select from a list of curated fonts for the text content on your slides
Overlay - Choose dark or light overlay style for your slide backgrounds. The overlay is positioned over the background photo to ensure readability of slide content. Learn more about using the slide builder.

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Add your slides and content using the slide builder. See using the slide builder for full details.

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Send Feedback - We value all feedback. Please use this option to report bugs, blockers or any ideas you may have. We aim to fix bugs promptly, and will consider feature suggestions.
Present - This dropdown menu provides 2 options:

Preview - See how your your sermon will look as a slideshow, in the Deepen mobile app, and in speaker notes view
Full screen - this will launch the slideshow in full screen mode. See Presenting your slides to a projector screen for more information.

Note: You may also use Full Screen mode to screen share your slideshow over an online meeting platform such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet.

Import - You can import slides from another presentation tool such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote
Export - You can export your slide deck and import it into another presentation tool.

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