Map your room with Venue
Watch the one-minute demo, then draw your room, drag each screen to where it hangs, compare real sizes, add the people and lights, walk the room in 3D, and keep a venue for every building.
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Venue is a live map of your church. Each screen is drawn at its real size and placed where it hangs, so you can see at a glance what the congregation will see, and check the back row before anyone arrives. It lives in the header, right after Flow.
Open Venue
Click Venue in the header. The number beside it is how many screens the venue holds. Venue opens on the Venue tab, with the plan on the left and your screens listed on the right.
Read the 2D plan
The plan shows the room from the front. The Main Screen hangs above the platform and the Stage Screen faces the band. Each block shows the screen's name, its resolution and aspect ratio, and whether it is live, blacked out or on standby. The panel on the right lists every screen by where it is: left, centre, right, in the lobby or at home.
Put each screen where it hangs
- If the venue is locked, press Edit in the bar above the plan. A saved venue opens locked so nobody moves the room by accident.
- Drag a screen to where it hangs in your room. The position is kept for this venue.
- Click a screen to see its details: resolution, aspect ratio, its share of all the pixels you drive, and the display it runs on. Rulers show its width and height on the plan.
- Under Real size, enter the screen's real width and height in metres or inches, so the proportions are true to the wall.
- For the Stage Screen, turn it with the turn controls until it faces the band.
Compare sizes side by side
Open the Sizes tab to line every screen up side by side, with a ruler underneath. Switch between Pixels and Real size: pixels shows how much picture each screen gets, real size shows how big it is on the wall, and the line under the screens tells you how wide they are together.
Add people, band and lights
Press Edit venue in the bar under the plan. The side panel lists what you can place, under People, Band, Church, Lighting and Production. Drag an item onto the floor, then click it to choose its style and colour, change its size and height, turn it, duplicate it or delete it. The Venue tab in the same panel shapes the room itself.
Walk the room in 3D
Switch to 3D to walk through the room as a person would. Drag to look around, scroll to zoom, and use the hand to slide the view. From stage shows the room the way the singers see it. Stand in the back row and check that the lyrics are readable from there. Switch back to 2D for the flat plan.
| Action | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| Flat plan (2D) | 2 |
| 3D walk-through | 3 |
| Edit the venue | E |
| Hand tool, to pan the view | H |
Keep a venue for each building
Venue keeps a library of rooms. Each venue remembers its map, its people and gear, and the output setup for every screen: resolution, fit, crop and edge blend. Click the venue name at the top left to switch between them, or to start a new one.
- Start from a sample. Open Samples to preview ready-made venues, from a main sanctuary and a chapel to a youth hall and an outdoor Easter service, then copy one and make it your own.
- Export and import. Share a venue as a ChristChant venue file, and import one someone else built.
- Physical displays are chosen on site. A venue keeps the shape of the room and the output setup. You still pick which real display each screen uses when you arrive.
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More in Screens & layouts
- Set up your screensTell ChristChant which projector or TV is your Main Screen and which is your Stage Screen, choose a resolution, and save the setup for each venue.
- Design a layout for every screen in your churchGive your Congregation screens a layout made for their exact shape: wide LED walls, classic 4:3 projectors, tall portrait displays. Then pin your favourites and switch between them live with one click, on the Main Screen or any screen you add.
- Set up the stage monitor for the band and speakerGive the people on the platform their own view: lyrics with chords, the key, what's next, the clock and timers, plus quick cues from the booth.
- Add more screens: lobby, overflow room, confidence monitorEach screen in your building can show something different. Add one in the Venue, choose what it shows, and put it on its own display.