Worship loops for the screen

Looking for audio loops?

Many worship leaders say "loops" when they mean click tracks, ambient pads or multitracks. Those are audio loops for the band. They usually come from backing-track services, pad apps and multitrack stores made for musicians, and they run through the sound desk and the in-ear mixes.

BeforePreach makes nothing you hear. Every file is silent, so it can never clash with your click, your pads or your keys player. If you also want something calm on the screen while those pads play, read on.

What a visual worship loop is

A loop is a 20 to 30 second video whose last frame flows back into its first, so it can repeat for a whole song without a visible jump. BeforePreach loops are MP4 files (H.264) at 30 frames per second with no audio track, a format that ProPresenter, EasyWorship, Proclaim, OpenLP, PowerPoint and Keynote all play.

You set the loop as the background in your presentation software, tell it to repeat, and your lyrics sit on top. The picture keeps moving quietly while the words change.

Matching a loop to the song

Start with mood. Filter by calm or reflective for slower songs and prayer, and by joyful or celebration for opening songs and feast days. Motion speed matters as much as color: a slow drift is easier to read over than fast movement.

Then turn on the text-safe filter. Those loops keep low detail where lyrics sit, so white words stay readable from the back row. One loop per song, or even one per set, looks calmer than a new background on every slide.

The right shape for your screen

Not every church has a 16:9 projector. Each loop downloads in the shape you need: 16:9, 16:10, 4:3, 21:9, 32:9, 3:1, 1:1, 4:5 or 9:16, plus custom sizes such as 5760×1080 for an LED wall. Every shape is rendered for that shape, never stretched or cropped from another one.