Moving your church from EasyWorship to NaveLight
An EasyWorship 6 or 7 library is found automatically during setup, and your songs, media and presentations come across in one step rather than song by song. Titles, authors, lyrics and CCLI numbers arrive together, so your reporting is intact from the first service. Nothing about your EasyWorship install is changed, so you can run both alongside each other until you trust the new one — which is exactly what we'd suggest you do.
What comes across
- Songs, with everything attached
- Titles, authors, lyrics and CCLI numbers, so your copyright reporting is intact from the first service rather than something to rebuild.
- Media
- Your backgrounds, images and video. EasyWorship's own media is copied rather than referenced, so it keeps working even if you later uninstall EasyWorship.
- Presentations
- Existing presentation decks import alongside the songs and media.
- Whatever's already there stays
- Anything you've already added to NaveLight is skipped rather than duplicated, so re-running an import is safe if you're not sure it finished.
What doesn't
- Your verse and chorus labels
- EasyWorship stores a song as blank-line-separated stanzas without naming them, so there is nothing to read. Your sections import in order as Verse 1, Verse 2 and so on, and you rename the choruses and bridges in the arrangement editor. Worth doing for the songs your band actually reorders, ignorable for the rest.
- EasyWorship 2009 libraries
- Only 6 and 7 import directly. If you're still on 2009, open the library in EasyWorship 6 or 7 first so it converts, then import from there.
- Slide styling and themes
- Fonts, colours and layouts don't transfer — NaveLight has its own theme system and a layer-based screen designer. Budget an evening to set up a theme you like, then it applies across everything.
- EasyWorship's bundled media library
- If you're on Premium, those tens of thousands of stock backgrounds and countdowns are licensed to EasyWorship and stay there. This is the real cost of moving, and worth weighing honestly.
- Linked media can't use transparency
- If you choose to link large files rather than copy them, those clips stay where they are and can't be converted for transparent playback.
We would rather you know this before you start than find out during a service.
Step by step
How to do it
- STEP 01
Install NaveLight on the booth machine
Install it next to EasyWorship rather than instead of it. Nothing is shared and nothing is overwritten, so both stay usable.
- STEP 02
Let setup find your library
First-run setup looks for EasyWorship 6 and 7 in the usual places and shows what it found — the version, the profile name and how many songs are in it. If your library was copied from another computer or lives somewhere unusual, point NaveLight at the data folder yourself.
- STEP 03
Import songs first, then media
Songs are quick. Media takes as long as your library is large, so start it and go and do something else. For big files stored outside EasyWorship, decide whether to copy them or link them — copying is safer, linking saves disk space.
- STEP 04
Set up a theme
This is the part that isn't automatic. Pick your fonts, background treatment and how scripture references are shown, then save it as a theme so every song and passage inherits it.
- STEP 05
Run a midweek rehearsal on it
Not a Sunday. Put a real service together, project it on the actual screens, and let the person who normally runs the desk drive it. That is the only test that tells you anything.
- STEP 06
Keep EasyWorship installed for a month
There's no reason to burn the bridge. Leave it there until your team has run three or four services on NaveLight without thinking about it.
If something doesn't import cleanly, tell us before you work around it — import bugs are worth fixing properly, and a library that half-migrated is the sort of thing that bites during a service.
Straight answers
Switching from EasyWorship
How do I import an EasyWorship library into NaveLight?
NaveLight looks for EasyWorship 6 and 7 libraries automatically the first time you run it, and lists any it finds with the profile name and song count. Choose the profile and import songs, media and presentations. If your library lives somewhere unusual, or was copied from another computer, you can point NaveLight at the data folder yourself.
Does importing change or damage my EasyWorship install?
No. The import only reads. EasyWorship is never modified, so you can run both side by side for as long as you like and go back at any point. Anything already in NaveLight is skipped, so re-running an import is safe.
Will my CCLI numbers come across?
Yes. Song titles, authors, lyrics and CCLI numbers all import together, so your reporting is intact from the first service.
Will my song arrangements come across?
The lyrics do, in order. The labels don't. EasyWorship stores a song as blank-line-separated stanzas without naming them, so there is nothing for NaveLight to read — sections import as Verse 1, Verse 2 and so on, and you rename the choruses and bridges in the arrangement editor. It takes a minute for the songs where the order matters and can be skipped for the rest.
Can I import an EasyWorship 2009 library?
Not directly. NaveLight imports EasyWorship 6 and 7 libraries; if you are still on 2009, open the library in EasyWorship 6 or 7 first so it converts, then import from there.
What happens to my EasyWorship backgrounds and videos?
Media imports alongside the songs. EasyWorship's own media is always copied so it keeps working if you later uninstall EasyWorship. For large files stored outside EasyWorship you can choose to link rather than copy, which saves disk space — linked clips stay where they are and can't be converted for transparent playback.
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