Slides

Add a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• In the lower section, you have the slides overview. Whenever you add a new slide, it will be added after the slide you have currently selected.
• Click New Slide

Clone a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• In the lower section, you have the slides overview. Whenever you add a new slide, it will be added after the slide you have currently selected.
• Click Clone Slide

Add a Slide from a Template

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• In the lower section, you have the slides overview. Whenever you add a new slide, it will be added after the slide you have currently selected.
• Click From Template
• Search or scroll through the different slides, and when you find the one you like, click it!

Remove a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide you'd like to remove
• Click X

When you hover a slide, X (Remove) and Select appears!

Remove Slides (Multiple)

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find and click Select on all slides you'd like to remove
• Click Delete Slides

Move a Slide (Rearrange the order)

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Click and hold the slide (From the slide overview), then drag it to where you want it and let go

Move a Slide to your Slide Stash

You can add slides to your slide stash, when adding a slide to your slide stash, then slide you are adding is not removed from the slide overview. More about Slide Stash.

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Just above the slide overview, you should see a grey bar with two arrows; click the grey bar to open the slide stash
• Click and hold the slide (From the slide overview), then drag it up into the slide stash and let go
• Click X on the slide that you just added to the slide stash
• Click the grey bar again to close the slide stash

Change the duration on a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide you'd like to change the duration on
• Click the pencil 
• In Slide Duration, set the desired duration
• Click Save

Set a Slide to play forever

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide you'd like to play forever
• Click the Pencil
• Check Play with slide forever
• Click Save

Change the name on a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide you'd like to change the name on
• Click the Pencil
• In Slide Name, type in the name for your slide
• Click Save

Add a transition to a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide you'd like to add a transition to
• Click the Pencil
• In Entering Transition, pick a transition
• Click Save

Turn off background music on a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide
• Click the Pencil
• Click Advanced
• Check Pause Playlist background music for this slide
• Click Save

Pick a specific slide to transition to

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide
• Click the Pencil
• Click Advanced
• In After this slide play, choose the slide you want this slide to transition to after its duration
• Click Save

This is basically for interactive (Touch) applications where you don't want the normal 1 > 2 > 3, etc. slide order.

Add a slide condition to a Slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide
• Click the Pencil
• Click Slide Conditions
• Add your slide conditions
• Click Save

Slide conditions can be used like scheduling at a fine-tunes level. You can make a slide only show on specific screens, only between 10 am and 11 am, only when the the network is offline, etc. Learn more here.

Edit multiple slides in one go

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find and click Select on all slides you'd like to edit
• Click Edit Slides
• Make your changes
• Click Save

In Bulk-edit mode you can change the slide duration, toggle on and off play this slide forever, entering transition, transition duration, slide background color, and add slide conditions. Learn more here.

Set the slide background color

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide
• Click outside the canvas (Canvas is the area where you add images, text, etc.)
• In Slide Background Color, use the dropdown to find a color you want, or click the picker to match a color you already have on your slide.

Generate AI content for your slide

• Go to Playlists and open your playlist
• Find the slide
• Click outside the canvas (Canvas is the area where you add images, text, etc.)
• Click Generate with AI
• Type in a descriptive text of what you'd like on your slide
• Click Enhance Prompt to optimize the result
• Choose an aspect ratio (Default is matching your slide)
• Click Generate
• Click Preview to see the image generated
• Click Add to add it to your slide (The check mark on the image)

Create beautiful custom images for your digital signage in seconds with the AI Image generator. Learn more here.

You can access the slide options by pressing the pencil icon in the slide thumbnail.

• Duration – Specifies the duration of the slide
• “Play forever” – Use this option if your playlist has only one slide or your playlist is for touch workflows.
• Slide name – Optionally give the slide a name
• Entering transition – Choose a transition effect for the slide for some eye candy. 
• Transition duration – How long the transition takes (0.3 – 7 seconds). 
• Pause playlist background music for this slide – This option is only available if you have added background music to your playlist.
• After this slide play – This option overrides the default behavior of playing the next slide; it is used when creating touchscreen interfaces.
• Slide conditions

What do the indicators mean?

1. Select slide
2. Delete slide
3. Slide number or name (You can add a name for each slide)
4. Slide condition – Green means one or more slide conditions have been added, and the slide is currently played. Red means one or more slide conditions have been added, but none of the slide conditions match at the moment, and the slide is therefore skipped.
5. After this, the slide play option is turned On
6. Transition option is turned On
7. Duration of the slide
8. Edit the slide

Slide Transitions offer a smooth transition between two slides.

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Open the slide settings (Click the pencil on the slide preview).

In Entering transition choose a transition effect for the slide. You can choose between Random, Fade to black, Ken Burns, Bounce in, and a bunch of other cool transitions.

In Transition duration you choose how long the transition should last (0.3 – 7 seconds). The slide duration must always exceed the transition duration by 1 second. If your transition duration is 3 seconds, that means the slide has to be at least 4 seconds.

If the transitions are not smooth, there are 3 key factors that play a role when a transition is rendered:

• Transition effect itself (some transitions are more complex and require more processing) – try the “Fade to black” transition.
• Playlist complexity (high-resolution images, several plugins, and several zones all contribute) – try reducing complexity.
• Player performance (is your player an entry-level Android device or a mid-level device with an Intel I5 processor) – try a more powerful player.

Slide stash can be used to store your slides for later use.

If you already have image files you want to create slides from (say you uploaded a PowerPoint or PDF file), creating the slides one by one is very tedious.

​In the editor, each object is represented as a layer in the Layers tab. You can grab individual objects and drag them higher to bring them in front of other objects. Due to how the underlying technologies work, layering for a certain type of plugin can't be changed. For example, a website plugin renders on top of the canvas, as it is actually a separate window positioned above the canvas at specific coordinates.

It's also possible to lock or unlock individual objects in the Layers tab. Read more on the locking support page.

Check out these articles to add background music to your playlist or individual slides: Background Music (Music from your library) and Live Streaming Radio.

Slide conditions are an advanced functionality to display individual slides at a specific time of day, within a time range, or on one or more specific players.

Bulk editing makes it easier to edit multiple slides in one action. For example, if you have multiple slides, where you want to change the slide duration, bulk edit is your tool.

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• Hover and select one or more slides
• Click Edit Slides

In the pop-up, you'll see a couple of actions

Note that the changes you make will affect all the selected slides

• Set selected slide duration - Edit the slide duration for the selected slides.
• Play selected slides forever - Set the selected slides to play forever.
• Entering Transition - Set a transition for the selected slides.
• Transition duration - Set the transition duration for the selected slides.
• Slide background color - Set the background color for the selected slides.

When you have made your changes, click Save

In your profile, you have the option of setting default values for slide duration when adding a new slide, slide background color, and much more. 

Why can’t I drag the object to the topmost layer?

Some objects are not part of the canvas when playing the slide in the player – often this is because of how web standards work, but in the case of a video and ticker plugin, it’s for performance optimization reasons. All the plugins: video, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, website, ticker, playlist, and MediaRSS are actually external applications that are positioned exactly over our application. For some plugins like video and tickers, you can actually update the setting “Always on top” to “No” if you want to position some elements above them, but beware that performance will likely suffer.

What does the exclamation mark mean?

It’s possible to lose objects if you move them off the canvas and release the drag. If you see an exclamation mark next to an element in the editor, that means the element has been moved off the canvas. You can fix it by pressing the blue Center object button.

Why are animations slow and lagging?

Animating elements requires rendering the canvas 24 times per second, as opposed to just 1 time per slide. The specifics come down to your player’s hardware acceleration support, but there are still a few things you can do to improve the playback. In general, sliding animations (slide in left/right/top/bottom) require more resources than zooming, spinning, and fading animations. Therefore, try experimenting with different animations, and also increasing the animation duration will give the player more time to play the animation, thus making it smoother. Since the device needs to render the entire canvas for each frame of the animations, other items in the slide can also contribute to the slowness. If possible, try keeping the item count and complexity low, so the player has an easier time rendering other elements on the slide.

If your animations are still sluggish, then you can also consider creating the slides with animations in external software and exporting them as a movie file. For example, Keynote on OSX supports exporting a presentation with animations as a video file.

If none of the tips work, and animations are a must for you, then you should look into upgrading to a mid-tier player device.

Why do animations start stuttering?

Computers will slow themselves down when they get hot in order not to overheat; therefore, if you see the animation performance degrade, make sure that your device does not overheat!

Exit animation options are not visible

If your slide is set to ‘Play forever’, then you can only set entrance animation effects as the slide will never end and exit.

Can I play music in a playlist?

Check out these articles to add background music in your playlist or individual slides: Background Music (Music from your library), and Live Streaming Radio.

Is it possible to play Internet radio streams?

Check out this article to add Live Streaming Radio in your playlist or individual slides: Live Streaming Radio.

Can I add a time of day and screen condition?

Yes, you can add a condition saying start at xx and stop at xx every day, and then add the screens you want the specific slide to play on.

Can I edit multiple slides in one go?

Yes, check it out here: Bulk Edit