Slides

Slides are the show’s slide deck as a source. The script says where each slide comes; the operator turns them one click at a time, from the Mac, the Stream Deck or the phone remote, as the presenter reaches each mark.

The Slides source

Add one with Switcher › Add Source › Slides…: a PDF, or a folder of images, one per page. The source shows the page the show is at. Changing a page is content, not a switch: it needs no Take.

Slides captured from another app, such as a window of Keynote or PowerPoint, works too: it is turned in that app, and the script’s slide marks still say where each slide comes.

Slide marks

In the script, New slide ---- moves the slides to the next one and Click ---- is one more click on the same slide, a build. A label after the dashes names the slide: New slide ---- Agenda. The Script window and the prompter show each mark as a violet tag at its word, so the operator and the presenter see the same place.

Builds

When the PDF was exported with its builds as pages, one page per Click ----, turn on Pages Include Builds in the inspector’s Slides section. With it off, a build has no page of its own and is skipped.

Turning the slides

Script › Slides One Click On (⌃⌘]) and Slides One Click Back (⌃⌘[) turn the slides by one click, as do the slide keys on the Stream Deck and the ‹ › arrows on the phone remote. Where the slides are is a decision at the desk; it is not saved with the show.

Read more

• Add the slides
• Script window
• Script structure