The main window

When you first open it, the window splits into four main areas. Read them in this order: pick on the left, build in the middle, check at the top, refine on the right.

Left — Playlists

One event is one playlist. You can group playlists into folders.

• Make one with New List at the bottom of the sidebar, and group them with New Folder
• Once you have a lot of lists, folders make them easier to find
• Right-click a list for Rename · Delete · Export bundle

A folder is a heading with its lists hanging off a rail beneath it. The number beside the name is how many lists are inside, so a folded folder still tells you what is in there.

Click a folder	Opens it on the right. It does not fold
Click the ⌄, or double-click the row	Folds and unfolds
Hover a folder	A + appears — a new list straight into that folder
Drag a folder	Reorders it. It folds while you drag and opens again when you drop it
Drag a list	Onto a folder puts it in; between lists reorders

A red bar marks the list that is going out right now. The same bar shows on the section header on the right, so you can find it with the sidebar hidden.

Getting the sidebar out of the way

The button beside the traffic lights hides and shows it, and so does ⌘\. The footer stays where it is, and a list picker appears there while the sidebar is hidden — so you can still jump between playlists.

Moving to another computer

Export bundle packs the playlist and its media into one file. On the other machine, Import bundle opens it exactly as it was. No file paths to break.

Middle — Slides

Whatever the selected playlist holds is laid out in order. That order is the running order.

Six kinds of thing can go in.

Video	mp4, mov and so on
Image	jpg, png and so on
Text	Subtitles and titles — you make these inside the app
YouTube	Paste an address and it plays as it is
Web	Opens a web page
Music	Handled separately, in the music area below

Add them with Add File, or drag and drop them from the Finder. For YouTube, press Link and paste the address.

Drag slides to reorder them, and hold ⌘ while clicking to pick several at once.

Dragging inside the same list is always reordering. Drag to another playlist and the default is Copy; hold Option as you drop and it is Move (the badge on the dragged image tells you which one it will be).

Top — Preview and output

One click on a slide’s thumbnail in the middle sends it out on the spot. Double-click the thumbnail and it goes out from the beginning again.

One click and it is on screen

On stage it has to go out the moment you press. If it asks you to confirm one more time, that half beat is the accident.

To look at a slide without sending it out, use Option + click, or click the name row under the card. It is loaded into Slide settings on the right only, and the audience screen stays as it was.

That is what Option + slide to load, printed next to the Slide settings heading, means.

Setting things up before the event

If you click through slides one at a time to adjust their settings, each click goes to the screen. If you have not picked the output screen yet, or you are preparing ahead of time, work with Option + click.

The top bar handles Pause · Clear All (the red stop-shaped button) · Mute · Output. Which monitor it goes to is chosen in the field beside the monitor icon in the status bar at the bottom of the window (press it and the list of screens opens upward).

Right — Slide settings

These are the values saved onto the one slide you selected. Set them once and that slide always goes out that way.

• Scale — Fit · Fill · Stretch · Fit + blur bg
• Cropping — the gear at the top right of the thumbnail opens the Crop & fit sheet, where you drag the edges in (Clear crop puts it back)
• In point · Out point — trim the head and tail of a video (Clear In/Out removes both)
• Playback speed · Slide volume

Do not confuse these with the stage controls

What you touch on the stage at the top left (volume, speed and the like) changes for that moment only. What you touch in Slide settings on the right is saved.

When the window gets small

Made for working on one laptop. Narrow the window and things fold away in order, and the slide list keeps shrinking to fit — it is never hidden.

Width	What you see
Widest	Playlists · Output · Music · Slide settings
Narrower	Playlists folds away
Narrower still	Slide settings folds away too
735	As small as it goes

Two buttons sit in the title bar next to the traffic lights. The left one brings the playlist sidebar back; the right one brings Slide settings back. Each widens the window by just enough — they do not jump to some full size that rearranges everything.

The bottom bar gets out of the way as things tighten: the monitor name shortens and the feedback button drops to an envelope, so the card-size slider and settings never get pushed off the edge.

Slide settings can live in its own window

When that panel is folded, right-click a slide and choose Slide settings — or click its name row, or Option-click it. The same panel opens as a real window beside the app. Send another slide and the window just changes what it shows. Widen the app and it tucks back in; narrow it again and it returns. If you close it yourself, it stays away until you ask for it again.

Bottom — Music

Background music runs separately from the slides. Moving to the next slide does not cut it.

• You manage tracks in folders
• Each track has a Start and an End you can set, so you can trim the talk-up at the front or the silence at the back
• Music while video plays can lower it or mute it. When the video ends it comes back by itself

Layers

A slide does not go out as one sheet. It goes out in layers.

Overlay 1 ~ 5     subtitles · logos · titles    (top)
Background        video · images                (bottom)

Each layer turns on and off on its own, and advances on its own. You leave the background video as it is and change only the subtitle. You can name each layer, so when you are in a hurry you look for “Logo” instead of a number.