How to: Customize Slide Decks in Greenroom
Support your narrative and embody your brand beyond your deck with complementary layout options and shot notes.
With Greenroom's ability to incorporate slide decks into shots, there are many ways you can present a deck in your show. However, there are certain tips and tricks that can get your slide presentation to really stand out within the Greenroom environment. In this article, we'll be going over how to choose the right layout, how to control a slide deck, and how to create slide notes.
Choosing the Right Layout
When someone first thinks of a slide presentation, what usually comes to mind is a PowerPoint-like presentation that's full screen on a computer, or full screen on a projector to a large audience. With Brandlive's various virtual platforms, there are lots of components that can make up the viewing experience for the audience that's not just a slide presentation or program feed.
With a platform like Brandlive, you can broadcast your Greenroom show to a session page that has lots of branding or interactive elements that might complement the show. When a Greenroom show is broadcast to a session page, the Greenroom output will be displayed within a video player on the page, which can vary in size depending if you're in Theater mode or not. With both viewing options, you'll still see various elements of the page and not a fullscreen experience, which is why your deck could be seen differently by the virtual audience.
We recommend having your slide presentation in a shot layout that highlights the presentation as the larger feed, in comparison to another presenter or feed within the shot. Greenroom offers many different layouts that can highlight your presentation alongside various numbers of presenters. The layout spacing options can also adjust the look of the shot to better highlight the presentation as well. Certain layouts exist within Greenroom that are made to fit any 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio media that you place in the shot, but the dimensions are fixed so you can't adjust spacing.
Having your slide presentation full screen will give your audience the largest view of it, and there is a way to incorporate a single presenter or multiple presenter voiceovers into the shot as well. Check out our article on Audio Only Feeds for more info.
Controlling a Slide Deck
There are currently 3 ways in which a Presenter can have controls over a slide deck:
- The person who uploaded the media has full control to edit, share, delete
- The people to whom the media is shared have the same controls as someone who uploaded the media
- The person who is placed into a shot alongside a slide deck may control advancing the slides
When controlling a slide deck within a shot, you have options in how you advance your slides.
1. Hover Arrows Over Presentation: You can use the arrow buttons that overlay the bottom corners of the slide deck, to either advance or go back one slide at a time. These buttons appear when you hover your cursor over the slide deck in the canvas.
While the buttons will appear for Presenters and Producers advancing the deck, they won't be visible during a live show to the audience.
2. Keyboard Shortcuts: Greenroom users with control of the slide deck can also use the arrow keys on their keyboard to advance and go backward in the deck. Check out our article on Greenroom hotkeys for more info on the available hotkeys.
(Producer Shortcuts) (Presenter Shortcuts)
3. Slide Preview: When a slide deck is being presented within the canvas, you can also open your media tab to access a view of the entire presentation by clicking on the "Slides" button within the greyed-out thumbnail of the media. This will allow you to see what slides are coming up, as well as jump to various portions of the presentation.
Creating Slide Notes Within Shot Notes
A feature that exists within the notes tab of Greenroom is the ability to create shot notes. This is very similar to how notes work in PowerPoint and Google Slides. With shot notes, you can store notes that belong to specific shots as well as specific slides of a presentation that are placed within a shot (Slide Notes).
If you upload a PowerPoint presentation that already has PowerPoint notes, they will automatically import into the slide notes section!
Check out our article on using Greenroom notes for more info on how to benefit from shot notes and slide notes.
How To Articles
Check out our article on uploading and editing slide decks in Greenroom to learn more about getting started with slide decks.
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