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Adding media to your story

Add images, video, audio, PDFs and web pages to your scenes, and replace or copy them.

New in Release 5: the media library opens on top of the canvas, and Replace media swaps a file without rebuilding the asset. Organisations move to Release 5 on their release weekend, from 9 October.

Not on Release 5 yet? Until your organisation moves over, use Adding media to your story (before Release 5).

Add images, videos, GIFs, audio, PDFs, PowerPoint files and web pages to a scene from your media libraries.

Add media to a scene

  1. Select the scene in the left rail.

  2. Click Media in the top bar. The media library opens on top of the canvas.

  3. Choose a source: My media (your own files), Company (the Company Library) or Backgrounds.

  4. Search, or filter by Media Type: Image, Video, Sound, Link, PDF or Presentation.

  5. Drag a file onto the canvas.

Upload new media

  1. In the media library, open My media and click Upload Media.

  2. Drag files into the window, or click Upload files from computer. Several files upload at the same time.

Compose converts video to the best format for TSS Play automatically. See Asset creation guidelines for what to export.

Add a web page

  1. In the same upload window, type or paste the address under Add URL and click Add.

  2. The web page appears in My media as a link, named after its address.

  3. Drag it onto the canvas. It starts at 1920 × 1080 pixels.

A scene can hold up to 4 web pages. If a page looks too small on a large, high-resolution screen, raise its Zoom level (new in Release 5) in the property panel.

Tip: on a touch screen, turn on Disable movement for the web page, so visitors can tap, scroll and type in the page itself.

Replace media

New in Release 5: swap an image or video for another file without rebuilding it:

  1. Select the asset.

  2. In the property panel, under Content, click Replace media.

  3. Choose the new file.

The new file fills the same frame, centred, so any cropping is reset. What stays the same:

  • Opacity, rounded corners, Visible on start, Disable movement and triggers.

  • The on-click action, if the new file is an image.

  • Loop, autoplay and volume and when you swap video for video.

The asset takes the new file's name, so rename it again if presenters rely on the old name.

Name your assets

Give each asset a clear name. TSS Control shows these names during a presentation, so presenters can find the right asset quickly. To rename an asset, double-click its name at the top of the property panel, or open the ⋯ menu there and choose Rename.

Order, hide and lock

The Layers list shows the scene's assets in stacking order. Drag an asset to change the order. Use the eye icon to hide it: hidden assets don't appear in Preview or on screen. Lock an asset so you can't move it by accident.

Copy and paste

Copy assets with Ctrl + C and paste them with Ctrl + V into another scene, another screen or another story; Ctrl + D duplicates them (use ⌘ on Mac). When the assets have on-click actions:

  • Navigate to scene actions keep their target, as long as that scene exists.

  • Actions that show or hide other assets point to the copies of those assets if you copied them too. Targets that no longer exist are removed.

  • If an action goes to the scene you're pasting into, Compose asks you to confirm.

  • On-click actions and triggers aren't copied to a Screen Overlay or Screen Backdrop.

Assets outside the screen

Assets that fall partly outside a screen are shown transparent in the Composer. That way you notice content your audience won't see.

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