New in Release 5: Scene options and Screen options menus, selecting several scenes at once, and thumbnails that show the real content of each scene. Organisations move to Release 5 on their release weekend, from 9 October.
Not on Release 5 yet? Until your organisation moves over, use Add a scene (before Release 5).
A story is made of scenes, like the slides of a presentation. Each screen in your setup has its own list of scenes in the left rail of the Composer. A new story starts with one empty scene.
Add a scene
In the left rail, select the screen you want to add a scene to.
Click Add Scene, or press Shift + N. The new scene opens on the canvas.
Insert saved scenes
Reuse scenes you saved to My Scenes:
Open Screen options (⋯ next to the screen name) and choose Insert Saved Scenes, or press Shift + L.
Select the scenes you want to insert.
If a scene was made for a different screen size, choose a scaling strategy (see Scaling strategies).
If your organisation doesn't use Screen Overlay and Screen Backdrop, Insert Saved Scenes is a button under Add Scene instead.
Scene options
Right-click a scene in the left rail to:
Copy or Paste it
Duplicate it
Set as screensaver, or Unset as screensaver (see Setting up a screensaver)
Save to My Scenes, to reuse it in other stories
Delete it
With a scene selected, Scene options (⋯ at the top of the property panel) has the same actions, plus Rename and Edit description. Scene options only work in the Base Setup, with the selection tool.
Scene settings
Select a scene to see its settings in the property panel: its transition, background and layers. A screensaver scene also has a Screensaver section.
Work with several scenes
New in Release 5: hold Shift or Ctrl (⌘ on Mac) and click scenes on the same screen to select several. The screensaver scene can't be included. Right-click the selection to copy, paste, duplicate, save to My Scenes or delete them together. You can also give them all the same background or transition in the property panel.
Reorder scenes
Drag a scene up or down in the left rail.
Scene thumbnails
New in Release 5: every scene shows a thumbnail of its real content, including text and any Screen Overlay or Screen Backdrop. After you change a scene, its thumbnail updates within a few seconds. The same thumbnails appear on the Stories page and in TSS Control.
Saving a scene from a shared story
In a shared story, the assets stay with the story owner. A collaborator can save a scene from the story, but its assets are not copied to the collaborator's media library. The owner and the collaborator can change their own saved versions without affecting each other. If the owner deletes an asset from their media library, it disappears from every saved scene that uses it.
Delete a scene
Right-click the scene and choose Delete, or select it and press Delete or Backspace.
Limits
100 scenes per screen, and 250 scenes per story
75 assets per scene, of which up to 4 can be web pages
Compose tells you when you reach a limit. Screen Overlay and Screen Backdrop assets don't count towards these limits.