> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.slipity.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Media

> Backgrounds, pictures and films — how they play, and the tools to find and fix them.

The **Media Library** panel holds your pictures, films and cameras. Drag a picture or film onto a slide to put it behind the words, or between slides to make a **Media item** that plays on its own.

![Screenshot to come](https://mintcdn.com/slipity/ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P/images/placeholder.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P\&q=85\&s=305435d15979a4e41a8762e1faae5681)

To capture: The Media panel beside the slide grid, a picture being dragged onto a slide.

## Foreground and background

Every piece of media has a **Behavior**:

* **Foreground** media is in front of the slides. Putting it up clears the words while it plays, it's heard, and it stops when you move on — a video announcement.
* **Background** media is behind the slides. It keeps playing across slide changes until another background replaces it — a motion loop under the lyrics.

Choose how media is set up as it arrives in **Settings › Audio & Video**: **Scaling**, **When It Ends** (**Stop** or **Loop**) and **Mute**, separately for foreground and background. Changing those never reaches back into slides already made. Change one Media item's behaviour from its right-click menu.

## Adding media from a slide

Right-click a slide and choose **Add Media…**:

* **Behind This Slide** — a picture or film behind the words.
* **As Media After This Slide** — a Media item.
* **YouTube Video After This Slide…** — a YouTube video, streamed on the screens.

**Remove Background Media** takes it off again, from one slide or every picked one.

## Dynamic Backgrounds

Motion backgrounds that move with the music — what's playing, or a live input from the band, the low, middle and high of it each moving something of its own. Find them in **Dynamic Backgrounds** in the Media panel, and choose what they **Listen To** in **Settings › Inputs**.

![Screenshot to come](https://mintcdn.com/slipity/ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P/images/placeholder.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P\&q=85\&s=305435d15979a4e41a8762e1faae5681)

To capture: A chorus over a Dynamic Background, the audio meter beside the preview.

## Image Tools

Pick a picture on a slide and use:

* **Remove Background** — lift a person or object off its background.
* **Clean Up** — brush over what shouldn't be there, and it's gone.

Both work on your device, and the original stays in the Media panel.

![Screenshot to come](https://mintcdn.com/slipity/ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P/images/placeholder.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ddfjNdKt9Fp_3G2P\&q=85\&s=305435d15979a4e41a8762e1faae5681)

To capture: Remove Background on a speaker photo, before and after.

## Smart Media

Every picture and film you add is read on your device: tagged with what it shows, and read for any words written in it. A film is read from a few of its frames, since the first is so often black. Search for "tent", or the title printed on a sermon series graphic, and it's found — in the Media panel and in [Search](https://docs.slipity.com/importing/search.md).

## The Inspector

Right-click a slide with media and choose **Inspector…** to look closely at its pictures, films and sounds.


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