> ## 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.

# Slide actions

> Make a slide do things when it goes live: start a countdown, change a Look, send MIDI, start recording.

An **action** is something a slide does when it goes live. Right-click a slide, choose **Add Action**, and pick one. With several slides picked, each gets the action.

![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 Add Action menu open on a slide, with Show Countdown expanded.

| Action | What it does |
| - | - |
| **MIDI…** | Sends a MIDI note or message — to a lighting desk, a mixer or another app. |
| **OSC…** | Sends an OSC message to an address you type. |
| **Webhook…** | Calls a web address, for anything that takes a webhook. |
| **Show Overlay** | Puts an overlay up: a lower third, a logo, a line of words. |
| **Show Countdown** | Starts a countdown on the Countdown layer. See [Countdowns and timers](https://docs.slipity.com/presenting/countdowns-and-timers.md). |
| **Play Audio Playlist** | Starts music on the Audio layer. |
| **Look** | Makes a Look live on the audience screens. |
| **Show Live Video** | Puts a camera on the screens. |
| **Stage** | Changes the layout a stage screen shows. |
| **Recording**, **Livestream** | Starts or stops a recording or stream. |
| **Camera Framing** | Changes how a camera is framed: follow the preacher for the sermon, wide for the band. |
| **Clear** | Takes layers off the screens. |

## Finishing an action

Actions that need more than a menu can say — a URL, an OSC address — open the slide's **Triggers and Commands** to be finished, over the running order. There you can also give an action a **delay** after the slide goes live, and switch it off for a service without removing it. The same settings are in the slide inspector in Edit.

![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 slide's Triggers and Commands with a MIDI action and a 2-second delay.

## Changing what a slide does

* **Edit Actions** lists what a slide does, each with its own menu.
* **Remove Actions** takes one off, or all of them.

Actions travel with a slide when it's copied and pasted.

## Lyric videos

A presentation can play a track and put its slides up at moments in it — a lyric video. Record the moments by playing the track and putting slides up by hand as it goes. From then on, putting up the first slide puts up the rest on cue until the track ends, something else takes the Audio layer, or it's cleared.


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