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A stage screen shows a stage layout instead of what the audience sees. A layout can hold:
  • the current and next slide,
  • a clock and timers,
  • the slide’s notes,
  • chords for the band, in the song’s key,
  • the stage message,
  • anything else a slide can hold.
Screenshot to come

To capture: A stage screen with current and next slide, a clock and a countdown.

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Set one up

1

Give a display the Stage role

In Settings › Screens.
2

Choose its layout

Each stage screen has its own Stage Layout.
3

Design layouts

In the Stage Editor, starting from one of the layouts there or from nothing.

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Changing layout during a service

A slide can change a stage screen’s layout when it goes live — chords for the band’s songs, notes and a clock for the sermon. Right-click the slide and choose Add Action › Stage, then the screen and its layout. Siri and Shortcuts can do it too (Show Stage Layout).

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Stage messages

Put a line of text in front of the people on the platform:
  • On the Mac, Screens › Send Stage Message… (⌥⌘M), and Clear Stage Message to take it down.
  • From a remote, or Siri and Shortcuts (Send Stage Message, Clear Stage Message).
Screenshot to come

To capture: Send Stage Message with “Wrap up in 5 minutes” typed in.

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Notes

Each slide has notes, shown on stage screens and never to the audience. Add them in the slide inspector, or let Sermon notes fill them in.