Presenting

Starting

The play button in the top bar, or Ctrl+Alt+Enter, presents fullscreen: the editor chrome disappears and the current page fills the screen. The arrow beside the play button has the other two ways to present:

• Present in a window for screen share… — the slides open in a window of their own, for a video call (below).
• Presenter view — fullscreen here, with your notes in a separate window (below).

The same three are in the command palette (⌘K, "Present"), and the AI agent can start and end a show.

Presenting is a session: ordinary editing is suspended until you exit, so nothing moves by accident while you're talking.

Keys

Presentation clickers send Page Up / Page Down (and often B or .), so they work too — in whichever PopCraft window has focus.

Slides files

1. 1.Click Present0:00
2. 2.→ plays the next build, then the next slide0:01
3. 3.B blacks the screen out; press it again to come back0:04
4. 4.Esc ends the show0:06

Description

A pitch deck. Present fullscreen fills the screen with the title slide. The right arrow moves on through the builds and slides, B blacks the screen out and brings it back, and Esc ends the show.

Click Present in the top bar (or press Ctrl+Alt+Enter). → plays the next build, then the next slide; B blacks the screen out and brings it back; Esc ends the show.

A Slides file is a fixed-page document at 16:9 or 4:3. Pages are slides, in order, and PageUp / PageDown move through them.

A slide's animation plays when it opens and stops at each pause marker until you click, so a bullet list can arrive a line at a time.

Animation, compositions and advancing on its own

Whatever plays in Animate plays the same way when you present — a slide's timeline and its click builds, motion components, and compositions. A file whose content is a composition (the launch trailer, the story ads, a promo cut to music) presents as that composition: its scenes in order, with their transitions and its sound, end to end. Next and Previous jump a scene; K pauses. If Animate has a composition or a frame open when you press Present, that is what plays.

Each slide says how the show moves on from it — in the Design panel, under the slide's settings, Advance:

• On click — waits for you at each build and at the end (a talk; the default for decks);
• When animation ends — its builds play straight through, then the next slide;
• After a delay — the same, a number of seconds after its animation ends (a still slide: after it appears).

Loop the show starts again from the first slide after the last, for a kiosk or a looping motion piece. A slide without a setting of its own follows the file's.

In a composition, each scene carries on into the next by default. In the composition strip, pick a scene and set Then to wait for a click or hold for some seconds at its end; Loop in Present starts the composition over when it finishes, instead of holding its last frame.

Motion templates come set up to present: a single animated piece plays and loops, and a template in scenes plays through. The AI agent can change all of this too (set_show_advance).

Presenting in a window, for screen sharing

Sharing your whole screen in Zoom, Meet or Teams shows everyone your notes. Instead choose Present in a window for screen share…, pick the resolution the call should receive, and press Start presenting:

• 1280 × 720, 1920 × 1080, 2560 × 1440 or 3840 × 2160 — the window is sized so that sharing it sends exactly that many pixels (on a Retina screen a 1920 × 1080 window looks half that size, because it is 1920 × 1080 device pixels);
• Fit window — the picture follows whatever size you drag the window to;
• Custom… — any width and height from 320 to 7680.

A window named "your file — Audience" opens with only the slide in it, letterboxed in black to the deck's shape. Share that window in the call. Double-click it to make it fullscreen, if you want it on a second display instead.

Your editor window becomes the presenter view: the current slide as the audience sees it (with its transitions, builds and video), the next slide, your notes, a timer you can pause and reset, the time, and a strip of every slide to jump to. Previous and Next, Black and White, and End show are buttons as well as keys, and you can change the audience window's resolution from the top of the presenter view while you present. If the audience window has been resized away from its resolution, the presenter view says what it is sharing at and offers Restore size.

• The show's sound plays in the audience window only, so a call that shares a tab's audio carries it.
• Close the audience window and the show ends; close or reload the editor and the audience window closes with it.
• Collaborators' edits reach both windows as they happen. A slide deleted while it is on screen hands over to the slide now in its place.
• It works offline: the audience window needs no network, only the file already open.
• If the browser blocks the window, PopCraft says so: allow pop-ups for the site (the icon at the end of the address bar) and start again.
• It needs a browser that can draw one window's WebGPU into another — Chrome and Edge. Elsewhere, PopCraft tells you and you can present fullscreen.
• Desktop app: not available yet — the desktop app has no way to open a second window for the audience, so the option is not shown there. Use PopCraft in Chrome or Edge to share a window.

Speaker notes and the presenter view

Each slide carries notes (the Speaker notes section of the Design panel). For a projector or a second screen, choose Presenter view: the show goes fullscreen on this screen and the presenter window opens — drag it to your own screen. It shows the current and next slide, your notes, the timer and the controls, and stays in step with the show; press P during a show to open it again.

Prototypes

A prototype presents the same way, except the frames advance by your interactions rather than by page order — the audience sees a working thing, not a deck of pictures of it.

Sharing instead

If they don't need you in the room, share the link. Anyone with access opens the same file in the editor; there's no separate "presentation export" to keep up to date. See collaborating.