Andrew Hartman: seems like it would work... But I will say, updating slides versus outputting a new video is much less cumbersome on the user's end.

Patrick Boyd: Helpful! Thank you Patrick!

Andrew Hartman: I used to have to do that and I agree with Patrick. Its a mess and takes a lot of extra time. Its a huge reason someone would stick with something like Propresenter.

Andrew Hartman: To my knowledge, based on what people are requesting, it would be more to take a section of sidekick, add a slide timer to each slide (15 seconds) and then just loop the entire section. That was my understanding (and what I was kind of thinking). But yes, your suggestion would work just fine for me!

Andrew Hartman: This would not be ideal at all. We add and remove slides from this section every week in propresenter (we have some announcements that only apply every other week or once a month) being able to enable our disable those slides with one click is way better than having to make > export > import a new announcement slide loop every week

Emily Ingram: Thank you! Great insight.

Todd Handell: Agreed, that would be the ideal! Thank you for this.

Jordan Baker: Super helpful, thanks for the details on why it's a bad idea (no sarcasm, it truly is helpful for us)

Andrew Hartman: Legit, this is so fun to be a part of. 🔥♥️

Thanks for making this a group effort!

Andrew Hartman: definitely a good workaround, although it would just mean outputting a new video each week if announcements change!

Adam Dougherty: Yeah, not ideal for sure. This was a super helpful thread for us to keep a looking at this as much desired feature.

Thom Blair: This! With the introduction of Sections, being able to have the announcements section on repeat would be so next level!

Having your countdown in the next section and message slides in another…

This would make my life! 😁

Justin Schultz: Exactly, would make everything easier for me. I currently have to use 2-3 programs just to do everything I want to do or need to do. If Sidekick can get it to loop the shifts to a countdown and ultimately ends on slides you can scroll through on your phone(song videos, extra announcements, games, and lesson/message slides) we would be talking the complete package. As my teens would say, It would slap! 🤣.

Thom Blair: The looping slide feature is definitely something that we want to do. The lift on it is actually a bit trickier than it appears on the surface with our ability to have multiple controllers/hosts connected.

However, once we lay the foundation for looping, it will unlock the ability for us to do other creative things such as dragging count down/up timers onto any slide as well.

Nick Delja: That’s great! Haha, so far above my pay grade! 😁 I’m just a lowly grateful user! 😂