With the Wistia Editor, you can add fully customizable slides to your video. Create short text or image compositions to introduce topics, separate sections, or call out a key point. Choose from Wistia-designed templates (or start from scratch), then customize the text, image, logo, and background of each slide.
Add slides
In the editor, click the "Add" button from the side panel, then click "Slide." From here, you can start off with a Wistia-designed template based on a brand kit or use a blank slide.
Slides come in three styles: Editorial, Bold, and Modern. There's also a Blank option. Each style includes four templates: Title card, Section intro, Two column, and Thank you outro.
Once you choose a template, add a slide to the timeline by hovering over it and clicking the "+" button or by dragging and dropping it.
Customize slides
After adding a slide to your video, you can customize it using the Slide info panel. Slide info contains all the customizable elements available on the slide. Open the "Info" tab in the editor while a slide is selected on the timeline to access this panel.
Tip
The Info panel is dynamic and changes based on what you select on the timeline.
Customize slide text
Clicking placeholder text on a slide will reveal a Text menu bar below the video previewer. Within this menu, you can change the selected text's font type, color, size, and format.
Double-click the placeholder text to edit the copy and add any relevant information to your video.
From the Slide info panel, click into a Text element for even more customization options, including:
Font (Type, Color, Size, Alignment, Capitalization, Bold, Italic, Underline, Bullets and lists)
Stroke (Weight, Color)
Shadow (Size, Color)
Text background (Color, Opacity)
Border (Color, Weight, Radius)
Opacity
Intro and exit animations (timing adjusts automatically to the slide's duration)
Customize slide background
To change your slide's background, select "Background" from the Slide info panel.
Then, click the "Background" button to choose a solid, gradient, or pattern background. Use the Opacity slider to adjust the slide background's transparency, and the Border controls to add a border.
Customize slide logo
If you've chosen a slide template that includes a logo, we'll automatically pull the primary logo from your account. However, you can choose any logo from your Asset Library. Open the Slide info panel and select "Logo" to pick a different brand logo.
Add text or images to a slide
To add new elements to your slide, head to the Slide info panel, then click "Add element." From here, you can add a title, subcopy, or body text to the slide or drop in images.
The images you can choose from are ones that were previously uploaded or AI-generated from the Image overlay panel.
Tip
Text and images on a slide cannot be made into clickable links. To send viewers to a URL, add a Call to Action at the point in your video where the slide appears.
Move elements on a slide
Click and drag any element in the video previewer to move it around the slide. To move several elements together, hold the Shift key and click each one, then drag.
Editing slides on the timeline
Slides behave like clips on the timeline. You can rearrange, trim, extend, delete, and apply transitions on either end.
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Right-click on a slide for quick actions like trim, split, move, and delete.
A few more things to keep in mind:
The minimum slide duration is 0.1s.
Splitting a slide creates two slides with the same content.
There is no maximum slide duration.
Audio on the audio track keeps playing under a slide.
A video can consist entirely of slides. You can delete every video clip as long as at least one slide remains.
Delete a slide
To delete a slide, select it or right-click it in the timeline, then click the "Trash" button or hit the "Delete" key on your keyboard.
