Uploading media into Seidat's media bank

Pictures make a presentation: Great pictures make a great presentation. 

Use high-quality images in your Seidat presentations to ensure the best outcome. Seidat has a built-in media bank where you can store all the pictures and videos you need in your or your workspace's presentations. Anyone in the workspace can access all media in the media bank from any device.

Media bank in general

• All images and videos used in a presentation have to be uploaded to the Seidat media bank to be used in the presentations.

• Each workspace has its own media bank, and you can only use media that have been uploaded to that workspace.

• Media can be saved to folders in the media bank and further arranged into subfolders.

• You can move pictures and folders from one folder to another by dragging and dropping them.

• Workspace members with editing rights may download media from Seidat Media Bank to their devices.

Images in Seidat presentations

• A general rule of thumb is that the background images should be at least 1920 x 1080 in size to fit the most common screen size of 16:9.

• The exact size of Seidat's content area is 1280 x 720 pixels. The content area will always be visible regardless of the screen size. The background images will fill the screen according to shape and size.

• The required size of the background image varies depending on the device used for presentation. If you are presenting with a phone, a smaller picture will do. If the presentation is happening on a movie theatre-sized screen, a larger picture (up to 5000 x 4000) may be necessary.

• Seidat automatically optimizes (scales down) images that are larger than needed for the display it is shown on. So, presentations still load quickly on low-resolution mobile devices, even if the original images are large.

  • NOTE: As an exception, Seidat does not scale down PNG / SVG files

• Images larger than 100 million pixels or 256 MB are not supported.

Accessing the media bank

Media bank can be accessed from three places in Seidat:

1. From the dashboard by pressing the "Media" icon on the top toolbar

   

2. From the slide editor's left toolbar, press either of these icons shown below.

   

3. From the "change media" option on top of the slide

   

Media bank features

• Upload media from multiple locations or drag and drop them into the media bank.

• Create folders to organize media

• Replace media selected through the media bank

  • This can be used to update a logo, for example, on all slides easily

• Delete media

• Download media to your computer

• See media information and add notes to them

Uploading media into the media bank

• After you press the "Upload" button in the media bank, the upload window will open.

  

• Select the preferred source to import the media

  

  • Drag and drop, copy and paste, or select media from your computer.

  • Direct URL link to an image on the web.

  • Search the web

  • Connect your own or your company's Facebook, Instagram, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive Business to import photos directly from there.

• Once you have selected a media or multiple images and videos to import, they will appear in a list.

• You can edit images before importing them:

  • Crop images

  • Make images round

    • NOTE! After the images have been uploaded, images can't be rounded anymore.

  • Rotate images

Replacing media

Replacing media is very useful if, for example, you have a new logo design and need to replace all existing presentations that still use old versions of the logo.

The media replacing feature does this through the media bank. Since it is synchronized to all the presentations that use pictures from the media bank, you can replace any media from all presentations at once

• Hold and press ⌘ Command (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) and select both the old media and the new media.

• Click "Replace"

  

• From the window that opened, select the media you want the old media to be replaced with. You should see the new media in the preview window.

  

• Once you click "replace all," the chosen media will now replace the other media from any presentation using them.

Supported image formats

• JPG

• PNG

• GIF

• SVG