Show background when there’s no foreground (#BETA)

Doing some testing on the new #beta and tried setting up our stream feed but can’t find a way to replicate the ‘show background when there’s no foreground’ option.
We use this at the moment to have some slides which pass through to the stream (by having no foreground) and then have duplicates with a transparent foreground which don’t.

This enables us to effectively run the service without needing to change the setup on the ATEM (as we only use one PTZ camera).
Can this still be done on the new beta?

Thanks for the report! I'll note the feature request, and we'll plan to include it in a future release.

Any update on when we might expect this, as the 2026 version is now out of beta and this feature is still missing preventing us from moving from the legacy version to the 2026 version?

Thanks for reaching out! This functionality is available in the current version of Presenter through the Screen settings.

To enable this functionality, setup a new Screen as an Audience Output, then set ensure the "Hide slide contents" option is off and the "Hide background media" option is enabled. This will mirror the previous behavior of "Show background when there's no foreround".

Here's a quick screen capture to provide some further context on how that can be setup and used: https://cleanshot.com/share/HmTPHtw2

Thanks!

Hi Luke
Thanks for this - but it still isn't quite working the way I was expecting based on the legacy version. It works fine for songs and readings, but not for slides. The way we used it on the legacy build which doesn't work now was as follows... We have:

* One service item with a media background - this shows in both the room and on the stream
* One service item with a media background, but overlayed with a transparent slide with no content - this shows in the room, but passes through the green screen to the stream.

This was really helpful for sections like "Church News" as we'd have the slide up to mark the start of this section, but then leave it up in the room but move to transparent so that the people on the stream can see the speaker... we do the same in communion and various other parts of the service. Doing it this way singnificantly simplied the need for someone to use the video controler during the service which is important as we're a very small team (Sometimes juse one person doing sound, projection and video!)

Could you explore whether we could get this feature back in some form?

Thanks
Andy

Hi Andy,

Thanks for this info! I'd be interested in understanding your use case further. Our support channel provides a better way to pass along images and videos. Could you please reach out to us through our support channel ([email protected]) so that we can discuss this further? It would be very helpful to include a screenshot or video demonstrating the behavior you're looking to recreate.

Thanks!