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title: New Spotlight templates and dynamic text in presentations
description: You can now create new presentations directly from the Spotlight homepage and add dynamic text to your Spotlight presentations.
image: https://updates.mediasilo.com/hubfs/spotlight_modal.png
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# New Spotlight templates and dynamic text in presentations

### September 24, 2020

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**Simplify your Spotlight workflow**

You can now create a Spotlight presentation directly from the Spotlight homepage. Simply click on the Create New button and select Spotlight. 

![create_new_spotlight](https://updates.mediasilo.com/hs-fs/hubfs/create_new_spotlight.png?width=309&name=create_new_spotlight.png)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new modal will guide you to choose your spotlight settings, browse our growing library of pre-made templates, or select one of your custom templates. 

**Add dynamic text to your Spotlight presentations**

![dynamic_text](https://updates.mediasilo.com/hs-fs/hubfs/dynamic_text.gif?width=734&name=dynamic_text.gif)

Spotlight presentations now support dynamic text that changes based on the content you are viewing. 

- To enable dynamic text, click on any text box and go to the new **Dynamic Content** tab in the properties panel on the right. 
- Use the dropdown menus to select the stage or video player that contains your content. 
- Choose the dynamic-text fields, such as Title or Description, that you wish to display alongside your content. Your audience will see the metadata values you have set in Projects. 

**General Improvements:** 

- When you reopen the Media Browser panel in the Spotlight template editor, you are now redirected to the last folder you visited.
- You can now resize additional panels, including the Layers panel and the Playlists panel.

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