How to show videos and photos at a party (Party Pools)

Open Share › 🎉 Party Pools, or click 🎉 Party Pool on an event's page to start with that event.

Tip: You can show events you own, and events other members share with you that they set to Shareable.

Under New Party Pool, type the name guests see, when it Opens, and how long it's Open for (up to 8 hours). Add a welcome note if you like and click Create Party Pool.

Tip: Faster: open Start from one of your pools and pick one of your pools. Everything in it you're allowed to share is added, with its mini clips and photos if those are ticked.

Under Add videos, mini clips and photos, tick each Main video, mini clip and Photos you want to show, then click Add the ticked items. Quick add a whole pool adds one of your pools in one go.

Tip: Type in Find an event… to narrow a long list.

For a photo collection, click Choose photos to pick which photos guests see, then Save photos.

Tip: Only shared photos are listed. Private photos never show at a party.

Under What guests can see, use ↑ and ↓ to change the order and ✕ to take something out. Each item shows how many guests looked at it.

Tip: If an owner stops sharing something, it's marked Hidden from guests and disappears from the party right away.

Click 🖨 Print QR cards. Choose a Size: 8 × 10 for a document stand, 5 × 7, 4 × 6 or 3 × 5 index cards for card holders, 2 × 4 labels (Avery 5163 / 8163) or a folding table tent. Choose letter paper (cut out along the dashed lines) or paper of the card's own size, then click Print.

Tip: Each card shows the video's cover (or a few photos) and its own code. The Everything card opens the whole party. Print at 100% ("Actual size"), not "Fit to page".

At the party, guests point their phone's camera at a card. No app, account or sign-in is needed. They see the titles, dates, descriptions and photos, and can tap anything else in the party.

Tip: Guests never see names, comments or who added anything, and they can't download.

A video page shows the video, its description and, if you allow it, Appearances as faces only. Next and All in this party take guests to the rest.

Tip: Before the party opens, guests see a countdown. Once it closes, every card shows "This party has ended".

Under Times and options, change the times, the welcome note, whether Appearances and "Learn more about Dlacks" show, and whether guests can ask you for an invitation. Add a PIN (4 to 8 numbers) for a pool on a public table: guests type it once.

Tip: You can show the PIN on the cards from the print page, or tell guests yourself.

Under Open, close and codes: Pause shows guests "back in a moment", Keep open until stretches it to the full 8 hours, New codes stops every card printed so far (for a lost card), and End now closes it at once.

Tip: Run it again for another party makes a copy with new codes, so old cards don't open the new one.

Guests who want to keep watching tap ✉ Send me an invite and leave their name and email.

Tip: Their email goes only to you.

Their requests show under Guests who asked to join. Click Send invite to open Share › Invite people with their name, email and the party's events filled in, then send it. Click Done when you've dealt with one.

Tip: Once they join, they can watch what you share and add their own photos and videos to your events when an event has contributions turned on.

If other members put your events in their Party Pools, Share › 🎉 Party Pools lists them under Your events in other members' Party Pools. Click Take mine out to remove yours from any of them.

Tip: To stop an event going in anyone's Party Pool, set it to something other than Shareable on Sharing.