Tutorials

Basic Options
The setup features and options can be set prior to running the slide show, using the "Setup Slide Show" dialog in the Make menu. This is useful when you want to preconfigure the slideshow for a
presentation or run it on a second monitor.

This dialog, as well as the Controller, allow you to set the following options:

General Panel
• Interactive (or click mode), allows the user to click the mouse, use the space bar or arrow keys to advance to the next media item in the slide show. In this mode, the pause button changes to a mouse icon. Switch this option off to run the slide show using timers.
• Default Duration is the number of seconds for each slide is displayed on screen. This time applies only when the slide show is run in non-interactive mode. Note that movies and sounds default to their own duration. The Default Duration can also be over-ridden by timings set for individual media items (see Timings).
• Default Transition: The current version of MediaPro offers a basic set of QuickTime effects which can be used during slide show media transitions. The duration of the transition effects (1 seconds) is currently fixed. This setting will effect all media items, unless individually defined (see Timings below).
• Media Scaling lets you control the scale or size of media items. You can set this option before or during an active slide show.
• Continuous mode runs slide show presentations in a loop, restarting automatically from the beginning of the catalog when the slide show has finished. This mode is useful for kiosk or exhibition presentations.
• Multi-sound plays all the available audio files simultaneously. This option is only useful when you intend to play multiple movies in a grid arrangement. If this feature is disabled, MediaPro plays only the background sound channel, as well as the active movie soundtrack.
• Voice Annotation will play an attached voice annotation whenever a media item is loaded.
• Fade In/Out fades the start and end of the slide show from black.

Timings Panel
The generic settings predefined in the General panel can be overridden by defining individual flip speeds and transition effects for particular files. The list area shows a preview of your images in the list. Select a file and click on the "Setup" button to reveal the individual timing and transition options.

For sound files (sound track), you have two options:
1. Play until next sound in channel will play the sound to completion or until another sound is loaded, in which case the current sound is terminated.
2. Hold slide show until sound finishes will always play the sound to completion, if there is another sound following, the slide show will be held until the sound finishes. This option lets you define an additional period of silence, before playing the following sound.

For video files (images, movies, etc.) you have three options:
1. Default applies the default duration predefined for the entire slide show to both movies and images.
2. Hold slide show until the sound finishes is useful when you want a media item to play for as long as there is an audio file playing in the sound channel. For example, you may want to make sure that a certain number of images display during a given sound. You will set the duration of the last of those images to hold until the sound finishes. After the sound finishes, the slide show loads the next image.
3. Use media duration forces the native duration of the media (0 in the case of still images). This option will let you hold the duration for an additional time of up to 99 seconds.
Video files can also be assigned individual transition effects.

Grid Panel
Grids are the arrangement of video channels, in full-screen, quarter-screen or a variety of other options. Unless you are using a fast computer, using the slide show with more than one video track will place considerable strain on your machine and degrade playback. Experiment with 2 to 4 video channels first before choosing more complex grids.

• Layout allows the user to define the fields displayed in the slide show presentation, as well as the typography, background color and text color.

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