Tutorials

Learn how to create and customize a slide show in iView MediaPro.

Intro
iView MediaPro allows you to view or project a slide show presentation with your images, animations and audio soundtracks. It also can make slide shows with fonts and illustrations.

Create a basic slide show
1. Create a catalog containing at least one media file.

2. Click the Slide Show button in the toolbar (see above) or choose "Run Slide Show" in the Make menu (CMD-R) to start viewing your slide show.

3. The default setting of iView MediaPro is to auto-play the slide show. However, when the slide show first loads up on your screen, it will be in pause mode. So you will need to press the spacebar or click your mouse to begin the slide show. If you are viewing movies in your slide show, use the spacebar to start and stop movies.

4. The slide show is also controlled via the floating controller (see above), which you can display or hide by pressing the Tab key or the Enter key.

5. To exit, the Escape key or double-click. When you return to the catalog, the last image viewed in the slide show is selected.

Slide Show controller
This palette allows you to adjust the presentation options on the fly. To show the expanded view (below), click the large gray arrow next to the controls. Add, remove or modify the order of your files, as well as select and present a particular file, or set of files, while running the slide show. You can change just about every option except for Layout Options (fields to display, font and background color) in this dialog.

The controller is useful for running presentations on a second screen or projector. Use the "Caption" panel as a prompt in seminars, talks or any type of presentation. If you are not using two monitors, displaying the slide show controller on top of the slide show stage will impair ideal viewing.

Tip: You can choose to present a particular set or group of files from the "Files" pane pull-down menu (see above). To view sets, select "Show Catalog Sets" from the Window menu (CMD-5). Create a set by pressing the + button in the lower left hand corner of the window. To add items, drag-and-drop one or more media files from the catalog’s active window to the set.

Media types in slide shows
Audio: MediaPro slide shows can contain a single (background) audio channel at a time. Multiple sound items included in a catalog are always queued into the audio channel. If you place an audio file at the beginning of a slide show of images, it plays during the presentation.

Video: MediaPro slide shows can display up to 16 video channels (max). All media types (including images, movies or movies with sound) are played in one or more video channels depending on your grid selection.

Fonts: Slide shows can display a font's base character set (default), extended character set, or user-defined text. To change the setting, see the "Fonts" pane of the "Preferences" dialog box (CMD-Comma).

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