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Setting
Up A Production In VideoWave
Once
the video has loaded, press the Play button
to begin.
Setting
Up A Production
It's
a good idea to create one folder into which
you can put all of the materials that you
will be using in your Videowave
production. Create a folder with
a specific name like Jamies Birthday Slideshow
or Aunt Barbara Memorial Slideshow. Gather
all of your images and any music you want
to use and save them to this folder.
Also, create a text file
into which you can type any information
that you might need to remember while working
on your slideshow. If you have all of the
facts, names, dates, places, and objects
recorded in a text file together with your
image and music files, it will be that much
less you have to stop and think about while
building your production. And remember that
you aren't limited to photographs in your
slideshow. Pretty much anything that you
can scan into your computer as an image
you can add to your production. Think about
pocket watches, maps, old journal entries,
medallions, ribbons, drawings, matchbooks,
and so on.
To set up Videowave, open Videowave.
You
are greeted with the Welcome to
Videowave window in which you can
choose to create a new production, or choose
one from a list of previous productions.
Click the radio button next to Create
a New Production. Click the More
settings button to display the
Productions Settings dialog
box.
In
the Productions Settings dialog box you
are asked to decide the default handling
for non-4:3 sources (or non-16:9 sources).
Your choices are Show entire source
and Fill Screen. The proportion
of the production's width to its height
is a 4:3 ratio (or 16:9 ratio). Any images
that you add to Videowave that are not sized
or cropped to this ratio will display in
Videowave with black bars showing.
There are a few methods of dealing with
the black bars but for now just keep Show
entire source chosen in the drop-down
menu.
Background fill allows
you to choose what color, or colors, or
image will be displayed in lieu of the black
bars. Leave it at the default at first;
you can always come back and experiment.
For
the Editing frame rate,
if you will eventually want to burn this
to a DVD to play in a TV set-top player,
keep this at 29.97 frames per second, which
is "NTSC" ~ the video signal standard
for most of North America. If you're in
other countries where "PAL" is
the standard, choose that.
The Default still-image duration is 5.0
seconds. This is how long each still-image
will display on the screen minus transitions
times, which cut into your image display
time. You might like a faster or slower
pace depending on your subject, theme, or
audience. Click OK and
with Create a new production
still checked, click OK
again.
In the Task pane, under
the Tools panel, are the
menu items that let you add your media and
effects and the settings for each. To keep
them in view, Easy Media Creator and Creator
2009 let you dock them with tabs for easy
access:
Click
on Show Media Selector
and the Media Selector panel opens. Click
on the little arrow at the top right of
the panel to dock this panel in Videowave.
Click on Show Effect Selector
and click on the little arrow at the top
right of the panel to dock it, as you did
with Media Selector. Once media is added
to the selection the Show Settings
becomes active and can be docked the same
way.
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