Only 4 steps to your own Slideshow

Step 1: Select Pictures

Step 2: Select Audio

Step 3: Settings

Step 4: Compile and start Slideshow

General information
a) Pictures
b) Audio
c) Settings
d) Create and start Slideshow
e) Slideshow on CD-ROM
f) Video-CD for your DVD-Player
g) Audio-Files and -formats

Step 1: Select Pictures

To build up a new Slideshow follow these steps:

• After starting the program click on "New Slideshow" and give your new Slideshow a name.
  
  
• You see now the main window with the 4 different steps to build your Slideshow. The left window ist the sourcewindow of your pictures and the windows in the middle is the target for your Slideshow.
  
  
• Now click the button "Select Pictures" and choose the folder containing your pictures. In your Sourcewindow all Pictures out of ths folder are displayed now.
  
  
• Now select "Drag all pictures" from the source- into the destination -window to add them to your Slideshow or use the add button ">>" manually.
  
  
• To set the order of your pictures drag them while holding left mousebutton in the target window up or down release on desired position.
  
  
• The picture manipulation like rotate, mirror, color adjustment, brightness, contrast, effects, cropping etc.) you find in the right taskbar.
  
  
• The title of the picture which is displayed during the Slideshow can be edited right also in the field "Text for Picture".
  

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Step 2: Select Audio

Improve your Slideshows with Sounds or Music. For Example you can play your favorite Audio-CD in the background of your Slideshow.

Rip a track from a Audio-CD:
Insert the Audio-CD into your CD-Rom-Drive and press the button "Add Audio from Audio-CD". Now choose your CD-ROM-Drive and select the kind of audio-compression. Yo can choose between MP3 and WAVE, MP3 Files are smaller but you have some loss in audio quality.

Add audio from your harddisk:
If you already have songs on your harddisk, you can simply add them to your Slideshow with the Button "Add audio from harddisk".

Trackorder:
You can adjust the order of the tracks. Click and hold the mousebutton and move the selected audiofile to the destination

Step 3: Settings

Here you can change the General Settings of your Slideshow.

Title of your Slideshow:
If you dont gave your Slideshow a name, or you want to rename it, then you can do this in the field "Slideshowtitle" In the field "Duration of Picture" you can change the time a picture is displayed, before changing to the next.

Duration of Picture:
Here you can change the time a picture is displayed, before changing to the next.

Loop Slideshow After Showing the Last Picture:
If this is checked the Slideshow runs in loop

Fullscreen mode:
If the Fullscreen mode is enabled, the Menue on the top is not displayed. (Just for PC- and CD-ROM-Slideshows)

Use Keys to Toggle Pictures:
(This is only shown when the Fullscreen mode is activated.)
H Here you can select automatic slide or slide per key. To change picture use:
Picture down or Arrow right for next picture Bild
Picture up or Arrow left for last picture

Show Text Under the Picture:
If you assigned a text to the pictures, actvate this "Show Text Under the Picture". If this is unchecked, then the text is not displayed.

Show Filename of the Picture:
You can display the filenames of the pictures. Activate this for display filenames.

Show Tips at Program Start:
Here you can activate the tips shown on startup.

Textcolor/Backgroundcolor:
Here you can change the "Backgroundcolor" and the "Textcolor"

Border to the Bottom of your TV Screen:
(Only valid for Video on DVD)
If the text under the pictures is out of the displayed TV-picture, you can change the border here.

Slideeffects:
On the right you can change the options for the Slide Effects. Choose Effect off" if you dont want Slide Effects. Choose "Effect on" if you want Slide Effects in your Slideshow. ChooseRandom" for a random Slide effect.

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Step 4: Create and start your Slideshow

You can choose between 3 Options

1. Create Slideshow for my PC. Copys the used Files to the HDD and creates a Start Icon on the Desktop.

2. Create Slideshow for CD ROM. Creates in C:\CDROM-Slideshow a burnable version of the Slideshow. Burn anything in this Folder on a CDROM.

3. Create Slideshow for a DVD-Player. Here you can choose VCD or SVCD. Video CD (VCD) has Resolution 355 x 288 Pixel, Super Video CD (SVCD) 704 x 567 Pixel. Warning - your Burnprog must have functionality of encoding Videofiles. Your DVD-Player must have to play VCDs or SVCDs.

4. Create Webpage with your Slideshow. Here you can create a Webpage (Gallery) and upload it via FTP.

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b) Sound and Music
You can add Music from an Audio-CD-ROM or from your HDD. You can convert AudioCDs to MP3 or WAV Format. MP3 is a little bit smaller but not every PC can handle files like this.

c) Settings
Here you can change the General Settings of your Slideshow.

d) Create and start your Slideshow
To create a new Slideshow click on Create new Slideshow. You can start the created Slideshow by pushing the Desktop Icon!

e)Slideshow for CD-ROM
If you want to create a self starting CDROM, then put all files created in the Folder C:\CDROM-Slideshow on a CDROM!

f) VCD or SVCD for DVD-Player

g) Audiofiles and formats
The Standardfile format for CD / SVCD / DVD Videos is:

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