Video: SLIDE SHOWS IN EXPRESSION MEDIA

Presenter:Todd Miranda

The purpose of this video is to show the slide show capabilities in Expression Media.

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Globe blames Thailand and the purpose is presentation is to demonstrate the slideshow capabilities of Microsoft expression media was begin by creating a new catalog will choose the import items from local files and will choose to import his entire folder with all the media elements the Senate so we get in this folder is some jake eggs and animated give even a text file and a video that is of some various types of media to play with this jump right into looking at the options that are available for slideshow under the make menu we have run slideshow slideshow options and save slideshow as movie is the slideshow option first we can set the jury


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Of those seconds per slide here and are often full set of three we set the background color for slideshow we can set the transition effect is scaling will glance at scaling to 50 the stage grid which gives us the greatest for Howard a layout elements are slideshow you see the week into half square half portrait so this just squares about this is a half portrait half landscape if there s one on top of the other four images showing up at the same time each four corners for quarters are small and 16 images showing up all at once for a screen for Fleischer will start with full screen you can put a margin between the sales of the grid is making up your number of images that you ve are showing


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Playback anything to use interactive random continuous will leave continuous and want to see other options now we ll have a voice annotations but you could play voice annotations while slideshow was going on but we do want to show the controller so from this dialogue here we go to run the slideshow is to choose okay and will run the slideshow from our menu and what things do you live is a control bar that you got here to control window that gives you all the same options that you had available in your options dialog but many more alert when a couple things were transitioning through over slides but when we get to the video the video actually place in the slide will not progress to


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Video is complete so that s really nice because we have or typeset to three seconds per slide but video is longer than three seconds for the slideshow is smart enough to play the video for the time The video place and then move to the the same is true for animated DF for animated DF is longer than three seconds will be able to watch the Atari of a gift before it was on the so well are is playing with little here in our control window obviously you can see that the element is currently being shown shows up in a different color she can see them switch through it here at the bottom we can filter the images are showing our slideshow we can show those images are rated those images are labeled and we can show particular catalog sets as the company I


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Would be our latest list look at our text tab txt gives us the capability to display additional information phrase if we can display the title of the particular element is showing we could set its particular font and font size there you can see the guffaw showing up at the bottom for screen and even change the font color and started a bestseller was little white suite also notorious hotel and we could see information about a particular element is currently being displayed in our slideshow to see that as the only changes so does the element in our Infotech and we can see all the info for


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Ticker element as it s going to dislodge a select or false to elicit the authors are available here are two more this is the options to draw down and this gives us some of the same options that we head in our dialog box s leaders or capability to add interactive and random playback instructions we can turn our play voice annotations and play sound for movies we here we can set background color and draw that margin between media is going our separate background color suggests the hell affects the slideshow nearly got our previous snakes and pause buttons for this or this or rolling and pause for the slideshow for what they do want to note is if you polish your slideshow with a video ploy it actually causes of the


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Goes well for the playback of video really is time and with the slideshow this menu option allows us to set a transition for our elements so we can set blind fertile to get a different transition we can sit square left to right get a nice different transition or we can choose random if you ever do anyone with PowerPoint to recognize while the slide transitions from PowerPoint this allows you to set scaling it where we set our scaling to 50 for images which is a coherent change the scaling directly in your slideshow while it s running with the changes that have 25 usage of the changes immediate 50


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And we also solicited grid if you really lifted a full screen overlook a cellular options that we have available us look at this half landscape will eternally have landscape what s interesting is where showing two different images at the same time in our slideshow editor changing independently of one another on a three second interval so we can display two images for images we go up to a max of 16 images at once in our slideshow all changing independent of one another with a bag full screen procedures he just wanted to once were done viewing our slideshow which you click this button to exit out of her Fleischer in or back or catalogue to say that we want to create a slideshow of some images we ve got some nice transitions and we want to actually export this as a


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He so we can come here and select save slideshow is maybe we can choose the dimensions no one node about the dimensions is these dimensions allow you set the size of the video the physical size but this will crawl any of the elements that are inside the video you won t scale those elements down to the size which accused the output quality we can include a chapter contract and we guess could come player options this movie is very rendered as a QuickTime movie so we can indicate that we want continuous play in one auto start with the wash of the controller when we walked fullscreen mode will to show controller and autostart it with a slight launch player window and will do that right now will it create the video store that our desktop and you see that like for all the slides


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And then render the actual QuickTime movie palace go toward this top lets see here for movie we just rendered this double click it play it in your QuickTime movie playing with our images are media elements that we exported here you see this video has been just crossed down to the size of the seller video to one thing to note is the CEOs that are part of your QuickTime video won t play exactly like they did in the slideshow reviewing so here s the video will use the thumbnail of the video in our quick company so you see the expression media gives us a lot of really nice options to create and fuselage


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Terms of our catalog images set transitions and set many options that allow us to affect how those slideshows presented at how it s late now and finally we can export data to QuickTime movie distributed to people who can view that are quick to on multiple platforms

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