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Sound Ideas is a Division of the Brian Nimens Corporation Limited. © 1998-1999 ScanSoft, Inc. 9 Centennial Drive Peabody, MA 01960 SuperGOO User Guide Table of Contents Welcome to SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v About This User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi Technical Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi Video Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Working with Show Content . . . . . . . . . . Selecting Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arranging Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arranging Content on the Desktop . Arranging Content in the Sequencer and Nano Sequencer . . . . Undoing Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Redoing Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quitting SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 14 14 14 14 15 15 16 16 Enhancing Slides in the EDIT Room . . . . Lesson 1: Choosing a Slide to Enhance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 2: Special Effect Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 3: Setting Up Transition Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Adding Text . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 2: Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 3: Changing Text Attributes . Lesson 4: Adding a Background . . . . Lesson 5: Adding Text Effects . . . . . . Using Sound Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Attaching Sound Clips . . . Playing Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Using the Projector Icon . Saving Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Saving Shows . . . . . . . . . . . Distributing Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Preparing a Show for Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 2: Distributing a Show . . . . . Lesson 2: Saving SHOW Slides . . . . . Printing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Setting Up a Page . . . . . . . 24 24 25 26 26 27 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 30 31 31 31 32 33 34 34 .......................8 Installing Kai's Power SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Macintosh Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installation Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 1 Installation Chapter 3 Kai's Power SHOW Tutorial . . . 17 Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Importing Files in the IN Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a QUICKSHOW! . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 1: Creating a QUICKSHOW! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 2: Editing a QUICKSHOW! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sorting Images in the SORT Room . . . . . Lesson 1: Sorting Pictures on the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesson 2: Loading files into the Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 17 17 18 18 19 20 20 22 . . . . 10 How SHOW Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Launching SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Creating a New Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Opening a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Working in a Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Displaying Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Using Memory Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Moving Between Rooms . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 2 Kai's Power SHOW Basics Contents iii Chapter 4 The IN Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 How the IN Room Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Thumbnails, Icons, and Piles . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Working in the IN Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The QUICKSHOW! Feature . . . . . . . 36 Importing Show Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Importing Photos and Pictures . . . . . 37 Importing Video Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Importing PowerPoint Slides . . . . . . 38 Importing SHOW Slides . . . . . . . . . . 39 Loading Content from Digital Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Capturing Content Using Plug-ins . . 39 Adding Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Deleting Thumbnails from the IN Room Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Deleting Thumbnails from the SORT Room Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Setting Thumbnail Size . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adding Content to a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the Sequence Floatoid . . . . . . . 46 Using the Sequence Cursor . . . . . . . . 46 Sequencing Content in a Show . . . . . . . . . 47 Using the Sequencer Menu . . . . . . . . 48 Using the Nano Sequencer . . . . . . . . 48 Playing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Text fx Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loading Sound Clips into SHOW . . Using Sound Fx Presets . . . . . . . . . . . Playing Soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playing a Show in the EDIT Room . . . . . . 58 59 60 60 60 61 Chapter 7 The OUT Room Chapter 6 The EDIT Room Chapter 5 The SORT Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 How the SORT Room Works . . . . . . . . . . 41 Sorting Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Selecting Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Working in the SORT Room . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Sort Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Select Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Nano Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sorting Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Working with Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Arranging Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Saving Thumbnail Positions . . . . . . . 44 Selecting Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 How the EDIT Room Works . . . . . . . . . . . 50 What Are Transitions? . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Working in the EDIT Room . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Current Frame Window . . . . . . . . . . 51 In and Out Transition Windows . . . 51 Working with Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Selecting Frames to Edit . . . . . . . . . . 51 Copying-and-Pasting Slides . . . . . . . 52 Flipping Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Adding a Slide Display Time to a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Adding Transitions to a Show . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using the Transition Dialogs . . . . . . 53 Applying transitions to multiple frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Using Transition Presets . . . . . . . . . . 54 Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Adding Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Adding Backgrounds to Slides . . . . . 57 Animating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ................. Outputting Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting Slides for Output . . . . . . . . Saving a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Save Show vs. Save Project . . . . . . . . Saving a SHOW Project . . . . . . . . . . Saving a Finished Show File . . . . . . . Distributing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The SHOW Player Software . . . . . . . Distributing the SHOW Player Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macintosh and Windows SHOW Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving a SHOW Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving as HTML Pages . . . . . . . . . . . Recording Shows to Videotape . . . . . AVI or QuickTime Output . . . . . . . . Printing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting Up a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing a Single Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing a Show as Individual Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Congratulations! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 62 62 62 63 63 64 64 65 65 65 66 66 67 67 67 67 67 68 68 Chapter 8 Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . 69 iv Kai's Power SHOW Welcome to SHOW Welcome to Kai's Power SHOWTM by ScanSoft, Inc. SHOW is the perfect photo and presentation player for creative home consumers, as well as business professionals. It allows users of all skill levels to sequence and share digital photos, business slides, pictures, and video clips with a new level of simplicity and sophistication. Incorporating special effect transitions and real-time text animators, SHOW offers an easy, fast, and fun way to create, enhance, and share a presentation using the included SHOW Player software, a computer monitor, a projector, a printer, or the Web. Your Kai's Power SHOW package includes: · · · The SHOW CD-ROM The SHOW Quick Reference Card Your SHOW Serial Number Key Features Kai's Power SHOW offers the following powerful, basic features: · · · · · · · · · · · · · Innovative interface and efficient workflow QUICKSHOW!'s "Simple Sentence Control" Versatile import file format support Works great with cameras and scanners Video and sound clip import PC PowerPoint slide import Sophisticated sequencing controls Powerful special effect transitions TV-like text effects Extensive sound effect library Extensive slide background presets Included SHOW Player software Flexible output options including: computer monitor, projector, printer, and the Web Works great with other popular products About This User Guide This User Guide provides the information you need to use SHOW effectively. It will help you learn the application and serve as a reference as you attempt more sophisticated procedures. This User Guide assumes you are already familiar with basic Windows or Macintosh concepts--menus, dialogs, and mouse operations such as clicking-and-dragging. If you need more information on these subjects, or on the Windows Desktop, or Macintosh Finder, please refer to the Microsoft Windows User's Guide or the Macintosh User's Manual, respectively. Conventions This user guide is for both Windows and Macintosh users. By convention, Macintosh commands precede Windows commands in the text. For example, Command/Ctrl+I is equivalent to the Macintosh Command-I and the Windows Ctrl+I. For simplicity, the term folder refers to directories as well as folders. The SHOW interface for both platforms is identical, unless otherwise specified. If you are missing any of these items, please contact your SHOW dealer or distributor, or contact ScanSoft, Inc. at www.scansoft.com. · Welcome v Video Drivers Technical Support You will find the answe ...