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...................................................................... 7 BURN ....................................................................... 7 Slideshow album, slideshows, and slides ......................... 7 Theme ........................................................................ 8 Understanding your project elements ......................... 7 Setting your preferences .......................................... 8 Starting a project .................................................... 9 Relinking missing files ............................................ 9 Understanding the workspace ...................10 The Organize tab ..................................................10 The Slideshow Toolbar ................................................ 10 The Slideshow List ...................................................... 11 The Slide Toolbar ....................................................... 11 The Slide Panel ........................................................ 11 Output Format Selection Menu and Capacity Bar ............ 12 The Theme tab ......................................................12 The Burn tab ........................................................14 The Control Panel ....................................................... 12 Organize ...................................................15 Creating a slideshow ...............................................15 Creating a photo slideshow .......................................... 15 Creating a video slideshow .......................................... 16 Getting photos and videos from a digital camera ............ 16 Using Batch Collect ..................................................... 17 Changing a slideshow's title text and thumbnail .............. 18 Adding images to your slideshow .................................. 19 Arranging slides inside a slideshow ............................... 20 Splitting a Slideshow .................................................. 20 ExpressFix ................................................................ 21 Decorating your photos ............................................... 23 Adding descriptions .................................................... 23 Multi-trim Video ......................................................... 24 Modifying your slideshow contents ............................18 Using Display Reminder ..........................................26 4 CD & DVD PICTURESHOW USER GUIDE Playing back a slideshow ......................................... 26 Saving a photo as a separate file ............................. 27 Theme ...................................................... 28 Applying a theme to your slideshow album ................ 28 Customizing menus ................................................ 29 Modifying onscreen text .............................................29 Modifying background music .........................................30 Specifying a menu background image ............................30 Motion Menu on DVD slideshows ...................................31 Using Pan & Zoom and Motion filter to your menu ...........31 Using a video as a menu background .............................32 Adding and editing background audio ............................34 Deleting an audio clip ..................................................34 Rearranging the order of the audio clips .........................35 Trimming an audio clip ................................................35 Adding sound annotation to slideshows ..........................36 Applying a frame ........................................................36 Applying a transition effect to your slideshow .................37 Applying Pan & Zoom to your slideshows ........................37 Using Audio & Effect ....................................................38 Customizing background and description ........................43 Customizing your slideshows ................................... 32 Adding a First Play Video ......................................... 43 Previewing your slideshow album ............................. 44 Saving the slideshow as a separate video file ............. 45 Burn ......................................................... 46 Burning your project to disc .................................... 46 Creating a disc image file or DVD folder .................... 47 Printing CD index and CD label ................. 48 Printing CD label .................................................... 48 Printing CD index ................................................... 49 Appendices ............................................... 51 Appendix A: Organize ............................................. 51 Appendix B: Dialog Boxes ....................................... 52 Slideshow Toolbar .......................................................51 Slide Toolbar ..............................................................51 Add Description ..........................................................52 CD & DVD PICTURESHOW USER GUIDE 5 Appendix C: Remote Control ....................................65 Audio & Effect ............................................................ 53 Add Photos ................................................................ 54 Audio Recorder .......................................................... 55 Decorate ................................................................... 55 Get from Digital Camera ............................................. 55 Text & Background ..................................................... 56 Preferences ............................................................... 57 Print CD Index ........................................................... 58 Print CD Label ............................................................ 60 Output Options .......................................................... 62 Relink ....................................................................... 63 TWAIN ...................................................................... 64 WIA ......................................................................... 64 Index ........................................................66 6 CD & DVD PICTURESHOW USER GUIDE Welcome to Ulead CD & DVD PictureShow Ulead® CD & DVD PictureShow 4 makes it easy to create entertaining photo album slideshows suitable for any occasion. Turn your photos into dynamic slideshows complete with music, transitions, captions, narration and eye-catching effects in just three steps. Over 60 Instant-ShowTM theme templates in categories such as Family, Holidays and Vacation combine meaningful themes with rich special effects for stunning results. Dramatic pan and zoom motion effects and transitions guarantee your slideshows look like they were made by a pro! You can even correct problem photos with ExpressFixTM, the built-in photo editor. It's easy to produce outstanding slideshows every time. Getting Started CD & DVD PictureShow at a glance Creating projects in CD & DVD PictureShow involves a three-step process where you can Organize your photos into a slideshow album, apply a creative Theme to it, and then Burn it onto a CD or DVD. The process is illustrated below: ORGANIZE Import and organize your photos and videos Modify and enhance them Arrange them easily into a slideshow CD & DVD PICTURESHOW USER GUIDE 7 THEME Apply a great looking theme to your slideshow album with a few mouse clicks Customize your chosen theme to suit your moods by designing your own menu or customizing each slideshow Watch your project come to life with a fully functional preview BURN Specify your disc Specify files, such as burner and photo, video, or recording settings project files, to include on disc Burn your projects to CD or DVD and share them with family and friends Understanding your project elements In order to build a properly organized slideshow, it is important to understand the basic elements of a project and how each of them is related. Slideshow album, slideshows, and slides A slideshow album is composed of the photo and video slideshows as well as your project menu. A slideshow is made up 8 CD & DVD PICTURESHOW USER GUIDE of either a collection of your photos or a single video file. A slide includes the photo, its decorations and captions. Theme CD & DVD PictureShow untangles the complexity of designing your slideshow album through its Theme feature. A theme determines the overall appearance of your slideshow album by applying corresponding slideshow and menu elements. These elements include visual styles, motion effects, and background music. Setting your preferences Before creating your project, you must first specify the working folder and the TV system that your project will use. Select File: Preferences or press [F6] to open the Preferences dialog box. Click the General tab, and then specify the location, where your CD & DVD PICTURESHOW USER GUIDE 9 project temporary files will be stored, in Working folder. Specify also the TV system that your project will use in the Output Settings tab. (See "Preferences" on page 57). Starting a project When you run CD & DVD PictureShow, it automatically opens a new project and lets you start creating a slideshow. A new project always uses CD & DVD PictureShow's default project settings. To see and modify these settings based on your preferences, select File: Preferences. You must also specify the output format before creating your slideshow album. To do this, select the output format in the Output Format Selection Menu. Always save your project for future editing by selecting File: Save. To open an existing project, select File: Open. Relinking missing files When the source files of your slideshows are moved from their original locations, their links to the program are broken. When this happens, the affected slides will be replaced with a warning image during playback or when working in the Theme tab. To address this, you must relink the new location of the missing files to the program. To relink a file: 1. Select File: Relink. Missing files are displayed in the Relink dialog box. You can manually find the missing file, and then click Apply to relink the new path to the program. 2. You can also use Smart Search to find the missing file(s) quickly. Click Smart Search to open the Search Folder dialog 10 CD & DVD PI ...