FotoMagico Manual

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System Requirements: PowerPC or Intel Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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CONTENTSWHAT IS FOTOMAGICO? ........................................................... 5INTRODUCING THE USER INTERFACE ......................................... 6QUICKSTART GUIDE ................................................................... 6STAGE AREA ............................................................................... 8

Placing your Image using the Mouse............................................. 9Placing your Image using Jog Wheels ........................................... 9Contextual Menu ......................................................................... 9

STORYBOARD........................................................................... 10Contextual Menu ....................................................................... 10

IMAGES PANEL ......................................................................... 11AUDIO PANEL........................................................................... 12

Audio Browser........................................................................... 12Live Searching........................................................................... 12Get Audio Information ............................................................... 13Audio Player.............................................................................. 13

OPTIONS ................................................................................. 13Slide Options ............................................................................ 13Transitions................................................................................. 14Images Options......................................................................... 15Fine Tuning Pan & Zoom Animation............................................ 16Audio Options........................................................................... 18Title Options ............................................................................. 19Notes........................................................................................ 19

FOTOMAGICO PREFERENCES ................................................... 20Application Preferences.............................................................. 20Slideshow Settings ..................................................................... 22

PRESENTING YOUR SLIDESHOW............................................... 23Play in window .......................................................................... 23Present in full screen .................................................................. 23Interactively controlling playback ................................................ 24Apple Remote............................................................................ 24

SHARING SLIDESHOWS ............................................................ 25Image Quality and Distribution Reach......................................... 25Sharing Your Slideshow.............................................................. 26Creating a Standalone Player..................................................... 27Creating a DVD......................................................................... 28Creating a Web Page................................................................. 30

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Creating a Custom QuickTime Movie ......................................... 32

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WHAT IS FOTOMAGICO?FotoMagico is an application for creating and presenting live slideshow presentations. The primary goal isto present your pictures at the maximum supported quality that your presentation device delivers. Typicalpresentation devices are your computer's screen, a TV set or projector.Aside from high image quality, the focus lies on easy and powerful authoring of your presentation.FotoMagico provides a simple, yet elegant and intuitive user interface. Using FotoMagico, you can:• Create stunning slideshow presentations.• Use photos from an iPhoto or Aperture library or any folder on a local drive.• Zoom, move, and rotate the images to highlight the most important areas of your photos.• Use Pan & Zoom to move across your photos. This type of motion is commonly referred to as Ken Burns

effect.• Add Titles to your images to create a compelling narrative.• Use music from your iTunes library to create an appropriate atmosphere for your slideshow.• Control timing and other details of your slideshow with maximum precision.• Control your slideshows interactively during playback.• Share your slideshows with other in a variety of formats.If you want to share your finished slideshows with other people who do not have FotoMagcio installed ontheir computer, you have a host of options that let you do just that, e.g. creating a standalone player, cre-ating a DVD, or publishing your slideshow to a .Mac webpage. See “SHARING SLIDESHOWS” on page 25for more information.

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INTRODUCING THE USER INTERFACE

1. Images-/ Audio-Options Panel - Choose slideshow media by selecting images from an iPhoto or Aper-ture library and songs from your iTunes library. Use the controls in the Options panel to change settingsof selected items in the storyboard.

2. Stage Area - Use the stage area to position, scale and rotate your image on the screen.3. Storyboard - Author your slideshow presentation by arranging your photos in a sequence and adding

audio to it.4. Info Panel - Display a dimmed palette containing image file information.5. Slideshow Settings - Apply global settings, e.g. stage size, background color and a watermark image.

QUICKSTART GUIDEThis section will introduce you to creating your first slideshow. Let's assume you have set FotoMagico's pref-erences to work with iPhoto as your image repository and that you have defined an iPhoto album called“My Slideshow” that contains the images you intend to use in your slideshow.TIP APERTURE

This tutorial works just as well, if you opted for use of Aperture instead of iPhoto as your imagerepository. Simply replace iPhoto for Aperture in the text body.

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1. Launch FotoMagico. If you didn't set the preferences to create an empty document upon launch, createone now by choosing the menu command New (Command-N) from the File menu. An assistant sheetwill come up that lets you choose from several presentation scenarios, e.g. on the computer screen, onyour home TV set or on a projector. For sake of this tutorial choose “Monitor” and leave the option Dis-play of this Macintosh checked. Confirm by clicking the Choose button.

2. You will see the blank stage area at the top of the window and the empty storyboard at the bottom aswell as the Images panel to the right of the document window. The popup menu at the top lists theiPhoto library and all iPhoto albums and slideshows. Select the album “My Slideshow” from thispopup.

3. The contact sheet below this popup now displays all images of that album. Select them all (except theblank image at the top left) and drag them to the Storyboard at the bottom of the window. The Story-board is labelled with the text Drag Images Here.

4. All slides in the Storyboard should still be selected (blue slide frames). If you accidentally deselectedthem, select them again using the menu command Select All by pressing the Command-key and letterA on the keyboard.

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5. Below the image repository, click the Audio button to reveal the Audio panel. Select a song from youriTunes library and drag it below the first slide in your Storyboard.

6. Play the slideshow full screen by choosing the Present command from the Slideshow menu. Thepresent button above the Storyboard has the same function. If you have more than one monitor, youcan choose which screen should be used for the presentation by selecting Present on screen...

7. While the slideshow is playing you can stop it at any time by hitting Escape or by pressing Com-mand-Period keys.

8. Save your slideshow document.9. Adjust various settings, add titles, etc., experiment and have fun!

STAGE AREAThe Stage Area displays the currently selected slide as it is going to be presented. There are two modes:With Pan & Zoom enabled (default) or without it. But first, let's• Drag and drop an image from the Images panel into the Stage Area to insert it at the current play head

position. If you enable Pan & Zoom in the options panel, by clicking the icon above the storyboard,through menu Options or by pressing the keys Command-K, you'll see start and finish state. Set up posi-tion, scale and rotation for start and finish state of your image and let FotoMagico calculate the motion.

• If you choose not to enable Pan & Zoom, you still get to scale or rotate the image according to your lik-ing.

• Add a title to a slide using the menu command Add Title from the Slideshow menu or from the contex-tual menu (see below).

• Preview your settings by choosing Preview Motion from the Options menu or by choosing the same com-mand from the contextual menu (see further below) or by pressing the space bar on your keyboard.

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Placing your Image using the Mouse• Click and drag an image to position it on stage. Drag one of the corner handles to resize it. Click just

outside the image, but close to its edge and drag to rotate the image. The cursors will change to reflectthe current manipulation, e.g. scaling or rotating.

• Alternatively, you can press the Command key and drag the mouse to rotate an image. To zoom in onthe image, press the Option key and drag the mouse upwards. When pressing the option key and drag-ging downwards, you'll zoom out of the image.

Placing your Image using Jog Wheels• Click on an image or a title in the stage area to select it. The selected object will be highlighted with

frame and four corner handles.• Drag the jog wheels to change zoom or rotation of the selected object. Click into a text field next to the

jog wheels to enter numerical values.

Contextual MenuThe contextual menus sport a different number and order of items for image and title objects. Find adescription of all items below.• Pan & Zoom - Enable/disable the Pan & Zoom effect.• Swap Start & Finish - (only available if Pan & Zoom is enabled) - Exchange the start & finish state of

the current image or title, thereby reversing the motion. Use on both image and title to reverse thewhole slide.

• Randomize Motion - Sets a random pan & zoom effect for the selected slide.• Preview Motion - Preview the Pan & Zoom motion of the current slide.• Zoom to 100%/Zoom to Fill Stage Completely/Zoom to Show Whole Image - Use these commands

to auto size the image.• Copy Geometry - Copy zoom, rotation, and position parameters of an image or title object.• Paste Geometry - Apply copied parameters to another image or title. You can choose to paste all

parameters at once or each one individually.• Show: Action Safe Area/Title Safe Area - Displays a stitched rectangle reflecting the area of an image

that is “safe” for applying action (=motion) or placing and animating titles (text) when presentingyour slideshow on a TV screen. This may be helpful when you want to burn your slideshow to DVD andpresent it on a regular size TV set (4:3).

• Add Title - Adds a title to the current slide. Please note that a slide can only hold one title, but a title canhave multiple lines and multiple styles.

TIP By using the text fields you get to enter values that the jog wheels won't allow for, e.g. rotation val-ues smaller than 1 degree.

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• Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete Title - Allows for copying and pasting of titles from one slide to another ordeleting it.

STORYBOARDThe Storyboard at the bottom of the application window is the main place for authoring your slide show.There are two “tracks”: The upper track displays image thumbnails as slides in the sequence of their dis-play, the lower track holds the audio.• Drag images from the Images Panel to add them to the Storyboard. By holding down the Command-key

you can select multiple images at once.• Add an audio item to a slide by dragging a song from the Audio panel to the area below a slide.

• Select slides or audio items by clicking on them. Select multiple objects by pressing the Shift-key whenclicking or drag a selection rectangle over the slides or audio items.

• Drag selected image thumbnails to rearrange the order of slides in your slideshow.• Delete selected slides by pressing the backspace key, selecting the Delete menu item from the Edit

menu, or by dragging the selected slides out of the storyboard.• You can extend an audio segment over multiple slides by dragging its left or right edge horizontally.

Move an audio item to a different slide by dragging it to its new location.• The play head indicates where playback will start and where new images will be inserted when you drag

them into the Stage Area. Dragging images from the Images panel directly into the Stage Area alsoadds them to the Storyboard.

• Double-clicking a slide or audio item will bring up the Options panel and lets you change parameters forthe selected items.

Contextual MenuThe contextual menus display different sub menu items depending on where you click. The order as well asnumber of menu items may vary as well. Find a description of all items below. To bring up the contextualmenu, click using your right mouse-button or press Command-key when clicking when using a one-but-ton-mouse.• When clicking the storyboard background you'll see this command: Insert Blank Slide - this will insert a

blank slide at the current play head position. Blank slides are mainly used to display a preceding ortrailing title for your slideshow. See “Title Options” on page 19.

TIP Use the Copy Geometry and Paste Geometry commands to copy the settings for zoom, position,and rotation between slides or from start to end of the Pan & Zoom animation. This allows forprecise, template-like placement of your images.

TIP Audio items are “linked” to the first slide above it. If you move this slide, the audio item is movedalong with it.

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• Clicking on the duration number below a slide thumbnail lets you choose image duration of the slide in1s increments (if continue after fixed time is the continue type) or change the continue type to mouseclick or audio marker.

• Clicking on the transition icon lets you choose the transition type.

Clicking on a slide reveals these contextual menu commands:• Pan & Zoom - Enable/disable the Pan & Zoom effect.• Swap Start & Finish - (only available if Pan & Zoom is enabled) - Exchange the start & finish state of

the current image or title, thereby reversing the motion. Use on both image and title to reverse theirmotion.

• Randomize Motion - Sets a random pan & zoom effect for the selected slide.• Preview Motion - Preview the Pan & Zoom motion of the current slide.• Match Duration To Audio - This menu command is only available, if you have multiple images and an

audio item selected. Duration of images and transitions are adjusted so that their total duration matchesplaying length of the audio.

• Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete - Lets you copy and paste selected slides or audio items.

• Add/Delete Title - Adds a title to or removes it from the current slide. Please note that a slide can holdonly one title box, but a title can have multiple lines and multiple styles.

• Get Info - Will display additional information on selected media items in a dimmed overlaying dialogwindow.

• Replace Image... - Brings up the file navigation dialog allowing you to select a new image at the cur-rent playhead position.

IMAGES PANELThe Images Panel is tightly integrated with iPhoto and Aperture, allowing for convenient images browsingand selecting. Determine in the Images section of the application preferences, whether to use iPhoto orAperture. In addition, you get to choose any other images folder on your disk as well. Select one or multipleimages from the media browser popup and add them to your slideshow.• To minimize loading time of image thumbnails, choose an album from the popup menu to display its

image contents. This way you avoid having to wait for the entire library to be loaded into the mediabrowser popup.

TIP Please note that this only affects the transition type of the slide directly to the left, not multipleselected slide thumbnails.

TIP Please note that paste will always insert an item at the current play head position.

TIP Please note that neither slide duration nor transition type or duration are being changed. Theirvalues remain the same, only the image is being replaced.

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• If you have images that are not stored in iPhoto, select the Choose Folder... command from the popupmenu to browse images files in a folder on your hard disk.

• The area below the contact sheet displays additional information about a selected image.• Below the information is a slider similar to the one in iPhoto to control the size of the thumbnails in the

contact sheet.• Select one or multiple images and drag them to the Stage Area or the Storyboard to add them to your

slideshow. When dragging to the Stage Area they will be inserted at the playhead position.

AUDIO PANELThe Audio panel is integrated with your iTunes Library so that you can quickly find your songs. Drag songsfrom the Audio Panel to the audio track of the Storyboard to add them to your slideshow.

Audio BrowserClick on the Audio icon to the right and above the storyboard. The popup menu at the top contains youriTunes library and all iTunes play lists. Select a play list to display its songs in the table below.• Click in the headers of a table column to sort the list by that column. Control-click the table header to

show/hide additional columns like “Artist” or “Album”. You may need to increase the width of the tableto see additional columns. You can do this by dragging the divider between the Stage Area and theAudio panel.

• Resize table columns by clicking and dragging column header separators.• Double-click on a song to start playback. When a song is playing, a single click on a different audio file

is enough to play a different song. To stop audio playback, click on the pause icon in the LCD displayarea above the storyboard.

Live SearchingUse the search field above the LCD display area to search your iTunes Library for a particular audio file:

TIP iPhoto albums are a great way to organize images you might want to use for a slideshow.Choose the album from the popup menu, select all images (except the blank image at the begin-ning) and drag them to the Storyboard.

TIP Depending on the amount and size of your photos, creating and reading their thumbnails cantake some time. Creating thumbnails for images in a hard disk folder is slower than images fromyour iPhoto library.

TIP You will be able to use audio files purchased from the iTunes Music Store in your slideshow forlive presentation purposes. However, since these audio files are protected by a digital rights man-agement system (DRM), Apple prohibits exporting these songs to QuickTime movies. For this rea-son, those songs are being removed when exporting a slideshow to QuickTime movies or whenburning DVDs or CDs.

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• For search terms, enter a part of the song title, the name of an artist or album. The table contents willlist only those songs matching the search term.

Get Audio Information• Select an audio file from the list above and press the i-icon at the right end to bring up the additional

information overlay window.

Audio PlayerBelow the list of songs, you'll see an area resembling an LCD display that allows you play, pause and nav-igate within a selected song.• Click on the play button to start playing the song. Click again to pause playing.• Click and drag the playhead to scrub through the song• Click the time display to cycle through elapsed (default), remaining and total playing time.

OPTIONSThe Options panel lets you change settings of any items you selected in the Storyboard. The panel is con-text sensitive, i.e. only those settings applicable to the selected items are shown (e.g. title options are onlyvisible if a slide with a title is selected).

Slide Options

AnimationEnabling Pan & Zoom (also known as Ken Burns effect) will animate the image and/or title of a slide. Youcan enable Pan & Zoom with the check box in the Slide Options, the tool bar item below the stage, or menucommands available in the Options menu and various context menus. The Stage will then display theselected slide twice: the left side is the start position, and the right side the finish position. FotoMagico willrender the motion between those two positions in real time.• Use the mouse or jog wheels in the Stage to apply desired position, zoom level and rotation settings of

your image for both start and finish state of the Pan & Zoom animation.• The Image Options and Title Options contain a control for selecting the timing for the Animation. See

“Fine Tuning Pan & Zoom Animation” on page 16 for more details.

TIP You can make changes to multiple slides at once by selecting several slides in the storyboardbefore adjusting settings in the Options panel.

TIP To create a compelling slideshow quickly, drag a couple of slides to the Storyboard, select themall and choose the Randomize Motion command from the Options menu. This will add randomsettings of Pan & Zoom motion to the selected slides.

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Duration• The duration determines how long the animation of a slide takes. If the continue type is set to After

Duration then it also determines how long the slide is shown, before the slideshow advances to the nextslide.

Continue Type• After Duration - Set the image duration with the duration slider or by entering numeric values in the

adjacent text field. The slide will be shown for the specified duration before advancing to the next slide.• At Mouse Click - The slideshow will pause at this point until you press the mouse button to continue.

Even though the slideshow is paused while waiting for the mouse click, audio continues to play in aseamless way. In this case you may want the audio to play in a endless loop.

• At Audio Marker - The slideshow will advance to the next slide as soon as an audio marker in the cur-rently playing audio item is reached.

TransitionsThis is where you select type, duration and other parameters for the transition from the current slide to thenext.

• Type - Choose from a list of several transitions. A description of each transition follows below.• Duration - Set the time that the transition will take to complete. Changing the transition duration does

not change the total duration of the slideshow.

TIP The image duration cannot be shorter than the transition duration of the preceding slide. If youneed a shorter image duration for a given slide, you need to decrease the amount of time for thetransition of the preceding slide.

TIP If you apply a very short duration for a given slide, chances are the succeeding image won't getpreloaded quickly enough. In this case, the slideshow will advance as soon as the image of thenext slide has been completely loaded into video memory.

TIP Previous versions of FotoMagico didn't permit values below 1 second. FotoMagico 2 does. How-ever, it is important to keep in mind that large images may require a certain amount of time untilthey're loaded into video memory, so using very short duration may not work properly during livepresentations on slower computers. In these cases the duration will be as long as is necessary toload the succeeding image.

TIP Most text entry fields allow for higher values than the slider does. Duration can exceed the maxi-mum value of 60 seconds, if you type a higher value in the text entry field.

TIP If you choose continue at audio marker, make sure the audio item contains some audio markers,or your slideshow will get stuck. See “Audio Options” on page 18.

TIP In order to change the transition for multiple slides at once, select the slides in the Storyboardand choose the desired transition type in the Options panel.

TIP The transition type affects both image and audio. If you use e.g. a dissolve transition, and belowthat transition are two adjacent audio items in the Storyboard, those audio items will be cross-faded. The table below lists each transition type and how it works with image and audio.

TIP The transition duration cannot be longer than the image duration of the succeeding slide. If youwant a longer transition duration, you need to increase the image duration of the succeedingslide.

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List of Transitions

Images Options• File: When a single slide is selected, the file name of the image will be displayed here. If you want to

Name Image Effect Audio EffectCut Simply cuts from current slide to the next one. No additional parameters. No fadingFade Fades out current slide and fades in to next slide. Fade out, fade inDissolve Cross dissolves from current slide to next slide. Cross fadeLinear Wipe Creates a wipe effect between current and next slide. Parameters are soft-

ness (0%-100%) and angle (0°-360°). Softness 0% creates hard edges, while 100% produces a soft edged effect that almost looks like a dissolve.

Cross fade

Circular Wipe Creates a round wipe effect between current and next slide. Parameters are softness (0%-100%) and direction, which can be inward or outward.

Cross fade

Angular Wipe Creates a “clock-like” wipe effect between current and next slide. There is one additional parameter: direction, which can be left (counter clockwise) or right (clockwise).

Cross fade

Slide Slides the next slide over the current one. You can choose the direction of the slide effect in 90° increments (up, down, right, left).

Cross fade

Push The next slide pushes the current slide out of sight. You can choose the direction of the slide effect in 90° increments (up, down, right, left). The 3D option first pushes the image away before moving it over.

Cross fade

Twirl Creates an effect similar to flushing the current slide down the toilet. There is one additional parameter: direction, which can be left (counter clockwise) or right (clockwise).

Fade out, fade in

Zoom Zooms from current slide to the next slide. Parameters are zoom factor (2x-1000x) and zoom direction, which can be in or out.

Cross fade

Aperture Creates the camera-typical lens aperture. Fade out, fade inFlip 3D effect that flips over current image to reveal next image on the back-

side.Fade out, fade in

Cube The images of the current and next slides are displayed on the faces of a cube. The transition rotates the cube, so that the current slide is moved out of sight, while the next slide is moved into sight. You can choose the direction of the slide effect in 90° increments (up, down, right, left).

Cross fade

Shuffle Similar to shuffling a deck of cards. Cross fadeTopple Similar to flipping a rolodex card. Cross fade

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replace the image, while keeping all other parameters, like animation, color, etc, select the Choose Filecommand from the popup menu next to the file name.

• Animation: When Pan & Zoom animation is enabled in the Slide Options you can use the Animation barto fine tune animation timing. See “Fine Tuning Pan & Zoom Animation” on page 16 for more details.

• Color: Use this feature to apply non-destructive color correction to the images of selected slides. Colorcorrection can be used to modify the color tint, saturation, and lightness (gamma) of an image. In thepopup menu you can select from two different user interfaces: color wheel or color sliders.

Fine Tuning Pan & Zoom AnimationThis section will show you how to fine tune pan & zoom animation. First you need to turn on animation bychecking the Pan & Zoom check box. The Stage Area now displays the currently selected slide twice - thestart position on the left side, and the finish position on the right side.Click on the left image, then zoom, rotate, and drag it until the start position looks right to you. Repeat thesame for the finish position on the right side of the Stage Area. During playback the image will be smoothlyanimated from the start to the finish position.

Fine-tuning TimingThe animation bars in the Image Options and Title Options provide fine control over animation timing. Dragthe blue and white triangles to set a initial delay, ease in, ease out, and final delay of the animation. Thesmall popup to the right provides a few presets to get you started.By default the image is animated at constant speed:

The bar represents the total time for which a slide is visible. The shaded yellow area on the left representsthe incoming transition, i.e. the length of time for which the transition from the previous slide is still hap-pening. The shaded yellow area on the right represents the outgoing transition or time the transition to thenext slide is going on. It is important to keep in mind that while a transition is in progress, an image mayonly be partially visible. For this reason you may want to restrict your Pan & Zoom animation to the white

TIP When you replace an image in a slide, you will probably have to adjust the position and zoomfactors for the new image.

TIP The effects of the color correction are visible live in the Stage and Storyboard. If you have multipleslides selected, the Stage does not display an image, so the effects are only visible in the Story-board.

TIP If you have several images of matching color tint, but a few stick out with a different tint, you canselect these images and adjust their tint to match the other images.

TIP To create black & white version of an image simply reduce the saturation to 0%.

PRO Color correction is only available in FotoMagico Pro.

TIP To preview the animation press the space bar key.

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area, i.e. the period of time when no transition is occurring and an image is completely visible. Let's look atan example to make this concept more obvious:

The image above shows a scenario where animation starts right after the incoming transition has ended. Itthen eases in, i.e. gradually picks up speed and proceeds at constant speed. After a while, it eases outagain and finishes right before the outgoing transition starts.To control the exact timing of the animation, simply drag the blue and white triangles below the bar. Theleft blue triangle controls the exact point in time when the animation begins. The white triangles controleasing in and out, while the right blue triangle determines when the animation ends.

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These settings have the following effects: The slide will pause briefly at the start position before a slowlyeasing in the Pan & Zoom animation. Animation will continue at constant speed until the end of the slideduration.

Example 2

With this setting the Pan & Zoom animation will start immediately. The motion will ease out towards thefinish position and briefly pause before advancing to the next slide.

Animating TitlesTitles can be animated just like images. However, there is one additional feature available for titles, whichis not present for images: You can control title opacity over time. To control opacity, draw the blue andwhite triangle of the Opacity Bar in the Title Options.

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The example above has the following effect: Shortly after the slide has become completely visible, the titlewill fade in. It will stay visible for the rest of the slide duration.

Audio OptionsIf you select multiple audio items in the Storyboard, any changes you make will be applied to all of them.

Looping• Checking the Mode: Audio Loops check box will do the following: If the audio is not long enough for the

slides, it will loop until the last slide is passed. This is especially useful for interactive presentationswhen you don't know how long it will take to present a sequence of slides.

Volume• Adjust the volume slider beneath a selected audio item. It lets you adjust audio items' volumes relative

to each other and works much like Sound Check in iTunes, but gives you control over the amount of rel-ative volume.

Audio EditorUse the editor to preview your audio item.• The Play/Pause button starts and stops playback of the selected audio item.• Use the in-point and out-point markers to trim away the beginning and/or end of an audio item.• Click the “M” Button to set an audio marker at the current position in the song. This is the same as click-

ing the “+” button in the Markers section, which is described below.

MarkersAudio markers are used to synchronize slide transitions with the beat of the music. Using audio markersrequires the following steps:• Play the audio in the editor. When you want a transition to occur, click on the “M” or “+” button. This

adds a new audio marker. The marker is visible as a small tick mark below the bar in the player LCD dis-play. It is also listed numerically in the Markers table.

• Use the “-” button to remove a selected audio marker in the table.• Once you are done setting all your audio markers drag the audio editor playhead to the beginning and

play again to review the markers. The “M” button will flash in red when an audio marker is passed.• If an audio marker is not set correctly, you can adjust its position by editing its time code in the table.

Double click a line in the table to edit the time code.

TIP Please note the red area in the Animation bar: It represents the sections where a title is com-pletely invisible. You may want to restrict the animation to that part of the slide duration where thetitle is visible. To achieve this simply drag the blue triangles inwards, so that animation doesn'toverlap with any red areas.

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• Once you are satisfied with the audio markers, go to the Slide Options and set the continue type of theslides above the audio item to Continue at Audio Marker.

Title OptionsEach slide can have one title. A title can have multiple fonts, styles, colors, paragraph alignments, etc. andspan several lines of text. You can modify text attributes using the standard Mac OS X font panel or themenu command available in the Format menu. You may also paste graphics into a title.To edit a title, double click it in the Stage. The title frame will switch from a thin frame to a thicker framewith two resizing handles on the left and right edge. The text is already selected so you can start typing. Ifyou want to reflow the text, click on one of the handles to resize the width of the title's frame.• Click the font buttons to show/hide the Font Panel and Color Panel.• Click on the alignment buttons to change the alignment of the selected text. If a title is currently being

edited (thick selection frame), each paragraph in a title can have a different alignment. If a title is notcurrently being edited (thin selection frame) the alignment is applied to the entire text of a title.

• Use the Opacity bar to fade title in/out. See “Fine Tuning Pan & Zoom Animation” on page 16.• Use the Animation bar to control the timing of title animation. See “Fine Tuning Pan & Zoom Anima-

tion” on page 16.

NotesUse the text field to enter notes for the selected slide. This may help you remember the narration for yourslideshow presentation.

TIP With audio markers you can synchronize slide transitions with the beat of your music. If audiomarkers are placed fairly close together, exact timing cannot be guaranteed, however. FotoMag-ico needs to load up coming image files and titles before it can proceed to the next slide. If anaudio marker was missed in the process, the transition to the next slide will occur when the nextaudio marker is passed.This limitation only applies to a live presentation. When exporting your slideshow to a QuickTimemovie, the exact timing is always respected.

TIP If you want to apply modifications to multiple titles at once, select several slides in the Storyboard.Then make the desired modifications.

TIP In the Font Panel you can use advanced typographic features like shadows, ligatures, etc...

TIP The Font Panel also includes controls for changing kerning and leading. Click on the + or - but-tons to increase or decrease kerning or leading of the selected text. Press the shift key to go in 10xincrements.

TIP You can create transparent titles by reducing the opacity in the Color Panel. Please note that thiswill affect the entire title. You cannot change the opacity of individual characters separately.

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FOTOMAGICO PREFERENCES

Application PreferencesThis is where you apply settings that affect application's behaviour globally. In order to bring up the prefer-ences pane, select Preferences from the FotoMagico menu or press Command-Semicolon.Preference settings are grouped into five different areas, each of which is represented by a tab in the prefer-ences window:

GeneralThis will present you with these options:• Show Splash Screen - decide, whether or not to see FotoMagico's splash screen after launching the

application• Create New Document at Start up - when checked, this will create an empty document after launching

the application• Show Assistant When Creating New Document - will bring up an assistant that guides through the

process of setting up a document• Auto Expand Options Group - automatically reveals those options controls that are relevant for the cur-

rently selected object

ImagesSets options for the Images Panel:• Image Library: iPhoto or Aperture - select your default image repository here. Either one or the other

can be selected.

• Image Editor - lets you choose your preferred editing application, e.g. Adobe Photoshop• Appearance - determines how image thumbnails are being displayed in the Images Panel• Display Border - will draw a border around image thumbnails• Display Shadow - creates a drop shadow around image thumbnails• Display Name - displays image names

• Background Color - allows you to choose a shade of black as background color of the Images Panel

AuthoringAllows you to set options that apply globally throughout the authoring process.• Zoom to 100% - inserts image at original size.

PRO Using images from Aperture is only supported in FotoMagico Pro.

TIP This may crop certain areas of the image in order to fit it onto the stage and make sure thatAction Safe and Title Safe areas are respected.

20 Application Preferences

• Zoom to Fill Stage Completely - will scale the image to cover the entire stage area as set in the StageSize Settings.

• Zoom to Show Whole Image - will scale the image, if necessary, so that no area gets accidentallycropped.

• Random Pan & Zoom - applies random Pan & Zoom parameters.

• Alignment Guides• Display Alignment Guides - will display alignment guide lines when dragging an image• Stage, Objects Color Panels - allow you to set a custom color for the alignment guide lines.• Play Snap Sound - plays an audio event, if image or title box position is correctly aligned.

PlayingOptions that apply when presenting your slideshow.• Overlays: Visualize Interactive Control - Displays overlays during live presentation when pausing, step-

ping forward or back, and changing volume.

BurningAllows you to choose your preferred TV standard and burning application.• TV Standard - please choose NTSC or PAL, whichever standard is the default one in your country of resi-

dence.• Burn with - select, whether to burn DVDs with (default) Apple iDVD or Roxio Toast.

Software UpdateDecide, whether and how often FotoMagico will look for updates.Check for new versions - according to whatever you set in this popup menu, FotoMagico will check• Never - not at all• Monthly - every month• Weekly - every week• Daily - every dayIn addition to that, you always get to Check Now when hitting the according button next to the popupmenu.

TIP These settings are being used whenever you insert images in the storyboard. It doesn't keep youfrom manually changing any of these settings at a later stage.

TIP Only applications installed on your machine will be displayed in the popup menu.For iDVD, version 5.x and 6.x are supported. Toast versions 6, 7 and 8 are supported. Older ver-sions of either application will probably not show up and definitely not work.

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Slideshow SettingsThese settings control important basic presentation aspects of your slideshow, e.g. aspect ratio and imagesize in relation to a given presentation device. To get to the settings sheet, select Settings… from theSlideshow menu.

Settings• Stage Size: This popup menu allows you to conveniently match the size of the stage area to e.g. the size

of the display you're using, to the size of an Apple Cinema Display or to a choice of common sizes, e.g. aHigh Definition or regular TV set.

When changing the stage size all items will be resized automatically in order to preserve appearance asclosely as possible. Please inspect all slides after a change to make sure everything still looks asintended.

• Background Color: Click the Color tab to bring up the system wide built-in color chooser palette. Choos-ing a different color here will change the default black background of your slideshow to the color of yourchoice.

• Options: Check this box to loop your slideshow. When enabled, a slideshow will play until ESC-key isbeing pressed. This mode is useful for kiosks or product demos.

Watermark (FotoMagico Pro)• Push the Choose... button to access the file locator dialog and select an image to be used as a water-

mark.

• Use the Remove button to eliminate the superimposed watermark.• Opacity - This will control the amount of opaqueness of the superimposed image, so the slideshow

doesn't get covered by the watermark image.

InfoEnter Author, Copyright and Description in the according fields.

TIP As soon as you override the predefined values by customized ones, the popup will switch to Cus-tom to accurately reflect your choice.

TIP FotoMagico defaults new slideshows to the size of your main screen assuming that you will playyour slideshows mostly on your computer. If you create a slideshow for playback on TV or a dif-ferent screen, we recommend adjusting the settings prior to authoring your slideshow.

TIP The opacity setting will not be applied to the background, i.e. is not supported to make the back-ground of your slideshow transparent.

TIP Prepare a logo or copyright message to superimpose this upon your slideshow presentation andthus protect your intellectual property.

22 Slideshow Settings

PRESENTING YOUR SLIDESHOWThere are two modes in which to view your slideshow:• Play in window and• Present in full screen mode.Presenting support multi-monitor setups, playback can be controlled interactively via Keyboard and mouseor the Apple Remote.You can activate those presentation modes via menu command, through the transport buttons betweenStoryboard and Stage area and by pressing keyboard short cuts.In addition, you can quickly preview a single slide by pressing the space bar or selecting Preview Motionfrom the Options menu.

Play in windowIn order to preview your slideshow or short sequences of it, either• choose Play from the Slideshow menu • click the left one of the two Play buttons below the stage area or • press Command-Shift-P keys on the keyboard.If no slides are selected in the storyboard, FotoMagico will run the slideshow from the playhead position tothe end. If you want to stop the preview, either press Escape, Command-Period or choose Stop from theSlideshow menu.If you have selected some slides in the storyboard, it will let you preview those and then stop automatically.

Present in full screenIf you want to present your slideshow or segments of it,• choose Present from the Slideshow menu• click the right one of the two Play buttons below the stage area or• press Command-P keys on the keyboard.

Multi-screen setupIf there is more than one display device available (e.g. a mobile Mac connected to an external display or aprojector), you can select Present on screen... and choose, which screen to display your slideshow on.

TIP By default, FotoMagico will always play from the playhead position to the end when running afull screen presentation, regardless of whether or not you have selected any slides in the story-board.

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Selecting the presentation screen works much like Display preferences panel in the System Preferences. Thekey short cut for this presentation mode is Command-Option-P.

Interactively controlling playbackSlideshows can be controlled interactively while playing back. This is independent of whether you play theslideshow inside FotoMagico in a window, full screen, a stand alone player or a screen saver.The following controls are available:• Volume Control - Use the scroll wheel of your mouse or Apple Remote volume keys to control the master

volume. Lower the volume during commentary segments and increase it when the music is more impor-tant.

• Pause/play slideshow - Press the space bar to pause the slideshow or the Play/Pause button on Apple'sRemote. Please note that audio will continue to play, while images are being halted.

• Advance/Go backwards - Press the right arrow key or the Fast Forward button on the Apple Remote toadvance to the next slide. Press the left arrow key or Rewind button on the Apple Remote to go back tothe preceding slide. As soon as the image has finished loading the transition will occur.

• Stop slideshow - Press Command-Period keys or the ESC-key to stop the presentation at any time.Image and audio will fade out before the slideshow stops.

Apple RemoteThe playback of FotoMagico can be fully controlled via the Apple Remote delivered with most recent Macs.All transport and volume keys on the remote work as expected, Menu stops playback.

TIP You may notice some deviation from the slide duration you specified, if your hardware isn't ableto load images fast enough. This can be the case when using excessive image size or resolutionand even more so, if FotoMagico needs to scale your images to match the requirements of theselected presentation device. Another common reason for delayed display are excessively shortduration intervals between slides or a combination of this and above mentioned image sizes. Inall of these cases, loading the image entirely into the graphic card's memory has priority overyour duration and transition settings. In other words: Images come first, where FotoMagico willload the images as quickly as possible and then continue presenting the slideshow without inter-ruption.

24 Interactively controlling playback

SHARING SLIDESHOWSAfter you have created and played a slideshow in Boinx FotoMagico, you may want to share your slideshowwith others, who do not have FotoMagico or even a Mac computer. Boinx FotoMagico offers a variety ofoptions to share your slideshows:

Image Quality and Distribution ReachSome of the choices listed above provide excellent image quality, but a limited distribution reach, whileother choices reach a wider audience, but with reduced image quality. Keep this tradeoff in mind whenchoosing how to share your slideshow.

StandalonePlayer

Creates a stand-alone player application that can beplayed on any Mac running Mac OS X Tiger or later. As aplayer contains high resolution images and can be cont-rolled interactively, it is the best way to share a slideshowwith anybody using a Mac.

Expiration featuresonly available inFotoMagico Pro

DVD This plugin helps you to create a movie that can then beburned to a DVD using a third-party application such asiDVD or Roxio Toast Titanium. Due to the limitations of theNTSC and PAL video standards the result will not look asgood as the original slideshow, but can it played on anyDVD player connected to a TV or projector.

Web Creates a movie suitable for putting on a web page. Thisplugin can also create a great looking web page based onan (extendable) set of themes and upload all necessaryfiles directly to your .Mac account.

iPod Creates a movie that plays on your iPod (iPod with video,iPod classic or iPod nano 3rd generation) and puts it intoiTunes for synching to the iPod.

iPhone &iPod touch

Similar to iPod, but using the better video capabilities ofthe iPhone.

AppleTV Create a movie that uses the full capabilities of yourAppleTV, including HDTV 720p. Your movie will also beadded to iTunes for synching.

Screen Saver Creates a screen saver compatible with Mac OS X Tiger orlater. Similar to the standalone player a screen saver canplay the full resolution of your slideshow.

Expiration featuresonly available inFotoMagico Pro

HD Produces a H.264 based HD movie ready to be played ona high resolution TV.

FotoMagico Pro only

QuickTimeMovie

The QuickTime plugin gives you access to all the tediouscompression settings of QuickTime. Here you can reallyfine tune all aspects and even create preset settings forfuture use.

FotoMagico Pro only

MP4 Movie Similar to the QuickTime plugin, but specialized for MP4movies that can be played on most devices, like mobilephones, game hardware etc.

FotoMagico Pro only

PRO Some plugins are only available in FotoMagico Pro. Standalone Players and Screensavers can becreated with all versions of FotoMagico, but expiration features are only available in FotoMagicoPro.

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Standalone players, screen savers, and presenting from within FotoMagico provide the best possible imagequality, but require a Mac computer to present the slideshow. Burning the slideshow to a DVD lets anybodywith a consumer DVD player view the slideshow, but image quality is reduced due to technical limitationsof the video format. Exporting a movie for handheld devices like an iPod or iPhone will let you watch aslideshow on the go, but image quality is limited by the small LCD screen. Exporting your slideshow for theweb lets anybody watch your slideshow, but image quality is limited by bandwidth limits of typical internetconnections.

Sharing Your SlideshowSelect the Share (Export)... command from the File menu. An assistant will appear that guides you throughsteps necessary to share your slideshow. The first page of this assistant lets you pick how you want to shareyour slideshow. Select from one of the choices in the upper half of this page:

The lower half of this page displays some info about the selected choice. A short description and the qualityindicator tells you what to expect from each choice. The quality indicator gives you a hint about the amountof image quality that is retained from the original slideshow.Standalone players and screensaver always retain 100% quality because they use the FotoMagico slide-show engine. For this reason they are the preferred choice to share a slideshow at full quality. All otherchoices export your slideshow to an intermediate format (usually a QuickTime movie), which results insome image quality loss.

Once you have made your choice click on the Continue button. The assistant will guide you through the nec-essary steps to share your slideshow.

TIP For some choices (e.g. DVD) the quality will always be the same, but in other cases (e.g web orQuickTime) the quality can vary greatly, depending on the output size, framerate, and compres-sion options that are chosen. For this reason the quality indicator can only give your a rough esti-mate of what to expect.

26 Sharing Your Slideshow

Creating a Standalone PlayerOnce your slideshow is finished you may want to share it with other people who do not have FotoMagicoinstalled on their computer. Creating a standalone player is the best option, because it displays the slide-show with the original FotoMagico engine, thus retaining the full quality of your slideshow.Select the Share (Export)... command from the File menu. An assistant will appear that guides you throughsteps necessary to create a standalone player. Select the Player icon and click on the Continue button.

Step 1 of 4: Provide InfoOn the first page of the assistant you can enter information about the author of the slideshow, copyrightinfo, a web page URL, and a contact email. This information can either be displayed before or after theplayer is presenting the slideshow.

Step 2 of 4: Select OptionsNow you can select expiration options. A player can be set to expire after a presenting the slideshow a cer-tain number of times, or after a certain date.

Step 3 of 4: Choose DestinationNow you need to specify where the player file should be saved. FotoMagico will suggest a reasonablefilename and destination folder. Should you wish to change the filename or destination folder, then click onthe Choose... button. Please make sure to select a folder on a volume that has enough free disk space. Alsomake sure to only select a folder for which you have write permissions.

TIP Standalone players are compatible with Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ornewer, which have a resonably modern graphics card. Any Macintosh computer that is able torun Boinx FotoMagico can also run a standalone player.

TIP If your slideshow has missing image or audio files you will first see a page that lists the missingfiles. If you used protected audio files (songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store), these willalso be listed.

TIP The use of DRM Protected audio is not recommended as it limits the distribution of the player to 5different computers, which need to be authorized to play the audio. For this reason it makesmore sense to use unprotected audio. We recommend that you burn protected songs to an AudioCD in iTunes and reimport them back into iTunes. This strips the DRM protection from the audiofiles and will lead to minor loss of audio quality, but the resulting audio files can be used withoutany restrictions. Please refer to the iTunes Help for details on burning Audio CDs and importingsongs.

PRO Expiration options are only available in FotoMagico Pro.

TIP If you chose a folder which does not have the correct permissions or if the volume does not haveenough free disk space, then an alert will be displayed at the bottom of the assistant and the Startbutton will be disabled. In this case you need to choose a different folder or different volume.

TIP If none of your volumes have enough free disk space, you need to attach another external hard-disk or free up some space on your internal harddisk by deleting stuff you do not need anymore.


Step 4 of 4: ExportingNow the player will be created in the destination folder you specified in the previous step. The assistant willclose automatically.

Creating a DVDMany users wish to present slideshows in the comfort of their living room, using their TV set and DVDplayer. While this does no justice to the quality of FotoMagico slideshows, FotoMagico helps you create aDVD of your slideshow. FotoMagico does not burn a DVD directly. Instead it creates a QuickTime or DVmovie file and relies on third party software like Apple iDVD or Roxio Toast Titanium to burn the DVD.

Preparing Your SlideshowTelevision sets come in two different shapes: traditional TVs with 4:3 aspect ratio and widescreen TVs with16:9 aspect ratio. To make sure that your slideshow looks good on a wide range modern TVs we recom-mend that you create your slideshow with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The HDTV (1080) choice when creating anew slideshow document is the best choice for this, because it creates a high resolution 16:9 slideshow.If you already have an existing slideshow with a different aspect ratio you may want go the slideshow set-tings and change the stage size by selecting Settings... from the Slideshow menu.

Slideshows that do not have the correct aspect ratio can be made to match the aspect ratio of your TVscreen. There are two different choices: Letterboxing and cropping.

Cropping cuts away part of the image to make it match your TV. Letterboxing adds black bars at the top andbottom of the image. Pillarboxing is a rare case: it adds black bars to the left and right of the image andonly happens if you present a 4:3 slideshow on a widescreen television.Exporting Your Slideshow

Letterboxed Cropped

28 Creating a DVD

Select the Share (Export)... command from the File menu. An assistant will appear that guides you throughsteps necessary to create a DVD. Select the DVD icon and click on the Continue button.

Step 1 of 4: Select OptionsThe first step lets you select some options. Select the application which should be used to burn the DVD(Apple iDVD or Roxio Toast Titanium), the video standard (NTSC or PAL), and the aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9).The 16:9 choice is only available if the stage size of your slideshow is 16:9 or wider.

The preview on the right side will show you what to expect from each choice. Use the left and right arrowbuttons below the preview to step through each slide of the slideshow.

Step 2 of 4: Choose DestinationNow you need to specify where the intermediate file should be saved. In most cases this will be a DV file(which requires quite a bit of disk space). This DV file will be used as input for iDVD or Toast Titanium.FotoMagico will suggest a reasonable filename and destination folder. Should you wish to change thefilename or destination folder, then click on the Choose... button. Please make sure to select a folder on avolume that has enough free disk space. Also make sure to only select a folder for which you have writepermissions.Please note that the required disk space is also displayed. This required space is the sum of the estimatedsize of the final output file and the size of temporary files.

Step 3 of 4: ExportingOnce you click on the Start button the exporting will begin. Exporting is usually done in 4 steps: Preparing,rendering audio, rendering video, and compressing. A progress bar for each step is displayed at the bottom


TIP DRM Protected audio files cannot be used. We recommend that you burn those songs to anAudio CD in iTunes and reimport them back into iTunes. This strips the DRM protection from theaudio files and will lead to minor loss of audio quality, but the resulting audio files can be usedwithout any restrictions. Please refer to the iTunes Help for details on burning Audio CDs andimporting songs.

TIP If the aspect ratio of your slideshow and the aspect ratio does not match, then a yellow warningwill be displayed at the bottom of the page. In this case you need to decide whether the slideshowshould be letterboxed or cropped to match the aspect ratio of the DVD.

TIP Letterboxing will add black bars at the top and the bottom of the image, while cropping will cutaway parts of the image to make it match the aspect ratio of the DVD.




of the assistant. Depending on the duration of your slideshow this can take quite a bit of time. Go aheadand have a cup of coffee.

Step 4 of 4: Finish UpThe slideshow has been exported to a DV file and saved in the folder that you specified earlier. Now this DVfile will be opened in the DVD burning application that you selected before (iDVD or Toast Titanium).Fromhere on you leave FotoMagico and continue your work with the DVD burning application. For details onworking with the DVD burning application refer to the iDVD or Toast Titanium help pages.

Creating a Web PageOnce your slideshow is finished you may want to publish it on a web page. FotoMagico offers a simple wayto export a QuickTime movie and embed it in a web page which can be customized. After exporting thisslideshow can automatically be uploaded to your .Mac account or a web server.Select the Share (Export)... command from the File menu. An assistant will appear that guides you throughsteps necessary to create a web page. Select the Web Movie (Safari) icon and click on the Continue button.

Step 1 of 6: Select OptionsOn the first page you select the size, framerate, and the quality of the exported movie.If you specify the width, the height will be calculated automatically. If you specify the height, the width willbe calculated automatically. If you enter both width and height, and the aspect ratio does not match theaspect ratio of your slideshow, you may also have to specify whether the slideshow should be letterboxed orcropped.You can enter a framerate up to 60 fps. If you enter a fairly low framerate, the motion blur framerate isenabled.

TIP Should automatic opening of the DV file in the DVD burning application fail for any reason, thenlaunch the DVD burning application manually, and then drag the DV file from the Finder to theDVD burning application.

TIP Please note that Boinx Software will not be able to offer support for Apple iDVD or Roxio ToastTitanium. Should you have problems using these applications, please contact Apple or Roxio cus-tomer support.


TIP The use of DRM Protected audio is not recommended as it cannot be exported to QuickTimemovies. We recommend that you burn protected songs to an Audio CD in iTunes and reimportthem back into iTunes. This strips the DRM protection from the audio files and will lead to minorloss of audio quality, but the resulting audio files can be used without any restrictions. Please referto the iTunes Help for details on burning Audio CDs and importing songs.

30 Creating a Web Page

Step 2 of 6: Customize WebpageThe second page lets you choose a webpage design and customize it by entering some text that is to appearon this page. From the theme popup select the design you would like to use. Enter the text that is to appearon the webpage in the text fields on the left side of the page. To the right you will see a preview of the web-page.

Step 3 of 6: Choose DestinationNow you need to specify where the exported QuickTime movie and webpage will be saved. All files will becreated in a new folder. FotoMagico will suggest a reasonable folder name, but you can specify you ownfolder name and location by clicking on the Choose... button. Please make sure to select a volume that hasenough free disk space and write permissions.

Step 4 of 6: Upload to ServerIf you want the webpage to be automatically uploaded to a web server after the slideshow has beenexported, then provide the necessary information on this page. You can either upload to a .Mac account orto a web server via FTP or SFTP. Select the kind of upload from the Upload popup menu. Enter you creden-tials in the text fields below the popup menu. You may have to enter your password to authorize theupload.

Step 5 of 6: ExportingOnce you click on the Start button the exporting will begin. Exporting is usually done in 4 steps: Preparing,rendering audio, rendering video, compressing video, and uploading webpage. A progress bar for each stepis displayed at the bottom of the assistant. Depending on the duration of your slideshow this can take quitea bit of time. Go ahead and have a cup of coffee.

Step 6 of 6: Finish UpThe slideshow has been exported to webpage and optionally uploaded to a web server. You can now visitthis webpage by clicking on the Visit Webpage button.

TIP FotoMagico ships with a couple of themes pre-installed, but user can install their custom themes.The themes come as plugins with the .fmwebtheme extension. Just double-click a .fmwebthemefile in the Finder and FotoMagico will autoatically install it in the correct folder (~/ApplicationSupport/Boinx/FotoMagico/WebThemes).



TIP Please note that checking your credentials make take some times as this requires contecting theserver over the internet.

TIP If the .mac login was successful have a look at the information at the bottom of the page. It willlist the amount of free space on your .Mac iDisk.


Creating a Custom QuickTime MovieShould none of the other sharing options be sufficient for your needs, you may want to consider exportingyour slideshow to a custom QuickTime movie. Please note, that this is not for the faint of heart, as quite abit of QuickTime knowledge may be required to obtain good results.Select the Share (Export)... command from the File menu. An assistant will appear that guides you throughsteps necessary to create a web page. Select the QuickTime Movie icon and click on the Continue button.

Step 1 of 4: Select OptionsOn the first page you select the size, pixel aspect ratio, framerate, and the compression options of theexported movie.If you only specify the width or the height for the QuickTime movie, the missing value will be calculatedautomatically. If you specify both the width and height, then this size will be used, even if the aspect ratiodoes not match the aspect ratio of your slideshow. In this case you will get radio buttons that let you choosewhether you want to letterbox or crop your slideshow to make it match your export movie size.If you specify both width and height, you also get the option to enter a custom pixel aspect ratio, whichmay be necessary if your exported movie is indended for video output, which often requires non-square pix-els.Framerates between 1 fps and 60 fps are supported. The Motion Blur checkbox will be enabled for lowerframerate. Using motion blur help void low framerate artifacts, but rendering time are significantlyincreased.Click on the Customize... to change the QuickTime compression settings. There are numerous QuickTimecodecs to choose from and each is slightly different, so a explanation in these help pages is not possible.Please note that some prior knowledge with QuickTime compression settings is required to achieve goodresults!

PRO Exporting to custom QuickTime movies is only available in FotoMagico Pro.


TIP The use of DRM Protected audio is not recommended as it cannot be exported to QuickTimemovies. We recommend that you burn protected songs to an Audio CD in iTunes and reimportthem back into iTunes. This strips the DRM protection from the audio files and will lead to minorloss of audio quality, but the resulting audio files can be used without any restrictions. Please referto the iTunes Help for details on burning Audio CDs and importing songs.

TIP Once you find good settings that lead to acceptable results you may want to save them for lateraccess. Choose the Save Preset... command from the Settings popup. Specify a name for the pre-set file. From now on, you can recall these settings by simply selecting the name of the presetfrom the Settings popup.

TIP Boinx Software Support can help you with specific questions about how to use FotoMagico, butdue to limited resources will not be able to help with general questions about QuickTime com-pression settings. You may want to contact Apple Support in this case.

32 Creating a Custom QuickTime Movie

Step 2 of 4: Choose DestinationNow you need to specify where the exported QuickTime movie will be saved. FotoMagico will suggest a rea-sonable filename, but you can specify you name and location by clicking on the Choose... button. Pleasemake sure to select a folder that has enough free disk space and write permissions.

Step 3 of 4: ExportingOnce you click on the Start button the exporting will begin. Exporting is usually done in 4 steps: Preparing,rendering audio, rendering video, and compressing video. A progress bar for each step is displayed at thebottom of the assistant. Depending on the duration of your slideshow this can take quite a bit of time. Goahead and have a cup of coffee.

Step 4 of 4: Finish UpThe slideshow has been exported to a QuickTime movie. You may now further process it in QuickTime Playeror other video editing applications like iMovie or Final Cut Pro. Click on the Open in QuickTime Player but-ton to open the movie or click on the Reveal in Finder button to locate the file.



TIP Provided that you used the correct settings, you can also create a DVD with iDVD, Toast Titanium,or DVD Studio Pro. Simply drag the exported movie file to your DVD auhtoring application ofchoice and proceed from there.


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