Creating Smil Presentations - Adobe GOLIVE CS2 User Manual

Creating SMIL presentations

To create a new SMIL presentation
You begin creating a SMIL presentation by creating a new SMIL document. The SMIL document contains the SMIL
source code that player applications use to play the presentation.
Note: You must have RealPlayer installed on your computer to use GoLive to preview SMIL presentations. For infor­
mation on installing RealPlayer, see the Real Networks website (www.realnetworks.com).
Choose File > New, and then select Web > Multimedia > SMIL Document. GoLive creates a new SMIL presen­
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tation and adds a root-layout region in the Layout tab of the SMIL window.
2 Click the Show Timeline Window button
Parallel Container to a new SMIL presentation and displays the container in the Timeline Editor.
To open an existing SMIL presentation
Choose File > Open, navigate to the SMIL presentation, and then open it.
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In the toolbar, click the Show Timeline Window button
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media items in the presentation.
To save a SMIL presentation
Choose File > Save As or File > Save. Navigate to a site folder where you want to store the SMIL presentation, enter
a file name with a .smil extension, and then click OK.
Note: Because a SMIL presentation can reference various media files and is usually part of site, save the SMIL document
in a site folder with the media and other site files.
To set a presentation's size, title, and background color
All SMIL presentations include the primary player window. You may also include secondary windows. You can
change the size and background color of your SMIL presentation's windows, and specify a title to appear at the top
of the RealPlayer window. The default presentation size is 320 x 240 pixels and the default background color is black.
1 Select the Page icon at the top of the Layout tab of the SMIL window next to the title.
2 In the Layout tab of the SMIL Inspector, enter a presentation title in the Title box of the Root Layout section.
In the Width and Height boxes, enter values in pixels. GoLive changes the size of the root-layout region shown in
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the Layout tab to the dimensions you specify.
To change the background color of the root-layout region, select BG Color, and then click the color field to select
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a color from the Color palette. Or, choose a predefined color from the menu next to the color field.
5 To set the properties for secondary windows, create or select the desired layout in the Multi Window Layout
section, and then repeat steps 2-4.
To preview SMIL presentations
(Windows only) To preview the SMIL presentation by using the Preview tab, open the presentation, and then click
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the Preview tab of the SMIL window.
• To preview a SMIL presentation by using RealPlayer, start RealPlayer, and then open the presentation file.
to display the Timeline Editor. GoLive automatically adds a default
to display the Timeline Editor, which lists the existing
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