Chapter 4 The In Room; How The In Room Works; Thumbnails, Icons, And Piles - ScanSoft Kai’s Power SHOW User Manual

The IN Room

How the IN Room Works

The IN Room is where you'll import all
the digital photos, pictures, business
slides, and video clips you'll use to create a
presentation. These files can be imported
one at a time, or in folders.
Think of the IN Room as a big shopping
cart where you place all the digital media
that you might want to use in a show.
The IN Room helps you do visual
brainstorming as you import different
images and video clips. You might not use
them all, but just viewing them on the IN
Room desktop might help you get an idea
of how to design your show. You can then
use the SORT Room to pick the exact
pieces you'll use to create the show.

Thumbnails, Icons, and Piles

When you import a file, it appears on the
desktop.
Pictures, photos, and business slides
appear as small thumbnail icons. Video
clips also appear as thumbnails, but have a
small filmstrip icon in the top-right
corner of their thumbnail to differentiate
them.
An existing SHOW presentation opened
in SHOW using the Add Show option
appears as a unique "filmstrip" icon. Each
thumbnail's file name appears when you
pass the cursor over it and pause.
Different types of content have different
thumbnail icons.
Content imported as a single file appears
as an individual thumbnail. Content
imported as a folder appears as a pile of
thumbnails.
Piles are an easy way for you to see the
organization of files at a glance. Viewing
the piles on your desktop is like listing the
folders in the Window's Explorer or the
Macintosh Finder. The piles on the
SHOW desktop act like transparent
folders. With piles, you have all the
advantages of files stored in a single
location (like a folder), while still being
able to see what you're working with.
Refer to "Arranging Thumbnails" on
page 43 for more on using piles in the
SORT Room.
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