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Chapter 4
The IN Room
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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
Chapter 5
The SORT Room
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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
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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
Chapter 6
The EDIT Room
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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
Text fx Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Adding Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Loading Sound Clips into SHOW . . 60
Using Sound Fx Presets . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Playing Soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Playing a Show in the EDIT Room . . . . . . 61
Chapter 7
The OUT Room
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Outputting Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting Slides for Output . . . . . . . . 62
Saving a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Save Show vs. Save Project . . . . . . . . 63
Saving a SHOW Project . . . . . . . . . . 63
Saving a Finished Show File . . . . . . . 64
Distributing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
The SHOW Player Software . . . . . . . 65
Distributing the SHOW Player
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Macintosh and Windows SHOW
Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Saving a SHOW Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Saving as HTML Pages . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Recording Shows to Videotape . . . . . 67
AVI or QuickTime Output . . . . . . . . 67
Printing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Setting Up a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Printing a Single Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Printing a Show as Individual
Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Congratulations! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 8
Keyboard Shortcuts
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